In this episode, I’m talking to Geetika Chauhan who is a PhD student at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and a member of the Researchers’ Writing Academy. Geetika works in the field of geophysics and joined the Academy because, as she told me, both she and her PI got fed up when she was on the tenth draft of her first journal article with no end in sight.


After she joined our academic writing program she started with a fresh draft and after just two rounds of revisions and two months’ work in total, her PI approved and submitted the paper.


Geetika talks about how she was concerned that this course would just join the pile of other online courses she had bought and never looked at. But how – once she was a member – she was surprised by the engaged community, which helped her to actually take and implement the course.


(01:10 ) Introducing Geetika Chauhan
(03:20 ) Geetika’s struggles before joining the Researchers’ Writing Academy (RWA)
(06:01 ) Geetika’s concerns before she joined the program
(07:45 ) What helped keep Geetika engaged and committed to the program
(10:32 ) Free training for researchers (go to researcherswritingpodcast.com/free)
(12:18 ) How Geetika’s feelings Geetika around writing have changed
(14:22 ) Geetika’s favourite part of the RWA


Podcast host: Anna Clemens, PhD
Video and audio editing: Jason Rivera


If you’re interested to join the Researchers’ Writing Academy and learn how to develop a structured writing process to get published in top-tier journals time-efficiently, then I highly recommend watching my free writing training as the first step at: researcherswritingpodcast.com/free.