Kirsty Wallis

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Recruitment: a new challenge

Part of my role as Project Officer is to manage the employment of ten PhD students/early career researchers – 1 day a week for 6 weeks. The period of employment is over a 12 week (3 month) period and will last until the end of the project. As the positions for the students are so …

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Technical update

I met with a member of the L&RD team the other day, just over coffee, to try and get a better understanding of where we stand with the technical aspects, he has agreed to write a post outlining more specifically how it was done, but here is the breakdown: KAR (ePrints) – a field has …

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Webpages and content

Having worked in publishing before, I have had to write lots of different types of content, pages for the web, instruction manuals, posters, leaflets and all sorts of things before, but never at the same time as I have been over the past day or so. Now the branding and colour scheme for the material is …

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Marketing and merchandising

Just a quick update today: As my first full week working on Kent Early ORCID comes to a close (although it is worth pointing out that I also have a day job!), I have made a lot of progress in planning, organising, and talking to people, which may not feel like achievment but it is …

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First steps

Now that the new term is approaching, work is able to begin on the Kent Early ORCID project. We made the decision to hold back on the project over the summer vacation due to the absence of the majority of staff and students. Any postgraduates and PhD students that were around were writing, and if …

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