Multilingualism is a skill that most researchers have in international research consortia and groups and also need in order to be able to disseminate their findings through scholarly publishing. However, the difficulties in learning another language and deficiencies like grammar and spelling issues often cause challenges and backlashes to non-English native speakers. Avi Staiman and Jo share some of their experiences and observations made, as well as resources and best practices to foster a global and multilingual research environment. They also talk about translation and editing as external services, publication success, and closing the gap between authors and scholarly publishers.

Website: aclang.com

More details at access2perspectives.org/2022/09/a-conversation-with-avi-staiman/

Host: Dr Jo Havemann, ORCID iD 0000-0002-6157-1494

At Access 2 Perspectives, we provide novel insights into the communication and management of Research. Our goal is to equip researchers with the skills and enthusiasm they need to pursue a  successful and joyful career.

Website: access2perspectives.org

Kate and Jo talk about unhealthy stress in working and research environments and what measures each of us can take to gain and maintain a state of wellbeing again.

Mental health is too often ignored, and although it is talked about more openly now and especially since the pandemic, many of us pay lip service to that ethos, and when it comes to looking after ourselves, it’s business as usual. Appreciating others’ challenges is much easier to do than acknowledging our own, and yet the best thing we can do to help ourselves is to be real, honest, and pay attention to our feelings, habits, thoughts, and what our body is telling us.

This can help you get on the pathway towards emotional healing and wellbeing - there are 5 steps in my experience, and each one of them is necessary for long-term lasting positive change.

And there are 3 pillars on which to build the foundations of a healthy mind and emotional wellbeing - it also takes attention to all 3 to achieve lasting change.

More details at access2perspectives.org/2022/08/a-conversation-with-kate-thorpe/

Host: Dr Jo Havemann, ORCID iD 0000-0002-6157-1494

At Access 2 Perspectives, we provide novel insights into the communication and management of Research. Our goal is to equip researchers with the skills and enthusiasm they need to pursue a  successful and joyful career.

Website: access2perspectives.org

Bianca Kramer and Jeroen Bosman are both librarians at Utrecht University library who - over the past decade - have become renowned for openly sharing their knowledge on Open Science and digital scholarly communication with the wider scholarly community. You might have come across 101 Innovations in Scholarly Publishing, which is an extensive investigation into the digital tools used by researchers around the world. In this episode, Bianca and Jeroen talk with Jo about one of their most recent interactive projects, the Publication Strategy Tool, a tool that helps researchers reconsider their publication strategies by thinking about publishing goals to inform new choices in what, when, how, and where to publish.

More details at access2perspectives.org/2022/08/a-conversation-with-bianca-kramer-and-jeroen-bosman/

Host: Dr Jo Havemann, ORCID iD 0000-0002-6157-1494

At Access 2 Perspectives, we provide novel insights into the communication and management of Research. Our goal is to equip researchers with the skills and enthusiasm they need to pursue a  successful and joyful career.

 Website: access2perspectives.org

Website: uni-jena.de/en/mhfa and

More details at access2perspectives.org/2022/08/a-conversation-with-hendrik-huthoff/

Host: Dr Jo Havemann, ORCID iD 0000-0002-6157-1494

At Access 2 Perspectives, we provide novel insights into the communication and management of Research. Our goal is to equip researchers with the skills and enthusiasm they need to pursue a successful and joyful career.

Website: access2perspectives.org

Nici Pfieffer is Chief Product Officer at the Center for Open Science and in that position works towards enabling researchers to share their work to advance the transparency and reproducibility of science. With Jo, she talks about the importance of open digital infrastructure and how she contributes to research rigor and the achievements made through her work.

ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8335-6018

Host: Dr Jo Havemann, ORCID iD 0000-0002-6157-1494

At Access 2 Perspectives, we provide novel insights into the communication and management of Research. Our goal is to equip researchers with the skills and enthusiasm they need to pursue a  successful and joyful career.

Website: access2perspectives.org

Marieke Shoenmaker has more than 30 years of experience in (e)Business Development and entrepreneurship. About 14 years ago, she founded her company Gamechanger the Lean Innovation Platform with Annemieke Gotzsch and Vincent Thamm, which has grown into a large network of Innovation Managers across the Netherlands. In today's episode, Marieke and Jo talk about agile project management, innovation, and team dynamics amongst entrepreneurs, and how this relates to scholars and research teams.

Website: gamechanger.nl

More details at access2perspectives.org/2022/07/a-conversation-with-marieke-schoenmaker/

Host: Dr Jo Havemann, ORCID iD 0000-0002-6157-1494

At Access 2 Perspectives, we provide novel insights into the communication and management of Research. Our goal is to equip researchers with the skills and enthusiasm they need to pursue a  successful and joyful career.

Website: access2perspectives.org

Ludmilla Figueiredo is a research data and code curator coming from a background in ecology and conservational biodiversity. In this episode, she tal`ks with Jo about the implementation of open science principles in the fast-paced and heavy workload researchers must handle.

She has completed a Bachelor’s degree in Biology in Brazil, followed by a Master’s in Rennes, France, and finally, a PhD in Würzburg, Germany. She focused her studies on ecological modeling, finding that Ecology often has many contingencies and models help her understand it better.

She completed a postdoc studying the payment of extinction debts at the Ecosystem Modeling Group of the University of Würzburg. As of March 2022, she works as a data and code curator at the Data and Code Unit of the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig. Among her duties, she supports researchers in the application of Open Science and FAIR principles. She is confident that her participation in the "Freies Wissen" open science mentoring program (2020/2021 Wikimedia Deutschland) was crucial to her success in this new position.

More details at https://access2perspectives.pubpub.org/pub/a-conversation-with-ludmilla-figueiredo/

Host: Dr Jo Havemann, ORCID iD 0000-0002-6157-1494
Editing: Ebuka Ezeike
Music: Alex Lustig, produced by Kitty Kat
License: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

At Access 2 Perspectives, we provide novel insights into the communication and management of Research. Our goal is to equip researchers with the skills and enthusiasm they need to pursue a  successful and joyful career.

Website: access2perspectives.org

Natira McDermott is a public speaking coach who helps her clients create successful businesses by dropping perfectionism and embracing their own compelling visibility. She shares with us key skills and public speaker should have to become visible by speaking like themselves instead of a textbook. Prior to her coaching career, Natira spent 15 years at advertising and media agencies in NYC where she led teams in over 150 pitches and coached dozens of executive teams. Natira is based in New York City and provides individual coaching, executive leadership coaching, presentation, and public speaking workshops.

“When you get up to speak about your work, you might feel that part of you really wants to make your message seen and heard and felt - but another part of you is terrified of being visible. The work I do with clients is to support both of these parts - the one that wants to shine and the one that wants to hide.” – Natira McDermott

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Website: nlmcdermott.com

More details at access2perspectives.org/2022/07/a-conversation-with-natira-mcdermott

Host: Dr Jo Havemann, ORCID iD 0000-0002-6157-1494

At Access 2 Perspectives, we provide novel insights into the communication and management of Research. Our goal is to equip researchers with the skills and enthusiasm they need to pursue a  successful and joyful career.

Website: access2perspectives.org

Hugues Abriel, MD PhD, is a biologist (ETH Zurich, 1989) and physician (University of Lausanne, 1994). He completed his PhD in medicine and life sciences (specializing in medical physiology) at the University of Lausanne in 1995. Since 2009, Hugues Abriel has been a Professor of Molecular Medicine at the University of Bern. He is since 2022 one of the members (vice-rector for research) of the executive board of the University of Bern. Hugues Abriel is particularly interested in the molecular and genetic aspects of medicine. He has been in close contact with young doctors and researchers from French-speaking African universities for several years. He has just finished an academic sabbatical spent at the Universities of Kinshasa (the Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Fez (Morocco).

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ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0465-5138

More details at access2perspectives.org/2022/06/a-conversation-with-hugues-abriel

Host: Dr Jo Havemann, ORCID iD 0000-0002-6157-1494

At Access 2 Perspectives, we provide novel insights into the communication and management of Research. Our goal is to equip researchers with the skills and enthusiasm they need to pursue a  successful and joyful career.

Website: access2perspectives.org

Wellness consultant Julie Wren talks with Jo about maintaining physical and mental wellbeing despite the impact a high-octane life can have on health and longevity. She is an expert in nutrition, mental wellness, self-care, and draws conclusions from the gut-brain axis to building wellness into your daily routine. We discuss the term 'infobesity' aka information overload and what effects that can have on our wellbeing. Julie also shares tips around building healthy routines through moving, nourishing and resourcing with the 20 minutes rule.

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Website: olea-absolutenutrition.com

More details at access2perspectives.org/2022/06/a-conversation-with-julie-wren/

Host: Dr Jo Havemann, ORCID iD 0000-0002-6157-1494
Editing: Ebuka Ezeike
Music: Alex Lustig, produced by Kitty Kat
License: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

At Access 2 Perspectives, we provide novel insights into the communication and management of Research. Our goal is to equip researchers with the skills and enthusiasm they need to pursue a  successful and joyful career.