Online Publication School: 23 June – 14 July 2025, 9:30-13:30 BST

Registration now open!

Overview

The UK EQUATOR Centre’s Publication School is designed for early-career researchers and students. It aims to give you a smooth writing process that results in a published article that is fit for purpose.

It broke academic writing for publication down into really manageable and achievable guidance points. Made me less worried about writing my next article!

June 2019 participant

The course is delivered by methodological and writing experts from the UK EQUATOR Centre and the Centre for Statistics in Medicine. Through group work, discussion, and practical exercises, we cover everything you need to know to plan, write, and publish your health-related research study.

Course content

Excellent scope – right the way from authorship and journal selection to submission/peer review/dissemination – not just the bits in the middle!

June 2018 participant

• Planning your message and audience
• Negotiating authorship
• Choosing a journal and avoiding predators
• Good writing style and habits
• What to write where: recipes for a successful introduction, methods, results, and discussion
• Using reporting guidelines
• Revising your work for simplicity, clarity and completeness
• Summarising your article in an effective title and abstract
• Writing effective cover letters
• Submission and dealing with peer review
• Disseminating your article after publication

Details

Mondays, 23 June – 14 July 2025

Would definitely recommend to those starting out in a research career

November 2019 participant

The course will be held live over Zoom. Participants will need to have Zoom downloaded, rather than using the browser version, as we will be using registrations. We will teach using shared slides, webcam, and audio.

Our online Publication School is highly interactive, with all-group discussion and small-group exercises and discussion. Participants are welcome to use text chat, mic, and/or webcam in the main room, but need at least a mic for small-group work in breakout rooms

Sessions will run 9:30-13:30 British Summer Time (GMT+1) with regular comfort breaks.

We do not record sessions and are unable to offer live captions. Participants receive the electronic course workbook with all notes and exercises.

Fees

£160: Students / PPI representatives

£260: Academic / public sector / non-profit

£500: Commercial / private

Registration

Places are limited and are allocated in order of application. Please book directly through Oxford University Stores. If you are a member of the University of Oxford, please get in touch to organise an internal purchase order.

Please note that this course is designed for early-career researchers and students with limited experience leading the writing of academic manuscripts. If you would like to discuss whether this course will suit your needs, please email us at equator@csm.ox.ac.uk.

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