2nd Nursing Reports Reviewer Club 2025
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We are pleased to announce the second Nursing Reports Reviewer Club Webinar—an exclusive quarterly event recognizing our reviewers for their contribution to the journal.
This webinar will focus on questionable research practices (QRPs, methods used in research that are ethically ambiguous and can undermine research findings), including cherry picking and selective reporting. The impact of QRPs on the evidence base will be explored. Different QRPs that authors can adopt will be described, and how these need to be identified and considered during the review process will be discussed. Case examples will be used to illustrate different QRPs.
The Nursing Reports Reviewer Club Webinar is open to all, including established reviewers, early-career researchers, and those interested in learning more about peer review. Participants will gain insights into QRPs to enhance their reviewing expertise and contribute to maintaining high standards in scholarly publishing.
Date: 07 July 2025 at 8:00 a.m. CEST | 2:00 a.m. EDT | 2:00 p.m. CST Asia
Webinar ID: 823 1074 2891
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Richard Gray
School of Nursing and Midwifery, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia;
Professor Richard Gray has been at La Trobe University since 2017, becoming Theme Lead (Healthy Peoples Families and Communities) in 2021. He originally trained and worked as a Mental Health Nurse at the Maudsley Hospital in London before training in Epidemiology and Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropic Medicine. Subsequently, he has worked as a mental health services researcher focused on improving physical health outcomes for people experiencing mental ill-health, initially at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London and latterly at the University of East Anglia and La Trobe University. He is editor-in-chief of Nursing Reports and is actively involved in the open science movement. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health.
Prof. Dr. Paula Benevene
LUMSA University, Rome, Italy;
Prof. Dr. Paula Benevene is Full Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at LUMSA University (Italy). She is the Director of the Master's Program in Human Resource Management and Chair of the Master's Degree Course in Social, Forensic, and Organizational Psychology. She carried out several teaching and research stays as visiting fellow at Comillas Pontifical University (Madrid), Universidad de Extremadura (Badajoz- Spain) Complutense University of Madrid, as well as at the University of Paris-Nanterre (Paris). She has published extensively on organizational well-being, psychosocial approaches to organizational management, the transformation of work, and emerging psychosocial risks.
Dr. Niall Higgins
Service Evaluation & Research Unit (SERU), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia;
Adjunct Professor Niall Higgins is an experienced health services researcher specialising in technology assessment in acute healthcare settings. He trained as a Registered Nurse and has worked as a mental health clinician for more than 30 years. His role entails supporting the conduct of nursing research at the clinical facilities within West Moreton Mental Health. His research interest is in the design and implementation of assistive clinical technology to support nursing care for the physical and mental health of people both in hospital and in the community. He is also interested in enhancing existing computerised systems that nurses use to manage the care that they deliver for consumers of our mental health services.
Dr. Sojib Zaman
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States;
Dr. Sojib Zaman is an Assistant Professor of Health Sciences at James Madison University (JMU), Virginia, United States. He teaches undergraduate courses on Chronic Diseases, Infectious Diseases, Statistical Methods, and Research Methods. He works as a consultant with the Virginia Department of Health.
His research focuses on infectious diseases, chronic diseases, digital health, maternal and child health, and health systems. His international collaborations span five public health projects in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Tanzania, Saudi Arabia, and Indonesia.
For the third consecutive year, he has been ranked among the esteemed Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists. He has over 125 peer-reviewed publications and 85,000 citations. He is also an Associate Editor for four distinguished public health and medical journals. Dr. Zaman joined JMU in 2023 after earning his PhD in Epidemiology and Prevention from Monash University, Australia. He previously worked as an Assistant Scientist at icddr,b, a UN consultant, and an instructor at Monash University.
The webinar was hosted via Zoom and required prior registration to attend. The full recording can be accessed below. In order to learn about future webinars, you can sign up for our newsletter by clicking “Subscribe” at the top of the page.