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I think like most
academics, I do

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undergraduate teaching and
peer reviewing for journals,

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obviously.

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I'm also the course lead
for a new master's degree

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in contemporary bioethics, which
we're setting up at the moment,

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here at Brighton and 
Sussex Medical School.

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In addition to those
core responsibilities,

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I'm also the Deputy Chair of the
Research Governance and Ethics

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Committee in the Medical School.

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I'm the Deputy Director 
of Student Support.

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And I've been a member of the
Animal Welfare Ethics Review

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Board at the University
of Sussex more broadly.

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And I've also been a peer
reviewer for book manuscripts,

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and for grant applications.

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So responsibilities
go everywhere

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from teaching, to
research related,

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to working with
colleagues, and all

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across the whole
academic spectrum.

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I think they've always
been very rewarding.

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They're always interesting,
and intrinsically valuable

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for the community, and
for myself as a whole.

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But you learn a lot
from doing them.

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Teaching is great,
because you get questions

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from undergraduates that you
wouldn't necessarily of thought

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about needing to explain
something in a certain way,

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or approaching a
topic in a certain way.

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And then doing
things like offering

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being on ethics committees.

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You see what your
colleagues are doing.

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So it's very interesting,

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and it's a way of contributing
to your academic community.

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That said, there's never
enough time for everything

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you want to do.

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So there's always that
sort of time pressure,

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and how am I going to
manage the workload?

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And the way I tend to do
it try and differentiate

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between the important
and the urgent,

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and prioritising the former,
but sometimes things are both.

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So sometimes it's the case
of, sort of, keeping plates spinning.

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But it's always interesting.

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And it's always challenging.

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And it helps you to
develop as an academic,

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and contribute to the academic
community more broadly.

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I'd say that they're
often very valuable to do.

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They can be very
useful, personally.

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So in a sort of
self-interested way,

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it's a way of showing
that you are doing

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things for your community.

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I would also suggest that
they can be time-consuming.

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And they might be perhaps
more time-consuming

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than might be anticipated.
But they're an important thing

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to do to be a good
colleague, I would suggest.

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What I'd recommend is talking
to people who've perhaps

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done the job before,
talking to people who've

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got a bit more experience and
finding out sort of, what can I

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expect from this? How much
work is it going to be?

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But it can be a
really valuable way

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of finding out what your
colleagues are doing,

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which is always fun.

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And you get to meet new people,
and contribute to the community,

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and learn more and develop
more as an academic.