The Conversation Articles Published in 2021

Raising awareness on the impact of your research

The University of Memphis subscribes to The Conversation to help raise the impact of research across campus. Articles published in The Conversation can be on any topic, and all faculty are encouraged to pitch articles based on their research. Publishing in The Conversation is a great way to increase readership of your work, gather quantitative impact metrics of your work beyond traditional citation counts, and build potential collaborations around the world. Whether you are interested in publishing on a recent publication or are considering writing about how your research relates to current events, there are many ways to write.

In total, the 35 articles published by UofM researchers on this platform to date have been read nearly 1.4 million times through this platform — an average of 40,000 reads per article. 

Below are the articles published by UofM faculty since January 2021.

• Title: How qualified immunity protects police officers accused of wrongdoing (theconversation.com)
  Author: Ronnie Gipson, Jr.
  Reads: 4,198
  Publication Date: May 4

• Title: Culture matters a lot in successfully managing a pandemic - and many countries that did well had one thing in common (theconversation.com)
  Author: Leah Windsor
  Reads: 10,720
  Publication Date: March 25

• Title: How Trump's language shifted in the weeks leading up to the Capitol riot – 2 linguists explain (theconversation.com)
  Authors: Roger Kreuz and Leah Windsor
  Reads: 67,275
  Publication Date: Jan. 15
   

To write for The Conversation: 

Nick Lehr, our campus contact, can assist you craft a pitch based on your research interests. You can schedule a time to meet with Lehr during his office hours at the link below, or you can email him directly at nick.lehr@theconversation.com to set up a conversation. Publishing articles on this platform can provide faculty and researchers with valuable statistics which you can include in your tenure packets to showcase impact beyond the University. Lehr can also help you sign up for emails that solicit specific articles if that is of interest to you. Please feel free to encourage any of your colleagues to use this service — it is free to you as UofM faculty members. 

To schedule, see Lehr's office hours here. I would also encourage you to check out the articles of your colleagues at the UofM by visiting this webpage: University of Memphis on The Conversation.

For more information on this initiative, contact Dr. Cody Behles at cbehles@memphis.edu.