British Council in Indonesia is recruiting two Trainers to deliver Training on HoW tO Write InteRnational – Quality Publications (WORQ)

Outcome of the project

WoRQ increases the quality of researchers’ submissions to international Q1/Q2 journals. Researchers will have one-on-one guidance with highly experienced UK experts where they will examine articles closely and provide immediate feedback.

The WoRQ workshop series will be held in 3 cities in Indonesia. The 2-day workshop in each city is expected to be led by two trainers from a UK International Journal or University-based journal that belongs to a Q1 or Q2 journal ranking group.  A one-on-one mentoring programme in the form of manuscript review of Indonesian researchers’ work is essential to this training. Focus area(s) to be determined later, subject to speaker availability and expertise.

Three locations of workshop: 1) Medan, North Sumatera, 2) Semarang, Central Java, 3) Jakarta, DKI Jakarta

Key Deliverables

Structure of Workshop (To be further discussed):

Day 1 Plenary Session and Parallel Session (Manuscript Review)

AM - Plenary Session Experts will be presenting top tips on publishing articles in Q1 international journals. This session will also be broadcasted live in Facebook and Instagram.

PM - Parallel Session (Manuscripts Review), Sub-Topic Grouping (participant to present their manuscripts, followed by identification of sub-topics)

Group A:               Focus area Life Science

Group B:               Focus area Social Science

Day 2 Parallel Session (Manuscript Review)

Group A Focus area Life Science

*participants revise publications based on speakers’ suggestion

Group B Focus area Social Science

Wrap Up

*participants revise publications based on speakers’ suggestion

Notes:

While waiting for their turn for consultation with UK expert, side consultation session with Indonesian expert on the subject substance is being discussed with Ristek

Short Video for online training materials (RuangKerja)

This Apps developed by RuangGuru (https://ruangguru.com/). RuangGuru (or Teacher Room, in English) is the largest paid online study apps for students in Indonesia. Ristekdikti commissioned RuangGuru to develop apps to provide platform for at least 100,000 lecturers in Indonesia as it is quite challenging for GoI to reach all the lecturers across Indonesia through face to face method. RuangKerja’s content will be about capacity building on various topics for researchers

Possible Topic of the short video: top tips on publishing articles in international journals

Schedule

1. Advertisement for experts’ recruitment: 13 August to 25 September
2. Workshop Participant Registration: 26 August – 27 September
3. Expert Selection: 30 September – 03 October
4. Panel meeting to finalize participants list (excluding experts): 03 October
5. Workshop Participants to be notified: 07 October
6. UK Consultants Briefings: 07 October – 18 October
7. Departure from UK: 18 October (UK citizens can enter Indonesia with Visa on Arrival)
8. Arrival in Medan, North Sumatera: 19 October
9. On site briefings: 20 October
10. WoRQ in Medan: 21 & 22 October
11. Travel to Semarang: 23 October
12. WoRQ in Semarang: 24 & 25 October
13. Travel to Jakarta: 26 October
14. WoRQ in Jakarta: 28 & 29 October
15. Departure to UK: 29 or 30 October

Monitoring and Evaluation of the Project

Monitoring:

There will be series of monitoring activities for this project:

• Pre-event: there will be at least 4x briefings and coordination meetings through skype or zoom
• During Event: BC will distribute evaluation forms for participants to complete, this includes questions around delivery quality and workshop management as well

  Evaluation:

• Appointed experts will need to attend debrief meeting to evaluate workshop. Debrief meeting will be attended by BC and involved partners such as Ristek.
• British Council will use ‘Equality Assessment Matrix’ to evaluate the activity thoroughly
• The successful suppliers will be encouraged to create an online survey prior to the workshop to assist with the workshop preparation and to act as assessment of participants’ level in article writing. A post-workshop survey will also be required. The results of these will be included in the final report.

Who is involved in the project

• Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education in Indonesia is the co-funder of workshop
• Target audience include Indonesian Researchers, including principal investigators of Indonesia Institutional Links Projects

The project will take place

19 – 30 October 2019 in Indonesia

UK partner will gain these following benefits

• Suppliers are invited to formulate a proposal that represents value for money against a maximum budget of GBP 16,330.
• Opportunity to enable much stronger links between the UK and Indonesia
• Opportunity to create greater opportunities and assist in building capacity in the research and innovation sector

Areas of responsibilities

• UK partner would be expected to provide their expertise in delivering the workshop
• In this collaboration, British Council is Delivery Partner for Newton Fund’s people pillar

Timeline