Peer Review Workshop

Join us for a one day workshop about the peer review process!

Through mostly interactive exercises, this workshop discusses a range of approaches to Peer Review suitable for different situations (from workshops, to conferences, to peer-reviewed conferences, to journals, and more). The workshop is in two parts focusing on 1) the purpose of a review and 2) the process of a review. The aim of Part 1 (Purpose) is to help participants understand what is expected from peer reviewing, and how the information put into a review is used by organisers later in the process, and how these vary for different venues and types of submission. Part 2 (Process) covers approaches to reading, approaches to structuring a review, dos and donts, and how to judge and make appropriate recommendations.

Following the workshop, we will invite you to test your newly acquired skills by reviewing submissions for the Interdisciplinary Digital Culture and Society Conference (DISCo).

Dr. Max L. Wilson (University of Nottingham)

Dr Max L. Wilson is an Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Nottingham. Max is a Deputy Editor at the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. In his field, strong research contributions are peer-reviewed and published at (usually) ACM conferences like CHI and UIST. Max has reviewed papers for Peer-Reviewed ACM Conferences for more than 10 years, served as an AC (senior reviewer) for 3 years, and is serving as an SC (area topic chair) for CHI2020. In the past, Max has served as papers chair IIiX2012, and has organised a range of workshops reviewing and accepting smaller social contributions. Max has also served as Panels chair for CHI2019 and Courses chair for CHI2017/18, reviewing contributions for community value rather than rigour of research contribution. Max received his PhD from Southampton in 2009 and has over 100 publications, including journal articles, conference papers, edited proceedings, two monographs, workshop proceedings, workshop contributions, and posters/demos.

- http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszmw/

- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WkLZuJsAAAAJ&hl=en

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