Dr. Mimi Zhou is a conversion copywriter who works with coaches and service providers to unleash the full impact of their words. Clients love that she can swiftly see the missing pieces in their messaging and copy and impeccably fill them in to bring their vision to life. By nailing their messaging and copy, Mimi supports her clients in leveraging their revenue in less time.

Mimi's path to becoming a copywriter began when she snuck into a personal finance class at 22. This class opened her eyes to the empowerment that comes along with knowing how to manage your own money. She believes that all women deserve to make their own money and uses her copywriting skills to help female business owners do exactly that.

Mimi's personal profiles

Website: mimizhou.com

Twitter: mimithezhou

Linkedin: /mimizhou/

Instagram: /mimithezhou/

More details at access2perspectives.org/2022/04/a-conversation-with-mimi-zhou

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.

Listen to Dasapta Erwin Irawan and Jo Havemann talk about using preprint publishing to creatively conduct wider dissemination to reach scholars as well as non-scholars. You will hear about the story of establishing a preprint server in Indonesia, not only to run the infrastructure but also to cultivate freedom in the academic ecosystem.

Personal profiles: ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1526-0863   |  Website: https://dasaptaerwin.net   |   Twitter: @dasaptaerwin

More details at access2perspectives.org/2022/04/a-conversatiron-with-dasapte-erwin-irawan

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.

Donny Winston is a web systems engineer who is on a mission to rid the world of narrative-centric science. He is the owner and principal of Polyneme LLC, a cofounder of FAIR Points, the host of Machine-Centric Science, and writes an email newsletter on FAIRification for research directors and data stewards.

Topics we discuss in this episode:

More details at access2perspectives.org/2022/04/a-conversation-with-donny-winston

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.

Mark Hahnel is the CEO and founder of Figshare, which he created whilst completing his PhD in stem cell biology at Imperial College London. Figshare currently provides research data infrastructure for institutions, publishers and funders globally. He is passionate about open science and the potential it has to revolutionize the research community. For the last eight years, Mark has been leading the development of research data infrastructure, with the core aim of reusable and interoperable academic data. Mark sits on the board of DataCite and the advisory board for the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). He was on the judging panel for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Wellcome Trust Open Science prize and acted as an advisor for the Springer Nature master classes.

ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4741-0309

Website: figshare.com

Linkedin: /mark-hahnel

Twitter: @MarkHahnel

Which researcher – dead or alive – do you find inspiring? My old PI Sara Rankin, just for the sheer range of her interests and achievements. She is a Professor of Leukocyte and Stem Cell Biology Imperial College London, a science/art collaborator,  and a more recent leader in the UK neurodiversity movement.

Nithaya Chetty is Professor in Theoretical and computational physics and Dean at the Faculty of Science at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa. In a recent commentary in University World News, Nithaya expressed his concern about the war in Ukraine and emphasized on the need for scientific diplomacy and cooperation. 

UWN commentary: universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20220309104524206

More details at access2perspectives.org/2022/04/conversation-with-nithaya-chetty

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.

Christian stares at goats to better understand how they perceive their physical and social environment. His main research interests focus on animal cognition (in particular farm animals), applied ethology, and animal welfare. He is engaged in activities to increase the accessibility and dissemination of research via Open Science and SciComm.

ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4582-4057
Website: christiannawroth.wordpress.com
Twitter: @goatsthatstare
Instagram: goatsthatstare
Linkedin: /christian-nawroth-a1186a99/
More details at https://access2perspectives.pubpub.org/pub/a-conversation-with-christian-nawroth/

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.

Rike Bucher is the founder of Coachissima. In your coaching for personal professionalization YourWildNature, you will discover your natural creativity and your magic language. She worked in advertising agencies for 15 years and has been a freelance coach for 17 years. Rike invented the Co-Creation-Code© and sees the real power of transformation in the sensitive connection of people.

More details at https://access2perspectives.pubpub.org/pub/a-conversation-with-rike-bucher/

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.

Nicholas Outa is a PhD student at Maseno University, Kenya. Currently, he is researching 'The Potential of Freshwater Integrated multi-trophic Aquaculture (FIMTA) in Lake Victoria' to help reduce the negative environmental impacts of Cage aquaculture in the lake. He is a Trainer in Scientific Writing and Publishing at TCC Africa

, which trains and mentors students and early career researchers on Scientific communication and Data analysis. Mr. Outa is a champion and campaigner for Open Science, a moderator at Africarxiv

, and a Reviewer for several journals in the areas of Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Aquatic Sciences.

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.

Nadja Neumann tells us about her journey from molecular biologist to research advisor and podcast host. With a PhD in Molecular Biology and a strong commitment to scholarly communication and open science, Nadja is keen to find ways to bridge the gap between the research community and other stakeholders to create an open, equitable, and efficient exchange of knowledge. Currently living her passion by working with research support at Karlstad University, Nadja's areas of expertise are strategic publishing, bibliometrics, data management, and scholarly communication. In the podcast Forskningspodden, Nadja and colleagues interview Ph.D. students about their research projects; sometimes in Swedish sometimes in English.

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

Maureen Archer is President of the training and consulting firm Professional English Inc. and helps professionals (incl. researchers) improve their English skills and confidence for career advancement. With Jo, she talks about the career path that led her to her current profession, common challenges and obstacles with the English language as perceived by non-native English speakers, as well as some of the key skills researchers should have in communicating their ideas, thoughts, and results.