The INSPIRING STEM Podcast

The guest for this episode of the Inspiring STEM Podcast is James Butcher who has spent the past 20 years working at two of the most influential scientific publishers, first as Executive Editor at The Lancet and then as the leader of the Nature journals. James now works as a strategy consultant with Clarke & Esposito , advising clients on editorial and publishing strategy and providing insight...

The guests for this episode of the Inspiring STEM Podcast, are Kamran Robert Kardan , Founder and CEO at Knowledge E and Knowledge E’s Head of Publishing, Dr Emily Choynowski . Kamran founded Knowledge E in 2012, with the aim of providing unique, professional and high-quality services to the information professionals in the Middle Eastern region and beyond. Kamran also plays a major active role in...

This INSPIRING STEM PODCAST episode features Dan Pollock , a consultant specialising in digital publishing strategy and product innovation for companies primarily in STM and Legal publishing. Over a 25-year career, Dan has held executive leadership and strategic advisory roles in managing products, operations and change, in organisations ranging from dot-coms to complex corporates. Dan is also Chi...

The guest for this episode is Professor Elanor Huntington , Executive Director for Digital, National Facilities & Collections at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation - CSIRO , Australia's national science agency. We discuss the challenges of attracting a diverse cohort to take up STEM careers, and the need to focus on lateral career moves and life moves, as wel...

The guest for episode 24 of the INSPIRING STEM PODCAST is David Ross , a publishing consultant with over 30 years’ experience in academic research and educational sectors. Up until last year, he was Vice President, Open Research at Sage Publications for nearly 10 years and has also worked with Kluwer Academic, Arnold Publications and Chapman & Hall. David specializes in open science publishing...

The guest for this episode of the INSPIRING STEM PODCAST is Adam Hyde , founder and principal architect of the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation - Coko and is responsible for oversight of all operations. Coko’s motto is “We Build, You Publish”. The organisation exists to benefit the publishing community by building modern, open-source tools that enable the publishing of critical knowledge better,...

The guest for this episode of the INSPIRING STEM PODCAST is Milly Formby , an amazing zoologist, science illustrator, microlight pilot and bird nerd.  Milly combines her skills to create stories that empower others to become strong voices for nature. We chat about her amazing  Wing Threads project, her childhood inspirations to become a zoologist and science communications. Originally from Gippsla...

The guest for this episode of the Inspiring STEM Podcast is Professor Mark Hutchinson . Mark is the Director of the Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics in Adelaide. The Centre is a AU$50M Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence that brings together researchers from around the world to create light-based sensing technologies to create 'windows into the body'. These advances will en...

The INSPIRING STEM Podcast guest for this episode is Kylie Walker , Chief Executive Officer for the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering , where she works with expert Fellows to lead crucial national conversations and strategies towards a thriving, healthy and connected Australia, supported by technology.  Kylie is also a visiting Fellow at the Australian National Centre for the Public...

Inspiring STEM’s podcast program has highlighted innovations in scientific publishing and science communications. We have interviewed key opinion leaders and organisations working to advance, and quite often, to disrupt the status quo. However, in today's academic publishing world, the pressure to deliver success can be overwhelming (and costly).  Often the response is to come up with a new,...

The guest for this week’s INSPIRING STEM PODCAST episode is Joy Owango , a Higher Education Specialist and Socio-Entrepreneur based in Nairobi, Kenya. Joy is Founding Director at the Training Centre in Communication (TCC-Africa) and which has four offices, two in Kenya, and one each in Nigeria and South Africa. Joy is also on the board of AfricArxiv - free preprint service for African scientists....

The guest for this week’s INSPIRING STEM PODCAST episode is Andrew Preston , an economist and physicist by training, who worked as a researcher and consulted as a software engineer before co-founding Publons .  He recently co-founded Cassyni an innovative new online tool which aims to help academics run and keep track of research seminars worldwide. We discuss his background in academic research a...

The guest for this week’s INSPIRING STEM PODCAST episode is Romy Beard , a publishing consultant with 17 years’ experience and specialising in publisher relations and content licensing on behalf of publishers, aggregators, libraries and consortia, and technology companies. She is currently working on a long-term project with open access management platform ChronosHub , and recently completed a pro...

The guest for this week’s INSPIRING STEM PODCAST episode is Toby Green , Managing Director for Coherent Digital . Formerly, Chief Operating Officer at the OECD , Toby has spent 35 years in scholarly publishing working with commercial, society, IGO and NGO organizations on all types of content (which he prefers to call “stuff”)—books, journals, data, grey literature, A&I services, and encyclope...

The guest for this week’s INSPIRING STEM PODCAST episode, is Dr Alex Freeman . Alex is the Executive Director of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication, a role she took up in 2016. She previously spent 16 years working for the BBC, primarily as a producer and director for BBC Science. In 2019, Alex was one of the winners of the Royal Society's ‘The Pitch’ competition hosted as...

This week's INSPIRING STEM PODCAST welcomes as our guest is Dr Johanna Havemann , Trainer & Consultant in Open Science Communication. In 2018, Jo founded AfricArxiv which is a community-led digital archive for African research communication. It provides a non-profit platform to upload working papers, preprints, accepted manuscripts (post-prints), presentations, and data sets via partner p...

The guests for this week’s INSPIRING STEM PODCAST are Kamran Robert Kardan Founder and CEO at Knowledge E and Knowledge E’s Head of Publishing, Emily Choynowski . Kamran founded Knowledge E in 2012, with the aim of providing unique, professional and high-quality services to information professionals in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions and beyond. The conversation explores how the ME...

At a recent Research to Reader Conference , a panel including Haseeb Irfanullah , a visiting fellow at the Center for Sustainable Development, explored strategies to diversify scholarly research authorship.  This is in the context of ongoing calls for social change have drawn attention to the need in scholarly publishing for greater equity, diversity, and inclusion, including for peer review, edit...

Last year, Cambridge University Press (CUP) announced the launch of a new concept in journals publishing – Research Directions. It’s stated that the approach would "speed discovery by fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing between subject communities" as well as provide "opportunities to publish research from areas not well served by traditional, discipline-specific journals&...

This week’s INSPIRING STEM PODCAST episode has as its guest, Euan Adie who is CEO at Overton.io . Euan has a background in bioinformatics and a wide range of expertise in research impact measurements including alternative publication metrics and social media engagement. Overton is a London based company that tracks and indexes the research, ideas and influences behind governmental policies worldwi...

In this week’s episode, I am chatting with Markus MacGill a science writer and Editor with Green Ink . Green Ink provides expert communications support to major organisations around the world and specialises in projects relating to the increasingly important areas of environment, climate change, public health, science and international development. Markus has an PGCert (with distinction) from the...

In this week’s episode, I am chatting with Adam Hyde the Founder of the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation – COKO . Over the past 15 years Adam has been on a mission to transform publishing and knowledge production through innovation in workflows, development of technology, and facilitation. He has designed facilitation methodologies such as Workflow Sprints, The Cabbage Tree Method and Book Sprin...

This week’s INSPIRING STEM PODCAST guest is  Kylie Ahern. Kylie is a Sydney-based, award-winning STEM publisher and a highly skilled strategist. As CEO of the content and engagement agency, STEM Matters , she is in the business of transforming how the STEM sector engages with the audiences to increase awareness, influence and funding.  In 2005 she co-founded COSMOS Magazine and was CEO for the fir...

Open science can be best defined as the practice of science across all disciplines such that others can collaborate and contribute, and where research data and processes are freely available, under terms that enable reuse, redistribution and reproduction. This includes includes peer-reviewed publications, data repositories, workflow and collaboration tools. Open science is driven and governed by s...

Consistently, during the current global pandemic, Open Science collaboration has contributed to the rapid translation of clinical and scientific knowledge into successful treatments. Despite this fact, many stakeholders still hesitate to construct policies and practices to support the adoption and implementation of Open Science. Therefore, concerns remain about inequities in the global information...