I'm writing this following an excellent workshop at the RGSIBG Postgraduate forum's 2022 conference. Phil Emmerson and Sarah Hall presented and led discussion around the strategies and challenges of publishing papers as a PGR. It was great, really supportive, and made me feel absolutely nauseous I dedicated a chunk of time whilst on Covid lockdown to getting a paper written that was based on the data from my MSc research and further interdisciplinary research conducted for my PhD. It took a year of the paper being submitted and resubmitted, to the same two reviewers, undergoing significant revisions, until the paper was finally rejected. The process, alongside the fact that my personal details had accidentally been sent to the reviewers (and my subsequent panicked guesses about who they might be and how important they may/may not be in my future career) had a huge impact on my confidence at the time. Having put the paper to one side I had tried to consider other options. Howe
This September the International Association of Landscape Ecologies (ialeUK) annual conference was titled "The Landscape Ecology of Forests, Woodlands and Trees" With a full day session on public benefits, my work on trees for Natural Flood Management seemed to fit the bill, and I was really interested in the work of ialeUK anyway. Landscape Ecology takes an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the heterogeneity (inherent differences) in and changes to landscapes. The societal and biophysical are both considered - and as an inherent part of my PhD project is understanding how these different knowledges are entangled, and some basic methodologies in working with them, you can see why I was interested in the conference. See ialeUK for more info on Landscape Ecology Getting my abstract written up wasn't easy as there were a number of different sessions I wanted to be involved in. I settled for focusing on the methodologies I was using and the interdisciplinary natur