Public speaking engagements: workshops, courses & talks
Where Valerie Matarese PhD has recently spoken, in Italy and beyond:
- University of Udine (Ufficio Formazione per la Ricerca), Udine (IT), May 2025:
The research article: from planning and writing, through peer review to publication (12-hour residential course for PhD students)
- Parc de Recerca Biomedica de Barcelona – PRBB Intervals Programme, Barcelona (ES), 2025: Introduction to Effective Biomedical Writing (12-h
synchronous online course, three editions planned)
- University of Udine (Ufficio Formazione per la Ricerca), Udine (IT), June 2024:
Introduction to Effective Biomedical Writing (12-hour residential course for PhD students)
- Parc de Recerca Biomedica de Barcelona – PRBB Intervals Programme, Barcelona (ES), 2024: Introduction to Effective Biomedical Writing (12-h
synchronous online course, three editions)
- Mediterranean Editors and Translators, Carcassonne (FR), 18 October 2024: Statistics for editors and translators (workshop)
- Mediterranean Editors and Translators, Barcelona (ES), 19 April 2024: Statistics for editors and translators (workshop)
- Mediterranean Editors and Translators, Mantua (IT), 13 October 2023: Quantitative research data with units in text: to correct or to query? (workshop)
- Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario Negri", PhD
Students Meeting, Milan (IT), 30 June 2023: Biomedical research articles: structure guides the writing process.
Handout
- CRO Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano (IT), 27 June and 11 July 2023: Citation, quotation and
paraphrasing ... for avoiding plagiarism! (workshop)
- CRO Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano (IT), 31 May and 7 June 2023:
Reporting quantities and statistics(workshop)
- Parc de Recerca Biomedica de Barcelona – PRBB Intervals Programme, Barcelona (ES), 2023: Introduction to Effective Biomedical Writing (12-h
synchronous online course, three editions)
- Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (IRCCS), Milan (IT), February-May 2023: Effective Biomedical Writing
(scientific writing course for doctoral students, 11th edition)
- Mediterranean Editors and Translators, Valencia (ES), 21 April 2023: SI units for editors and translators. How to present numerical data with units of measurement in text (workshop)
- CRO Centro di Riferimento Oncologico, Aviano (IT), 6 and 15 March 2023: Basic techniques of scientific
writing in English (workshop)
- Parc de Recerca Biomedica de Barcelona – PRBB Intervals Programme, Barcelona (ES), October 2022: Introduction to Effective Biomedical Writing (12-h
synchronous online course, 2nd edition)
- Metal-Microbe Exploitation (M2ex) European Joint Doctorate within the EU Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network, Naples (IT),
12 July 2022: Basic techniques of scientific writing in English (workshop)
- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise "Giuseppe Caporale", Teramo (IT), May-September 2022: Effective Biomedical Writing (scientific writing course, synchronous online, 10th edition)
- Parc de Recerca Biomedica de Barcelona – PRBB Intervals Programme, Barcelona (ES), May 2022: Introduction to Effective Biomedical Writing (12-h
synchronous online course; 1st edition)
- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise
"Giuseppe Caporale", Teramo (IT), November 2021: "Reporting Guidelines
for the Life Sciences and One Health" (4.5 h online workshop accredited for
continuing professional development). Program. AGENAS event ID: 335980.
- National Writing Centres Consortium, 3rd academic writing
conference on Research
Writing: Teaching Approaches and Assessment Practices, Moscow (RU), 30
October 2021: "Teaching research writing: the case for subject specialists with
linguistic competence" (online talk), Video
(starts at 1:50)
- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise
"Giuseppe Caporale", Teramo (IT), April-July 2021: "Effective Biomedical Writing" (scientific
writing course, 9th edition — first online edition)
- Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (IRCCS), Milan (IT),
January-June 2020: "Effective Biomedical
Writing" (scientific writing course for doctoral students)
- Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (IRCCS), Milan (IT), 11
November 2019: "Reporting quantities and
statistics" (workshop)
- CRO Centro di Riferimento
Oncologico, Aviano (IT), 6 and 11 June 2019: "Citation, quotation and paraphrasing - for
avoiding plagiarism" (workshop)
- CRO Centro di Riferimento
Oncologico, Aviano (IT), 14 and 21 May 2019: "Basic techniques of scientific writing"
(workshop)
- Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and
Laboratory Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Atlanta (US), 16 January 2019: "The trouble with research writing and what we
can do about it" (CSELS science webinar) Poster Slides Audio+slides (46 MB)
- PubMet 2018: The 5th Conference on Scholarly Publishing in the
Context of Open Science, Zadar (HR), 28 September 2018: "Every scientific research institute needs an authors’
editor"
- Mediterranean Editors and Translators,
14th annual meeting (METM18), Girona (ES), 5 October 2018: "CRediT
and me: academia’s imperfect project to standardize contributions to
research articles, and one language professional’s attempts to set it
straight"
- Department of Specialist, Diagnostic and
Experimental Medicine, University of Bologna, Bologna (IT), 25 May
2018: "Writing Grant Proposals: Techniques to present your ideas with clarity
and conviction" (one-day workshop)
- SENSE 2018
Conference, ’s‐Hertogenbosch (NL), 9 June 2018: "Bad textual mentors: How awkwardly written research articles
complicate the work of an authors’ editor"
- SEMM
European School of Molecular Medicine, Milan (IT), 7 July 2017:
"Getting into IMRaD. The research article structure as a guide to reading and
writing the scientific literature" (one-day workshop, held on special
request)
- SEMM European School of Molecular Medicine,
Milan (IT), 4 July 2017: "Basic techniques in scientific writing" (one-day workshop)
- Fondazione
IRCCS – Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan (IT),
September–November 2016: "Effective Biomedical Writing" (7–day course for doctoral students and early career
researchers)
- Mediterranean Editors and Translators,
12th annual meeting (METM16), Tarragona (ES), 15 October 2016: "Author editing—the provenance and prospects of our
profession"
- Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche "Mario
Negri", PhD Student Meeting, Milan (IT), 14 July 2016: "Writing for
Reproducibility: Strategies to optimize the language and content of your
research reports". Video
- Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori
(IRCCS), Milan (IT), 19 May 2016: one-day course on basic techniques of
scientific writing (in other words, how to write reader-friendly texts)
- Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori (IRCCS), Milan (IT), 27 May
2015: seminar and workshop on writing grant proposals
- Centro di
Riferimento Oncologico IRCCS Aviano, Ciclo Formativo d'Approfondimento
su Programmi Internazionali — Marie Curie, Aviano (IT), 29 January 2015:
"Scrivere grant proposal: tecniche per presentare la tua idea con chiarezza e
incisività" (in English)
- Società Italiana di
Cancerologia, 56th Annual Meeting, Ferrara (IT), 11 September 2014,
Pre-meeting Gruppo Giovani: "Writing Grant Proposals: three techniques to
present your idea with clarity and conviction"
- Erasmus
Intensive Programme, Training, Translating and Touring in Venice,
Venice (IT), 5–19 July 2014: roundtable on translating and editing as a
profession (with Maureen Freely and Loredana Polezzi)
- Mario
Negri Pharmacological Reseach Institute, PhD Student Meeting, Milan
(IT), 25 June 2014: "Writing the biomolecular research report: an overview of
techniques for producing rigorous yet reader-friendly prose"
- Fondazione IRCCS – Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori,
Milan (IT), May–July 2014: "Effective Biomedical Writing" (7–day
course for doctoral students)
- St Jude Medical Italia
Spa, training event, Milan (IT), 7 July 2012: "Effective Medical
Reading"
- Institute of Biomedical Technologies, National
Research Council, Segrate (IT), May–July 2012: "Effective
Biomedical Writing" (5-day course for young researchers)
- Fondazione IRCCS – Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori,
Milan (IT), March–May 2011: "Effective Biomedical Writing" (7–day
course for doctoral students)
- Mediterranean Editors and
Translators, 7th annual meeting (METM11), Barcelona (ES), 22 October
2011: "Establishing a dialogue between research and practice: a look at the potential benefits"
(panel discussion)
- Società Italiana di Ortopedia e
Traumatologia, 95th conference, 23 November 2010: "Introduzione al
processo di peer reviewing"
- Azienda Ospedale Universitaria S.
Anna, Ferrara (IT), 29 February 2010: "Quality Reporting of Biomedical
Research: Guidelines – Challenges – Strategies" (two CME accredited
workshops)
Moderation of panel discussions
| Mediterranean Editors and Translators, 15th
annual meeting (METM19), Split (HR), 27 September 2019: "Can we make the world a better place? Realities, roadblocks and
rewards for language professionals who work for philanthropic causes" with
panelists Timothy Barton (UK), Karen Shashok (ES), Sandra Young (UK)) |
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| Mediterranean Editors and Translators, 14th annual
meeting (METM18), Girona (ES), 5 October 2018: "Acknowledgments in the eyes of scholars using language services:
perceptions of language professionals" with panelists Wendy Baldwin (ES),
Mar Fernández Núñez (FR), Jackie Senior (NL), Kate
Sotejeff-Wilson (FI) |  |
| SENSE 2018 Conference, ’s‐Hertogenbosch
(NL), 9 June 2018: "Invasive species: Language versus subject specialists in
biomedical editing and translation" with panelists Anne Murray (ES), Marije
de Jager (IT), Emma Goldsmith (ES) |  |
| Mediterranean Editors and Translators, 13th annual
meeting (METM17), Brescia (IT), 28 October 2017: "Writing up research: insiders’ views on writing practices
at research centers" with panelists Susan Frekko (ES), Maighread
Gallagher-Gambarelli (FR), Ketevan Glonti (HR) |  |
| Mediterranean Editors and Translators, 8th annual
meeting (METM12), Venice (IT), 26 October 2012: "Craft and critical vision:
mastering the skills of good writing" with panelists Karen Shashok (ES),
Tom Jefferson (IT), Loredana Polezzi (UK), Anne Pallant (UK) |  |
Selected papers
Challenges in writing about contributorship. PubPeer comment, 16 July 2020. DOI:
10.13140/RG.2.2.30975.23205
Acknowledging editing and translation: A pending issue in
accountability. Accountability in Research. 2020; 27(4):238-239
(https://doi.org/10.1080/08989621.2020.1737525). Preprint
Transparent attribution of contributions to research: aligning
guidelines to real-life practices. Publications. 2019; 7(2):24
Post-publication peer review in biomedical journals:
overcoming obstacles and disincentives to knowledge sharing. RT. A Journal of Research Policy and Evaluation.
2018; 6(1)
Improving the biomedical research literature: insights from
authors' editors can help journal editors define and refine their core
competencies. F1000Research. 2018; 7:109
Reporting—the final phase of scientific
research—can and should be supported. A case for integrating language
professionals into the research setting. RT. A Journal of Research Policy and Evaluation.
2013; 1:1
Good language is vital to research communication. Research Information, 14 Jan 2013
Multiple rejections: role of the writing process.
Lancet. 2011; 378:1296 (letter)
Independent information professionals in Europe: using
geopolitical and cultural boundaries to advantage. Bulletin of the
American Society for Information Science and Technology. 2011;
37(3):37-39
Emerging concepts in high-impact publishing: insights from the
First Brazilian Colloquium on High Impact Research and Publishing. Ann
Ist Super Sanita. 2010; 46(4):451-455
Relationship between quality and editorial leadership of
biomedical research journals: a comparative study of Italian and UK
journals. PLoS ONE. 2008; 3(7):e2512
Books
Effective
Biomolecular Reading and Writing, 2nd edn. Matarese Valerie
Ann, Vidor, Italy, 2022
Editing
Research: The author editing approach to providing effective support to
writers of research papers. Information Today, Inc., Medford, NJ, USA,
September 2016
Supporting Research
Writing: Roles and challenges in multilingual settings.
Chandos, Oxford, UK, 2013 (edited volume)
Posters
Supporting Research Writing in Non-Anglophone Contexts: Role of
Language Professionals. 2016 meeting of European Association of Science Editors, Strasbourg. This
poster won the Annals
of Botany Award for Best Non-Medical Poster.
Authors'
Editors: Partners in communication at the service of researchers and
readers. 2016 meeting of European Association of Science Editors, Strasbourg.
Research highlights from my book Editing
Research.
Projects
METM12 — 8th annual meeting of Mediterranean Editors
and Translators, Don Orione Artigianelli, Venice — Chair of the organizing
committee
The English Language Consultant. MET's guidelines for choosing an editor, translator, interpreter or other language service provider
— Chair of the revision committee
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