How can this support my research?
- Put your research ideas up here and ask for feedback from members of the community
- Share this blog (you can keep it secret, so it's not available without a password or log on) with your supervisor. You can keep notes on your progress and use it as a place to store those interesting things you come across but don't really know what to do with just yet!
- Develop your research profile. If people know who you are and what you are doing, if they're interest they may leave comments, feedback and when it comes to employment your work will already be known. When looking for speakers conference organisers will frequently look at researchers' blogs to see if they have anything interesting to say!
- Blogging has the potential to increase the impact of your research. Maintaining a blog creates a place where you can disseminate your findings, others can then read these outputs and apply them in their own work. It's also not just researchers than can access this material but you can use this as a platform for public engagement, inviting comments, questions and feedback on your work.
- Use it for your own reflection. Looking back on your own research journey, how far have you come. You may want to revisit some of the ideas you had a few months ago as they didn't quite fit with the direction you were going in. Are they something that may be more suitable now?
Blogging Tools- Share this blog (you can keep it secret, so it's not available without a password or log on) with your supervisor. You can keep notes on your progress and use it as a place to store those interesting things you come across but don't really know what to do with just yet!
- Develop your research profile. If people know who you are and what you are doing, if they're interest they may leave comments, feedback and when it comes to employment your work will already be known. When looking for speakers conference organisers will frequently look at researchers' blogs to see if they have anything interesting to say!
- Blogging has the potential to increase the impact of your research. Maintaining a blog creates a place where you can disseminate your findings, others can then read these outputs and apply them in their own work. It's also not just researchers than can access this material but you can use this as a platform for public engagement, inviting comments, questions and feedback on your work.
- Use it for your own reflection. Looking back on your own research journey, how far have you come. You may want to revisit some of the ideas you had a few months ago as they didn't quite fit with the direction you were going in. Are they something that may be more suitable now?
Blogger (The platform this blog is created in. You'll need a google account to use this platform. See here for more information.)
Very simple and integrates with Word
Guides to getting started with Blogger
Printable guide to getting started with Blogger
Wordpress (Slightly more complicated but looks a little slicker than this!)
Offers a little more functionality than Blogger
Guides to getting started with Wordpress
Printable guide to getting started with Wordpress
Microblogging
Twitter is a microblogging platform that allows you to exchange short 140 messages. You can follow individuals, so that their tweets appear in your newsfeed.
- Follow other academics in your field, and see what they are currently interested in.
- Follow funding councils, so that you're the first to hear of any new calls
- Ask questions to members of the community. Can find a reference does anyone on twitter know what it is?
- Whilst it is possible to have private conversations on twitter using Private Messages and controlled tweets, this severely limits the audience who you can engage with.
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