Widening Participation Conference 2012 - Discourses of Inclusion in Higher Education
24th and 25th April 2012, Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire, UK
Information on Peer Review Process
The University has appointed a conference steering group, with overall responsibility for overseeing and coordinating conference proceedings, including the peer review process.
Selection of papers and posters will be by blind review (author and reviewer anonymity) from the abstracts (and overview papers for paper submissions) submitted. Any references to specific Higher Education Institutions will be removed where possible. Two reviews will be sought for each submission.
When the review process has been completed, the Steering Group will be asked to provide a view on the overall coherence of the conference based on the papers accepted, ensuring there is a reasonable balance between the conference themes.
Authors submitting papers to the conference will be informed of the outcome of the peer review process by 1 December 2011.
Data Protection Statement
Any comments provided by the reviewer will be treated in confidence and disclosed anonymously only to the abstract author for purposes of feedback. The Open University will only use review comments for the purposes of the selection of papers and posters for inclusion in the Widening Participation Conference 2012.
Reviewers will not use the information in the conference submissions for any other purpose than providing an assessment of the suitability of the abstract for inclusion in the conference.