EGERTON UNIVERSITY 15TH BIENNIAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

11-07-2025

1.Preamble

Egerton University announces its Biennial International Conference to be held on  March 2024. This will be the 15th edition of the International Conference organized by the University and brings together people from academia, research institutions and industry experts in various fields to a common forum. The Conference is organized and hosted by the Directorate of Research and Extension and has attracted up to 500 participants per edition in the past.

The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for participants to share their experiences and research results, deliberate and exchange innovative cutting-edge development ideas, concepts and actions.  This will include keynote speakers, paper presentations, interactive panel discussions, question and answer sessions and exhibitions.

Authors have opportunities to address this broad theme under six sub themes:

2.Who is Eligible?

We are inviting potential manuscripts reviewers both internal (Egerton University) and external (other institutions).

The candidates for this exercise should meet the following criteria:

  • Must be a PhD holder in the relevant thematic area
  • Active in the relevant research field based on publication record 
  • Ideally having published prolifically and widely on the subjects/themes indicated below
  • Reliable in terms of achieving tight publication review timelines and giving quality feedback
  • Willing to be engaged for at least a period of one-year subject to availability of paper submissions in one's area of specialization
  • Free of any potential bias and conflict of interest (this will be assessed at the stage where a reviewer has to review a paper and the sub-theme editors team will ensure that a reviewer will not review a manuscript if:  
    • The potential reviewers have co-authored with an author of the submitted manuscript
    • Excluded by the authors/sub-theme editors (e.g. when such request was made by the author based on compelling reasons) 
    • Known to have particularly strong views or opinions on the topic, unless this can be balanced by additional reviewers 

Those interested please fill the google form at https://forms.gle/75SPrnWbjjeYnMxJ6indicating your areas of specialty, institutional affiliations, contact details and journals for which you have been reviewers. A compensation of Ksh. 1,000.00 will be paid per abstract reviewed and Ksh. 2,000.00 per paper reviewed.

 

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