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Science isn't done for yourself.

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The whole reason
to do science is

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to find out something
interesting about the world

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around us, and then
tell people about it,

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and let other people know.

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So in this particular
case, other researchers

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can do something with that
and build on those findings.

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So I think it's
important to publish

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for those sorts of
reasons, we need

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a clear and rigorous and
methodical system of getting

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data and results out there, so
that people can see what you've

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done, how you've done
it, what you've found,

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and so they can build
on that in the future.

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I think there are
three key reasons why

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researchers should publish.

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The first thing is we have a
moral duty and an ethical duty

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to publish our
research findings.

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Also, it's really
important to add

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to the scientific knowledge.

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And thirdly, it is important
to researchers' development.

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I'm a big fan of slow
science, so in terms

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of choosing what to
publish, ideally,

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I'd like to publish
everything that I collect,

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regardless of whether
it's a null finding

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or a positive finding.

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I think if I've
done it properly,

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and it's
methodologically robust,

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I think it should be out there
in the published literature.

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So I'd much rather
do fewer studies,

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and have them all published,
than just churn out

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lots and lots of different
studies, but only, say,

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half of the data or
a quarter of the data

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ever actually get out
there into the real world.

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In terms of where I
choose to publish,

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that's largely out
of my hands really.

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It can be a bit of
a lottery sometimes.

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It depends on the
nature of the data.

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I'll always try and target
appropriate journals

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for that particular
specialist interest area,

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but really, that's a question
and a decision for the peer

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reviewers and the
journal editors

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at those particular
publication outlets.

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I publish all of the research
studies that I've conducted,

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because I feel I have a moral
and ethical duty to do so.

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I look at the journals that
mostly fit to the topic

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that I'm talking about, and
this might not necessarily

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be the high citation
rate journals.

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It might be that you
want to get your research

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into an arena where
it goes to occupational,

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or to educational professionals,
so you're not necessarily

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looking at speaking
to other academics.

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So my first publication, it was
actually a bit of a nightmare.

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It was during my PhD.

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It was my first
round of experiments,

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and I was very excited
obviously about getting

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my first publication out
there, but it ended up

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going through months
and months of review.

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I think it went through
about eight rounds of review,

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and it just turned into this
big monolithic beast of a paper.

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I actually think it was
a very positive process

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to go through in the
end, and I learned

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a lot about how
peer review works,

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and I think the paper
itself, at the end of it,

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became much more robust, much
more correct, thankfully, even

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if it was a little bit
more of a dull read.

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But yeah, as much of a long
and difficult process it was,

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overall, I think it
was quite positive.