Sep 27, 2019; Workshop
Pitching Research Workshop & Meet the Editor Session mit Robert Faff (UQ Business School, Australia)
Date: 27.09.2019
Lecturer: Prof. Robert Pfaff, UQ Business School, Australia
Robert Faff is Professor of Finance and formerly Director of Research at the UQ Business School. He has an international reputation in empirical finance research: securing 14 Australian Research Council grants (funding exceeding $4 million); >310 refereed journal publications; career citations >12,600 (Google Scholar); and a h-index of 57 (Google Scholar). His particular passion is nurturing and developing the career trajectories of early career researchers. Robert has supervised approximately 40 PhD students to successful completion and examined 50 PhD dissertations. Building on a 35-year academic career, his latest focus is “Pitching Research” [https://ssrn.com/abstract=2462059], now gaining great traction domestically and worldwide as exemplified by: (a) >13,400 SSRN downloads; (b) >290 pitching talks/events; (c) at 37 Australian universities; and (d) spanning 52 different countries.
Room: Festsaal, Hülße-Bau, 3rd floor
Agenda:
09:00-10:30: Pitching Research Workshop
In this part, Robert Faff presents the pitching research framework which is a template tool that helps you to confidently and succintly convey all the essential elements of a new research proposal to an academic expert. Details can be found in the pitching research flyer and in Faff (2017): "Pitching Research", a paper donwloadable from SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2462059
10:30-11:00: Coffee Break
11:00-12:30: Meet the editor session
Robert is Editor-in-Chief of Pacific-Basin Finance Journal; formerly: Editor of Accounting and Finance (2002-2011) and Associate Editor of several journals including Abacus and Australian Journal of Management. The meet the editor session gives you the great opportunity to discuss procedures of peer review process and to get some tips for preparing a good paper from an experienced reviewer and editor.