Navigating Academic Publishing in Criminology: Insights from Journal Editors

Join us for the inaugural session of the ANZSOC Early Career Researcher Seminar Series, where we'll demystify the academic publishing process with insights directly from experienced journal editors. This session offers a unique opportunity to gain insider knowledge on successfully navigating the path to publication in criminology journals.

Featured Speakers:
Professor Asher Flynn and Professor Rebecca Wickes, outgoing Editors-in-Chief of the Journal of Criminology

What You'll Learn:

• Strategic approaches to selecting the right journal for your research
• Understanding editor and reviewer expectations for manuscript submissions
• Common pitfalls that lead to desk rejections and how to avoid them
• Effectively responding to reviewer feedback and managing revisions
• The essentials of conducting fair and constructive peer reviews
• Ethical considerations in academic publishing
• Tips for developing a coherent publication strategy as an early career researcher.

This seminar is designed for HDR students, recent graduates, and early career researchers in criminology who want to strengthen their publishing skills and understand the editorial perspective. Participants will gain practical knowledge to enhance their publishing success and contribute meaningfully to the peer review process.

Registration:
This seminar is free to attend, but registration is required. 

Your link to join the event via Teams will be sent to you via email 24 hours before the seminar.

About the Speakers:
Professor Asher Flynn

Dr Asher Flynn is a Professor of Criminology at Monash University and Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW), where she leads the technology-facilitated gender-based violence workstream and is Deputy Lead of Research & Ethics Training. Asher is an award-winning researcher in policy and prevention concerning gendered, sexual and technology-facilitated violence and has shaped almost a decade of research, theory and measurement of these global phenomena. Across her career, she has generated over $45 million in funding, and has published nine books and over 125 articles, scholarly book chapters, reports and media/opinion pieces. Her research has informed the introduction of laws, prevention messaging and platform reforms on image-based sexual abuse and sexualised deepfake abuse across Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. She is the recipient of a number of prestigious national and international research fellowships and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Criminology. Asher has advised or sits as a expert panel or board member on policy and prevention of technology-facilitated violence for the United Nations, the Ministry of European and Foreign Affairs of France, the Australian Office of the eSafety Commissioner, Meta and Bumble.

Professor Rebecca Wickes

Rebecca Wickes is a Professor in Criminology at Griffith University. She is an award-winning scholar, renowned for her research on neighbourhood social processes and their effects on crime and other social problems. Her approach to research is interdisciplinary, involving large teams of scholars and employing a range of quantitative and qualitative methods, including participatory, co-design approaches. She has successfully developed and led large-scale, multi-site, multi-agency projects across her career, most notably demonstrated through her leadership of the Australian Community Capacity Study (ACCS. Professor Wickes’ career spans leadership in flagship research centres, such as the Monash University Migration and Inclusion Centre (MMIC), where she assembled a diverse team of over 30 researchers and a Next Generation network of over 200 early career scholars. She is currently the Director of Australia’s leading and largest criminology research institute, the Griffith Criminology Institute. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Australia New Zealand Society of Criminology’s flagship journal, the Journal of Criminology, an International Corresponding Editor for Urban Studies, and is a member of the Queensland Chief Scientist’s Social Science Reference Group. Professor Wickes’ expertise lies in building robust partnerships across academia, industry, and government, and translating research into actionable outcomes to promote safer, healthier, and just communities.

For more information about the ANZSOC ECR Seminar Series, please contact lisaw@ntv.org.au.