Presented by Lauren H.R. Senn - Email: lhsenn@g.clemson.edu
Within most academic fields, publishing peer-reviewed research is expected for dissemination of knowledge and is used as a measure of professional performance. However, few papers have been published on professionals and graduate students perceptions of student publication practices, how professionals encourage student publishing, and what types of publication barriers exist for graduate students. To address this dearth of knowledge, we conducted a survey of attendees of the 6th and 7th North American Duck Symposium (2013 and 2016, respectively). Our objectives were to 1) assess respondents perceptions of graduate student publication practices, including number of students that had published, number of publications, and time to publication; 2) determine respondent views on the importance of graduate student publishing; 3) determine what strategies are most often utilized or experienced by respondents to motivate graduate students to publish; and 4) determine what respondents consider barriers to publication for graduate students. Using email in March 2019, we surveyed 469 professionals and 98 students at the time of the respective symposia. A total of 196 respondents submitted the professionals survey and 44 respondents submitted the students survey, resulting in response rates of 42% and 45%, respectively. Fifty percent of professional respondents indicated they felt frustrated motivating their Ph.D. students to publish and 69% felt frustrated motivating their Masters students to publish. Of strategies used to motivate graduate student publishing, 79% of students ranked providing congenial encouragement as most effective in motivating their publishing, while 60% of professionals ranked played a major role in drafting and editing as most effective in motivating students to publish. Both professionals and students considered lack of time during and outside work hours as barriers to publishing graduate work. Information from this study adds to a limited body of knowledge on wildlife graduate student publishing practices and can be used to improve methods to increase graduate student publication rates in waterfowl and other wildlife arenas.C.2-2: Professionals and Students Perceptions of Graduate Student Publication Practices
Lauren H.R. Senn, Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Richard M. Kaminski, Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Christopher K. Williams, Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Shari L. Rodriguez, Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Richard M. Kaminski, Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Christopher K. Williams, Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
Shari L. Rodriguez, Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation, Clemson University, Clemson, SC