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I think being an
academic is fundamentally

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about communicating knowledge
or discovering new knowledge.

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So, publication is the way
that you share your knowledgepolicy ideally

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with other people, whether
that's within the academia more

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generally, or society as a whole.

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I think also,
publishing information

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is a way of getting
feedback on your ideas.

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That's more of a self-interested
or selfish argument,

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but I think it's fundamental
to what researchers do.

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And it's a way of
contributing to public debates

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and shaping public
policy, ideally.

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When I'm thinking
about what to publish,

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I focus mostly on what's of
particular interest to me

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at any given
moment, or sometimes

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what's annoying me
in public debates.

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So I'm motivated by
trying to make a change.

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So I'm looking at
those things, which

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have most impact and which
are most interesting.

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And when I'm trying to
decide where to publish,

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I think about the reputation
of a journal for example.

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It's not the most
important thing, but

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if it will have the most
impact on that debate.

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So it would be, perhaps whether
people that I'm engaging with, in

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what I'm trying to
publish, have published

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in a particular journal, if
it focuses on a specific issue

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that I'm interested
in, and whether it'll

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have a wide reach.

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Because I want my writing to
have an impact on my community

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and on public policy.

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My first publication was from--

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It was published in a collected
edition based on a conference

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that I presented it at.

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It was very exciting because
it was during my PhD.

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So it felt like I was
being a real academic.

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It took a very long time due to
some delays with the publisher.

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So it ended up being
published, I think,

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a year or two after I
finished my PhD, when it

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got accepted in my first year.

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It was very exciting.

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It was a bit surprising,

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I think how long it took,
but I was quite naively

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thinking that it would
be a lot quicker.

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And I was quite surprised at
how much work went into actually

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making that publishable
material when

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I thought well, this is fine.

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This has been accepted.

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It's fine.

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And it took a lot of extra work
going through sort of the peer,

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responding to the peer review
comments and things like that.

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But I had a lot of guidance
from my PhD supervisor,

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which was really helpful.

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And they were sort of, steering
me in the right direction,

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explaining why it
was taking so long.

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So it was a very helpful process
in my, sort of, development as an academic,

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I think.