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I think it's really important
for researchers to publish.

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If you're writing a
piece of research,

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what is the point, if
you don't publish it?

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Publishing helps to widen
the reach of your research.

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It helps to reach as
many people as possible.

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So if there's a specific
practitioner, that

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reads a specific journal,
and they see your research,

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they can really put in practice
your recommendations for them.

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So this is the way
that you can bridge

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the gap, between an academic
community, and a practice

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community, where
all your hard work

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can really be seen in practice.

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Publishing is really at
the heart of what we do.

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If you don't publish,
why write at all?

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To understand what to
publish, I look at a journal

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before I start writing.

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So then I can target my
writing from the beginning,

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to the aims of the journal.

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Lately, I've been
looking at colleagues,

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that are way more experienced.

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So if I find a journal that
I'd like to publish with,

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I ask them their experiences.

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So as an inexperienced
researcher,

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sometimes you tend
to aim very high,

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at journalist that
might not publish

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an inexperienced researcher.

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So then I really
rely on my colleagues,

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to give me an advice on what to
publish, and where to publish.

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Nowadays, in my
experience, it is not only

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me who's choosing
what to publish.

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It is the audience,
because what has happened

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to me, in the last three
years, is that whenever

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I present what I'm doing
in research, people

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invited me to
write about that.

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So I think that it's not only
an isolate effort nowadays,

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but it's more collectively
that we are thinking

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about publishing research.

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For my first publication,
I was invited

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to publish a chapter about some
archival research that I did.

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My mentor, was editing
a book, and thought

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that my chapter would be
interesting to include

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in the book.

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So I was approached by her, and
guided by her in the content

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that the chapter had to
include, the way of referencing,

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and how the publishing
house would like the chapter

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to be presented.

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So I really relied on her
expertise and her guidance

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to understand how to
best pitch this chapter.

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That was the best
experience ever because that

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was my supervisor, when I
was finishing my PhD, here

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in the UK.

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She saw one of my
chapters, and she

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encouraged me to publish
that part of my thesis.

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Of course, I work a lot, but
I learned from that experience

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that publishing is not
an isolated effort.

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It is a group of people
helping you to succeed.

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And I am always
grateful with her,

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because one of the
challenges that you

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need to face when
you start to publish

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is to believe in yourself.

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You need other voices
that tell you that.

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Believe in yourself, and go and
publish what you have to say.