#ECRChat aims to facilitate discussion of research and career development issues specific to early career researchers. We invite anyone wanting to host a chat to contact us. Not only is it important to have a range of voices represented, we also lack the time required to host every week.
Who can host a chat?
You can host if you are or have been an early career researcher (typically the years post-PhD completion) or research administrator/developer in a university anywhere in the world, or you took your PhD out of academia.
In short, anyone who chats can host.
Can I choose the topic?
Sure. Here are some ideas, but you aren’t limited to these. You can look here to see if your topic has already been chosen (but, we would like to repeat old topics as new members join, so if your topic was covered a while ago, we can do it again).
We can also put a poll up on the blog to determine which topic(s) are most popular for the week.
What is involved?
The week before: each Friday we will announce the topic or poll for the following week on this blog. You will need to publicise the topic or poll via the #ECRChat hashtag.
The day before: if you have a poll, you will need to check the result and then get the word out via the #ECRChat hashtag. Also consider asking participants what kinds of discussion questions they’re interested in.
During: the basic role of the host is to introduce the topic and keep discussion going (often using a few targeted questions around the discussion topic).
Welcoming people, answering latecomers asking about the topic of conversation, and referring people to http://tweetchat.com/room/ECRChat to help them participate can also be really valuable.
After: write a short blog post about the lessons learned from the chat. You can shortcut a lot of detail by using #storify. Katie will archive all the tweets for use.
How can I volunteer?
Let us know your topic title (or request a poll to determine a topic), brief bio, and preferred chat date to ECRchat [at] gmail [dot] com or via twitter @ECRchat, @elliemackin or @motjewolf .
When can I host?
There is an updated schedule showing available dates here.
Who can host a chat?
You can host if you are or have been an early career researcher (typically the years post-PhD completion) or research administrator/developer in a university anywhere in the world, or you took your PhD out of academia.
In short, anyone who chats can host.
Can I choose the topic?
Sure. Here are some ideas, but you aren’t limited to these. You can look here to see if your topic has already been chosen (but, we would like to repeat old topics as new members join, so if your topic was covered a while ago, we can do it again).
We can also put a poll up on the blog to determine which topic(s) are most popular for the week.
What is involved?
The week before: each Friday we will announce the topic or poll for the following week on this blog. You will need to publicise the topic or poll via the #ECRChat hashtag.
The day before: if you have a poll, you will need to check the result and then get the word out via the #ECRChat hashtag. Also consider asking participants what kinds of discussion questions they’re interested in.
During: the basic role of the host is to introduce the topic and keep discussion going (often using a few targeted questions around the discussion topic).
Welcoming people, answering latecomers asking about the topic of conversation, and referring people to http://tweetchat.com/room/ECRChat to help them participate can also be really valuable.
After: write a short blog post about the lessons learned from the chat. You can shortcut a lot of detail by using #storify. Katie will archive all the tweets for use.
How can I volunteer?
Let us know your topic title (or request a poll to determine a topic), brief bio, and preferred chat date to ECRchat [at] gmail [dot] com or via twitter @ECRchat, @elliemackin or @motjewolf .
When can I host?
There is an updated schedule showing available dates here.