1. A Reviewer’s Perspective
Dr Pat Sikes
Professor of Qualitative Inquiry
University of Sheffield

2. Reviewers are human too

3. What’s going on when a reviewer reviews?

4. What do you do when you get feedback?

6. TOP 10 REASONS FOR REJECTION
Sent to the wrong journal
Not a proper article (e.g. clearly a thesis chapter or consultancy report)
Too long or too short for specific journal
Poor regard to conventions of journal (failure to consult Notes to Contributors or conventions of academic writing generally
Bad style, grammar, punctuation
Fails to say anything of significance or states the obvious at tedious length
Not properly contextualized (e.g. concentrates on parochial interests and ignores needs of wider audience)
No theoretical framework
Scrappily presented and clearly not proofread
Libellous, unethical, rude