Otter.ai Logo

Kathryn MacKay

00:05

Hello, and welcome to the She Research Podcast. I'm your host, Kate MacKay. And today I'm joined by Angus Dawson, who's the editor of the Journal Public Health Ethics. And today, we're actually going to be discussing authorship and acknowledgement, and a few different issues with regard to publishing in academia. So hi, Angus.

Angus Dawson

00:27

Hi, Kate, how are you doing?

Kathryn MacKay

00:29

I'm good. How are you doing?

Angus Dawson

00:30

I'm fine. Thank you.

Kathryn MacKay

00:32

Great. Thanks so much for being here to discuss this with me, you have loads of experience in journals and publishing and that kind of thing. So I mentioned that you're the editor of Public Health Ethics. And I believe you, in fact, started the journal. So I guess I wondered, first, what are your... what are your experiences with journals, publication, being an editor?

Angus Dawson

00:58

Yes. So the journal was founded... came out 2008, which now seems like a long time ago. And I worked a lot with my friends and colleague, myself and they. And we co-founded the journal. And at the time, we were a little bit worried that we already knew everybody in the world who worked on the the area of public health ethics. And we're very pleased to say that we have... get a lot of work now from people that we've not met before and not not heard of, which is great. And that... what that suggests is that there is a growing field, a growing body of work there. There's a literature that genuinely is, I think, increasingly distinct from what we might call sort of mainstream bioethics.

SHE Pod Season 2 Episode 5: Angus Dawson on Authorship and the Role of the Reviewer