slides for School of Applied Social Sciences Doctoral Training Programme workshop on social media for researchers

1. Social Media for
Researchers (DTP)
Richard Hall
@hallymk1
http://richard-hall.org
John Coster
@docmediacentre
https://docmediacentre.wordpress.com/
Christos Daramilas
@cdaramilas

2. 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 scholarship
• Some considerations

3. 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?

4. • 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

5. 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

6. Useful tools:B3 Professional and career
development
• Networking/reputation: Twitter
• Networking/reputation: LinkedIn
• CPD: Subject blogs
• Publication: Open libraries
• CPD/publication: Mendeley
• CPD/publication: ResearchGate
• Reputation: ImpactStory
Dear Scholars, Delete Your Account At Academia.Edu

7. 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

8. 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.

9. Twitter
• What is Twitter?
• Who uses it?
• How does it benefit your research?
Twitter explained by
Common Craft
Ned Potter’s: Twitter for
researchers

10. Blogging
• What is a blog?
• Who uses blogs?
• Different blogging platforms?
• How does blogging benefit
your research?
patter
Blogs explained
by Common
Craft

11. Linkedin
• What is Linkedin?
• Who uses it?
• How does Linkedin
benefit your research?
LinkedIn
5 LinkedIn tips for early
career researchers

12. ResearchGate
• What is ResearchGate?
• Who uses it?
• How does ResearchGate benefit
your research?
Researchgate
Online collaboration: Scientists
and the social network

13. Lucy Atkins

14. Lucy Atkins

15. 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.
• #ECRchat / @ECRchat – Twitter chat for Early Career
Researchers
• @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.

16. 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

17. Case Studies
• Transition through PhD:
#phdchat; Guardian HE
Network; therapeutic
networks;
• Writing: seven reasons
why academic blogging
is valuable; the DMU
Commons

18. 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?

19. 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]

20. DMU Support
• DMU Commons http://our.dmu.ac.uk/
• CELT Hub http://celt.our.dmu.ac.uk/
• DMU Social Media Policy:
http://bit.ly/2ooljN8
• Library and Learning Services Copyright
stuff

21. Further reading
• Common Craft simple overview videos
• Mark Reed Fast Track Impact resources
• How Academics and Researchers Can Get
More Out of Social Media
• Mark Carrigan’s Social Media for Academics
• Notes on social media for researchers