Current MIRIAD + HLSS Web + Social Media Activity

News & Digest
Tumblr - http://miriadonline.tumblr.com
A collationof local and regional calls for papers,
exhibitions, upcoming events, news, information and
opportunities. Replaces and extends the MIRIAD
News & Digest email via the Research Degrees
Administrator, Art and Design. Any posting made to
Tumblr is automatically forwarded to Twitter.
Facebook
Quotation of the day
Congratulations (PhD conferments, Masters
graduation
Photos and posts from events
Welcomes and farewells for social media
assistants
Promotion of relevant events and activities (HLSS,
university, external)
Documentation
Vimeo
video mainly of the RDP sessions - but also of
PGR projects such as Creative Provocations and
individual PGR and staff research and projects.
Latest on Vimeo stream embedded into site.
Scribd
relevant PDFs such as MIRIAD RDP programme
+ newsletter + CFP etc. - embedded into
news.miriadonline.info posts
SlideShow
PowerPoint presentations from contributors to the
Researcher Development Programme (quite
recent) - embedded into news.miriadonline.info
posts
Social Media
Facebook
John Hyatt's Learning Laboratory (formerly the
MIRIAD Facebook Group) - a closed group for
current members of MIRIAD, alumni, collaborators
and friends. Community led postings - asking
advice from the community about research related
issues + CFP, exhibitions, issues of interest
Twitter
Duplicates Tumblr posts
Facebook
Regular PhD student blog
My Ideal Dinner Guest/My Desk
Requests (occasional) from students e.g. for
proof reading, accommodation
Reminders of Man Met policy e.g. student email
addresses
Twitter
VPS (Virtual Private Server) Web hosting and
WordPress network
http://portal.miriadonline.info/
a gateway (and archive) for PGR and MIRIAD
sites on the network i.e. Regional Training,
MIRIAD Training, Postgraduate Projects,
Creative Collaborations (not so much),
Postgraduate Research - all share the URL
something.miriadonline.info. Also a small
number of separate PGR WordPress research
blogs hosted on the VPS (no longer
encouraged).
Noticeboard - http://news.miriadonline.info
Home
Promotion of events, exhibitions, talks/lectures,
publication/projects, opportunities, training/reading
groups and announcements primarily within MMU
and either involving or specifically aimed at
MIRIAD PGR and staff.
Latest on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram
streams embedded into site.
Opinion
section for articles and features submitted by
MIRIAD PGRs and staff or published elsewhere -
open for comment. Not particularly busy but would
like to encourage more.
News form the Network
MMU Website
What our researchers are doing - monthly update
Key Graduate School contacts
Links to faculty departments
Information on PG research support funding
Programme Leaders
Link to 2016/17 PG activities brochure
http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/ & http://
www.art.mmu.ac.uk/research/miriad/
Not managed by MIRIAD team - to the best of my knowledge
Screens in Public Spaces - Geoffrey Manton/Number 70
What our researchers are doing - Monthly update
Achievements e.g. conferments, winners of 3MT,
winners of HLSS Symposium
Printed Materials Email Newsletter
Graduate School Events Brochure All FB posts emailed weekly to opt in mailing list
Welcome from Jenny Rowley and Kate Johnson
Events listings for 2016/17 including learning support
sessions, events organised by other services and social
activities
MIRIAD Researcher Development Programme
MIRIAD Newsletters
MIRIAD Research Degree Handbook
All embedded as PDFs on news.miriadonline.info

Where character limit allows, all content which is a stream of latest posts made by PGRs on their
on FB own name.miriadonline.info or MIRIAD VPS
hosted blogs
Instagram - displays any Instagram post tagged Pages
#miriadonline - dormant
About MIRIAD - generic description of Institute -
links to official MMU pages. Needs to be reworked
for harts.online

Newsletters - PDFs of past MIRIAD Newsletters

Of Interest - embedded miriadonline.tumblr.com

To Read Later - favourite posts from a list of

active postgraduateand staff research and
practice blogs (not necessarily on the MIRIAD
VPS or Wordpress network). Not active - but an
interesting idea?

Researcher Development - newsand

announcements for the Researcher Development
Programme 2016-17 and other training related
opportunities of interest to MIRIAD PGRs -
including documentation from Vimeo + embeds of
contributors PowerPoints and links.

Resources - PDFs and links to useful resources

for PGRs e.g. - MIRIAD Research Degree
Handbook 2015-2016, Submitting your thesis/
work to Turnitin, Intellectual Property Rights.
Underdeveloped.

Staff - links to official MMU staff pages +

duplicates Research News the email newsletter
distributed byProf. Steve Hawley, Associate Dean
Research.

Postgraduates - details of current (and recently

conferred) MIRIAD PGR project titles, abstracts,
images, links and research keywords.

Contact - online form - directs to Lewis.

Flickr - Photos from events - dormant