Description

In this video from the Writing and Publishing: Reflections from JCPP Advances Editors series, Professor Eivind Ystrøm discusses how unstructured thinking time can lead to creative scientific insights. He reflects on using dialectic reasoning and narrative techniques drawn from film to engage readers and shape research arguments. Drawing on personal habits and storytelling, he shares how self-imposed constraints can support productivity and encourages early-career researchers to view the review process as a constructive dialogue.

Learning Objectives

1. Recognise how unstructured time and everyday routines can foster research creativity.

2. Understand how dialectic reasoning and narrative techniques can be used to engage readers.

3. Reframe the peer review process as a dialogue with editors and reviewers.