BU Research Blog

Yesterday I wrote my resignation letter to the journal BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth.  After acting as Associate Editor for fifteen years the time has come for me to give it up, and I found ‘giving up’ very difficult.   The enormous growth in my workload at Bournemouth University and the increasing requests to take on new papers as Associate Editor, on top of the many requests to review papers and grants, just became too much.  It made me realize I needed to reduce several tasks and jobs to have a slightly better balanced work-home life.

I am still co-editor of the Journal of Asian Midwives, book review editor of Sociological Research Online, guest editor for a special issue of Frontiers in Public Health, and I am still on the editorial or advisory boards of: Birth (published by Wiley), Sociological Research Online (published by SAGE), Nepal Journal of Epidemiology, Journal of Manmohan Memorial Institute of Health Sciences, and Midwifery (published by Elsevier), so still plenty of work to be done.

Prof. Edwin van Teijlingen

Centre for Midwifery & Women’s Health