A bit about me…
I have been a Council member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) since 2020, and EASE Treasurer since 2021.
After finishing my Masters in Cambridge, I started in Open Access journal publishing in 2003 as an editor handling peer review on the BMC series with BioMed Central in London. I became a Senior Editor and Publishing Editor, managed a team of Assistant Editors, worked on the journals BMC Biology and Trials, and launched BMC Medical Genomics, BMC Research Notes, and BMC Systems Biology. I moved to the Public Library of Science in Cambridge in 2010, as an Associate Editor and then Senior Editor on PLOS ONE, screening submissions, helping academic editors with difficult manuscripts, training editors in critical appraisal, and working on clinical trials, article-level metrics, commenting, publication ethics, and reporting guidelines.
More recently I have been Head of Research Integrity at Hindawi and then a Research Integrity Manager with UKRIO.