Overview:

What are the options for communicating your research in a digital environment? How is publishing evolving and how do you choose the most appropriate platform for your target audience? This series of workshops will explore some of the options available to help you make informed choices when planning your publication strategy.  

This interactive session will encourage you to think beyond the boundaries of traditional academic publishing and look at some of the alternative routes you can use to communicate your research. As well as considering your wider audience, you will also explore a range of communication channels, from social media platforms to self-publishing tools, and consider how informal publishing might integrate with the rest of your publication strategy. There will also be the opportunity to examine how ‘alternative metrics’ can help you to track engagement with your publications, both formal and informal.  

Who should attend?

University of Warwick Research Active Staff (staff on Research-focussed, Teaching-focussed and Research & Teaching Contracts) and PhD Students.

Workshop enables delegates to:

In this session, you can expect to:   

• Reflect on your own motivations for presenting at conferences and what you want to communicate to your audience  
• Investigate a range of tools to discover conferences and funding opportunities in your subject area  
• Discuss the different options for disseminating your work at conferences and how they might differ from other types of publication  
• Explore the differences between a conference presentation and a published conference paper  
• Start to assemble a list of potential conferences to attend   

Vitae Development Framework:     

Knowledge and intellectual abilities: A1   

Personal effectiveness: B3   

Research governance and organisation: C3  

Engagement, influence and impact: D1, D2   

Workshop Pre-work:
Any pre-work for this workshop will be emailed to delegates

Led by:
Julie Robinson, Scholarly Communication Manager, The Library