This session of the Qualifie working group features Nicholas Rush Smith (SOAS), who will elaborate on the process of publishing qualitative and comparative research.
QUALIFIE is excited to welcome you to its next event with Nicholas Rush Smith (SOAS), editor-in-chief of Comparative Politics, for a session on publishing qualitative and comparative research.
The session is open to everyone, and especially aimed for PhD researchers and early-career scholars looking to publish work in comparative politics and related fields. Drawing on his experience as an editor, Nicholas will discuss the evaluation process for journal submissions, what editors and reviewers look for, and how to navigate revise-and-resubmit decisions.
The event will begin with short remarks, followed by an open Q&A. Participants are encouraged to bring questions about their own projects or the publication process more generally. If you are thinking about publishing soon (or even just starting to), this is an opportunity to hear directly – and honestly – about the publishing process from the editor’s side.
About the speaker:
Nicholas Rush Smith is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at SOAS University of London, and a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg. He is also Editor-in-Chief (together with Eva Bellin) of Comparative Politics. His research sits at the intersection of comparative politics, political violence, and African politics, with a particular focus on how democratic states and citizens use violence to shape and contest political order.
Nicholas has published widely in journals such as American Journal of Sociology, American Political Science Review, and Perspectives on Politics. His work is especially known for its strong engagement with qualitative and fieldwork-based methods. Together with Erica Simmons, he has edited a widely used book on research design and several articles which blend ethnographic and comparative methods, for which they were awarded the David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award from the Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section of the American Political Science Association.
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