Post date: Oct 15, 2009 6:50:14 AM

"As far as I can work out, academic publishing is about developing a thick enough skin to cope with referees comments, but not so thick that you become immune to how the process can improve your work. It can be somewhat reassuring to speak with colleagues who have been through it all many times before and will invariably tell you it doesn’t get any easier, but it’s still quite a formidable prospect the first few times you experience it for yourself. From that point of view I found the ethos of Planning Theory and Practice to be really supportive. There was a clear commitment to offering constructive advice on how to develop my work, but also my thinking more broadly. That’s not to say it made it any easier of course! But it did help me to understand how the bruises from the (inevitable) criticisms could be used to improve what I was doing, and to understand the whole process a bit better."

- Andy Inch

Lecturer, University of Sheffield