Resources for Faculty and Trainees
Why use social media in a professional capacity?
- Connect and engage with your community and networks
- Discover and learn, stay informed
- Develop your health and science communication skills
- Advocate for change
- Raise awareness and educate external audiences about your area(s) of expertise
- Build your professional reputation
- Position yourself as a leader in your field
Perspectives
- A social media survival guide for scientists (Science)
- How Academics and Researchers Can Get More Out of Social Media (Harvard Business Review)
- It's Time for Scientists to Tweet (The Conversation)
- Social media for social change in science (Science)
- More Than Likes and Tweets: Creating Social Media Portfolios for Academic Promotion and Tenure (Journal of Graduate Medical Education)
- Twitter is Trending in Academic Medicine (AAMC News – Medical Education)
- Advancing social media in medical education (Canadian Medical Association Journal)
- The Professor of the Future: Digital and Critical (The Conversation)
- Professional use of social media (Pat Rich, 2018 lecture to first-year medical students at the University of Ottawa)
- The more you tweet, the higher your research impact (McMaster University)
Training Tools and Resources
- Scientists as storytellers guide: Expert advice for STEM communicators on how to make science stories more relatable (3M, 2019)
- Social Media for Science Communication (Paige Brown Jarreau, Presentation for Show Me the Coast, 2015)
- Communicating Science Online (Center for Public Engagement with Science & Technology, American Association for the Advancement of Science)
- Communicating Science Workshops (Center for Public Engagement with Science & Technology, American Association for the Advancement of Science)
- Professional development: How much does sharing the wonder of science matter? (Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science)
- Science Communication Training (COMPASS)
Guidelines for Health Care Professionals
- Social media: The opportunities, the realities (Canadian Medical Association)
- Social Media and Health Care Professionals: Benefits, Risks, and Best Practices (Pharmacy and Therapeutics)
- Guidance on the Use of Social Media (Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario)
Know a great resource or perspective on using social media that is missing from this page? Please send your suggestions to comms@schulich.uwo.ca
