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Build your online research identity

Training in digital communication

In today’s research landscape, scientists need a strong online presence to showcase their work, foster collaborations, secure funding, and create new career opportunities.
How can you build a professional, visible, and impactful presence across digital platforms and networks? This course provides the tools and strategies to create your research profile, develop a coherent digital identity, and enhance your scientific visibility, supporting your career development in both academia and industry.

Objectives

Understand a researcher’s digital identity
Develop a consistent and recognizable online profile
Create and manage profiles on key platforms
Increase the impact of publications and research outputs

Program

Understand a researcher’s digital identity
Understanding the challenges and opportunities of digital identity (reputation, digital footprint, scientific visibility)
Engaging key audiences: peers, recruiters, collaborators, funders
Developing a communication strategy adapted to your career goals

Develop a consistent and recognizable online profile
Creating a coherent and professional online presence
Defining your research identity: selecting keywords, affiliations, and research areas
Writing an effective researcher biography and research pitch
Building and maintaining a professional network

Create and manage profiles on key platforms
Creating and optimising your ORCID iD
Developing your Google Scholar profile
Using ResearchGate to increase visibility and expand your professional network
Building a compelling professional profile on LinkedIn
Managing your digital identity over time

Increase the impact of publications and research outputs
Improving the discoverability of your publications (impact metrics, open access, institutional repositories…)
Monitoring research impact through citations, bibliometric indicators, and altmetrics
Creating and sharing high-value professional content on LinkedIn

  • Duration

    Three half-days (remote)

  • Languages available

    French & English

  • People concerned

    PhD students and researchers

  • Prerequisites

    None

  • Number of participants

    Up to 15 participants

  • Educational ressources

    Theoretical and methodological background, group exchanges, exercises, practice on material brought by participants, training manual

  • Evaluation procedures

    Questionnaire at the beginning and at the end of training (self-evaluation)

  • Available formats

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