Why connect? Tristram Hooley

What do you want to know about undertaking a research project? Let’s ask my network for some help…

Draw your network The connector shows that the two nodes know each other People you know who might be helpful to your doctorate You Now add anyone that you would like to know, Now add the key academics, policy makers and practitioners in your area.

How do networks work?

Where can you meet useful people?

Research is social and iterative “If I have seen farther than others, it is because I stood on the shoulders of giants.” Isaac Newton  (or possibly Bernard of Chartres)

Research processes… Writing Attending seminars Giving conference papers Publishing Reading other’s publications Writing reviews Teaching are social and communicative processes which are reliant on networks

Issac Newton seeing farther than others, because he is standing on shoulders of giants. Edmund Halley yes but you also stood side by side with some of us. Richard Bentley and we corresponded about your work when I lectured on Newtonian physics.

Think of a book that has influenced your thinking about education or research http://www.citeulike.org/

Why do researchers use social media? I think social media made me a better researcher because I find stuff out a lot quicker. I now have a network of individuals I respect and am confident in their work. The network discovers and filters and discusses. I have connected my research to the real world in a way that would not have been so easy before and maybe not possible. For curriculum development and teaching this has connected with real issues that interest and engage students and has helped them become student researchers in their own right with a broader and more critical take on issues. Terry Wassall (Principal Teaching Fellow, Sociology)

Reciprocity “a state or relationship in which there is mutual action, influence, giving and taking, correspondence, etc., between two parties or things” OED

Networks for iteration and feedback in doctoral work We write our ideas into being. They only come to life and reveal their glory and their weakness. Rewriting is the essence of good writing. Feedback can motivate and direct our rewriting.

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Tristram Hooley Professor of Career Education International Centre for Guidance Studies University of Derby http://www.derby.ac.uk/icegs t.hooley@derby.ac.uk @pigironjoe Blog at http://adventuresincareerdevelopment.wordpress.com

Useful links Carrigan, M. (2016). Social Media for Academics. London: Sage. Cann, A., Dimitriou, K. & Hooley, T. (2011). Social Media: A Guide for Researchers. London: Research Information Network. Crick, T. and Winfield, A. (2013). Academic blogging – top 10 tips Lupton, D. (2014). Status anxiety: should academics be using social media? Miah, A. (2013). Top 5 social media platforms for research development. Mollett et al. (2011) Using Twitter in university research, teaching and impact activities