How to get involved
Details of how university comms teams and academics can get involved are below, and also on the N8 website.
- Please circulate this webpage link, as a Toolkit, to all research academics and staff across the university, and ask them to participate in this N8-wide campaign from 20-24 September
- If you have a newsletter or other emails comms, please also add this as a news piece where appropriate
- Please drive participation with this campaign by tweeting about it, from this week up until 20 September, on your university and department Twitter accounts.
Actions you can take
Action 1
- Print out the #N8PostDocs poster (PDF, 300KB) and fill in the name(s) of your chosen postdoc, plus a reason why you’d like to thank them for their support and hard work
- Take a photo of you holding up the completed poster
- Post on Twitter, tagging your postdocs to let them know you appreciate them
- Please include hashtag #N8PostDocs, so that we can find and share your thoughtful post.
Example post:
Action 2
- Post a ‘Thank You’ graphic to Twitter, tagging your PostDocs to let them know you appreciate them!
- Please include the hashtag #N8PostDocs so that we can find and share your thoughtful post.
Example Twitter posts
To help share the campaign news piece:
- It’s National PostDoc Appreciation Week! We’d like to thank our PostDocs for their contributions to and hard work across the university’s @N8Research programmes. Download these #N8PostDocs Thank You cards & tweet a big thanks to your team: https://www.n8research.org.uk/celebrate-national-postdoc-appreciation-week-n8postdocs-2021
To thank your brilliant postdocs:
- It’s National PostDoc Appreciation Week! I’d like to thank my PostDoc researchers @TAGPOSTDOC @TAGPOSTDOC for their amazing work on some of our @N8Research programmes at @TAGDEPARTMENT. #N8PostDocs You’re the best!
Example graphic:
Download a Word version of the example graphic (13KB)
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