Born in New Zealand and based in Australia, Grayson Cooke is an interdisciplinary scholar and media artist, Associate Professor of Media and Chair of Creative Arts at Southern Cross University. Grayson has presented media art and live audio-visual performance works in Australia and internationally, having exhibited and performed in major international festivals such as the Japan Media Arts Festival, the WRO Media Art Biennale, and the Imagine Science Film Festival in New York. As a scholar he has published widely in academic journals, and he is also an associate editor for the scholarly journal “Transformations.” He holds an interdisciplinary PhD from Concordia University in Montreal.
Tomonobu Noguchi is Executive Director & Secretary General, Silicone Industry Association of Japan. He has been in charge of coordination of the association’s internal activities, and external communication with Japan government, experts of chemical risk assessment, and their user industry associations since 2017. He has also been involved in Global Silicones Council activities.
Before joining the association, he had worked for Dow Corning and Dow Corning Toray, and led Global Marketing for Electronics and Public Affairs & Communications in Japan.
Tomonobu holds BA for Economics from Waseda University in Japan, and MBA from George Washington University in the U.S.
Publication Ethics and Integrity: Jen Lynch will use the Committee on Publishing Ethics checklist for journals to assess the SETAC journals and contextualize publishing ethics more broadly. The presentation will cover authorship, conflict of interest, data, oversight, intellectual property, peer-review, and more. While this is a fairly high-level discussion about ethical baselines and SETAC standards, we are happy to use any specific ethical questions from the audience to do deeper-dives into specific ethical questions.
Post-publication Promotion: Jen Lynch, SETAC, will provide tips about promoting your own research after it is published. She will cover search engine optimization, which should be considered when selecting keywords and drafting your abstract, as well as all the fun things after the article goes to press: social media, traditional press, embargoes, etc. (Speaker: SETAC Program Officer, Publications and Science Dissemination Jen Lynch; EST)
Peer-Review Training: This is a “how-to” training session about peer review, which not only strengthens the literature in the field, it also helps participants become more critical readers and stronger writers. Jenny Shaw, IEAM managing editor, will cover basics, such as evaluating basic criteria and providing thoughtful feedback, as well as nuanced information, for example, how to determine if a paper needs major or minor revision. She will also touch upon ethical practices in peer review. (Speaker: IEAM Managing Editor, Jenny Shaw; PST)