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Here are some of the sessions planned just for you:

• Listen to Nobel Laureate Professor Randy Schekman speaking from personal experience about the importance of collaboration and openness in basic science and research publication.
• Learn about international research collaboration in the post-COVID era by Professor Richard de Grijs, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Macquarie University.
• Know more about the future perspectives of research and publication from Professor Seeram Ramakrishna, a highly cited researcher (HCR), who is currently serving as Director, Center for Nanotechnology & Sustainability, National University of Singapore.
• Aimee Nixon (Publisher) and Damaris Critchlow (Head of Publication Ethics) from MDPI will address how review and editorial processes are upheld in open access publication.
• Attend an informative session by Peter Harrison, Senior Vice President, Physical Sciences Journals, Elsevier, and hear him speak about the evolving role of a publisher in supporting the research and publication cycle.
• Sarah Greaves, STM Publishing Consultant and Former Publisher – Nature, will talk about the rapid changes in the publication process and a brave new world that researchers need to embrace.
• Professor Jerry Wind, Director of the Wharton Fellows Program, University of Pennsylvania, will discuss the urgency for interdisciplinary studies and the importance of not being boxed in a single discipline.
• Warwick Dawson (Director, Knowledge Exchange), Yuan Wang (UNSW Torch Innovation Precinct and Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering), and Sara Hagh (Research Engagement Director, Faculty of Engineering and IT) from The University of New South Wales & University of Technology – Sydney, will open up career paths outside the ivory tower for you and share how they transitioned into research management.
• Professor Roger Watson (Department of Nursing, University of Hull and Editor-in-Chief of Nursing Education in Practice, Elsevier) will share his personal four rules of writing for publication in top-notch journals from the point of view of an Editor-in-Chief.

The virtual program includes a keynote session, live webinars, panel discussions, online presentations and interactive Q&A sessions with top professionals in research, research education and publishing sectors.