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Funding opportunity – Research partnerships with indigenous researchers: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) – Deadline 9 August

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Reaching out for research communicators

20/08/2009

Blog Posts

DFID funds a number of different organisations who are trying to help researchers communicate their work more effectively. This week we feature resources from two…

Abdourahmane Idrissa

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Make your scientific posters sing

13/08/2009

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Conferences are an important way to share new research findings and connect with other researchers. The ‘poster session’ is now a mainstay of the conference…

Abdourahmane Idrissa

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Customise your tiny URLs and track click statistics

06/08/2009

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As websites have become more complex, the length of web addresses (URLs) has grown, and they have become increasingly unwieldy. Hot links and hyperlinks are…

Abdourahmane Idrissa

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Brevity – the soul of communication?

03/04/2009

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One of the key challenges that all researchers face is how to get policymakers to take note of their findings. No two policymakers are quite…

Abdourahmane Idrissa

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