I *highly* recommend Open Book Publishers if you’re planning on publishing a book. They’re a not-for-profit publisher and don’t charge publishing fees. More books should be #OpenAccess

📢Salford Researchers - book your place for our UKRN Local Network Launch event 28 June lnkd.in/eDsGY8UK 📢 The event will take place in person, with a remote option for anyone unable to access campus. PGRs welcome - please email [email protected] for a place

Interested in the latest developments in #HealthSurveys? Book your place for the free UKDataService @UCL NatCen Health Studies User Conference on 1 July 2024 at UCL. The deadline to register is midnight on Monday 24 June. ukdataservice.ac.uk/events/health-… #UKDSHealth24

Some personal notes on the REF OA mandate for books eve.gd/2024/06/21/a-f…

Prepint Alert!! 📢 ‘Gaze cues (repeatedly) fail to influence person evaluation.’ Across 8 studies we find no effect of eye-gaze on social value appraisal (immediate and long term) or attentional value. osf.io/preprints/psya… @DrMadgeJackson Vilma Pullinen

We're excited for Salford's Research & Knowledge Exchange Week 2024 (sharepoint.com). Looking forward to meeting up with researchers at the Celebration of Innovation, SPARC conference & UKRN launch - if you see us do come over and say hello

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#OpenAccess isn’t mainly about compliance; it enhances research quality & impact. The #REF2029 OA policy can enable the greater open research University of Oxford desires, says Sally Rumsey ✍Critique on Higher Education Policy Institute blog by Patrick Grant Tanita Casci, Stephen Conway coalition-s.org/blog/critique-…

🎥 Why is Harry Potter and other classic films back in UK cinemas? Andy Willis, Professor of Film Studies at University of Salford explains this emerging trend in more detail. ✍ ow.ly/e2Th50Stxga

‘Benefits assessments can re-traumatise veterans’ - article for the ⁦⁦The Conversation⁩ from our recent report from our on-going ⁦Forces in Mind Trust⁩ ‘Sanctions, Support & Service Leavers’ project theconversation.com/benefits-asses…

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📢#CFP: 'The Global Qur'an' This book series focuses on the #translation & #interpretation of the #Quran or on the #social, #cultural, #pedagogical, #aesthetic, & #devotional place of the Qur’an in #Muslim societies worldwide. Submit your proposal at openbookpublishers.com/series/2753-80…

Join our webinar session tomorrow, July 18th, 2024 at 2pm WAT – 3pm CAT – 4pm EAT. Ashley Farley @openaccessmaven.bsky.social of Gates Foundation will be joining us as the guest speaker Topic: A Research Funder’s Open Access Policy Register here: ubuntunet.zoom.us/webinar/regist… Moderator: Martha Chikuni

Academic journals are a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Peer review and scientific publishing amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.thegua…

Beware the predatory conference. What is it like to attend a predatory conference? (nature.com)

Here at University of Salford we are looking for volunteers to join a clinical study comparing 2 types of psychologically informed physio... If you are 18+ please email us at [email protected] for info ✉️ #Physiotherapy #SalfordUni

There is still time to apply for 2 PhD positions Salford Acoustics, as part of the recently funded CDT in Sustainable Sound Futures (lnkd.in/dM7VjMfY) ‘PhD in Psychoacoustic modelling for complex soundscapes’ findaphd.com/phds/project/p…

Salford researchers - there's still time to book on our "How to publish on Octopus session" - Thursday August 15 11-12 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/18a6e551…