2024Q3 Reports: PCC Co-Chairs

We conducted two investigations over the reporting period:

• There was a complaint of harassment at board level. The actions of the respondent were judged not to have risen to the level of harassment. The PCC deemed that a fulsome apology for the distress caused was appropriate but we understand that it has not been forthcoming.
• In the period while the new committee on Publication Ethics was being established, the PCC investigated a complaint of plagiarism on behalf of the Exec. The finding was that no plagiarism occurred.

We are about to begin recruiting new members; a significant number of members will be leaving at the end of 2026, so we will need there to be sufficient overlap.