This episode I have a revealing conversation with Mia-Marie Hammarlin (Media & Communication Studies, Lund University, Sweden), who contributed to the most recent issue of Exchanges. We talk through her diverse career in ethnology and communication, and explore the particular challenges to researchers as individuals from self-doubt and insecurity. We explore Mia-Marie’s paper - Interdisciplinary Labour: Researchers’ bodies at work – and the oft disregarded anxieties and physical sensations which can potentially overwhelm even the most hardy academics in a professional setting. After discussing various coping strategies, we move on to discuss her other work, in particular that dealing with vaccine-hesitancy within a performative and artistic lens. As always, we take a trip through the guest author’s publication experiences outside of Exchanges, and the lessons learned from each one. We close our energised conversation with Mia-Marie’s recommendations for new and emerging academic authors for creating their own impactful articles.

You can read Mia-Marie’s article here: https://doi.org/10.31273/eirj.v12i1.1612

Or for more on publishing with Exchanges, see our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠online guide for authors⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Timecodes

00:00 – Start

00:41 – Introductions & publishing with Exchanges

04:21 – Article discussions & researcher impacts

14:39 – Vulnerability & emotional affect in research

21:52 – Key article messages

25:16 – Work & publications in progress

29:54 – Lived academic publishing experiences

37:21 – Advice for early career authors

38:49 – Outro (end)