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80670-01 - Seminar: Winning the Publication Game (1 CP)
| Semester | fall semester 2026 |
| Course frequency | Irregular |
| Lecturers | Smeralda Senn (smeralda.senn@unibas.ch, Assessor) |
| Content | The workshop is conducted by the external lecturer PD Dr. Jürgen Barth, Senior Researcher Complementary and Integrative Digital Medicine, University Hospital Zürich. More information. www.juergen-barth.de Blockdaten: 23.10.2026, 24.10.2026, 9-16 Uhr The workshop will be held as a Writing Retreat over two days at a hotel in Switzerland. The doctoral program will cover the costs for accommodation and travel. For planning purposes, registration by 20th September 2026 is requested. Alle Teilnehmenden arbeiten am eigenen Manuskript und haben die Absicht in den nächsten 6 Monaten dieses Manuskript einzureichen. Am ersten Workshoptag werden dabei folgende Themen behandelt: 1) Know the game, 2) Target Journal, 3) Set the brief, 4) Sorting material, 5) Structure and topic sentences. 6) Editing. Am zweiten Workshoptag werde die folgenden Themen behandelt. 7) Discussion 8) Cover Letter 9) Submission 10) Revision. Zudem erfolgt eine Zusammenfassung der Inhalte des Workshops. Für einzelne Themen gibt es KI-basierte Custom GPTs, die beim Kurs genutzt werden. Der Workshop beinhaltet Inputs des Dozenten, Diskussionen, Kleingruppen und eigene Arbeit der Teilnehmenden. |
| Learning objectives | Verständnis für die einzelnen Schritte des Publizierens. Identifikation relevanter Entscheidungen auf dem Weg zur Publikation. Formulieren der Kernbotschaft. Kompetenzen in der Nutzung von KI beim wissenschaftlichen Schreiben. |
| Bibliography | Domes, G., Ditzen, B., & Barth, J. (2018). Wissenschaftliches Publizieren aus verschiedenen Perspektiven. In Wissenschaftliches Publizieren in der Psychologie: Ein praktischer Wegweiser und Leitfaden. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. |
| Comments | The workshop is offered by the doctoral program Health & Interventions (HI-PSY) and counts towards the Interdisciplinary Qualifications curriculum area of the PhD program HI-PSY. Max. 14 places will be given according to this selection criteria: 1) PhD students from the doctoral program HI-PSY 2) PhD students of other specializations of the Faculty of Psychology 3) PhD students of other faculties of the University of Basel HI-PSY rules for withdrawal, absence, or partial course attendance: If you cannot attend a workshop that you have signed up for, please cancel your course registration as soon as possible by sending an e-mail to smeralda.senn@unibas.ch. This will allow other PhD students interested in the course to move up from the waiting list. After the university’s official registration period has ended, cancelled course will be assessed with NE. Course registrations can be cancelled until one week before the workshops begins. In the case of late cancellations, participants will not be considered for course registration in the next three months of the lecture periods and will be removed from the registration list of any course they have signed up during these three upcoming months of the lecture periods. If an urgent, unforeseeable, or inevitable event before or during the course prevents a participant from attending, a written and substantiated withdrawal request that includes appropriate documentation (e.g. a doctor’s note) must be submitted to smeralda.senn@unibas.ch within two days of the workshop and without being prompted. The program director decides on the approval of the withdrawal request. ECTS-points are awarded only for 100% course attendance. |
| Admission requirements | For planning purposes, registration by 20th September 2026 is requested. |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Use of digital media | No specific media used |
| Interval | Weekday | Time | Room |
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| Modules |
Doctorate Psychology: Recommendations (PhD subject: Psychology) |
| Assessment format | continuous assessment |
| Assessment registration/deregistration | Reg.: course registration, dereg: cancel course registration |
| Repeat examination | no repeat examination |
| Scale | Pass / Fail |
| Repeated registration | as often as necessary |
| Responsible faculty | Faculty of Psychology, studiendekanat-psychologie@unibas.ch |
| Offered by | Faculty of Psychology |