The importance of being digital – i.e. establishing a digital identity, and engaging in research dissemination and in wide, open scientific conversations on the web – has become nowadays a sort of mantra for scholars of all disciplines and at different stages of their career. If traditionally scholars' visibility was a function of academic outputs - books, book chapters, and peer-reviewed journal articles - this situation is rapidly changing with the meteoric increase of the communication and dissemination opportunities opened up by the advent of digital media which are changing the dissemination, accessibility and recognition of scholarship.

Through the Digital Scholarship Workshop (DSW), we offer early stage researchers and tenured faculty the opportunity to learn how to use in a more effective way digital media to produce and disseminate research. The DSW aims at helping participants in identifying an online repertoire suited for their specific needs and goals and at enabling researchers of different backgrounds to effectively integrate social media applications into their research activities and professional development strategies.

An expert in the field of digital scholarship will conduct the DSW: Martin Weller who is specialized in the area of online publishing, academic digital identity, writing for non-academics and engagement with social media. He is professor of Educational Technology at The Open University (UK) and author of the book “The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice” (2011).

We therefore invite participation from scholars working in Portuguese academia at different stages of their career whose motivation is either to become aware of the possibilities offered by digital technologies for academic purposes or to enhance their skills, regardless of their field of expertise and practical experience in this area.

Two editions of the same workshop will be held: on the 24^th in Lisbon (at CES-Lx, see below for more details) and on the 25^th in Coimbra (at CES, see below for more details). Participation is free of charge, but we can host a limited number of participants (up to 15) in each session. Interested researchers can fill in the application form here

Applications can be sent until June 15^th.

You will receive confirmation of your participation by June 18^th.

Programme

Free coffee break and lunch will be offered to participants

Info/contacts

Andrea Gaspar: andrea@ces.uc.pt
Tel.: +351 239 855 570
Centro de Estudos Sociais – Coimbra
Colégio de S. Jerónimo
Largo D. Dinis
Apartado 3087
3000-995 Coimbra, Portugal
Tel.: +351 239 855 570
How to get there: http://www.ces.uc.pt/contactos/localizacao.php

Centro de Estudos Sociais – Lisbon
Picoas Plaza
Rua do Viriato, 13
Lj 117/118
1050-227 Lisboa
Tel.: + 351 216 012 848
How to get there: http://www.ces.uc.pt/ces-lisboa/pages/pt/localizacao-e-contactos.php