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Publish or perish: coping with peer-review processes through coaching

Publish or perish: coping with peer-review processes through coaching
Publish or perish: coping with peer-review processes through coaching
This study explores how a self-coaching approach assists academics to cope with prolonged peer-review processes. A coaching training workshop, using acceptance & commitment therapy (ACT) and strength-based coaching, was conducted with 22 academics in the U.K. To understand changes in the participants’ attitude to peer-review, their self-reflective diaries and ten semi-structured interviews were analysed. This research reveals that participants tended to identify their intrinsic motivation and commitment to their research career through reflective self-dialogues and interactions with their trusted peers. This research sheds light on coaching practice by indicating constructive self-reflections help individuals to appreciate peer-review as a positive challenge instead of a threat.
academic research career, career commitment, coaching, peer review, resilience
1741-8305
99-111
Lai, Yi-Ling
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Strevens, Caroline
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Lai, Yi-Ling
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Strevens, Caroline
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Lai, Yi-Ling and Strevens, Caroline (2023) Publish or perish: coping with peer-review processes through coaching. International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring, 21 (1), 99-111. (doi:10.24384/7ene-hz36).

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This study explores how a self-coaching approach assists academics to cope with prolonged peer-review processes. A coaching training workshop, using acceptance & commitment therapy (ACT) and strength-based coaching, was conducted with 22 academics in the U.K. To understand changes in the participants’ attitude to peer-review, their self-reflective diaries and ten semi-structured interviews were analysed. This research reveals that participants tended to identify their intrinsic motivation and commitment to their research career through reflective self-dialogues and interactions with their trusted peers. This research sheds light on coaching practice by indicating constructive self-reflections help individuals to appreciate peer-review as a positive challenge instead of a threat.

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Accepted/In Press date: 10 January 2023
Published date: 1 February 2023
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © the Author(s) Published by Oxford Brookes University
Keywords: academic research career, career commitment, coaching, peer review, resilience

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Local EPrints ID: 476864
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/476864
ISSN: 1741-8305
PURE UUID: e747c398-b91f-4564-80fc-106106d420c4
ORCID for Yi-Ling Lai: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2161-6686

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Date deposited: 18 May 2023 16:38
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 04:19

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Author: Yi-Ling Lai ORCID iD
Author: Caroline Strevens

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