Networks, which are defined as groups or systems of interconnected people or things, can be formal and informal in nature and can be applied for different purposes. The capability to network can build influence in groups and organisations to support change or generate new ideas. The process of networking can be seen as a supportive system of sharing information and services among individuals, groups and organisations with a common interest. Networking can be applied at a personal level for career and leadership development, at an intraorganisational level for organisational development and at an interorganisational level for research, knowledge management, process improvement and relationship development.

The field of autism research is moving from its troubled history of research on autistic people to research with autistic people. This recognition of the need for research both with and by autistic people means there is also a need to understand the extent to which autism conferences include or exclude the voices of autistic people. In this chapter, participants reflect on their experiences in attending conferences as recipients of knowledge, active participants in the conversation, and conveyors of information. Topics discussed include sensory issues, conference organisation, social interaction and networking, in-session interaction, in-session information, inclusion, and online conferences.

Work occupies a significant portion of our lives, providing not only financial stability, but also structure, social interaction, and a sense of purpose. In addition, many jobs contribute to society in a beneficial way. While some jobs offer intrinsic satisfaction and personal growth, others may cause stress and burnout. Meaningful work promotes cognitive health by stimulating problem-solving, critical thinking, and learning. Engaging in social interactions at work enhances emotional intelligence and fosters collaboration, creativity, and innovation. Moreover, work contributes to cognitive resilience and may even reduce the risk of dementia in later life. It’s crucial to acknowledge and manage workplace stress through strategies such as maintaining work–life balance, seeking social support, and setting boundaries. This is particularly important considering the increase in hybrid working. Employers play a key role in creating supportive work environments that prioritize employee wellbeing. Overall, meaningful work enriches our lives, promotes cognitive vitality, and contributes to a fulfilling and balanced lifestyle.

This final chapter offers advice on the opportunities and challenges of being a composer, and is intended to be useful and encouraging for anyone developing their practice. It suggests ways to build a professional profile through growing networks and understanding effective working habits.

This chapter is about how a composer can reach their audience. It thinks about marketing in broad terms, understanding the music industry in terms of networks and communities, as well as addressing topics like making and releasing recordings, best practice on social media, building a website and engaging with the press.

Productive scholars rarely publish alone. They collaborate on about 90 percent of their works, and mostly with students. Students carry much of the collaborative workload, steer faculty toward new and interesting research paths, and bring energy to projects and professors. Productive scholars are talent scouts, mining diamond-in-the-rough student collaborators found among their advisees, research assistants, and floaters who join projects outside their advisor’s. Although student advising offers opportunity to train the next generation of scholars and to expand one’s own research interests and productivity, student advising can prove onerous and should be carefully limited. Scholars enculturate and direct student collaborators. Enculturate them to research rigors and mechanics and direct them through successful project completion, via weekly meetings and rounds of feedback. In addition to directing research teams moving in unison, scholars push mentees to develop and pursue personal research ideas, knowing that scholars are more productive when they work on something that interests them. Mentors also help students form academic networks, by encouraging conference attendance and introducing them to influential scholars there and elsewhere, and teach students the hidden curriculum success advice found throughout this book. It is through effective mentoring that one’s legacy lives on.

Political tradecraft is a set of duties, responsibilities and skills required of diplomats who work in political affairs. It is the main instrument in the diplomatic tradecraft toolbox, which also includes, among other tools, economic tradecraft, commercial diplomacy, consular affairs and public diplomacy. Political officers work both at diplomatic missions abroad and at headquarters, such as their ministry of foreign affairs or the State Department. Although there are some differences in a political officer’s daily duties at home compared with those abroad, they all participate in managing international relations and implementing foreign policy. Those who rise to the most senior positions in their ministry or department also take part in the policymaking process. The primacy of politics is the reason the political department is the most powerful in any ministry of foreign affairs, and its head, known as “political director,” is typically among the highest-ranking officials.

This chapter explains how we might use Social Network Analysis (SNA) in studying agreement-making in global environmental governance. It explains a number of the key methodological processes involved in doing SNA, regarding different ways to go about data collection and specific analytical techniques that can be used within SNA that are of particular interest within studies of global environmental governance, such as network structure or the brokerage position of particular individuals or organizations. It also shows how SNA has used by scholars in the field, notably to study patterns of connection within global governance complexes, forms of authority of specific groups of individuals within environmental governance, for example deriving from positions within scientific or professional networks. Finally it makes a number of suggestions about how to thinking about integrating SNA into broader mixed-method studies of agreement-making, including using it as background research prior to visiting negotiating meetings, to identify patterns to be explored in other ways at those sites, as well as to use the negotiating sites themselves to generate accounts of social networks in action in environmental governance.

Across Frederick Chessons career, the emergence of cheap newspapers, the prevalence of postal networks, and development of a global telegraphic system revolutionised how information was distributed. As Secretary for the Aborigines Protection Society for over three decades, Chesson was a nodal point for communication about human trafficking, effects of imperial conflicts on Indigenous peoples, the brutal retaliation for the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica, and other outrages. Long before Lemkin coined the term genocide, Chessons journalism and activism described and decried such atrocities on several continents. Liberal activists work represents multiscalar thinking about abuses, to which Chesson contributed a repertoire demonstrating his innovative tactical and organisational forms championing racial justice.

Chapter 10 addresses the differences between translator associations and networks. It divides these into four categories – profession-oriented, practice-oriented, education-oriented and research-oriented – and presents examples of each type of grouping. It examines the activities that translator associations and networks typically engage in, focusing in particular on advocacy efforts, training and certification, and social and professional networking. The chapter also introduces the codes of ethics and codes of practice that guide translation professionals.

Chapter five analyses the expansion of environmental protest after Chernobyl in 1986. The environmental movement became more public in eastern Europe in general, and the GDR in particular. Bolstered by western support, unrest grew swiftly in an uncertain political context. The chapter explores East German reactions to Chernobyl and new challenges for the movement. The Stasi’s efforts to sow discord among uneasily allied environmentalists succeeded in curbing their potential impact. Yet the relative openness in Poland permitted outrage over Chernobyl and further fueled discussion of other environmental problems, making it an ideal location for exchange across borders within the region. Finally, the chapter turns to deepened West German interactions with eastern European pollution and protest, teasing out moments of cooperation and misunderstanding. Responses to Chernobyl reshaped environmental movements, anti-communist rhetoric, and connections. Nevertheless, the nuclear disaster and its fallout undermined a system that was already on shaky ground.

By the end of the twentieth century, trailblazing novelists such as W. Adolphe Roberts, Roger Mais, John Hearne, V. S. Reid, and Garth St Omer, were out of print, and their immense contribution to the Caribbean literary landscape obscured. The reasons for the short-lived popularity of these Caribbean novelists range from the interplay of race; the compass of the thematic reach of their novels; the radically evolving sociopolitical landscape within which these writers were being read; and international dynamics of critical reception. The mapping out of these trajectories of oblivion also reveals a fascinating network of alliances, affiliations, and geo-locations that is core to the literary history of the Caribbean. The chapter, in showcasing the current reprinting efforts of these aforementioned novelists by publishing houses such as Peepal Tree Press and the University of the West Indies Press, argues that academicians can also play a role in this literary comeback. In engaging with the relevance of these restored novelists to contemporary critical contexts, teachers and critics can help locate the reprinted texts within the complicated and intricate dynamics of Caribbean society, ongoing literary debates, and the tradition of homage Caribbean writers paid and continue to pay to each other.