Talking Publications with Dr Guy Freeman (British Wildlife & CLM)
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Who is Dr Guy Freeman and what publications does he edit?
My name is Neil Middleton and every month we create informative content for you as we talk to important, influential and inspirational people from the world of bats, as well as other areas of interest. To find out more about battability, go to battability.co.uk. Now for the interview, let's do it. Welcome, welcome, welcome everybody. Well back it's a talking interview Uh, first actually, I don't think we've ever done a talking interview entitled Talking Publications. And I am pleased, very pleased, delighted even to be joined today by Dr. Guy Freeman. Now, Guy is the editor of three publications: Conservation Land Management, British Wildlife Magazine, and also a publication entitled Welding for Conservation and Exploration of Rewelding in Britain.
Now we're going to talk about each of those publications during this interview, but to get things started, Guy, how are you doing this morning?
I'm doing very well, thanks. Thanks for thanks for having me on.
What does a typical day look like for an editor of British Wildlife and CLM?
Yeah, no, it's been absolutely brilliant to get you here. Uh we've been corresponding about this for some time. What does a typical day for yourself look like, guy?
with the periodical publications, it's so dependent on where we are in the print cycle. So um we've just come out of basically our busiest spell of the whole year where we had uh an issue of British wildlife and an issue of conservation land management going to print in the same week. And at that time it's all about juggling proofs, doing proofreading, walking to authors just to get all the little final like loose ends tied up before print. But now sort of into the slightly quieter period, which I'm quite enjoying. So then it becomes more future planning, um, looking at the article pipeline for the coming year, um, looking at gaps, approaching people about new articles and that kind of thing. So it's quite nice I do enjoy these sort of slight lulls between print deadlines where we can catch our breath a bit and do a bit of a forward planning and sort of make sure we've got some really good stuff lined up over
Coming weeks and months.
Yeah, sounds sounds amazing. And I think we're going to get a lot more into the life of being an editor for these magazines or just being an editor generally. I think we're going to get a lot more into that as this uh session progresses.
How did Guy’s early life and academic background shape his editorial career?
But before we do that, I very quickly just want to introduce Guy uh properly. Okay. He has a passion for natural history, a particular interest in marine life and environmental. Vertebrates. He spent a bit of time in Queensland, Australia, I believe, as part of his university studies. Well maybe touch on that shortly. He did a PhD at the University of Exeter. His PhD was examining the effects of peatland restoration on grazing in upland pasture. And he says that doing that, giving him very proudly the ability to call himself Dr. Guy Freeman, it also has helped him hugely in so many different aspects of his. his future career choices, including his ability now to be very able to interrogate, I would imagine, data that's presented to him in articles and also
report writing, which he doesn't necessarily do himself, but he's obviously got a keen eye from art and language point of view because in 2018 he ended up working for NHBS and originally I think as an assistant editor or an associate editor, he'll correct me on that in a moment, but he's now the actual editor for the following publications. British Wildlife, Conservation Land Management and Welding for Conservation. I've said a lot there, Guy. Is there anything you need to correct or are all of my assumptions and observations fairly accurate? What do you think?
That is that is or the only thing, um, I started NHBS a bit before that. That was when I was editorial assistant and then February twenty eighteen it was uh became the editor.
What role does NHBS play in supporting the magazines and their readers?
Um so it's been it's been yeah, it's been been a while getting on for ten ten years at NHBS. Um will be next year and um we'll be ten years of editor soon after that.
When you're there at NHBS for ten years, okay. Do you get like a special award?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Who is Dr Guy Freeman and what publications does he edit?
0:09–1:21
2
What does a typical day look like for an editor of British Wildlife and CLM?
1:21–2:36
3
How did Guy’s early life and academic background shape his editorial career?
2:36–4:26
4
What role does NHBS play in supporting the magazines and their readers?
4:26–5:33
5
How are articles sourced for British Wildlife – submissions vs. commissioned pieces?
5:33–7:28
6
What are the main aims and audience of British Wildlife magazine?
7:28–9:16
7
How does Conservation Land Management differ from British Wildlife in content and purpose?
9:16–11:02
8
What is the ‘Wilding for Conservation’ publication and what future themed e‑books are planned?
11:02–47:42