The document outlines a workshop led by Professor Rhona Sharpe aimed at research students to enhance their digital scholarship through digital practices and social media tools. Participants will engage in quizzes to assess their digital styles, explore open access publishing, and learn strategies for building an online presence to improve research visibility and impact. The workshop includes practical sessions on publishing, social media, and developing a professional digital footprint, supported by various resources and recommended readings.

1. Becoming a Digital Scholar
A workshop for research students with Professor Rhona Sharpe, OCSLD
19 May 2016
This workshop will focus on the digital practices that enhance your study and
scholarship as a researcher. We will start by taking a couple of quizzes to help you to
identify your digital research and digital learning styles. Then we will look at a range of
social media tools and strategies that researchers are using to support open,
collaborative, networked approaches to scholarship to help manage the research the
process, build your reputation online and improve citations.
By the end of the day you should be more prepared to:
- Make informed decisions about using networked technologies
- Communicate your research to a wider audience
- Increase the impact of your work and potentially increase citations
- Make an active and positive contribution to your developing digital footprint
Please bring an Internet connected laptop with you to the session.
Agenda
10.00 Welcome and introductions
10.00 What kind of digital scholar are you?
Attitudes towards, and experiences of, openness
11.30 Break
11.45 Open access publishing: why it matters where you publish
Expectations of REF2020, types of open access, relationship to citations.
1.00 Lunch
2.00 Exploring some new forms of publishing: sharing scholarly outputs
Intellectual property, curation, MOOCs, blogs, public engagement.
3.00 Break
3.15 Social media tools and strategies for researchers
Tips for creating and maintaining a professional digital presence.
4.00 Finish
Useful Resources
Ready to Research, Open Educational Resources for Research Students. Including
guides on establishing academic identity, developing academic writing and research
network and scholarship. http://www.readytoresearch.ac.uk/
Connected U, Sheffield Hallam University. Outputs from a Higher Education Academy
project including a toolkit to support staff and students use LinkedIn to enhance
employability. https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/profiles/

2. Recommended readings
Danaher, J. (2014) Can blogging be academically valuable? Seven reasons for
thinking it might be, 21 September 2014, Philosophical Disquisitions,
http://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/can-blogging-be-
academically-valuable.html
Dunleavy, P. (2016) How to write a blogpost from a journal article in eleven easy
steps. 25 January 2016, LSE Impact Blog,
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2016/01/25/how-to-write-a-blogpost-
from-your-journal-article/
Goodier, S. & Czerniewicz, L. (2012) Academics’ online presence: a four step guide
to taking control of your visibility. University of Cape Town.
Kwok, R. (2013) Research Impact: Altmetrics make their mark. Nature, 491-493
Weller, M. (2011) The Digital Scholar: how technology is transforming scholarly
practice. Bloomsbury Academic.
About Rhona Sharpe
Professor Rhona Sharpe is the Head of the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning
Development. She leaves her digital footprint on Google Scholar, LinkedIn,
ResearchGate, Twitter and slideshare.net. Both in her own research and in her role
as Chair of ELESIG (a national special interest group in her research area) she uses
open tools to collaborate with others as well as to disseminate her work. She is a
tutor on the Open University’s H818 course 'The Networked Practitioner', which
supports developing educational researchers to use the open, digital world effectively.
She has co-edited two books for Routledge, Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age
and Rethinking Learning for a Digital Age.
About the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development
The Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development (OCSLD) is one of the UK’s
largest and most established providers of staff and educational development for
further and higher education. We run workshops and online courses for other further
and higher education institutions. We also publish books, create and sustain special
interest groups and online communities and undertake a range of consultancies
including workshops, authoring, editing and evaluation. Our areas of expertise include
online learning, learning design, inclusive teaching, assessment and feedback,
coaching and mentoring and academic writing.