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Having just started the 2nd year of my PhD. its been a bit disturbing to read the many messages on the forum recently regarding publishing time-lags, refeering and so on. Whilst I can appreciate the problems which the RAE causes for lecturers and researchers, does the whole process not have a knock-on effect on postgrads like myself trying to publish for the first time? We're constantly told that publishing is an essntial prerequisite to getting a job in the academy at the end of a PhD. The fact that journals are apparently filling up even now in advance of the next RAE is worrying enough, but there are other problems too, caused by the 'natural' tendency to wish to submit to the most 'popular' journals, and by the fact that early completion is another CV 'booster'.Publishing for the first time (something I'm just beginning to try to do) is, perhaps, inevitably going to involve more time, more drafting, more setbacks etc? And maybe there won't be any jobs going anyway. Okay, I'll stop whinging there John Wylie Dept. of Geog. Univ. of Bristol. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%