DMU Social Media for Researchers

Social Media for Researchers

Professor Richard Hall@[email protected]

Julia Reeve@[email protected]

Lucy Atkins@LucyJCA

Bonnie Stewart

Overview

• Linking social media and research management to researcher development

• Demonstrating the potential of social media for academic practice/scholarship in public

• Demonstrating the potential of social media for co-operative, academic practice/scholarship

• Some considerations

Pre-session questions

• Which social media tools do you use?

• What do you use them to achieve in your academic work?

• What would you like to cover in the session or in a follow-up discussion?

• What are the ramifications of your work being social?

• A1: Knowledge Base

• B3: Professional and career development

• C1: Professional conduct

• D2: Communication and dissemination

• Available: http://bit.ly/1zn9o3m

The Vitae Researcher Development Framework

Useful tools:A1 Knowledge Base• Access/chance/trust: Twitter • Verification/trust: Subject blogs• Verification/trust: Open libraries• Resources/groups: Mendeley• Resources/groups: ResearchGate• Searching: Tagging,

folksonomies• Collecting: Evernote; Tumblr

Useful tools:B3 Professional and career development

• Networking/reputation: Twitter• Networking/reputation: LinkedIn • CPD: Subject blogs• Publication: Open libraries• Publication: Academia.edu• CPD/publication: Mendeley• CPD/publication: ResearchGate• Reputation: ImpactStory

Useful tools:C1 Professional conduct

• Collaborative work • Privacy settings• Intellectual Property• Permissions, use, sharing and

re-use [e.g. Creative Commons]

• Open data [Manchester; .gov]

• DMU-specific rights

Useful tools:D2 Communication and dissemination

• File sharing: Dropbox, Google Drive, Zend

• Conferencing Skype • Social presentation: Prezi,

SlideShare, Storify• Multimedia: YouTube

• Plus those in B3, above.

Twitter

• What is Twitter?

• Who uses it?

• How does it benefit your research?

Ned Potter’s: Twitter for researchers

Blogging• What is a blog?

• Who uses blogs?

• Different blogging platforms?

• How does blogging benefit your research?

patter

Linkedin

• What is Linkedin?

• Who uses it?

• How does Linkedin benefit your research?

LinkedIn

ResearchGate

• What is ResearchGate?

• Who uses it?

• How does ResearchGate benefit your research?

Researchgate

Lucy Atkins• Networking

• Promotion of my own work

• Learning about the work of others

• Sharing my work

• Reflecting on my work

Lucy Atkins

• Increasing my visibility• Measuring impact

Lucy Atkins• #PhDChat - general PhD community.• @Acwri/#Acrwri - Discussion and support group for academic

writing.• @SUWTUK/#shutupandwrite - Online shut up and write group.

1st and 3rd Tuesday of every month, 10am BST.• @thesiswhisperer - Dr Inger Mewburn is the managing editor of

the Thesis Whisperer blog, a highly useful collection of blog posts about every conceivable PhD concern.

• @PhDForum - Discussion and support group for PhD students.• @PhD2Published - home of #Acwrimo (academic writing month

- every November)• @ThomsonPat - Professor at University of Nottingham, author of

patter blog, another brilliant PhD/academia guidance blog.

Case Studies• Lucy Atkins: PhD

notes/verbs; standard open tech; links to Twitter; process of PhD

• Tressie McMillan Cottom: own site as pivot; structure; public scholarship; most read; events; personal academic formation

Case Studies

• Transition through PhD: #phdchat; Guardian HE Network; therapeutic networks;

• Writing: seven reasons why academic blogging is valuable; the DMU Commons

To consider

• Intensity of reading/research versus intensity of networking [time]

• How risk averse do you *need* to be?• How open do you *need* to be?• What is the balance between soft and

hard publishing?• How do you use your networks to

challenge your own orthodoxy?

To consider• What permissions do you need to use

stuff?• What permissions do you want to give

your stuff?• Think about your identity across

disparate platforms• Think about being true, necessary and

kind• Think about your e-safety [personal

relationships, the institution/funder, the State]

Support

• DMU Commons http://our.dmu.ac.uk/

• CELT Hub http://celt.our.dmu.ac.uk/

• DMU Social Media Policy http://www.dmu.ac.uk/documents/dmu-staff/pod/people-management-handbook/emailinternetandsocialmediapolicy.pdf

Further reading

• Common Craft simple overview videos https://www.commoncraft.com/videolist#technology

• Research Information Network: Social media for researchers http://www.rin.ac.uk/node/1009

• Mark Reed Fast Track Impact resources http://www.fasttrackimpact.com/#!resources/bt6xl

Further reading

Slides 8-12 in this presentation are amended from “Social Media for Researchers” by Tanya Williamson and Louise Tripp at Lancaster University Library.

Social Media for Researchers by Professor Richard Hall, Julia Reeve and Lucy Atkins is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.