Editorial

The number and range of papers submitted to Transactions continues to grow. While papers accepted for publication continue to appear both online and in print quickly – and, in print, generally within the next two issues – it has been taking longer than I would like to come to an editorial decision on some papers. In response to this, and also the need to balance editorial work with more strategic goals for Transactions, I am delighted to announce the appointment of two new Associate Editors, Dr Martin Evans and Dr Katherine (Kate) Gough. Kate and Martin have been members of the editorial board since I started as Editor in 2008. Their term as Associate Editors began in July 2010 and will continue until my editorial term ends in December 2012. Kate and Martin will take responsibility for a number of papers submitted from across the range of the discipline, and will help me to achieve key strategic goals that include increasing the cross-disciplinary profile of Transactions, enhancing its international scope and impact, and encouraging submissions from new researchers. Kate is a British-trained geographer (Cambridge and UCL) who has been based in Scandinavia for the past 20 years. Her primary research focus is on urban issues in the global South. She has an unusually broad profile, having conducted research in Latin America (Colombia and Brazil), Africa (Ghana, Zambia, Uganda and Tanzania) and the Asia-Pacific region (Vietnam and Solomon Islands). The main themes of her research are: housing and home, urban governance, urban youth, and comparative urbanism. Kate is currently leading a major comparative research project on youth employment in which, together with teams of researchers from Ghana, Uganda, Zambia and Denmark, she is exploring the role of entrepreneurship in generating youth employment in African economies. She also has a particular interest in conducting longitudinal research and recently returned to the city of Pereira, Colombia, the site of her original PhD research, to explore how housing and households in low-income settlements have changed. On 1 October 2010, she will be moving from her position as Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen, to take up a post as Reader in Urban Geography at Loughborough University. Martin is Reader in Geomorphology at the University of Manchester. His research is on sediment flux and sediment budgeting in upland environments, and on the link between erosion and terrestrial carbon cycling. He has worked on alpine systems in Western Canada, and on upland peatlands in the UK. His peatland research has involved investigation of the hydrology and geomorphology of peatlands as well as applied work on peatland restoration, and the negative environmental impacts of peatland erosion. Recent work in the Pennine peatlands of the UK has been focused on the links between peatland geomorphology, hydrology and carbon cycling. In particular, understanding the fate of carbon eroded from upland landscapes in order to develop links between understanding of sediment budgets and terrestrial carbon cycling is an ongoing area of interest. Martin is currently convening the British Society for Geomorphology’s working group on geomorphology and terrestrial carbon cycling. Martin has also edited the third Virtual Issue of Transactions, which is on geomorphology, launched to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the British Society for Geomorphology. The Virtual Issue consists of ten papers that are free to download at http://www.rgs.org/TIBGVirtual, together with the two previous Virtual Issues on The Geographies of Knowledge (edited by Gail Davies) and Women and Geography (edited by myself). As Martin writes in the introduction, The papers published in this Virtual Issue are a selection of the best and most influential geomorphological papers published in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers over the last three decades. […] Geomorphological research has made up a small proportion of the research published in Transactions [over that period], perhaps because of the focus on specialist interdisciplinary journals in physical geography. However, geomorphologists, particularly those who have their disciplinary home within geography departments, have continued to publish influential papers in Transactions and indeed geomorphologists are well-represented on the current editorial board. There are two main strands to the work represented in the Virtual Issue: first, papers that outline or analyse fundamental conceptual approaches to geomorphological research; and, second, substantial empirical papers that develop approaches to geomorphology from a synthesis of extensive field investigation. The papers in the Virtual Issue span geomorphological research from 1979 to 2007. As Martin explains, ‘The space which the journal has provided for the debate and development of ideas means that the best papers are influential and highly cited’, with some cited over 100 times: Transactions will continue to offer a sympathetic home for all kinds of geomorphological research work, and the literal and metaphorical space that the journal provides to develop big ideas will be of increasing relevance as institutions place more focus on the lasting impact of research work. As a journal spanning the wide spectrum of geographical research, Transactions welcomes submissions from geomorphologists and other physical geographers, and Martin would be glad to talk to anyone about ideas for potential papers to submit. There is also a link to all three Virtual Issues on the new Wiley Online platform for Transactions which you can see via http://www.rgs.org/tibg. This enhanced online platform includes a wide range of new features for readers, including clear links to articles published in Early View, spotlighted articles from current and recent issues, and space for news, supplementary material and commentaries.

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