Public speaking engagements: workshops, courses & talks
Where Valerie Matarese PhD has recently spoken, in Italy and beyond:
- Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri", PhD Students Meeting, Milano (IT), 30 June 2023: "Biomedical research articles: structure guides the writing process". Handout
- CRO Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano (IT), 27 June and 11 July 2023: Citation, quotation and paraphrasing ... for avoiding plagiarism! (workshop)
- CRO Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano (IT), 31 May and 7 June 2023: Reporting quantities and statistics (workshop)
- Parc de Recerca Biomedica de Barcelona – PRBB Intervals Programme, Barcelona (ES), June 2023: Introduction to Effective Biomedical Writing (12-h synchronous online course, 5th edition)
- Parc de Recerca Biomedica de Barcelona – PRBB Intervals Programme, Barcelona (ES), May 2023: Introduction to Effective Biomedical Writing (12-h synchronous online course, 4th edition)
- Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (IRCCS), Milan (IT), February-May 2023: Effective Biomedical Writing (scientific writing course for doctoral students, 11th edition)
- Mediterranean Editors and Translators, Valencia (ES), 21 April 2023: Quantitative research data with units in text: to correct or to query? (workshop). Previous title: "SI units for editors and translators. How to present numerical data with units of measurement in text"
- CRO Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano (IT), 6 and 15 March 2023: Basic techniques of scientific writing in English (workshop)
- Parc de Recerca Biomedica de Barcelona – PRBB Intervals Programme, Barcelona (ES), January 2023: Introduction to Effective Biomedical Writing (12-h synchronous online course, 3rd edition)
- Parc de Recerca Biomedica de Barcelona – PRBB Intervals Programme, Barcelona (ES), October 2022: Introduction to Effective Biomedical Writing (12-h synchronous online course, 2nd edition)
- Metal-Microbe Exploitation (M2ex) European Joint Doctorate within the EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network, Naples (IT), 12 July 2022: Basic techniques of scientific writing in English (workshop)
- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise "Giuseppe Caporale", Teramo (IT),
May-September 2022: Effective Biomedical Writing (scientific writing course, synchronous online, 10th edition)
- Parc de Recerca Biomedica de Barcelona – PRBB Intervals Programme, Barcelona (ES), May 2022: Introduction to Effective Biomedical Writing (12-h synchronous online course; 1st edition)
- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise "Giuseppe Caporale", Teramo (IT), November 2021: "Reporting Guidelines for the Life Sciences and One Health" (4.5 h online workshop accredited for continuing professional development). Program. AGENAS event ID: 335980.
- National Writing Centres Consortium, 3rd academic writing conference on Research Writing:
Teaching Approaches and Assessment Practices, Moscow (RU), 30 October 2021: "Teaching research writing: the case for subject specialists with linguistic competence" (online talk),
Video (starts at 1:50)
- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise "Giuseppe Caporale", Teramo (IT), April-July 2021: "Effective Biomedical Writing" (scientific writing course, 9th edition — first online edition)
- Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (IRCCS), Milan (IT),
January-June 2020: "Effective Biomedical
Writing" (scientific writing course for doctoral students)
- Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (IRCCS), Milan (IT), 11
November 2019: "Reporting quantities and
statistics" (workshop)
- CRO Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano (IT), 6 and
11 June 2019: "Citation, quotation and
paraphrasing - for avoiding plagiarism" (workshop)
- CRO Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano (IT), 14 and
21 May 2019: "Basic techniques of
scientific writing" (workshop)
- Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (US), 16 January
2019: "The trouble with research writing and what we can do about it" (CSELS
science webinar) Poster Slides Audio+slides (46 MB)
- PubMet 2018: The 5th Conference on Scholarly Publishing in the
Context of Open Science, Zadar (HR), 28 September 2018: "Every scientific research institute needs an authors’
editor"
- Mediterranean Editors and Translators, 14th annual
meeting (METM18), Girona (ES), 5 October 2018: "CRediT
and me: academia’s imperfect project to standardize contributions to
research articles, and one language professional’s attempts to set it
straight"
- Department of Specialist, Diagnostic and Experimental Medicine,
University of Bologna, Bologna (IT), 25 May 2018: "Writing Grant
Proposals: Techniques to present your ideas with clarity and conviction"
(one-day workshop)
- SENSE 2018 Conference, ’s‐Hertogenbosch (NL),
9 June 2018: "Bad textual mentors: How awkwardly written research articles
complicate the work of an authors’ editor"
- SEMM European School of Molecular Medicine, Milan (IT), 7
July 2017: "Getting into IMRaD. The research article structure as a guide to
reading and writing the scientific literature" (one-day workshop, held on
special request)
- SEMM European School of Molecular Medicine, Milan (IT), 4
July 2017: "Basic techniques in scientific writing" (one-day workshop)
- Fondazione IRCCS – Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori,
Milan (IT), September–November 2016: "Effective Biomedical Writing"
(7–day course for doctoral students and
early career researchers)
- Mediterranean Editors and Translators, 12th annual
meeting (METM16), Tarragona (ES), 15 October 2016: "Author editing—the provenance and prospects of our
profession"
- Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri", PhD
Student Meeting, Milan (IT), 14 July 2016: "Writing for Reproducibility:
Strategies to optimize the language and content of your research reports". Video
- Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (IRCCS), Milan (IT), 19 May
2016: one-day course on basic techniques of scientific writing (in other words,
how to write reader-friendly texts)
- Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (IRCCS), Milan (IT), 27 May
2015: seminar and workshop on writing grant proposals
- Centro di Riferimento Oncologico IRCCS Aviano, Ciclo
Formativo d'Approfondimento su Programmi Internazionali — Marie Curie,
Aviano (IT), 29 January 2015: "Scrivere grant proposal: tecniche per presentare
la tua idea con chiarezza e incisività" (in English)
- Società Italiana di Cancerologia, 56th Annual
Meeting, Ferrara (IT), 11 September 2014, Pre-meeting Gruppo Giovani: "Writing
Grant Proposals: three techniques to present your idea with clarity and
conviction"
- Erasmus Intensive Programme, Training, Translating and
Touring in Venice, Venice (IT), 5–19 July 2014: roundtable on translating
and editing as a profession (with Maureen Freely and Loredana Polezzi)
- Mario Negri Pharmacological Reseach Institute, PhD
Student Meeting, Milan (IT), 25 June 2014: "Writing the biomolecular research
report: an overview of techniques for producing rigorous yet reader-friendly
prose"
- Fondazione IRCCS – Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori,
Milan (IT), May–July 2014: "Effective Biomedical Writing" (7–day
course for doctoral students)
- St Jude Medical Italia Spa, training event, Milan (IT), 7
July 2012: "Effective Medical Reading"
- Institute of Biomedical Technologies, National Research
Council, Segrate (IT), May–July 2012: "Effective Biomedical
Writing" (5-day course for young researchers)
- Fondazione IRCCS – Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori,
Milan (IT), March–May 2011: "Effective Biomedical Writing" (7–day
course for doctoral students)
- Mediterranean Editors and Translators, 7th annual meeting
(METM11), Barcelona (ES), 22 October 2011: "Establishing a dialogue between research and practice: a look at the potential benefits"
(panel discussion)
- Società Italiana di Ortopedia e Traumatologia,
95th conference, 23 November 2010: "Introduzione al processo di peer
reviewing"
- Azienda Ospedale Universitaria S. Anna, Ferrara (IT), 29
February 2010: "Quality Reporting of Biomedical Research: Guidelines –
Challenges – Strategies" (two CME accredited workshops)
Moderation of panel discussions
| Mediterranean Editors and Translators, 15th annual
meeting (METM19), Split (HR), 27 September 2019:
"Can we make the world a better place? Realities, roadblocks and
rewards for language professionals who work for philanthropic causes" with
panelists Timothy Barton (UK), Karen Shashok (ES), Sandra Young (UK)) |
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| Mediterranean Editors and Translators, 14th annual
meeting (METM18), Girona (ES), 5 October 2018:
"Acknowledgments in the eyes of scholars using language services:
perceptions of language professionals" with panelists Wendy
Baldwin (ES), Mar Fernández Núñez (FR), Jackie Senior (NL), Kate
Sotejeff-Wilson (FI) |
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| SENSE 2018 Conference, ’s‐Hertogenbosch
(NL), 9 June 2018:
"Invasive species: Language versus subject specialists in
biomedical editing and translation"
with panelists Anne Murray (ES), Marije de Jager (IT), Emma Goldsmith (ES) |
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| Mediterranean Editors and Translators, 13th annual
meeting (METM17), Brescia (IT), 28 October 2017:
"Writing up research: insiders’ views on writing practices
at research centers" with panelists Susan
Frekko (ES), Maighread Gallagher-Gambarelli (FR), Ketevan Glonti (HR) |
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| Mediterranean Editors and Translators, 8th annual
meeting (METM12), Venice (IT), 26 October 2012:
"Craft and critical vision: mastering the skills of good writing" with panelists Karen Shashok (ES),
Tom Jefferson (IT), Loredana Polezzi (UK), Anne Pallant (UK) |
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Selected papers
Challenges in writing about contributorship. PubPeer comment, 16 July 2020. DOI:
10.13140/RG.2.2.30975.23205
Acknowledging editing and translation: A pending issue in
accountability. Accountability in Research. 2020; 27(4):238-239
(https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2020.1737525). Preprint
Transparent attribution of contributions to research: aligning
guidelines to real-life practices. Publications. 2019; 7(2):24
Post-publication peer review in biomedical journals:
overcoming obstacles and disincentives to knowledge sharing. RT. A Journal of Research Policy and Evaluation.
2018; 6(1)
Improving the biomedical research literature: insights from
authors' editors can help journal editors define and refine their core
competencies. F1000Research. 2018; 7:109
Reporting—the final phase of scientific
research—can and should be supported. A case for integrating language
professionals into the research setting. RT. A Journal of Research Policy and Evaluation.
2013; 1:1
Good language is vital to research communication. Research Information, 14 Jan 2013
Multiple rejections: role of the writing process.
Lancet. 2011; 378:1296 (letter)
Independent information professionals in Europe: using
geopolitical and cultural boundaries to advantage. Bulletin of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology. 2011;
37(3):37-39
Emerging concepts in high-impact publishing: insights from the
First Brazilian Colloquium on High Impact Research and Publishing. Ann
Ist Super Sanita. 2010; 46(4):451-455
Teaching and Learning Publishing Skills in Biomedical and
Clinical Sciences: A Guide to Setting Educational Priorities. Up To
it. 2010 (self-published white paper)
Relationship between quality and editorial leadership of
biomedical research journals: a comparative study of Italian and UK
journals. PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(7):e2512
Books
Effective
Biomolecular Reading and Writing, 2nd edn. Matarese Valerie Ann, Vidor,
Italy, 2022
Editing
Research: The author editing approach to providing effective support to
writers of research papers. Information Today, Inc., Medford, NJ, USA,
September 2016
Supporting Research
Writing: Roles and challenges in multilingual settings.
Chandos, Oxford, UK, 2013 (edited volume)
Posters
Supporting
Research Writing in Non-Anglophone Contexts: Role of Language Professionals.
2016 meeting of European
Association of Science Editors, Strasbourg. This poster won the Annals of Botany
Award for Best Non-Medical Poster.
Authors'
Editors: Partners in communication at the service of researchers and
readers. 2016 meeting of European Association of Science Editors, Strasbourg.
Research highlights from my book Editing
Research.
Projects
METM12 — 8th annual meeting of Mediterranean Editors
and Translators, Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice — Chair of the organizing
committee
The English Language Consultant. MET's guidelines for
choosing an editor, translator, interpreter or other language service provider
— Chair of the revision committee
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