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This blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Unported License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at researcher-development@glasgow.ac.uk

The Auditorium blog is public, and is Creative Commons licensed, so others may share and use the posts intact, but they must attribute the work to the original blog link and author. Authors retain copyright of the articles they have written.

What we need from you, to publish your post:

You will need to send us a single Word document containing:

(1) a title, (2) a one line bio, (3) the text of your post*, and (4) a copyright free photo that captures the theme of the post**.

* Style guide:

The primary audience: Researchers (PGRs and Research Staff, academics, supervisors, and PIs)

The secondary audience: People who support researchers (researcher developers, PGR convenors, research professional staff).

Blogs are direct and informal communications that appeal and are accessible to a wide audience. Blog articles should be light on theory and academic language, focusing on practices, findings or outcomes and the implications for researchers, and those who develop them. Please get in touch with the Editors, Dr Kay Guccione and Dr Rhoda Stefanatos to send an outline or draft or to discuss a piece from any angle or insight you find meaningful.

Although we still expect your piece to present a coherent story, argument, or case study, writing for the Auditorium blog is less formal than traditional academic writing, and we want to make space for individual authors voices, opinions and styles to connect with our readers. 

Once a draft is received we will work with you to provide editorial support to shape, format, post and promote the article. The editorial team is responsible for editing, approving and scheduling posts, ensuring compliance with the guidance on this page, and in line with appropriate University of Glasgow communications policies.

We accept that some authors may use generative AI to support them with some aspects of the drafting process, and where AI has been used we require authors to declare this, specifying what platform, and for what purpose AI has been used. We do not accept pieces that are AI generated, not least because they are not generally well constructed or coherent in their argument and create a great deal of editorial work to parse and redraft.

We commit to making the blog site accessible to all readers in line with the 2019 accessibility requirements for public sector bodies. Please avoid italics, justified or right aligned text, provide ALT text for images and follow best practice on creating accessible hyperlinks.

Please embed references as hyperlinks in the text e.g ‘(Guccione and Bryan, 2022)‘, rather than listing references at the end of the post.

Authors can ensure their post is well read by:

  • Staying under 1000 words
  • Choosing a title which summarises the main point or argument of the post and generates interest. Avoid long descriptive titles.
  • Getting to the point. Putting the main message right up front, not at the end. Don’t fall into the academic style and ‘bury the lede‘.
  • Writing in short paragraphs and using sub-headings to break up the text.
  • Not assuming readers are familiar with the vocabulary of your discipline. Avoid specialist language, jargon and acronyms. Where you need to refer to a concept or theory, please link to a ‘primer’ on that topic.
  • Using ‘we’ language, rather than ‘you’ language to build alliance and empathy.
  • Please note we use the inclusive terms ‘Postgraduate Researcher’ or ‘PGR’ (not ‘Student’) ‘Research Staff’ (not ‘post-doc’ or ‘PDRA’ or ‘Early Career Researcher’) and ‘Research Professional Staff’ (not ‘Professional Services’ or ‘Administrators’) as standard. We use ‘doctorate’, not ‘PhD’.
  • Linking to previous posts on the Auditorium blog where relevant, this will also help you find your unique niche and avoid duplication.
  • Promoting the article once live, within their own professional and/or social media networks.

** Copyright-free images. Please suggest one or more images to accompany your post. Take a photo or screenshot, or choose from a copyright free repository. Images should only be used where the author owns the copyright, or where the image is copyright free or licensed for Creative Commons use. See here for sources: