Ernesto Priego and Sarah-Louise Quinnell created the Networked Researcher platform to promote online collaboration and networking among researchers through blogging and social media. The platform encourages researchers to blog about their work, discuss digital tools, and build communities of practice. It has hosted training sessions and an open access blogging unconference. Going forward, the founders aim to expand the platform, secure funding, and examine the impact of digital technologies on research and doctoral education.

1. Dr Ernesto Priego & Dr Sarah-Louise Quinnell
UCLDH
@networkedres
http://www.networkedresearcher.co.uk/

2. Mission
• Develop a collaborative research networking and learning
platform based on blogging (WordPress) and
microblogging (Twitter).
• Promote best practices in online publishing and social
media for networking and research.

3. Mission
• Encourage the critical practice and discussion of
social media and digital educational technologies for
research.
• P romote a culture of online collaboration,
reciprocity and collegiality amongst researchers.

4. Origins
• Starting officially in May 2011, the project originally
grew out of the doctoral research which Sarah
undertook in the Geography Department at King’s
College London.
• The project is now coordinated by Sarah and
Ernesto, both currently affiliated with the UCL Centre
for Digital Humanities.

5. Experience & Expansion
• We offer a collaborative multi-author blogging platform,
encouraging researchers of different ages and disciplines
to blog about their areas of expertise, current research
and experiences and to practice other forms of online
engagement.
• Networker Researcher also offers tailored social media,
online publishing and e-learning training to Higher
Education and GLAM sector organisations.

6. OA Blogging Unconference
• Open Access Week 2012 took place 22-28 October,
all over the world.
• We participated with a “Blogging Unconference”
• We posted a call for participants on September 2012
Those interested in participating were required to
contact us telling us a little bit about themselves and
their online work.

7. OA Blogging Unconference
• Papers in our were presented as blog posts, and any
discussion carried out through comments and other
posts.
• Contributors got author accounts (bylines) and posted
without intermediation.
• 19 registered participants; 11 authors from 11 different
institutions and 5 different countries participated with
11 posts.
• We anthologised and published the proceedings as
a free PDF.

8. The Future
• Development of the platform to look at how
researchers build their research identities &
communities of practice online
• Secure funding for present and future sustainability
• Examine the transformative potential of digital
technology on the process of Doctoral education
• NR Digital Research Conference in 2014

9. Contact Us
Dr Sarah-Louise Quinnell Dr Ernesto Priego
sarah@sarahlouq.co.uk efpriego@gmail.com
@sarahthesheepu @ernestopriego

10. These slides are shared by
Ernesto Priego and Sarah-Louise Quinnell under a
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