Professor Heather Sharp, University of Newcastle
The Editor-in-Chief provides scholarly leadership, ethical authority, and final editorial judgement for the journal as a whole. Their specific responsibilities include:
- Leading Editorial Team meetings and strategic discussions
- Ensuring the overall scholarly quality of published content
- Appointing and mentoring Associate Editors and Section Editors
- Defining editorial roles and expectations
- Leading and coordinating the Editorial Team
- Recruiting new board members to ensure diversity, expertise, and renewal
- Acting as an ambassador for the journal
- Commissioning content and fielding submission enquires as appropriate
- Resolving conflicting reviewer recommendations
- Providing authors with reviewers’ feedback and editorial decisions
- Approving revised manuscripts before sending for copy-editing
- Reviewing and approving any final copy material to be published
- Seeking material support for journal
- Enforcing editorial policies and standards
- Ensuring peer review is fair, rigorous, timely, and unbiased
- Setting standards for reviewer selection and conduct
- Intervening in cases of reviewer misconduct, delays, or conflicts of interest
- Handling appeals and complaints from authors
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