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Connecting Cardiff’s ResearchersCardiff University’s social media workshop for research students
Sarah NicholasSubject Librarian (Architecture)CPD25 Support for Researchers event27 April 2012
The Connected Researchernetworking and collaborating with social media
to show ways in which you can build an effective and supportive online network
to look at a range of social media tools to discuss issues associated with social media and researchers
Workshop aims
drivers for adoption
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task not tool
Why use social media?
Case studies of three connected researchers
Networking
Disseminate and communicate
Collect and review
The joined-up connected researcher
Content
tinyurl.com/ConnectedResearcher
#CR12
Workshop exercises included examining
digital footprints and commenting on a
blog
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Case studies
pressure to constantly blog in order to stay relevant
information overloadthe distracting nature of being onlinenot capturing the audience which isn’t
engaged with social media
Social media barriers
Social media tips
Why blog?
use as a notebook 1
record thoughts on events 2
alternative focus (with a writing element)
crowdsource
knowledge transfer
links to articles
collect feedback
generate discussion
collaborate
enhance reputation
outreach
reduce feelings of isolation
increase sense of belonging
blog as online ‘base camp’
direct people to blog to save producing documents 2
momentum to explore other technologies
explores the process of research work
critical appraisal
follow events
reflect share network collate learn
1. Richer, Suzi. 2009. Blogging your way to completion… [Online]. Available at: http://vitae.ac.uk/researchers/1271-194421/Blogging-your-way-to-completion.html [Accessed: 25 January 2011].2. Weller, M. 2007. The ed technie: is blogging a good use of time? [Online]. Available at: http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2007/04/is_blogging_a_g.html [Accessed: 25 January 2011].
Academic tweeting
#CR12#DR12Vitae#PhDChat
#TwitJC
How do you choose a tool?
“I’ve found that the most important thing is identifying where other people who share your research interests are located. If you can find the tool that other people you know are using then you should probably use that tool as the biggest benefits are in the social aspects of these tools”
Hooley, T. 2011. Citeulike and other social citation tools. Vitae. Available at : http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-332831/CiteULike-and-other-social-citation-tools.html
www.slideshare.net/SarahNicholas
excellent opportunity to learn about modern networking within academia [I liked] the
communication before the session
a thorough overview of the field, [presented with] clarity and flexibility in taking questions and encouraging discussion
Challengespractice versus discussion
librarians’ authority
rapidly changing environment
external constraints
reach
The future
Digidol “aims to embed processes and practices that enable the development of digital literacy in all staff and students across all areas and levels of Cardiff University. It is understood that this will be as much about changing attitudes and beliefs, as it will be about realising practical knowledge and skills.”
Digidol. 2012. Digidol: developing digital literacy. [Online] Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at http://digidol.cardiff.ac.uk [Accessed: 28 March 2012].
Other courses are available from Vitae,
University of Bath, LSE, Imperial and more
Research Supportat Cardiff University contextualising the connected researcher
Cardiff University Libraries has an Associate Director of Research and Academic
Engagement and a Senior Consultant and a Consultant in Research Support. They are supported by a
Combined Library/IT Research Support and REF Groups.
ensure researchers’ needs are met by
surveying and reading literature
promote services to researchers
develop expertise in open access,
institutional repositories, bibliometrics
and support for the REF
engender cross-University collaboration
Cardiff University Libraries has an
advisory role in finding citation data and increasing visibility for publications
“the subject librarians [...] are central in ensuring the successful integration of research support at Cardiff”
Bradbury, K. and Weightman, A. 2010. Research support at Cardiff University Library. SCONUL Focus 50, pp. 65-70.
University Graduate College and Research Staff Career Development Skills courses include Keeping your research up-to-date, Citations count! getting your research known and Managing your references using EndNote
SURE, the Support Unit for Research Evidence, supports and produces research to assist evidence-based practice and policy
SURE specialises in literature searching, critical appraisal and summarising evidence and delivers teaching of these skills at Cardiff
SysNet brings together expertise from Cardiff University’s academic schools, to share best practice in undertaking high-quality systematic reviews
SCOLAR (Special Collections and Archives) work closely with Schools to develop and exploit special collections and archives for research
• research data management• funder mandates• OA requirements• data mining• advice on metadata
Future directions in research support
ReferencesBradbury, K. and Weightman, A. 2010. Research support at Cardiff University Library. SCONUL Focus 50, pp. 65-70.
Cann, A., Dimitriou, K. and Hooley, T. 2011. Social media: a guide for researchers. [Online] London: Research Information Network. Available at: http://www.rin.ac.uk/social-media-guide [Accessed: 29 March 2012].
CIBER. 2010. Social media and research workflow. [Online] London: CIBER, University College London. Available at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/research/ciber/social-media-report.pdf [Accessed: 29 March 2012].
Cope, J. and Jones, G. 2011. Connecting researchers at the University of Bath. Ariadne [Online] 67. Available at http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue67/cope-jones/ [Accessed 19 April 2012].
Digidol. 2012. Digidol: developing digital literacy. [Online] Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at http://digidol.cardiff.ac.uk [Accessed: 28 March 2012].
Weller, M. 2011. The digital scholar: how technology is changing scholarly practice. London: Bloomsbury.
Connecting Cardiff’s ResearchersCardiff University’s social media workshop for research students
Sarah NicholasSubject Librarian (Architecture)CPD25 Support for Researchers event27 April 2012