Managing a PhD Persona

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I’ve been pondering all the layers and intersections in my PhD work. It may be time to build a graphic that would map out keywords and conceptions in my published writing and conference presentations since I started the PhD. Word done prior to beginning the program has definite influence on the PhD work, but I’ll use the boundary of the start of the PhD as a threshold. While I keep a word doc as a living and iterating curriculum vitae (CV), I have not yet curated or posted this on any of my blog or web spaces. So I began a search to see how others in my network have constructed their digital persona after their PhD.

My exploration of a few of these resulted in a few insights. I specifically focused on how they may have curated their relevant publications and presentations. Everyone of these people have a CC license on their sites.Here are a few from my search:

  • Dr Catherine Cronin – separate pages for publication and presentations, also has a page for media (videos of recorded talks), as well as a link to her blog site.
  • Dr. Maha Bali – portfolio style with subpages; research and scholarship page has subpages for peer-reviewed, non-peer reviewed, keynotes, presentations, and other web presence work.
  • Dr. Laura Pasquini – has a simple interface that leads to her blog site where subpages hold publications and presentations
  • Dr. Bonnie Stewart – has separate subpages on her blog for presentations and publications, as well as teaching history
  • Dr. Verena Roberts – while this may not show current work, since we have co-authored a paper that is not in the published works listed, this models a specific site as a PhD persona.

So I’m going to take a bit of time to curate the current work I’ve done. I’ll create two pages on this blog site, one for presentations and another for both peer reviewed and formal publications. Transcribing from my current CV version will be relatively easy. In this way, I can also build a stronger connection from my ORCID curated works to this page, to extend my potential scholarly reach. This model may be helpful for those who have not considered their public PhD persona in such a concrete and explicit way.