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When Special Collections and Archives meet research outputs

By Sarah Slowe | 03 October 2018

When I first started in this role, I confess, I hadn’t much thought about Special Collections and Archives – I knew of the British Cartoon … Read more

Hard, Soft and the slightly squidgy middle?

By Sarah Slowe | 28 September 2018

As an increasingly “open” research environment is emerging, a new language is forming around it. This emerging lexicon carries with it generations of evolution. How … Read more

Using TV to promote your research: Introduction to KMTV

By Josie Caplehorne | 17 September 2018

A quick overview of KMTV KMTV, a joint venture between the University of Kent and KM Media Group, is a new local TV station covering … Read more

Maximizing your audience: Providing accessible formats of your research works to reach a wider audience

By Josie Caplehorne | 10 September 2018

What if the format of your research means that you can’t reach all of your potential audience? Making your work available in an accessible format … Read more

Using Social Media to promote your research: Instagram for beginners

By Josie Caplehorne | 23 August 2018

Instagram is a popular image sharing social media platform that could enhance discovery of and engagement with your research by new audiences.   A quick … Read more

‘Do you come here often?’ Starting the conversation on DOI’s for Book Chapters

By Sarah Slowe | 13 August 2018

Last February, I was taking part in a panel at Research 2 Reader and one of the questions asked was ‘What can publishers do to … Read more

REF and Responsible Metrics

By Sarah Slowe | 30 July 2018

After a busy month (Or couple of months!) including a day in London talking about systematically allocating DOI’s for bookchapters, a few days in Lille … Read more

INORMS 2018 – Some initial highlights.

By Sarah Slowe | 08 June 2018

A small(ish!) group of Research Managers, Administrators and other support may be blearily wandering around campus, or replying to emails a little more sluggishly than … Read more

Tasting our own medicine

By Sarah Slowe | 20 April 2018

It was a wintery day in late 2017, when into my inbox drops another email… so far, so uninspiring – this happens as a fairly(!) … Read more

All change please!

By Sarah Slowe | 16 April 2018

It has been a very quiet month on the blog, for which, my apologies! There are lots of things I would love to write about … Read more

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