The editor in a new era

“How do editors create and hold space for knowledge production in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL)? In this podcast, Alicja Syska , Daniela Gachago and Lee-Ann Sequeira discuss curation, care, the emotional and intellectual labour of editing, and building communities across contexts What does it mean to be an editor in the scholarship of teaching and learning? Is it simply managing a publication process, or something more fundamental to how the field develops? In this conversation, three editors explore the curator identity, the developmental nature of editing, and the tensions inherent in holding space for knowledge production. Alicja Syska (Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education), Daniela Gachago (Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning), and Lee-Ann Sequeira (LSE HE Blog) discuss amplifying marginalised voices, creating ecosystems of care, the invisible labour of editorial work, and how these practices intersect with their teaching and educational development roles. From questions of gatekeeping to the cross-fertilisation between editorial and pedagogical work, they examine what it means to curate conversations in a field that is still making itself. Listen to the podcast Read the transcript Chapters 01:51: Why is editorship important in the scholarship of teaching and learning? What role does it play? And how do you inhabit this role? 13:38: How do we come to terms with being gatekeepers? 25:53: What is your experience of the exploitation of academia written into the system, the emotional labour? 37:06: How do the editorial practices of creating and holding spaces for different voices to emerge impact on your practice as lecturer, academic, academic staff developer? “I see it more as intellectual labour. What I’m trying to do is be a midwife for ideas. I want to ensure the product has as little input from me – my fingerprints shouldn’t be seen on it. It should be as authentic as possible.” – Lee-Ann Sequeira “The role of the editor is so much more than gatekeeper. When you publish this piece, you’re saying this knowledge matters, this person has something to contribute. It’s not a neutral act, it’s not an administrative act, it’s field building.” – Alicja Syska “There’s something different if we publish from within our context, in our own journals. There’s a different way our voices carry. We feel like this is our space, we inhabit this space, we belong to this space. We don’t want to be curated or curtailed by certain expectations of journals in the Global North.” – Daniela Gachago Main image: Film still from The Devil Wears Prada, 2006 Twentieth Century Fox This post is opinion-based and does not reflect the views of the London School of Economics and Political Science or any of its constituent departments and divisions. The post The editor in a new era first appeared on LSE Higher Education .

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