DSAA Webinar

Welcome to The DSAA monthly webinar series! 

Development is a dynamic space, bringing together research and practice across a range of disciplines. Our webinar series explores this diversity, bringing a new speaker who shares their expertise on a critical theme of interest every month. Each session will explore diverse topics, from building a CV for the international development sector to conducting community-based research and decolonising research practices. Through these interactive webinars, we aim to support HDR and ECR students in expanding their networks, gaining real-world insights, and advancing their academic and professional journeys. 

Our next online event, Getting published in a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of development, will be on Monday, 31 March 2025. It will feature a conversation between Emily Finlay, Managing Editor of Development in Practice (Taylor & Francis) and Deborah Cummins, Industry Representative of DSAA Executive Committee.   

You can replay previous webinars from our YouTube Channel @DSA_Australia

UPCOMING WEBINAR 

Getting published in a peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of development

During this webinar, Emily will provide tips on developing your work for publication in an academic journal, discuss what editors look for in submissions, pitfalls to avoid, how to respond to peer review, and common mistakes authors make when submitting to an academic journal. Development in Practice is a strong Q2 journal with a practitioner focus, and it is a great entry-level journal for first-time publications. Its Editorial Team is committed to assisting authors who may not have yet published in a peer-reviewed English-language academic journal.

Date: 31 March 2025  

Time:  4:00 to 5:00 PM AEDT 

Where: YouTube [The link will be available closer to the time]

You can send ask your questions in advance

Presenter

Dr. Emily Finlay  

Emily Finlay is Managing Editor of the journal Development in Practice (Taylor & Francis), and works with the Editor in Chief, Patrick Kilby, to assist authors to develop their manuscripts for publication. She is an Accredited Editor and professional member of the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) and is currently Chair of IPEd’s Standing Committee on Academic Editing (SCAE). An affiliate of Monash University, she holds a PhD in literature/continental philosophy from the University of Sydney.

Co-Presenter

A.Prof Patrick Kilby

Patrick is the Editor in Chief of the journal Development in Practice and Honorary Member of DSAA Committee. His research interests are: NGOs and NGO accountability; gender and development; managing international development programs; and women’s labour migration. He has published four sole authored books on NGOs one dealing with women’s empowerment and Indian NGOs (2011), a history of the Australian Council for International Development (2015), gender and the Green Revolution (2019), and the role of Philanthropic Foundations in Development (2021).

In 2018 he took up Fulbright Senior Scholars Fellowship at Kansas State University looking at the history of the Green Revolution, and also to advise K-State on how to improve women’s engagement in their agriculture research in developing countries. In 2019 examined the role of philanthropic Foundations such as Rockefeller, Ford and Gates’, in the foreign aid space, in 2020 UN agencies such as UNCTAD and others, and in 2021 and 2022 is part of a British Aid project with IFPRI looking at women migration from Bangladesh and Nepal to Lebanon and Jordan. He also works with ACIAR looking at gender analysis in their agricultural research portfolio. In 2022 he was elected as Secretary of the Development Studies Associaton of Australia.

Moderator

Dr. Deborah Cummins

Deborah Cummins is the Founder and Director of Bridging Peoples, a research agency focused on improving community engagement practices for humanitarian aid & development programming. She has a Law Degree (Honours) from the University of Melbourne, and a PhD on local and postcolonial governance in Timor-Leste. Over the past 20 years, she has worked in Timor-Leste, Egypt, Turkey and Syria, leading major research projects to bridge the gap between large-scale programming and community lives. She currently lives and works in Dili, Timor-Leste. She has also authored many academic articles, book chapters, and research reports, and is the author of Local Governance in Timor-Leste: Lessons in Postcolonial Statebuilding, published by Routledge Publishers in 2014. 

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