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I do edit posts, generally within the first 24 hours of publishing them to correct typos or improve clarity. Where a substantive change is made I will generally indicate it as an editorial change. Where an important update has occurred I will generally add a note at the bottom of a post.
I have advised or had confidential discussions with a range of commercial and non-profit organizations over the years. These include funders, publishers, research policy organisations, technology companies, and many others too numerous to name.
I have accepted travel, subsistence, and accommodation support from a large number of organisations over the past 20 years. The majority of my travel costs have been covered by meeting organizers with a proportion covered by my employer(s) and a significant proportion covered out of my own pocket. I have not generally been paid speaker fees (but would be happy for that to change).
I have accepted fees for consultancy, research projects or training from a wide range of organisations.
I currently serve on the Advisory Board of OpenCitations, the Steering Group Barcelona Declaration and the Steering Board of CoARA, the editorial board of KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies. I have previously served on the Board of Directors for Crossref (as PLOS second representative) FORCE11, and ImpactStory, the Advisory Group of the AHRC funded DART Archeological Residues project, Altmetric.com, the Climate Code Foundation, IDRC funded Open and Collaborative Science in Development Network and on the Editorial Boards for Cultural Science, Journal of Electronic Publishing, Open Research Computation and PLOS ONE.
I am currently working as a freelance consultant. I was previously employed (2015-2024) by Curtin University and prior to that by PLOS and by the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council and prior to that by the University’s of Southampton and Bath. I have not received any salary from any otherorganisation in the past five years. I hold a UK-based Stakeholder Pension, UK Civil Service and University Superannuation Scheme pensions, UniSuper (Australia) and some kind of modest Swedish pension contributions (and I ought to rationalise them somehow).