Event Details

Why should you use social media to promote your research? Which social network should you choose? How can you work with journals to reach bigger audiences?

Find out how you can extend the reach of your research online, learn some tips and tricks for making the most of social media, and how journals can give your work an extra boost.

This session will provide you with tools and ideas that you can apply to your own research straight away.

Speakers

Dr Carla Banks is Research Communications Manager at Lancaster University, with specific responsibility for the University's use of social media for research promotion.

Dr Mike Whitfield looks after social media, online engagement, and lots of other things, at the New Phytologist Trust, a not-for-profit organisation based at Lancaster University. The New Phytologist Trust is dedicated to promoting plant science, and owns two peer-reviewed journals: New Phytologist, and Plants, People, Planet.

All students, staff and colleagues are encouraged to attend.

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