Nature Research Seminar with guest speaker Sir Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief of Nature
Speaker: Sir Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Nature
Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Time: 9:00a-11:00a
Location: MIT, Stata Center,
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The seminar will be a talk and Q & A about the lab and research group management
challenges for aspiring and current Principal Investigators and researchers and the
support that they might increasingly need in publishing. Faculty, postdocs and other
researchers, and students are welcome. Sponsored by The seminar will cover key issues as
it relates to:
1. Publication of papers: coping with editors and referees, the paper of the future
2. Post-publication pressures
3. Lab integrity
4. Data
5. (Ir)reproducibility
6. Escape from the Impact factor!
7. Engaging with partner agencies in applicable research
8. Aspects of outstanding mentoring
9. Addressing examples of good practice and good techniques for coping with these issues
About Sir Philip Campbell, Editor-in-Chief, Nature
Sir Philip Campbell is Editor-in-Chief of Nature and of Nature Research. His areas of
responsibility include the editorial content of Nature, and assuring the long-term quality
of all Nature publications. He has a BSc in aeronautical engineering, an MSc in
astrophysics and a PhD and postdoctoral research in upper atmospheric physics. Following
his research, he became the Physical Sciences Editor of Nature and then, in 1988, the
founding editor of Physics World, the international magazine of the UK Institute of
Physics. He returned to Nature to take on his current role in 1995. He has worked with the
UK Office of Science and Innovation, the European Commission and the US National
Institutes of Health on issues relating to science and its impacts in society. For ten
years until 2012 he was a trustee of Cancer Research UK. He is a founding trustee and now
the Chair of the research funding charity 'MQ: transforming mental health'. He
is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics,
and was awarded an honorary DSc by Leicester University and Bristol University, and an
Honorary Professorship by the Peking Union Medical College. He is a Life Member of Clare
Hall, Cambridge University. Sir Campbell is based in London.
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