 Ok, felly ddim yn meddwl ei bod ei eisiau i'r corff, ac yn ddyw i'n gymryd y fwrdd, ac rydw i'n cymdeithasg. Rydych chi'n wath ar gyfer cyflwyntau, cyflwyntau, cyflefwch, cyflwyntau yn cyfrifoedd. ac yn y bwch, mae'n cyffredig yn gyda'r cyffredig. Mae'n cyffredig. Rwy'n go. Felly, rwy'n Cwestiyna Leston Bendernau, ac rwy'n aethol oedd y Prifysgol i'r unedig yng Nghymru, a'r Cymru'r Gweithgaredd Ysgolwyr Cymru, ac rwy'n gweithio'r Gweithgaredd Ysgolwyr Cymru, sy'n gweithio'r gweithgaredd yw'r gweithgareddau ac'r rhaid i'r rhaid i'r cyffredig. Ac yn y gweithio'r gweithgareddau, I'm co-weddedog of a Journal of Parliamentary Affairs but I'm also one of the co-investigators for P4P so I'm really pleased to be able to do this this chat with you although I can't be there at the workshop because I know there'll be lots of grantees there from P4P and obviously I was part of the team that decided on all those grants and it's really good to be able to come to you within that way. Just a little bit about my research so my research focuses very much on Parliament and Public Engagement so the relationship between Parliament and the public and I've done a lot of work on the UK Parliament but actually I'm more of a comparativist so I've done a lot of work on other parliaments mainly Europe but I've also done some work on the Brazilian Parliament and Public Engagement and I've got quite a few links there and I've been doing that for nearly 30 years now so that's me in a nutshell oh how many articles oh my goodness um I think I had to count the other day all the things I've written about Parliament and it was something like it was either nearly 50 or nearly 60 or something like that now in there there's there's journal articles there's chapters there's books and I've edited I think I can't I think about four or five books now I've written a couple of books I've done quite a few chapters the thing that is always more difficult to produce is the the refereed journal articles which is what we're going to talk about and I've published from Portuguese news journals to international ones which hopefully we'll talk a little bit about now yeah can you um can you maybe would you go back to the first article you had published in a you know sort of major international peer reviewed journal what was that article do you remember it well or oh yeah I remember very well um so I had published already because I did my studies in my first degree in Portugal and out of my the studies I did there I had published in the journal in Portugal in Portuguese and that was a very straight forward journey because it was basically the person from the journal knew about the research I'd done for my dissertation was really excited about it there was nothing done on the Portuguese parliament so it was very new this was about the Portuguese parliament and basically they invited me to submit an article so it was it was an experience which actually is very different to the reality of the experiences so then I came to the UK and in the UK when I tried to publish my first article which I did in the end it was a very different experience because um I was writing so this was an article still about the Portuguese parliament but I was writing for an international audience and that's the main thing that came out of it is that there were things that I should say about my case study to the international audience which I would never have thought of because to me they were obvious and likewise there were things that I was saying they were just too detailed that to me were absolutely important to say but for the international audience it didn't it didn't make any sense it wasn't needed and actually what I needed to draw out more from my article in my case study is what was the relevance of my case study so it was an article and the methods were fine all of that was fine but it was the way I was communicating the study so that particular study I had analysed the debates on the budget which is always a major bill going through any parliament so the budget for the whole country of Portugal and I had analysed that over the period of 13 years and looked at the different roles that parliament performed and what I needed through the reviewing process what I needed to draw out of that was what was the significance of it what did it show about the different roles that parliaments in general perform um so it was it was quite bruising and I think quite often submitting an article and then you get reviews and comments back and hopefully they ask you for to revise and resubmit and if they do sometimes the language it's very negative it sounds like you've been rejected but actually they are inviting you to revise and resubmit and as long as it's not a reject you have another chance to submit something and so what happened in there was I've got the comments and those comments can be very bruising can be really quite demoralising but most of the time they are very demoralising and what you need to do is just go beyond that effect and try to look at the article and the comments so how did you feel when when finally got into after several bruising rounds of review how did you feel when it got into and depressed and you saw the final oh it was great obviously it was great because there was my work in English in the international journal I mean it wasn't a very high ranking journal but it was a very good journal um but I still I still sort of have some some feeling of that I hadn't done a good job because I was used to in Portugal everything I did was so well received and obviously coming here I was still a PhD student here in the UK it was that feeling that actually there's a different standard here but part of that is just about how you communicate what you're finding to an international audience and what's of significance to to the audience here