Research month - Rapua te kura huna

Join Anita Muthukaruppan, International Research Rankings Advisor, and Jane Clark, Library Information and Research Services Manager, for simple, practical ways to increase the visibility and impact of your work.

You'll learn:

• how to make your research easier to find (and cite)
• small changes that can significantly boost visibility
• tools and profiles every researcher should be using
• practical strategies that work across disciplines and career stages.

You can expect:

• real examples (what works and what doesn’t)
• quick wins you can apply immediately
• tips relevant for early career through to senior academics.

This session will:

• give a quick overview of Altmetrics and what it tracks
• provide a focus on policy mentions - how these are captured and what they mean
• cover how Altmetrics can support demonstrating research impact
• share practical tips for increasing visibility, particularly with policy audiences.

Explaining your research's impact is becoming an integral factor in applying for research grants. However, impacts from your research needs to be planned for, rather than waiting for it to happen.

Join this webinar, presented by Catherine Rivera, Research Impact Advisor, to learn about setting up pathways for real-world research impact that goes beyond publications and academic outputs.

Join us to hear a panel of Massey researchers discuss how they use LinkedIn to promote their research.

Join Anita Muthukaruppan, International Research Rankings Advisor, to find out how to align your research to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This session will introduce you to the United Nations' SDGs. You will learn how to align your research and/or research outputs with the SDGs to maximise your research impact.

In this session, library staff will unpack where you might wish to use AI in your literature searching processes, and how this aligns with the more traditional literature searching using library databases and Google Scholar.

Join Tifany Oulavallickal from Royal Society Te Aparāngi to learn how an ORCID ID can support you throughout your research journey. This session is ideal for doctoral students and early career researchers looking to build their professional profile and increase the visibility of their work.

An Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) provides you with a unique, persistent identifier that distinguishes you from other researchers. It helps overcome name ambiguity issues, ensuring your publications and other research outputs are correctly attributed to you.

An ORCID record also acts as a professional profile, bringing together your education, employment history, research outputs, funding, and other contributions in one place—making it easier to showcase your academic achievements throughout your career.

Find out why ORCID is an essential tool for researchers, learn about its benefits, and discover how to create and manage your ORCID record.

The Library is running online sessions from its ever-popular Library Workshops for Researchers series.  These 1pm 50-minute sessions cover:

• Searching and managing research literature
• Searching and organising for systematic-like reviews
• Raising your researcher visibility
• Publishing
• Introduction to open access

From a lantern projector used in the classroom to scientific instruments, international gifts and products of New Zealand's dairy industry, these objects reveal the many ways knowledge has been created, shared and celebrated at Massey and its predecessor institutions.

Feeling curious? Test your powers of observation with our Mystery Object Challenge as part of the display. Can you identify the items displayed on the mystery shelf? You will have the chance to submit your answers for a chance to win a prize and discover how specialised tools supported teaching and research.

For nearly eighty years, students at Massey University, Palmerston North College of Education and Wellington Polytechnic produced newspapers and magazines that informed, entertained and challenged their readers. The covers displayed here provide a window into changing student life, campus culture and the social issues that shaped successive generations of students from 1934 to 2012.

Look out for displays celebrating research month rapua te kura huna in your campus library.