December 2014 archive

George: My ORCID experience

When I first saw the ORCID advert in the Graduate School Weekly Bulletin and understood the idea behind it, I already got excited about its aims as well as the opportunity to be part of the team to advocate for it. Hence, I was even more excited when I met Kirsty on 28th October for …

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Ruth: Working as a ‘remote’ ORCID advocate.

I have been working as an ORCID advocate since October after my friend told my about the project. As a PhD student seeking to progress with a future career in academia, becoming an ORCID advocate seemed like a great opportunity to get involved with the scheme and to find out more about how to develop …

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T-minus 1 month…

And counting! The project has been going so well over the last few weeks that I have forgotten to blog! Sorry about that! The advocates total is up to seven very effective and lovely team members that are all brilliant and have hugely diverse ideas, just as I was hoping. I won’t talk too much …

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