I was overjoyed to receive a “Minor revisions required” on what I have called “The COVID article” that I wrote with Dr. Susan Emmett. Sue and I originally wrote the article in 2021 or MAYBE 2022. It has been desk rejected at least 3 times, but I think 4 times. We submitted it to this journal almost a year and a half ago (September, 2023) but we got it back with just minor edits to make. I am so delighted 🙂 Win!

In other news – also very good – CQUniversity has officially offered me an extra day per week starting mid-year. That will mean more teaching (yay!) probably some unit coordination opportunities (yay!) and more marking too (UN-yay! No one likes marking). I will still be classified as Teaching and Research (not Teaching focused) so I will still have plenty of time for study and publishing.

I have re-done my whiteboard after achieving 25 “research outputs” so now the new goal is 30 peer-reviewed publications by 2030. I have 11 so far – after that last “minor revisions” there is 2 in press – so 13 out of 30. That means I have 5 years to get 17 publications, 3 or 4 per year. I think it is very achievable. In fact I have already got the following planned and at various stages:

1. PhD article 1 – Scoping Lit Review – almost ready to resubmit.
2. PhD article 2 – partially written.
3. Intersectionality article – More data analysis to do but some writing has also been done.
4. Wellbeing SIG autoethnography – will be submitted within 6 months
5. Self-efficacy SIG autoethnography – Will be submitted in March to the Special Issue
6. Meme Project – paper should be written this year, submitted early next year.
7. Grant project – Data analysis done, just begun drafting the first article.
8. TAFE project – Data analysis partially done, some sections written.
9. FedUni internal grant paper – just submitted.

So there is plenty “in the pipelines” for sure. Now I see that long list I am going to stop writing here and go write something on the list!