Researchers’ public engagement and social media use (and abuse)

This workshop has a limited number of spots. Please register early so you won't be disappointed.

About the workshop:

Research in the social sciences is generally political, and research on migration all the more so. Researchers today are not only encouraged but actually expected and required to disseminate their research findings among non-academic and non-expert audiences. Digital technologies provide for nearly endless opportunities for such engagement. Contributing blog commentary, followed by engagement with social media, is a particularly popular way of reaching out to a wider audience, presenting research findings and also making academic work known to colleagues and stakeholders.

This webinar, led by Anna Triandafyllidou, provides hands-on advice of the dos and don’ts for blog writing and social media engagement. The training workshop will start with an introduction to the nature of knowledge produced in migration research and the ethical issues arising when we try to disseminate our research findings. It will then focus explicitly on blog writing, including how to write a good blog, where to publish it, how to engage with social media, and how to share a blog and longer pieces of work.

 (PDF file) Workshop Outline

Workshop Leader:

Anna Triandafylidou is the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration at Ryerson University, where she leads an internationally recognized program to explore the contemporary challenges of migration and integration. She began writing blogs five years ago and has engaged more actively in the blog and social media sphere in more recent years. She brings to this workshop her hands-on experience of translating research into blog posts.

Workshop fee:

Regular price $100 (discounted fee for students $20)  

Due to these uncertain times, we are offering these workshops free of charge.