1. Gaining Credibility in your Research Field
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Gaining Credibility in your Research Field
Research 1, Session 18, Day Three

2. Learning Outcomes By the end of this session, you will be able to:
Identify the criteria with which research and online professional profiles will be evaluated by others
Apply the identified evaluation criteria to your own online profile and thus assess your online authority
Identify strategies you could undertake to gain credibility in your field

7. Activity: Evaluate Your Current Online Profile
The purpose of the following exercise is to enable you to:
Assess & Review your current online reputation
Consider strategies for improving the impact or research uptake of your research
Create a communication’s strategy
(30 mins)

8. Activity Continued: Assess & Review your Profile
Identify three Social Media tools you could use to devise a communication’s strategy
Social Media Channel
Do you use this tool?
Yes/No
Your Account details
Twitter
Yes
@shoshiesatiger
Linked In
Facebook
Research Gate
Blog
Google Scholar
Academia edu
Mendeley

9. Activity: Assess your Authority as a Researcher
Individually, assess your ‘authority’ by responding to the following questions:
Are you an authority in your field? 
How can you gain credibility in your field? 
What can I tell about you from the internet? 
How many times has the author been cited? 
Is the author on google scholar? 
Prepare an oral response for the group (10 mins)

10. Credible Sources: Social Media
Many credible institutions are using social media!
Facebook & Twitter (as well as others…)
Occupying spaces different target audiences frequent
Getting messages out (most recent research, activities etc.)
Good for networking & establishing relationships
Links to multi-medium posts (incl. video, images and text)
Don’t need to be a member of Facebook to view posts
Uses #tags (hashtags) to categorise content

11. The content is authored by:
Professor Mark Hepworth,
Professor in People’s Information Behaviour, Centre for Information Management, Loughborough University
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.