The Exchanges Discourse - A podcast about early career publishing in academia

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The Exchanges Discourse - A podcast about early career publishing in academia artwork

Focusing on the early career researcher experience, each episode we talk to authors or focus on a related aspect of academic publication. Drawing on authentic examples we provide advice on better academic writing, share the highs and lows of being an academic author as well as delving into publication planning. Episodes often link back to published articles, to the associated journal, Exchanges, for which this podcast is a companion.

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Biochar, Artificial Pollination & Multispecies Justice: In Conversation with Catherine Price

Jan 16 2024 25 mins  
Our first episode of 2024 sees a return of an old friend of the journal and podcast, as geography academic Catherine Price (University of Nottingham, UK) talks about her contributions to Exchanges. We start by talking about her conversation with Sophie Chao entitled Multispecies, More-Than-Human, Nonhuman, Other-Than-Human: Reimagining idioms of animacy in an age of planetary unmak

Queerness as Strength: Getting Involved & Contributing

Dec 20 2023 27 mins  
Rounding off 2023 we have an episode dedicated to the latest call for papers we have open for a future special issue. The Queerness as Strength special issue has been inspired and instigated by the life, passions and work of researcher and activist Jacob Thomas (Monash University, Australia), and they are here in conversation to talk about this. We explore the ideas and hopes behin

Conceptual Association, Hydropathy & Advertising: In Conversation with Constance de Silva

Dec 14 2023 23 mins  
Our third in a series of 10th birthday issue celebration conversations sees me talking with linguist, cultural historian and conceptual association scholar Constance de Silva (School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, Australia) about her recent paper and ongoing research. We begin by discussing her beautifully illustrated article The Rise of Co

ChatGPT, Reviewers from Hell & Linguistic Challenges: In Conversation with Beth Montague-Hellen

Dec 07 2023 27 mins  
Continuing our 10th birthday issue celebrations, I chatted with senior librarian and former biology Beth Montague-Hellen (Library and Information Services, Francis Crick Institute, UK) about her recent paper and ongoing work. We start by discussing her article, Placing ChatGPT in the Context of Disruptive Technology in Academic Publishing and especially the advantages and challenge

Sustainability, Batteries & Pringle Cans: In Conversation with Jean Marshall

Dec 05 2023 25 mins  
Celebrating our 10th birthday issue, I have the pleasure of chatting with researcher Jean Marshall (WMG, University of Warwick) about her recent paper and ongoing research. We start by discussing her paper, Sustainability: Getting Everyone Involved, and especially about the multifactorial issues involved in achieving a greater global sustainability culture. We expand our conversati

Across Two Professional Worlds: In Conversation with Intissar Haddiya

Aug 10 2023 24 mins  
For our 50th Episode I’m in conversation with Intissar Haddiya (Professor of Nephrology, Oujda, Morocco) about her twin lives as a practicing scholar and fiction author. Intissar featured as the subject of a recent paper in Exchanges – The Doctor-Writer Experience of Intissar Haddiya - and hence that’s why she’s appearing in discussion with us today. We discuss balancing h

Orwell & Modern Political Speech: In Conversation with Imogen Birkett

Jun 21 2023 21 mins  
This episode I’m in conversation with past journal author Imogen Birkett about her paper: Literature in Politics: The Appropriation of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four in contemporary British parliamentary debate. We discuss the invoking of Orwell’s work within contemporary political speech, from a literature perspective. We look as well at some of themes ripe for further

Crossing the Creative Frontier: In Conversation with Sonakshi Srivastava

Jun 20 2023 34 mins  
This episode I talk with past journal author, Sonakshi (Sona) Srivastava (Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Dwarka, Delhi,), about the paper she authored entitled Res(crip)ting the Gaze: Agency and the aesthetics of disability in ‘Animal’s People’. The paper appeared in our special issue on the Anthropocene and examined the writing of author Indra Sinha around the Bh

Environmental Humanities & Transdisciplinary Research: In Conversation with Justin Westgate

Jun 07 2023 31 mins  
This episode I talk with past journal author, Julian Westgate, about the paper he authored entitled Corals, Geo-Sociality, and Anthropocene Dwelling. Along the way we discuss the challenges of publishing as a ‘transdisciplinary scholar’ and also Justin’s reflections on conducting fieldwork around the Great Barrier Reef. As always we touch on experiences of publication and pub

The Textures of Research: In Conversation with Berilsu Tarcan

May 24 2023 32 mins  
This episode I talk to past journal author Berilsu Tarcan (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), about the paper she co-authored Repositioning Craft and Design in the Anthropocene: Applying a More-Than-Human approach to textiles as part of our recent special issue. We discuss the challenges of publishing design and artifact related research, as well as exploring Berilsu�