From Academic to Research-Adjacent with Matt Woodcock (Episode 91)

Matt Woodcock is Research and Impact Support Officer in the School of English at the University of Leeds. Before this Matt was an academic for nearly 20 years, reaching the status of Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Literature.

Sarah and Matt talk about

Why he sees his career journey as an ongoing process of specializing in the work he really enjoysWhat it is like to have a 360-degree view of the research processHis love of editing and the peer review process which led him first into publishing and then to the ARMA Insights magazineHow empathy underpins the work he does with researchers

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