Your academic success depends on academic communication skills. Learn about how you can skyrocet reach of your research by leveraging journals and social media!
Let’s agree on one thing. As with any other type of career, your academic success will depend on your academic communication skills.
This is because academic communication is the key skill that each researcher and academic must master in order to discuss and share their research with the wider community. So that is why, in this article, I wanted to discuss how you can use traditional and new outlets to share your research.
Here I’m going to answer the following questions:
- What are the possible research outlets?
- How you can disseminate your research?
- What is the comparison between conventional research papers and social media?
- What’s the value of both?
- What are the benefits of both and is any one of those better or not? Do we need both?
- How yo can use social media to achieve an even bigger impact with your research?
And this is all based on the experience that I’ve been building over the past couple of years. I trust this will give you some insight on how to improve your academic communication skills and advance your academic career!
If you’d prefer to watch the recording of my recent live session on academic communication skills, you can find it below! Enjoy!
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What is academic communication?
You may wonder what is academic communication and why you need to master it? I think this is pretty important that you develop and master creating different academic communications, or different content types, during your postdoc and throughout your academic career. Because mostly we doing our research to help others, right? So we did research, we are generating new knowledge and that new knowledge needs to be disseminated to the wider audience in order to achieve impact.
And this is what communication for academic purposes is – a process of sharing your knowledge with an audience that will find it useful. That is why it is crucial to know how to improve academic communication skills.
How to share your research – on research outlets
How do you share your research? It’ is a very interesting question to me because I’ve started reflecting on that couple of years ago, mostly because, well, I do believe there is more than just pure research papers, right?
The ultimate goal for us is to publish a research paper or disseminate our research in the form of a research paper because that’s something like a quality stamp, right? If you publish in a prestigious journal, it went through the peer review process. If it’s accepted for publication, it means that other people actually reviewed your work and they say that your research is valid, your claims are correct, your methodology is sound, and that’s why you get this quality stamp.
Of course, peer review is imperfect. Let’s agree on that. But to some extent, peer review process can improve the quality of your research. But, what are the other options that you have to disseminate your research? So I put this slide together so that you know where to share your work.
