Category Archives: profile

crafting an online identity

Posted on April 14, 2016 by pat thomson

This is a guest post from Mark Carrigan, Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Ontology: socialontology.org, The University of Warwick and Digital Fellow at The Sociological Review: @thesocreview. Mark tweets at @mark_carrigan and has recently published Social media for academics. The prospect of laboriously … Continue reading →

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what goes on a university home page?

Posted on September 17, 2015 by pat thomson

Apparently job search firms routinely conduct online searches on academics. Thesis Whisperer recently reported that she quickly found online information about someone for whom she had been asked to provide an independent tenure commentary, and she urged us all to google … Continue reading →

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manufacturing the academic ‘self’ on university home pages

Posted on March 9, 2015 by pat thomson

Ive been interested in academic branding and profiling for a while. I’ve begun to do a much-less-than-systematic trawl through university home pages. You know, the official pages where university staff have to describe themselves. I’m up to about fifty webpages … Continue reading →

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what is my brand? huh? my what?

Posted on February 26, 2015 by pat thomson

The Prisoner is now called a cult classic. I’m ancient enough to have watched the original when it showed in Australia in the late 60s. I’m talking of course about the television series in which the hero, played by Patrick … Continue reading →

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three reasons why editing a book is a good idea

Posted on December 2, 2013 by pat thomson

Is it worth editing a book? I’ve been asked this question a couple of times recently. It’s actually not an easy question, as you might guess. That’s because the answer depends on all kinds of things, including where you are … Continue reading →

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