Joint Advanced Seminar 3 for Cohort 3

August 3 – August 26, 2015

University of Ibadan, Nigeria

General Co-ordinators: Profs. Oladapo Olayemi & Ademola Ajuwon

Overall Goals

• Improve fellows’ data analysis/appreciation and scholarly writing skills. 

• Support fellows’ capacity to concisely and clearly write up their qualitative and quantitative results. 

• Help fellows develop skills in the use of prose, visual and tabular data presentation methods. 

• Enhance fellows’ skills in the use of existing literature in interpreting their results. 

• Improve fellows’ understanding of peer review and publication processes. 

• Support fellows to write up the ‘Discussion’, ‘Conclusions’, ‘Summary’ and ‘Recommendations’ sections of their thesis. 

Duration

• FOUR [4] weeks – 126 hours of activities 

• Candidates shall be expected to do a lot of practical work on their theses/ dissertations during the period. 

Output

• A ‘virtually-ready’ thesis/dissertation/manuscript at the end of JAS 3. 

• A thesis/dissertation draft for further input from fellows’ supervisors. 

• Fellows knowledgeable about peer-reviewed and scholarly publishing.