For those convening a virtual meeting, it helps to send out an email with the link for team members to join later if they miss the call: sometimes people can’t…
On the 12th of February, as part of the #Piirusvoices campaign, piirus.ac.uk hosted a Twitter chat centering around the theme of loving your research. The event, jointly chaired by piirus.ac.uk correspondents…
I’ve been taking part in the How to Survive your PhD MOOC which is now in its final stages: We are now all peer marking each others’ assignments. The course is…
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…
What’s a MOOC? – A “Massive Open Online Course”, and I’m taking part in one called “How to Survive Your PhD” from the Thesis Whisperer: it’s free and registration is…
At Piirus we’re trying out a collaborative working tool, namely the free version of Slack. We’re using it for one of our many projects, as a communication tool. It is a way for…
We’ve found that you can get a much richer experience of Twitter and can even save time if you investigate the tools designed to enhance your experience of Twitter. Tools for…
Here is a story of some of my experiences, and recommendations for researchers who might want to use Skype for meetings across multiple locations. (Skype is just one of the…
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…