Latest Episode: Season 6, Episode 01

• Becoming an Inspired Interdisciplinarian: Sarah Golding discusses invaluable developmental experiencesLink opens in a new window [39:40]

For our second episode of 2025, I’m in conversation with author and health psychologist Sarah GoldingLink opens in a new window (Surrey, UK). Alongside discussing her career and research activities, we focus in on an exploration of her recent article An Early Career Perspective on the Value of Interdisciplinary Training NetworksLink opens in a new window, published in Exchanges (Vol 12.1). In particular, Sarah reveals how participating in an interdisciplinary training scheme, exposed her to a range of invaluable experiences, site visits and invaluable conversations with colleagues across the disciplines. Given her current work dealing with ‘grand environmental challenges’, requires cross and trans-disciplinary approaches, she expounds on how participating in such a course helped initiate and inspire exactly these sorts of working and research practices. Along the way, we also talk over Sarah’s publication experiences – good, bad and indifferent – and she’s learned from these to become a better, more confident and successful academic writer. As always, she offers her tips for early career researchers looking to publish their earliest articles.

To read Sarah’s original article visit: https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v12i1.1595Link opens in a new window

Or for more on publishing with Exchanges, see our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠online guide for authors⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Link opens in a new window

Episode Index:

• 00:00 – Opening

• 00:36 – Introductions

• 04:32 – Paper explorations & interdisciplinary challenges

• 18:06 – Key messages and outcomes

• 24:42 – Experiences with publishing, and author advice

• 38:52 – Outro

Podcast

Since 2020, the Exchanges Discourse podcastLink opens in a new window has been a companion to the journal’s mission to engage in a discourse concerning early career researchers’ publishing experiences. Episodes frequently feature unfiltered and lively chat with past authors discussing their research, careers and publishing experiences.

Alternatively, a few episodes take focus in on specific aspects of the journal’s activities and mission.

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