An informative online profile helps to build your professional presence, boost your reputation and increase your prospects of obtaining funding and professional exposure. As a minimum, we recommend that you:
This section of your profile is for your biography and is free text. When you have finished editing your overview, select your preferred privacy option (public, internal or private) and select save.
This section of your profile is for your research interests and involvement and, if you undertake research at Sussex, you are strongly encouraged to complete this section. When you have finished editing , select your preferred privacy level (public, internal or private and select save.
Use this section of your profile to highlight your teaching experience, research-based degree supervision experience and interests. When you have finished editing, select your preferred privacy level ( public, internal or private) and select save.
Note: If you are sharing information about your supervisory experience and interests, unless you have permission, do not give the details of current PGRs; to do so risks GDPR non-compliance. This means avoiding giving the names of current postgraduate researchers and/or their specific thesis title. It is OK to make reference to the broad areas of research you supervise in.
Use this section of your profile to include a narrative of the impact of your research. When you have finished editing your impact summary, select your preferred privacy level (public, internal or private) and select Save.
Use the section of your profile to present a narrative description of your professional interests, expertise and experience. When you have finished editing, select your preferred privacy level (public, internal or private) and select Save.
Elements users can create an academic CV that will include information about your career history, educational qualifications, publications, teaching and professional activities, personal identifiers ie.ORCID and grants.
To create a CV follow these steps:
1. From your profile page, select the CV AND REPORTS button.
2. Select Academic CV from the box.
3. If required, enter a date range and choose your preferred export format (PDF or Word).
4. Select Run. Your CV will be downloaded.
Labels, or tags can be added to your Elements profile to highlight your field(s) of research and to align your profile with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The labels are selected from a pre-defined, controlled vocabulary and will display on your external research profile.
To add a label to you profile follow these steps:
1. From your Elements homepage, select the option EDIT MY PROFILE.
2. Scroll down to the Labels box and select MANAGE LABELS for the appropriate label scheme eg. Fields of Research, UK Technology Family, or UN Sustainable Development Goals.
3. Search for the label name, select the label from the list displayed and select ADD.
4. Repeat if necessary.
Remember to select SAVE CHANGES before you exit.
Researcher identifiers can be added to your profile to enable Elements to auto-claim, or suggest publications that may be associated with you. A unique identifier such as ORCID will correctly claim your work, whilst only setting up name-based searching could result in Elements incorrectly suggesting work by authors with the same, or similar name.
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) is an international standard to help researchers to establish and maintain their scholarly identity. It aims to solve common issues such as
ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher. To register for an ORCID iD, go to orcid.org and fill in the online registration form.
Your University Elements profile can be linked to your ORCiD record. This will enable Elements to retrieve publication IDs from your ORCiD profile and use these IDs to find those publications online and claim those records for you automatically and, in addition, details of records deposited into Elements will automatically update your ORCiD record.
To connect your ORCiD account to your Elements profile:
1. Select the option Menu> My Profile> Settings> ORCID Settings from the top left hand menu.
2. Select the option to Register or Connect your ORCID ID.
3. Select the option to permit Elements to read from and write publication data to your ORCID account.