Episode 10 - "The best decision I could ever have made for my PhD" - Case study with Geetika Chauhan
In this episode, I’m talking to Geetika Chauhan who is a PhD student at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and a member of the Researchers’ Writing Academy. Geetika works in the field of geophys...
8 Dec 202419min
Episode 9 - 6 practical techniques to supercharge your motivation to take an academic writing course
Welcome back! This is part 3 of our 3-part mini-series on making time to take an academic writing course.In part 1 of the series (Episode 7), we talked about looking at deeper reasons (limiting belief...
1 Dec 202433min
Episode 8 - 7 proven strategies to carve out time for an academic writing course
In today’s episode we’ll continue our mini-series on making time to take a writing course with part 2 out of 3 parts in total. Even if you aren’t planning on taking an academic writing course or progr...
24 Nov 202442min
Episode 7 - The real reason why we don’t invest time to uplevel our academic writing skills
I know, I know, you have SO much on your plate as an academic, especially if you are an Assistant Professor, that writing papers is often pushed to the evenings and weekends. Because all those other t...
17 Nov 202425min
Episode 6 - How to tell a story in your paper - the Scientific Storytelling Framework
In this episode, we are talking about my very favourite subject: Storytelling – and how to do that in a scientific paper. You have probably had someone say to you at some point: “your paper should tel...
10 Nov 202433min
Episode 5 - "I’ve been routinely doing 10-15 writing sessions per week!” – Case study Interview with Dr Kate McAlpine
In this episode, I’m talking to Dr Kate McAlpine who is an alumna of the Researchers’ Writing Academy! Kate is a pracademic – which means she’s both an academic and a practitioner – and her work is ce...
3 Nov 202433min
Episode 4 - Why generative AI is overrated for writing scientific papers
As most researchers, you are probably either already using ChatGPT and friends to help you with your academic writing or you are wondering if you should! In this episode, I’m sharing my view on using ...
27 Okt 202437min
Episode 3 - Why you don’t need to be a native English speaker to get published in academic journals
This episode is for all you non-native English speakers (those who have English as their second, third, fourth… language) who struggle with writing papers in English. You may have massive imposter syn...
21 Okt 202424min
