Your Elements Profile
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 it is recommended that you:
-Check your personal details are correct
-Upload a high-quality, up-to-date photo of yourself.
-Include some information about your background in the Overview section
-If you are an academic or doctoral researcher, summarise your research in the Research interests section and add Fields of research tags
Your profile consists of multiple sections and you will see all of these, regardless of your role at the University. Sections without any content will not display in your external profile.
Overview
This section of your profile is for your biography and is free text. To edit this section, click on the Add or Edit button below the Overview text box. Once you have filled in the text box information, remember to click Save.
Research interests
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. To edit this section, click on the Add or Edit button below the text box. Once you have filled in the text box, remember to click Save.
Teaching summary
This freetext section of your profile is where you can highlight your teaching experience and interests. To edit this section, click on the Add or Edit button below the text box. Once you have filled in the text box, remember to click Save.
Further information
Elements will locate your already published publications on external databases using various identifiers. Further information is available on managing these research identifiers and changing the default settings.
Use the Addresses section to add details of external websites you would like to associate with your profile eg. a personal website, LinkedIn, Twitter etc. These websites will display in the blue sidebar on your public profile.
1. Select the option + Add a web address
2. Choose the type of website from the drop down menu and complete the form.
3. Select Save.
You can add labels to your profile to aid discoverability.
Fields of research
Fields of research tags are keywords that can be added to your record to provide a sense of your areas of interest and research expertise. The tags are selected from a pre-defined, controlled vocabulary.
to add tags, click on the Add labels button next to Fields of research and select tags from the list.
UN Sustainable Development Goals
These labels relate to the UN SDG goals and can be added to your record to indicate which goals relate to your areas of interest and research expertise.
To add tags, click on the Add labels button next to UN Sustainable Development Goals and select the relevant goals from the list.
UK Technology family
To add tags, click on the Add labels button next to UK Technology family and select from the list.
Add information about your office hours and availability either:
- within the Teaching summary section of your profile OR
-create an additional web address to include a Zoom meeting link. Use the Label field to describe your availability eg. Office Hours in person: Mondays 12:000-13:00 in _ and on Zoom Wednesday 11-12. These details will display in the blue sidebar on your public profile.
PGR researchers have profiles in Elements that are hidden, or ‘Internal’ only. This is the default for non-staff members. If you wish to make your profile externally visible, this can easily be done within Elements:
Go to EDIT MY PROFILE.
Select your privacy level from the box at the top of the page. Selecting ‘Public’ will ensure your profile is visible externally.
If you are a PGR researcher with BSMS, you will not have a profile on Elements but you are entitled to a profile on Pure, the University of Brighton's research information system. Further information is available from pure-support@brighton.ac.uk.
The ability to change the privacy settings for an entire profile is dependent upon an individual’s role within the University:
- Staff profiles will always be set to public, and be visible externally
- Research Student profiles will be private by default, but can be changed to public by the individual. To do this, go to EDIT MY PROFILE. Select the privacy level you wish from the top of the page.
Individuals who have previously informed the University that they wish their profiles to not be visible externally will also be hidden by default.
All users will have the option to change the privacy settings for separate sections of the profile:
-Click on EDIT MY PROFILE
-Scroll to the section of the page you want to change.
-Next to the edit button, there will be a second button which says either 'private' or 'internal' (depending on your page privacy settings). Click this, and you will be presented the option to match the page privacy settings or set the section as 'private'.
-Click Save
Your photo will automatically pull across from Sussex Direct, depending on the settings you have previously set.
To add or change your photo, click on the 'Manage photo' option at the bottom of the profile picture. You can then select, or drag and drop, a new image of your choice to upload to Elements. If you are uploading a new photo, the image should be a high quality and either a .jpg, .png, or .gif file type. The file size must be less than 6MB.
Elements supports the creation of Relationships (links) between different records eg. Users, Publications, Grants, Teaching activity, Professional activity and Record of Impact. All your elements can have relationships to other elements or users in the system.
Existing relationships are listed on the Relationships tab of the summary and when adding new relationships, you have to
Choose a category: the type of element you want to link to
Choose the link type: the type of link you want to this element
Videos
Currently, Elements can only support videos hosted on YouTube.
Go to EDIT MY PROFILE and scroll down to the Media section to embed YouTube videos on your profile. For videos hosted on other platforms, you can add links under the ‘Web addresses and social media’ section of your profile.