RIMS - Unlocking the Potential of your Research

Unlock the Full Potential of Your Research with Our New Research Portal

We’re thrilled to introduce a new platform designed to help you manage and promote your research more effectively than ever before. This innovative portal not only simplifies how you track your research outputs (including publications) but also provides powerful tools to help you enhance your visibility, build collaborations, and showcase your expertise.

Here’s why you should get excited about engaging with your personal profile on the portal:

Key Features for Researchers

Showcase Your Research

Your profile is your opportunity to present your work to the world. By keeping it updated, you can highlight key publications, research interests, and collaborations. This increases the visibility of your work, making it more accessible to peers, potential collaborators, and external stakeholders, including funders and industry partners.

Grow Your Network

The portal’s Networking feature automatically identifies researchers with similar interests, both within our university and globally. It helps you connect with other experts, discover new collaborators, and expand your research network. The connections you build here can lead to new partnerships, joint projects, and innovative ideas.

Highlight Your Expertise with Fingerprinting

The Fingerprinting tool analyses the content of your research to generate a unique “fingerprint” of your expertise. This allows others to quickly understand your key areas of focus and helps match you with collaborators, funding opportunities, and potential academic or industry partnerships based on your research profile.

Track and Promote Your Publications

Easily manage your publications in one place. By linking to your profile, others can quickly access your body of work, and you can easily update your publications list as new articles, papers, or presentations are completed. The portal also allows you to monitor metrics related to your research, helping you understand the broader impact of your work.

Collaborate Beyond Borders

The platform’s global reach and comprehensive data make it easier to discover cross-disciplinary opportunities and form collaborations, regardless of geographic location. Whether you’re looking for experts in your field or exploring new areas of research, the portal will support you in finding the right partners.

Accepting PhD students

You can choose when, and for how long to display the “Accepting PhD students” status     simply by clicking this status on or off on your profile page. You can also choose to easily share information regarding subject areas or relevant projects. The portal provides the functionality for prospective students to drill down and view those accepting PhD students by not only College, School and Research Unit, but also by key Concepts and SDGs, simply by selecting the multiple filter options most relevant to them.

Sharing your Research Profile

The portal facilitates the easy sharing of your profile with potential collaboration partners across social media platforms and email, thereby increasing your research visibility.

Why Engage with Your Profile?

By actively managing your profile on the new portal, you can take full control of how your research is seen, both inside and outside the academic community. Here are some key reasons why engaging with your profile matters:

• Boost Your Research Visibility: An up-to-date profile helps ensure that your work is easily discoverable, attracting interest from the academic community, industry partners, and the public.
• Attract Collaboration and Funding: When your profile highlights your expertise, it can attract collaborators and potential funding opportunities by showcasing the full scope of your contributions.
• Save Time and Simplify Reporting: The platform makes it easy to keep track of your outputs and streamline reporting for grants, awards, or internal reviews.

This new research portal is not just a tool, but an opportunity to amplify the reach of your research, build stronger connections, and streamline your academic activities. We encourage you to dive in, explore its features, and start reaping the benefits of a well-maintained profile today.

Stay tuned for upcoming guides and tips on how to make the most of your profile page. We’re excited to see how you use this tool to enhance your research journey!

Examples of similar RIMS systems include the University of Manchester (https://research.manchester.ac.uk/) and the University of Dundee (https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/).