Being a Digital Researcher: Digital Skills for Effective Research

Discover the different and diverse forms of scholarly communication

Good research is only effective and impactful if it is shared and used. Researchers need to understand how research is validated, published and shared with diverse audiences. This includes communicating with other scholars, the public and businesses.

You’ll be taught about the different aspects of scholarly communication: research, data collection and analysis; authoring; peer-review, publication and discovery and dissemination. This includes aspects of copyright, licensing and intellectual property.

Use networking to create opportunities for collaboration with other scholars

Academics depend on one another to develop and share research successfully. Research benefits from different bodies of work, ideas, and discoveries, as well as an audience to provide reviews and feedback.

This four-week course from the University of Hull will introduce you to digital research skills and concepts, and help you build your online identity as a researcher to gain access to knowledge, new audiences, and potential collaborators.

Delve into research ethics and data management

Researchers have a responsibility to ensure that their data is well preserved, organised, accessible, and sharable, to allow for dissemination and knowledge transfer.

Your educators will guide you in the process of data management to show you how to successfully manage and store your research data to ensure its longevity.

Boost your digital research skills with the University of Hull

The educators at the University of Hull are experts in research and learning, and have been running this course successfully for students both online and on campus.

With the combined knowledge of the university’s specialists at your fingertips, you’ll be equipped with the strategies and techniques you need to be a successful digital researcher.

This course is designed for anyone engaged in academic research with a digital component, and will be particularly beneficial for postgraduate students and staff undertaking research in a higher education setting.

• Scholarly communication, research promotion and digital identity
• Introduction to The Digital Researcher
• Digital identity
• Peer-review and publication
• Research dissemination
• Communicating with non-specialist audiences
• Summary and discussion
• Online social networks and scholarly communication tools
• Introduction to social media
• Using established social media for scholarly communication
• Using professional social networks for scholarly communication
• Managing social networks and exploring further
• Summary and discussion
• Conducting research
• Scholarly discovery: Searching the literature
• Scholarly metrics: Measuring impact
• Internet-mediated Research: Online data collection & analysis
• Ethics and research data management
• Summary and discussion