Editorial matters

I have now been editing Transactions for half of my five year stretch in the post and the rhythm of life as an editor is becoming no less baffling. In my last editorial (Tickell 2004), I was very explicit about the flow of papers to the journal and the editorial responses that we had made, and received derisive phone calls and emails from the editors of other journals in geography, who suggested that the result would be that authors would stop submitting to Transactions. Although this didn't happen, it would be dishonest to suggest that there hadn't been something of a dip, and the result is that the time taken from acceptance to publication remains less than six months. I would be very reluctant, however, to conclude that my exercise in the freedom of information has failed and I will continue to publish fuller data on the number of manuscripts being submitted to the journal than is the norm. Less bureaucratically, I remain in awe of the sheer range and quality of the geographical research and scholarship that we receive and publish. Whilst it is almost impossible to define our discipline, its intellectual strength and diversity is well represented in Transactions and I remain indebted to the guidance and support of the journal's editorial advisory board. When I took over, I introduced a policy of rotating the membership of this advisory board – both to relieve the burden on long-standing members (who, for nothing other than a warm glow, each referee an inordinate number of manuscripts) and to refresh the feel of the journal. As I signalled in my last editorial, the long-serving members of the board are now retiring. It is hard to over-estimate the importance of the advice I've received from Nick Clifford, Felix Driver, Jane Jacobs, Jamie Peck, Kirsten Simonsen and Sarah Whatmore. This is true both on individual papers and on the general policy direction of the journal as a whole. For Jamie and Sarah this has been given freely even though they both edit ‘competitor’ journals and I was delighted that Felix has recently been appointed as editor of the Journal of Historical Geography against an outstanding field. I would also like to welcome new members to the – slightly expanded –Transactions editorial board. The new members were invited following discussions with the existing board and we have aimed to increase the range of physical geographic expertise, to recognize the international reach of the journal with a greater number of non-UK based expertise, and to continue to reflect the diversity of interests that exists in geography. Nick Blomley (Simon Fraser) is best known for his development of research on law and space and has recently focused his interests on property relations; Gail Davies (UCL) is a cultural geographer whose work explores the relationship between scientific and everyday knowledges, most notably with an empirical focus on animals; Gernot Grabher (Bonn) works on the socio-economics of space and uses evolutionary economics to engage in a critical interrogation of networks; Robyn Longhurst (Waikato) explores the production of bodies and spaces, social exclusion and ‘difference’, and cultural landscapes; Dave Martin (Southampton) is a quantitative human geographer whose expertise in both GIS and demographic modelling is recognized by his being both the co-ordinator of the Economic and Social Research Council's research programme on the last UK Census and the co-director of the National Centre for Research Methods; Tavi Murray (Swansea) is a glaciologist whose research investigates glacier dynamics and flow instabilities, glacier responses to rapid climate change and glacier geophysics; Richa Nagar (Minnesota) straddles women's studies and geography and is interested in the mutually constitutive relationships among social spaces, identities, resistance and change, and her current research is exploring grassroots development in India; Phil O’Neill (Newcastle, New South Wales) is a post-structuralist economic geographer who combines his academic life with that of a – too frequently for his own comfort – controversial columnist on his local paper; Bill Nickling (Guelph) is a geomorphologist who combines both field research and modelling in order to understand arid lands, aeolian processes and landscape development; and finally Jonathan Phillips (Kentucky) is developing a theory regarding the structure, function and behaviour of earth surface systems, involving the interactions of landforms, soils, climate and the biosphere, which is both theoretical and emphasizes field-testable hypotheses and real-world manifestations of complex system behaviour. Welcome aboard!

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