ScholCommLab Visiting Scholar Program 2018/2019 (Funded to Canada) | Opportunity Desk
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Summary:
"Applications are invited for the ScholCommLab Visiting Scholar Program 2018/2019. Faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and graduate students (enrolled full-time at an accredited institution) are invited to work on a joint research project during a research stay at either of the lab’s two locations in Ottawa and Vancouver, Canada."
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"Collaborations are welcome on any topic related to scholarly communication, but especially on areas related to current ScholCommLab projects, such as:
- Academic review, tenure, and promotion, and the reward system of science;
- Altmetrics, including the quantitative and qualitative analysis of Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and other social media engagement related to scholarly documents;
- Metrics literacy, developing online material to educate researchers and research administrators about bibliometrics, usage metric, altmetrics, and technometrics;
- Open access and open science, including the analysis of scholarly communication and the academic publishing landscape;
- Science communication, including mapping the landscape of Canadian science communicators and writers;
- Societal impact of science and social media, including mixed-method and theoretical approaches to public engagement with research online."