For our second episode of 2025, I’m in conversation withauthor and health psychologist Sarah Golding (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 Networks, published in Exchanges (Vol 12.1). In particular, Sarah reveals how participating in an interdisciplinarytraining 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 programme 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.v12i1.1595

Or to find out more about publishing with the Exchangesresearch journal visit: http://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/

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