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Using social media to encourage increased
engagement with research: experiences of
SLT students and practitioners
in Germany and UK
Hazel Roddam, Wiebke Scharff Rethfeldt, Juliane Mühlhaus
@HazelRoddam1
@W_Scharff
@MuehlhausJ #CPLOL18 #ReSNetSLT
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Get your tweets noticed by using ...
An image **
@ Names
# Hashtags
#CPLOL18 #ReSNetSLT
@ReSNetSLT #ReSNetSLT
Who to
follow?
Suggestions
coming later!!
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Many sources of help for getting started on
Twitter ...
#CPLOL18 #ReSNetSLT
http://wecommunities.org/resources/twitterversity
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#CPLOL18 #ReSNetSLT
Why should we encourage ‘engagement
in research’?
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#CPLOL18 #ReSNetSLT
Knowledge mobilisation needs multiple
channels ...
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#CPLOL18 #ReSNetSLT
Twitter as a teaching tool ...
• Provide training
• Clear purpose
• Incentivise
• Encourage &
support
• Broaden the
Community
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#CPLOL18 #ReSNetSLT
Monthly ‘Journal Club’ on Twitter
http://resnetslt.blogspot.co.uk/p/about-us.html
• Link to open
access paper
• Easy-to-read
summary
• Question
prompts
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#CPLOL18 #ReSNetSLT
The ‘analytics’ ...
http://resnetslt.blogspot.co.uk/p/about-us.html
• Who took
part?
• The ‘reach’
to linked
followers
• The full
transcript
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#CPLOL18 #ReSNetSLT
Summary of
the discussion
themes
Links to useful
resources &
more refs
http://resnetslt.blogspot.co.uk/p/about-us.html
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#CPLOL18 #ReSNetSLT
Getting our students
involved ....
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#CPLOL18 #ReSNetSLT
#SLT2B
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Expected challenges ... and national
differences ...
What can we do about this?
#CPLOL18 #ReSNetSLT
1.Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) – Rhetoric or Reality?
2.Social Media and professional identity
3.Technical barriers
4.Organisational constraints
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Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
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#CPLOL18 #ReSNetSLT
Access good technical support,
advice & training
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* awareness, skills & confidence in research
* active watching on social media
* joining & sharing in professional dialogue
* dissemination of relevant research for practice
* signposting to existing resources
* maximising your use of multiple social media platforms
#CPLOL18 #ReSNetSLT
So, how will YOU use social media?
And how will you encourage & support
others?
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Do you want to join our “Twitter Wall”?
#CPLOL18 #ReSNetSLT
@MuehlhausJ @W_Scharff @Anna_Hueffer
@BronwynHemsley @lena_be @HazelRoddam1
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