Hi all,
I am currently doing a research stay at another university & have been asked to give an internal seminar about what I'm working on right now. They have asked that the chapter be circulated beforehand. Is this common practice (I am in Social Science)? I don't feel comfortable sharing a 40page chapter that I aim to publish. I have had a bad experience in the past sharing work with faculty members elsewhere who then used the work for themselves and I don't trust my current supervisory team here either, given they have been purposefully unhelpful and unwelcoming/uninterested in me until now.
Can I stand my ground and just send an abstract?
Thank you for your help!
I would never agree to this.
During my PhD you would have been hard pressed to get me to talk about ongoing work until it was published. Anyone even thinking of asking me to hand over an entire 40 page manuscript prior to publication would have been rewarded with peals of laughter from me.
It sounds odd but must be the norm there. It is up to you though and v.important to do what you're comfortable with doing. Personally I'd say "I prefer to circulate the abstract only".
I'm not as particular about ongoing work as pm133 is - in my field it's unlikely anyone is going to pip me to the post with what I'm doing. But I would just want to send the abstract in, so that's what I would do.
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