How to share research online.

Starting to consider the idea of sharing your research work online is a new opportunity for adapting my piece of scientific work to the public needs. Screencasts can help to share your research in the media world, while softwares like Google public data explorer visualises views and graphs to be better understood using plain language and simple figures.

Personally, my first experience of sharing my PhD work in an international Conference was a Powerpoint presentation. Powerpoint is the basic tool I have used to make and develop my presentations so far. I am also aware that Presi could be an alternative and I should invest some time weekly to learn how to use properly this tool. However, it may be worth giving Presi a second chance the next time I am going to present research data to a public audience!

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Grab the opportunity and Promote yourself!

Yes! Grab any opportunity. Funding opportunities and potential funding sources like Reseacrh Professional webpage and Euraxess are necessary for starting, being productive and completing a PhD project. I signed up Research Professional and I started to look for research funding opportunities in my field. Creating and maintaining a personal website is an amazing opportunity to promote yourself, tell the world who you are, what you do what your mission and your GOALS. A standalone website could definitely reflect your personality and your achievements better than any other social media like LinkedIn or Twitter. Creating my own Website could be included in my long-term plans (goals?). Until then I can promote my research work through a cohesive and up-to-date LinkedIn profile. Also, I am currently completing my profile page at surrey.ac.uk. Learning how to promote yourself and how to grab an OPPORTUNITY is a skill that you should develop and train while in your PhD ...

To conclude...

And now this the time to summarise all these different Things (22?) that I learned through The 23 Things for Research Programme. As a whole, I believe the programme was very insightful and I would definitely recommend it to anyone starting a PhD. Building or improving your professional online presence is the secret of the success. Maybe yes, maybe no... Who knows? Throughout this programme, I developed a cohesive and up-to-date profile in LinkedIn and Researchgate. The programme helped me to think about my personal brand, to set up Mendeley, my Reference Management tool and to recognise the importance of other tools for exploring source of information (Wikipedia), images online (Flickr, Pinterest), sharing findings (Prezi Google Public Data Explorer), disseminating research work (Open Access), maximising research impact (Bibliometrics and Altmetrics), connecting with other researchers (Webinars, Hangouts, Doodle), sharing data (Google Drive), searching for funding (Research ...

Let's Begin...

Let's begin... I am a psychologist and recently a PhD student! I've never been interested in "social media" world and the idea of sharing my thoughts, my pictures, my songs, my life online. OK... I am on Facebook, Linkedin, Instagram, but I rarely share things... I prefer to live in the moment and don't stop a good time just to pull out my phone. I ask for real life, authentic people and deep thoughts. But now, living the dream of a first-year PhD student, maybe, it's the right time to see it in a more positive way, create my personal blog, upgrade my social media presence and share my research interests. I've embarked on 23 Things for Research to find out how the technological world of internet and social media could promote my professional profile as a researcher. I am hoping next steps of these 23 Things give me more and more confidence to share my thoughts, my dreams, my interests with other people!!!

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