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SRA 2013

An invited paper on "Using Social Media to Enhance Your Research Activities" has been written for the Social Media in Social Research 2013 conference which will be held at the Friends Meeting House, 173-177 Euston Road, London on 24 June 2013.

Materials

This paper is available from Opus, the University of Bath institutional repository.

Paper

Using Social Media to Enhance Your Research Activities
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Note that the paper is also available (in PDF format) from ResearchGate and Academia.edu.

 

Citation Details

Using Social Media to Enhance Your Research Activities, Kelly, B., Social Media in Social Research 2013 conference, Friends Meeting House, 173-177 Euston Road, London, 24 June 2013.

Author Details

The author of this paper is:

You can view Brian's Google+ page. His email address is currently b.kelly@ukoln.ac.uk

ABSTRACT

In this paper the author summarises the benefits which can be gained from use of social media to support research activities. The paper is based on personal experiences in using social media to engage with fellow researchers, meet new collaborators and co-authors and enhance awareness and impact of research papers.