The Guardian Higher Education Network with Matthew Goodwin’s 10 tips for academics preparing to work with decision-makers, yet useful in general for collaboration and making it worth everyone’s time and energy.

Goodwin’s suggestions present a slow-building, practical approach on for academics building working relationships and professional networks with policymakers and decision-makers on The Guardian’s Higher Education Network.

These are 10 excellent considerations for working with action-oriented decision-makers, and especially 3) “Prepare for a different type of conversation.” An extremely useful suggestion: think through language choices and framing when working with people short on time and attention and heavy on influence and decisions — also applicable to other interdisciplinary collaborations (where tips 1 and 2 are also pertinent!).