The formal assessment process for published academic research provides a good opportunity for researchers at any stage to get involved in the wider academic conversation. It helps you to develop skills including critical reading, giving appropriate feedback and can help to enhance your own academic writing to improve your chances at publication.…[Read more]

Creating a strong, professional online identity can help to enhance your reputation, grow your network and become part of the wider scholarly conversation. This session will discuss the various tools available to you, how to build a successful online presence and promote yourself and your work for maximum impact.

This session guides researchers through the decisions they need to make to create a promotional strategy that works for them and their work. It looks at how to build a successful online profile, where to (legally) share work and where to spend time creating a targeted campaign.

This session guides researchers through the decisions they need to make to create a promotional strategy that works for them and their work. It looks at how to build a successful online profile, where to (legally) share work and where to spend time creating a targeted campaign.

Research posters are a great way to communicate your project to an interested audience, but they are not just an excuse to cram an entire article onto a single sheet of paper! This session will cover what it takes to design and present a research poster including what to include, accessibility concerns, using illustrations to make an impact and…[Read more]

Many people are wary of giving presentations but they are a fact of academic life. Being able to clearly present your research to an interested audience helps with public engagement and offers the chance to make an impact. This session shares the ten most common mistakes people make when designing and delivering a presentation and offers some tips…[Read more]

Many people are wary of giving presentations but they are a fact of academic life. Being able to clearly present your research to an interested audience helps with public engagement and offers the chance to make an impact. This session shares the ten most common mistakes people make when designing and delivering a presentation and offers some tips…[Read more]

‘Reflective practice’ is a phrase that often makes people worry but it is just a formal term for something we all do every day. We all have an internal monologue which helps us to process our experiences, both positive and negative. Researchers and students are increasingly being asked to apply reflection to their studies, something emphasised by…[Read more]

In this presentation, I look at the Archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and beyond. We will look at networked digital holocaust archives and participatory practices such as crowdsourcing and the potentials and limitations of the digital for the future of Holocaust research. Digitizing archival collections allows researchers and…[Read more]

Four hundred years ago, Rene Descartes (1596-1650) laid the philosophical foundation for the scientific era with his famous declaration: Cogito Ergo Sum! “I think therefore I am.” ChatGPT is its most recent manifestation within a broadened Cartesian dictum that governs much of modern science today: “I compute, algorithmically, therefore I think,…[Read more]