Activities aimed at promoting research are increasingly becoming important. Making your research visible can increase the chances of your research being noticed, used and having an impact. There are many activities and tools which researchers can use to help promote research and research findings.
Here are 4 easy steps to get you started
Step 1: Engage using social media
As a Centre, we are looking to increase our reach by maximising our online presence. Our social media channels include:
National Centre for Population Health & Wellbeing Research -NCPHWR 
Are you on social media? If you are then please follow our accounts and let us know your Twitter handles, so we can follow you back.
Are you interested in setting yourself up on social media? The MRC and the ESRC have produced some useful guidelines and best practice for researchers wanting to engage in social media.
Step 2: Become an author on The Conversation
The Conversation is a global independent source of news and views, sourced from the academic and research community and delivered directly to the public. It is run by a team of professional editors who work with university and other research experts from more than 70 institutions in the UK alone, to produce articles on their areas of knowledge for use by the wider public. Their newsroom, based in London, is part of a global newsroom able to share content across sites and around the world.
Watch a short 2-minute video of Emily Marchant, a PhD Researcher for the HAPPEN Project, talks about her experiences in writing an article for The Conversation.
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To see the type of articles written in The Conversation click here to view Professor Sinead Brophy’s articles.
If you are interested in writing for The Conversation – email s.toomey@swansea.ac.uk
Step 3: Use Altmetric
See who is talking about your research. Demonstrate the influence of your work to funders and evaluation committees.
Here is a useful guide to get you started.
Step 4: Get in touch!
NCPHWR is here to help promote your research and maximise exposure.
Below are examples of how we do this.
- Publications are listed on the website (with a link through to the relevant journal).
- A selection of publications are written up as lay case studies that feature on the website.
- Groundbreaking pieces of work are selected for press releases.
- Published articles are shared on our social media accounts and in other forms of content marketing such as articles, newsletters and printed materials for conferences and events.
Please do get in touch if you want to take the opportunity to discuss in more detail. Contact, Sarah Toomey, Communications Officer for NCPHWR on s.toomey@swansea.ac.uk