There are many benefits of having an online profile as an academic, as it can really help to improve the visibility of you and your research. Our short video can…
If you have a blog or you tweet, or perhaps your research team has a social media or web presence, then you may find yourself looking at that site’s metrics, trying to make sense…
A recently released RCUK funded report on public engagement with research, based on a project designed to create the conditions where public engagement with research could flourish identifies challenges and solutions,…
I’ve often said that Twitter is like an enormous conference hall: there are various conversations that you can walk past and maybe join in. As with conferences, you can look at who’s…
I’ve long felt a bit conflicted on the subject of Twitter. I remember doing a workshop while I was a student at the University of Warwick, and we were being…
Note from the editor: In this post, expert blogger Emma Cragg offers useful advice to novice bloggers As a researcher I’m pretty sure that you’ve recently read something or heard…
The image of the tweed-clad classicist sitting, isolated in their personal library, surrounded by Greek and Latin texts and writing by hand, or perhaps on a typewriter, could not today…
From the editor: many thanks to Abigail Mottershaw for writing about these highlights from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) First Year Student Conference, 2015 This year I started…
This week’s jobs.ac.uk hangout live video event “How to be a successful digital academic…” was full of great ideas and tips from experienced researchers and experts in digital tools for research. It was…
My day job involves writing about the amazing research and related goings-on at the place where I completed my PhD. I still feel connected to science: I’m just not at the bench.…