Recommended personnel
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| This page provides an overview of the involved personnel and the tasks that they carry out. We categorize the personnel based on their roles. Multiple roles may be filled by the same person, and individual tasks could be shifted to other involved persons. |
Course administrator
Role requirements
Administration skills
Communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Creating and coordinating course syllabus with dates, times, locations, lecturers and workshop mentors
- Coordinating communication between lecturers, participants, workshop mentors and journal editors
- Advertising course, selection procedure, enrollment of participants, preparing course certificates and handling post-course evaluation with all involved parties
- Sharing pre- and post course assessments, lecture and workshop materials, and keeping track of assignment submission deadlines
Time investment
Offering the course for bigger participant groups with parallel workshop groups generates a considerable administrative load. To cater for a group of 20-30 participants, per semester we estimate around 200h of work. When carried out in a smaller setting with a single workshop group where a single person fills multiple/all roles the administrative load could be as small as 10h.
Remuneration:
Course administrators may or may not be remunerated. For course sizes >10 participants with parallel workshop groups, we recommend hiring a 40h/month student assistant (3,672€ per semester) to fill this role, for >30 participants we recommend a 60h/month student assistant (5,508€ per semester).
Cost
0 - 5,508€ per semester
Lecturer
Requirements
- Knowledge of the publishing system, ideally combined with first hand experience as author, peer reviewer and journal editor.
Responsibilities
Tasks of the lecturer include:
- Choose topics and adapt the lecture slides for the target audience
- Deliver the lectures
- Chair a reflection session (if there is no opportunity to listen in on an editorial meeting)
- Provide feedback on pre-/post-course assignments
Time investment
Tasks of the lecturer require the following allotments of time:
- Delivering all lectures (12 hours)
- Lecture preparation time (time specific to each lecturer)
- Providing individual feedback to students for pre-/post-course assignments (time dependent on number of participants)
- Chairing a reflection session if there is no editorial meeting (1-2 hours)
Remuneration
Lecturers may or may not be remunerated. When offered in kind/for free, we distributed individual lectures across multiple lecturers to reduce the required time investment. The teaching load could also count towards further qualification, e.g., “Habilitation” at German universities. When paid, lectureships in Berlin, Germany are currently remunerated with at least 42€ per 45 minutes, so the full four lectures with three hours each (4 x 45 minutes) would correspond to a fee of 672€ per semester.
Cost
0 - 672€ per semester
Workshop mentor
Requirements
- Established researcher with experience as author and peer reviewer
- Ideally, additional experience as journal editor
- Willingness to mentor the workshop participants
- Reliability
Depending on the course focus, consider inviting mentors with relevant methodological or topical expertise (e.g., statistics, systematic reviews, psychology) to best support the needs of each group.
Responsibilities
Tasks of the workshop mentor include:
- Communication with course administrator and/or journal editor regarding peer review assignments, submissions and editorial decisions
- Reading the assigned manuscript and checking the comments of workshop group participants before the workshop date
- Moderate the workshop discussions including pointing out positive and negative aspects of the participants’ review report, organizing points by importance, tune the language of suggestions and expectations
Time investment
- Attending the workshops (12 hours)
- Reading the manuscripts and submitting the peer review reports to the journal (up to 20 hours)
Remuneration
Workshop mentors may or may not be remunerated. The teaching load could also count towards further qualification, e.g., “Habilitation” at German universities. When paid, lectureships in Berlin, Germany are currently remunerated with at least 42€ per 45 minutes, so the full four lectures with three hours each (4 x 45 minutes) would correspond to a fee of 672€.
Cost
0 - 4,032€ for six parallel workshop groups per semester.
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Journal editor
Requirements
- Research editor at a relevant journal willing to provide suitable manuscripts for the group workshops
Responsibilities
Tasks of the journal editor include:
- Assign manuscripts currently under consideration at their journal to the course administrator or workshop mentor
- Provide feedback on decision process for each manuscript via mail, or by allowing to attend an editorial meeting listen-in
Time investment
The task of assigning manuscripts for peer review to Peerspectives should not generate meaningful overhead in editorial processes. Depending on the number of parallel workshop groups, editors may spend 1 to 5 hours per semester on Peerspectives as part of their normal tasks and working times.
Cost
0€