Helping students to disseminate their research

Students may undertake work of a publishable standard during their studies but may not even consider, let alone know how to get such work published. Below are some outlets and some advice for staff on how to support students to get their work published:

Dissemination outlets
There is no reason why students should not publish in the usual outlets where staff disseminate work e.g. disciplinary journals, professional practice publications - although these are too numerous to name here. Likewise many academic and professional practice conferences will accept abstracts from student presenters. There are a few dissemination outlets which only invite submissions from students. Here are some examples to which students from any institution can submit:

Journals
Reinvention: a Journal of Undergraduate Research is an online, peer-reviewed journal which welcomes submissions from students of any discipline.

Début: The Undergraduate Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies is an online peer-reviewed journal for undergraduate students of languages, linguistics and area studies.

Bioscience Horizons is an online peer-reviewed journal for undergraduate bioscience students.

Geoverse is a national e-journal of undergraduate research in Geography - articles can be submitted from single or multiple authors.

The Internet Journal of Criminology (IJC) is a conventional online criminology journal which also publishes non-peer reviewed criminology articles e.g. undergraduate dissertations.

Conferences
The British Conference for Undergraduate Research is an annual conference which invites poster presentations, spoken papers and workshops by undergraduate students and recent graduates from all disciplines and all parts of the UK.

The Student Conference on Conservation Science series in Cambridge, Bangalore and New York is the only international series of conservation conferences aimed entirely at students. Details are available on the website.

Supporting students to publish
Professor Mark Griffiths from the Psychology Department at Nottingham Trent University has authored a number of publications which seek to support student writing and publication. The following are available here as downloads:

Griffiths, M.D. (2011). Publishing undergraduate and postgraduate student work: some guidelines and protocols. Psychology Teaching Review, 17(1), 76-78.

Griffiths, M.D. (2006). Blending research and teaching in the classroom: Encouraging undergraduate student publishing. Higher Education Academy.

Griffiths, M.D. (2007). Encouraging undergraduate student publishing. Higher Education Academy Psychology Network Newsletter, 41, 3.

Griffiths, M.D. (2001). How to get students to write with confidence. Times Higher Education Supplement, June 8, p.24.

Griffiths, M.D. (1994). Productive writing in the education system. The Psychologist: Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, 7, 460-462.