No idea! I don’t fully understand the UK context and I should have reposted with a caveat, but, yes, it seems … erm … unhelpful?

It’s such a shame. The peer review system isn’t without its flaws but it can still be a way that we choose to prioritise long term care for our colleagues and discipline above the short term demands of our institution. Good luck with it all.

thanks Paul. I hadn’t thought of JEMS but yes, worth thinking about.

thanks. definitely worth thinking about.

If so, then continuing to do this work seems like an act of suitable and productive resistance to the corporate University. Anyway: anybody any advice on a journal that might be interested in a piece on the influence of early modern literature on Geoffrey Hill?

Never happened to me before and it’s a bit disheartening (I’ll survive!) But I’m seeing evidence of less and less willingness for people to spend time on peer review. Why? Is it because our institutions don’t value this work and, so, we think we can’t afford to spend time on it?

Attending your session a definite highlight.

“I do not think that skies and meadows are / Moral”