Looking for something to read? Here’s a quick look at what other people are reading on the Impact Blog. This page shows a continually updated list of the past week’s 20 most popular blog posts by readership. We know readership statistics aren’t everything, but it’s a useful place to start!
- How to design an award-winning conference poster
- Creating Impact with Apps – The Rainy Day Project
- Open access to teaching material – how far have we come?
- Open Syllabus Explorer: evidencing research-based teaching?
- How to read and understand a scientific paper: a guide for non-scientists
- Visa applications: emotional tax and privileged passports
- Book Review: What Works Now? Evidence-informed Policy and Practice edited by Annette Boaz, Huw Davies, Alec Fraser and Sandra Nutley
- Your essential ‘how-to’ guide to writing good abstracts
- Student evaluations of teaching are not only unreliable, they are significantly biased against female instructors.
- How to write a killer conference abstract: The first step towards an engaging presentation.
- Using Twitter as a data source: an overview of social media research tools (2019)
- Who, What, Where, When, Why: Using the 5 Ws to communicate your research
- What are the most-cited publications in the social sciences (according to Google Scholar)?
- 6 Insights into being a productive and happy academic author
- How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang
- A PhD by publication is a great way to build your academic profile, but be mindful of its challenges
- 10 Chrome extensions to help manage references, notes, citations and capture information.
- The ResearchGate Score: a good example of a bad metric
- Time to flip your presentation format
- What is the difference between an impact and an outcome? Impact is the longer term effect of an outcome.
Image credit: ITV digital channels viewing share (Wikimedia, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported)
