PAPER-IN-A-DAY
A PART OF PSYCHOLOGY & PEACE 2020

A Special Event for Advanced Student and Early Career Researchers

MAY 28, 2020 TRINITY UNIVERSITY

THE EVENT
Paper-in-a-Day is an event to stimulate productive collaboration among early career researchers in psychology and peace. The two objectives of the day are (1) to complete a publishable scholarly project and (2) to lay the foundation for future collaborative work among the participants.

The projects accomplished during the Paper-in-a-Day event might include --

  • empirical research report based on an existing dataset

  • systematic literature review or meta-analysis

  • research proposal for grant funding

  • other research product for submission to a peer-reviewed program or publication

The work of the Paper-in-a-Day teams will be presented as symposia on the program of Psychology & Peace 2020.

All participants must be registered for Psychology & Peace 2020 at Trinity University, May 29-31. Student members of Division 48 who participate in Paper-in-a-Day will receive a $100 scholarship toward conference registration.

Each Paper-in-a-Day team will be assigned a moderator to help the team organize itself. Participants will accomplish some work before and after the day of the event. On May 28, the day before Psychology & Peace 2020, the Paper-in-a-Day teams will meet at Trinity University. Refreshments will be provided. Participants can make their own plans as a team for meals.

PARTICIPANTS
Two types of researchers are invited to apply for the Paper-in-a-Day event --

  1. Early career researchers — "Early career researchers" are persons who are currently between having completed their doctoral dissertation proposal and 5 years beyond receiving a doctoral degree.

  2. Researchers with a viable dataset for analysis — Researchers with data will be asked to share their unanalyzed data with other members of the team and may serve as either participants or moderators of the team. Unless the researcher with data determines otherwise, the researcher with data will be the first author of any work produced by the team.

PARTICIPANT COMMITMENT
The minimum commitments of a participant are as follows --

  • Attend monthly conference calls with the Paper-in-a-Day event co-organizers between January and April to prepare in advance of the event

  • Follow through with the action plan after each conference call

  • Be present and engaged during the full day of the team workshop

  • Contribute to the final editing of the work following the workshop

  • Prepare and present a portion of the team's work in a symposium at Psychology & Peace 2020 (May 29-31) at a time to be determined

  • Researchers with data are expected to provide the data in an Excel spreadsheet to members of the team 3-4 months prior to the Paper-in-a-Day event. The data should be accompanied by a full codebook’ documentation of IRB approval, and any other information necessary to use the data.

The moderators' commitment is (1) to facilitate the team so the team members maintain ownership of the process and the product, (2) contribute as a team member, and (3) with the consent of the team, arbitrate disputes that slow the team's progress toward completing the project. The moderator will continue to work with the team until the final product is submitted for peer-review.

Each participant will be asked to sign an agreement --

  • to commit to the required preparation, attendance, and follow-up work as defined by the team

  • to adhere to the letter and spirit of APA ethics regarding research and relationships with colleagues

  • to present a portion of the team's work in a symposium for that purpose at Psychology & Peace 2020

  • to accept the team's decisions regarding work process and the order of attribution of authorship.

APPLICATIONS
Applications are due by 11:59 pm CT (USA) on January 10, 2020. Use the submission portal to apply. The application should include the following —

  1. Contact information

  2. A statement of commitment and research interest (including whether a dataset can be made available)

  3. A current curriculum vita

submit

Paper-in-a-Day Process

PRE-WORKDAY DAY ACTIVITIES
Participants will be assigned to a team. Each team will be assigned a topic based on shared interests of the members. Beginning in late January 2020, participants will prepare with the guidance of the moderators, getting to know one another, identifying a potential project, analyze the data (where relevant), conducting literature search and perhaps also outlining portions of a paper. Current plans are to hold monthly conference calls between January and April to help prep for the Paper-in-a-Day event. Ideally, preparations prior to the conference will lead to an outline so the team has a concrete, shared starting point to draft the paper in the Paper-in-a-Day event.

PAPER-IN-A-DAY WORKDAY 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Introductions and getting started -- The moderator helps the participants to reach consensus on work process, including expectations for members participation. After a reaching consensus on process has been made and following the team's process, the moderator will allocate tasks to subgroups and pairs of team members.

Working -- The team(s) will begin with discussions about the topic by taking an inventory of the concrete products accumulated in the months prior to the meeting, may they be literature search, analytic results or outlines. Discussion might include the parameters of the project, questions on theoretical frameworks, design and analyses challenges, audience and implications of the research, ethical and considerations, etc. As needed the team can alternate between working as a whole team together and work in pairs/small subgroups drafting or preparing proposals for strategy.

Lunch together (suggestions for locations will be provided)

Concluding the day -- Before departing the team should have:

  • all the day's work collated in a working draft and related documents

  • specific plans and commitments regarding completing the project

  • a decision on the publication outlet it might be submitted for consideration

  • a timeline for submitting the work for peer-review

  • consensus on the tentative author order and responsibilities

  • detailed plans and responsibilities for the symposium presentation of the team's work during the Psychology and Peace 2020 conference.

POST-WORKDAY ACTIVITIES
Conclude the project as agreed during the team's workday.

Thank you. Dr. Eva Alisic designed the original 'Paper in a Day' program for the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies in 2012.