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Kudos User Dissemination Survey

Hello!

Thank you for assisting us with developing Kudos to help increase the reach and readership for your research.

This short survey can be completed in around 10 minutes.  Please note that the prize draw to win Amazon vouchers closed on 24th June 2018.  You are welcome to complete the survey but you will you not be included in the prize draw.

Please remember to click the "Save Responses" button at the bottom when you have finished. 

1.How are you funded?
2.What is the size of your research team/group?
3.Who primarily undertakes dissemination relating to your work? Please allocate a percentage estimate to each of the groups below:
Me
Other researchers in my team/group
Specialist communications staff
Specialist knowledge exchange staff
Specialist impact staff
Consultants/service providers
My funder
4.What proportion of your time personally do you typically spend on disseminating information about your research?
5.Does your funder/institution require or encourage you to undertake communications and impact activities (excluding publication)?
6.What proportion of your funding would you/your group typically spend on dissemination and impact activities (excluding publication) relating to your research?
7.How important is it for you that the following audiences are made aware of your work?  Score each 1-10 where 1 is not important at all, 5 is quite important, and 10 is extremely important:
1. Not at all important
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3
4
5. Quite important
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7
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10. Extremely Important
Colleagues in your network
Peers in your speciality
Researchers in other specialties
Journalists/media
Policy makers
Politicians
Industry
Educators
Public
8.How important to you are each of the following dissemination goals?
Score each 1-10 where 1 is not important at all, 5 is quite important, and 10 is extremely important:
1. Not at all important
2
3
4
5. Quite important
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9
10. Extremely Important
Increase readership for your publications
Increase citations for your publications
Showcase your skills and capabilities
Achieving policy change
Mobilizing behavioural change
Improving health outcomes
9.Which of the following dissemination activities, aside from publication, would you typically undertake to increase awareness of your work?
1 - never
2 - rarely
3 - sometimes
4 - often
5 - very frequently
Share information on social media (Twitter, blog, LinkedIn etc)
Upload an article to ResearchGate/Academia.edu etc.
Issue a press release
Issue a policy briefing
Issue an industry briefing
Create a video
Create an infographic
Present a paper at a conference
Present a poster at a conference
Give a talk at an event or workshop
Give a media interview
Conduct a consultation
Give a webinar
10.How do you currently plan and manage dissemination for your work (aside from publication)?
11.How do you currently report on dissemination activities and results for your work?
12.If you use software to report on dissemination activity, please specify which you use:
13.To what extent would you find it useful to access a service that helps you plan, action and report on dissemination activities and resulting impact all in one place, with simple data exports for funders and university/institutional systems?
Not at all useful
Not very useful
Quite useful
Very useful
Extremely useful
14.What kind of organization do you currently work for?
15.What is your role?
16.What from the following best describes your speciality?
17.What country are you based in?
18.May we contact you again later in our development process to ask for additional comments and feedback?
19.If you would like to enter our free draw to win £100 of Amazon vouchers (or equivalent in your preferred currency, where available), please provide your details so we can contact you:
That's it!

Thank you very much - this information will help us develop Kudos to enable you
to disseminate information about your research more effectively.

Please remember to click the "Save Responses" button below.

Best wishes,

The Kudos Team

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