to tweet or not to tweet – facilitating conversation with researchers

To tweet or not to tweet: facilitating conversations

with researchers

Suzie KitchinMMiT September 2015

What do you use and why?

A research-rich, business-focused, professional university with a global reputation for academic excellence…between 2013 and 2018 we will:

• Build global reputation, market position and revenue streams

• Grow high quality research and use it to drive excellence in all of our activities

• Maximise student and stakeholder satisfaction• Strengthen operational efficiency and effectiveness,

and foster a culture of continuous improvement

Northumbria University

Keeping up-to-date

Creating community

Collaboration & sharing

resources

Organising & managing your

research

Disseminating your research

findings

“The lecturer was excellent, very funny and knew her stuff, this made the session really

easy to comprehend and had made me want to learn how to

use social media”

Skills Plus

Social media is sociable

What next?

“The amazing breadth of web stuff which is available. I doubt that I knew more than half of it.”

Are the tools working for you?

Do

CheckAct

Plan

www.futureme.org

Useful links

• Northumbria University’s Vision• Research Compass• Research Skills including social media videos• Researcher Development Programme• Information for researchers • ALISS Quarterly bitesize article

Thanks for listeningAny questions?

suzie.kitchin@northumbria.ac.uk@SuzieKitchin