| Dear [Firstname Lastname],
The [Your Institution] at [your university] in [your city] would like to invite you to participate in our upcoming course, Peerspectives, as a workshop mentor. Peerspectives is a project in cooperation with [insert partner journal] that seeks to address the lack of formal training for peer review writing available to early career researchers. Our semester-long course for [PhD students in the health data sciences - revise if different] equips participants with the necessary theoretical background knowledge and an understanding of the scientific publishing system and processes. The entirety of the course will be held online over Zoom. For more details on the course, please visit the Peerspectives Wiki page.
Peerspectives offers students the opportunity to work collaboratively on live manuscript reviews—supplied by [insert partner journal]—in four workshops. This process is guided and overseen by a workshop mentor. Workshop mentors have experience as peer reviewers and have a strong methods background.
You were identified by one of our existing workshop-mentors, [insert name of recommender], as being a good candidate for this role. The time commitment will be for 4 workshop dates (please see dates below; meetings are flexible but must be within the given weeks), as well as an introductory meeting for the editor mentors on the [MONTH DD] at [HH:MM - HH:MM] [(insert timezone)]. Additionally, workshop mentors may need to spend an additional hour or two finalizing their team’s reviews before they return the final report to [insert partner journal].
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If you’re interested and would like to participate in this upcoming semester, we would be very pleased to include you in this round of Peerspectives. If you would rather participate in a future semester, we would be happy to reach out to you when developing the next courses.
If you have any additional questions concerning the organization of the course, please feel free to reach out to our course administrators at [your email address].
All the best and wishing you a good rest of your week,
[Your name(s)]
The Peerspectives Team
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