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<b><h4>Why should researchers publish?</h4></b>

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<b>Valeria Scacchi, MA, Research Analyst, The Froebel Trust</b>

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I think it's really important for researchers to publish. If you're writing a piece of research, what is the point, if you don't publish it? Publishing helps to widen the reach of your research. It helps to reach as many people as possible. So if there's a specific practitioner, that reads a specific journal, and they see your research, they can really put in practice your recommendations for them. So this is the way that you can bridge the gap, between an academic community, and a practice community, where all your hard work can really be seen in practice. Publishing is really at the heart of what we do. If you don't publish, why write at all? 
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<b><h4>How do you choose what to publish and where?</h4></b>

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<b>Valeria Scacchi:</b> To understand what to publish, I look at a journal before I start writing. So then I can target my writing from the beginning, to the aims of the journal. Lately, I've been looking at colleagues, that are way more experienced. So if I find a journal that I'd like to publish with, I ask them their experiences. So as an inexperienced researcher, sometimes you tend to aim very high, at journals that might not publish an inexperienced researcher. So then I really rely on my colleagues, to give me an advice on what to publish, and where to publish. 

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<b>Dr Clara Rubiano, Lecturer in Early Childhood Studies, University of Roehampton</b>

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Nowadays, in my experience, it is not only me who's choosing what to publish. It is the audience, because what has happened to me, in the last three years, is that whenever I present what I'm doing in research, people invited me to write about that. So I think that it's not only an isolate effort nowadays, but it's more collectively that we are thinking about publishing research. 
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<b><h4>What was your experience with your first publication?</h4></b>

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<b>Valeria Scacchi:</b> For my first publication, I was invited to publish a chapter about some archival research that I did. My mentor, was editing a book, and thought that my chapter would be interesting to include in the book. So I was approached by her, and guided by her in the content that the chapter had to include, the way of referencing, and how the publishing house would like the chapter to be presented. So I really relied on her expertise and her guidance to understand how to best pitch this chapter. 

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<b>Dr Clara Rubiano:</b> That was the best experience ever because that was my supervisor, when I was finishing my PhD, here in the UK. She saw one of my chapters, and she encouraged me to publish that part of my thesis. Of course, I work a lot, but I learned from that experience that publishing is not an isolated effort. It is a group of people helping you to succeed. And I am always grateful with her, because one of the challenges that you need to face when you start to publish is to believe in yourself. You need other voices that tell you that. Believe in yourself, and go and publish what you have to say. 