Connecting researchers. Crossing boundaries.
Valentine’s day is fast approaching and individual researchers may be seeking out new researcher collaborations, or romancing their ideas, or even getting themselves ready for a night in with those grant applications! Okay, so perhaps not the typical Valentine’s day. As you are already aware, from my fellow correspondent’s blog post … [Read more...]
Piirus is a service for you to make connections with other researchers, as this blogpost from past correspondent Bernie Divall illustrates so well. Piirus is offered by the University of Warwick, and is a part of the same department there as the well-known jobs.ac.uk service. Piirus' aim is to support researchers, and the main Piirus … [Read more...]
Here at Piirus, we're all members of the research community ourselves, and we're always looking for new ways to help our members expand and strengthen their research networks. You can already join Piirus.com for free and use it to identify and connect with researchers who might become new collaboration partners. Now we want to help … [Read more...]
We are already in full swing into the New Year and so some of you may already be doing your upmost to keep up those New Year’s resolutions for this year, whether that be dieting or developing a new research collaboration for this year! Resolutions are a great way to think about what you want to achieve. Setting them is a … [Read more...]
As Piirus' blog and social media editor, I'm taking a look back on all that we've achieved in 2015, as we approach the end of the year and a well-earned, short seasonal break. We've published over 140 blogposts and our team has seen membership changes. We've been privileged to feature the perspectives of many different researchers on the … [Read more...]
Piirus is delighted to feature another guest blogpost. This post is from Dr Brian Southwell, who helps us to reflect on the researcher's need for conversation. Researchers around the world are embracing new ways to promote their work online. They are creating podcasts and posting to blogs. They are joining new social media sites … [Read more...]
Writing posts for existing blogs (like this one), which already have a broad audience, is a very effective way to raise your profile online, as our Digital Identity Health Check for Academics shows. Guest blogging is also an efficient way to blog because you don't have to maintain your own website and you can benefit from the expertise … [Read more...]
There are many benefits of having an online profile as an academic, as it can really help to improve the visibility of you and your research. Our short video can help guide you through the do's and don'ts of enhancing your online presence and serve as a digital identity healthcheck: This video accompanies our Digital Health … [Read more...]
Are you interested in becoming a Piirus Correspondent? We’re looking for 3 Piirus Correspondents to build relationships with the international research community in order to source, commission and editorialise content for the Piirus social media channels. As a correspondent you will work in a ‘virtual’ team located across the globe … [Read more...]
Evidence seems to suggest that internationalising research can make for a more successful research career. According to a 2013 report by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills in the UK, an increase in research productivity was at least partly driven by an increase in international collaboration. A previous Piirus survey of … [Read more...]
Piirus has created a Slideshare account and we're building up a collection of slides there. The first two slidesets are from our Marketing pack, and they are designed for you to use, to tell other researchers all about Piirus. After all, the more members there are on Piirus, then the more chances there are that you will all find the … [Read more...]
What are the significant features of your research workspace? We want to get to know some of our Piirus members, and we thought that one way of doing this is to explore our offices or similar dwellings where research happens. I absolutely love my office - I live in a place that is affectionately known (by me, at least) as the Tower of … [Read more...]
Last week, our Arts and Humanities correspondent, Cornelia wrote about some of the hurdles that independent scholars might come across, and how important collaboration can be to those not currently based at an academic institution. Piirus can support you as an independent scholar: you can join our network even if you don't have an … [Read more...]