Your staff profile
Your staff profile can be found on our ‘behind the scenes’ Staff Database. This is where you can edit all the information on your staff profile.
A few important parts of your staff profile are automatically pulled through to our main website and displayed on our public-facing People pages. All the information that shows up on our People pages is taken directly from your staff profile. This means that our website visitors can view a brief overview of your research topics, publications and your contact information.
We also use information from your staff profile to help us report to our funders. This includes things like your public engagement activities, your achievements, and any awards you’ve won.
It’s beneficial for everyone if you keep your staff profile up to date.
To add or update information on your staff profile
- Visit the National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) People Database and log in.
- Find your profile in the People Database list. You will be taken to your staff profile page.
- To edit your biography, input text into the large box labelled ‘Profile’. Here you can include a description of your job role and other relevant career information. Please aim for your biography text to be between 100-200 words. Include details about your job role and other relevant career information.
- To add or edit a photo to your profile, scroll to the bottom of the edit page and click the ‘Choose File’ button under ‘Upload an Image’. Make sure you click ‘Submit’ at the bottom of the page to save your changes. If you’ve uploaded a new photo, you’ll be asked to click-and-drag to crop the image to the desired landscape dimensions. The aspect ratio is fixed. You can resize and reposition the crop area as needed. When you are happy, click ‘Done’. Your photo can be any image you wish as long as it is a clear, preferably high quality, photograph of yourself. This could be a headshot, or perhaps an image of you at work to demonstrate your role. If you would prefer to use a placeholder image, please use the NCAS-branded person icon.
- You can select to ‘Add Publications’, ‘Add Prize’, ‘Add Patent’, ‘Add Achievement’, ‘Add Public Engagement’, ‘Add Policy Advice’, ‘Add Co-funding’ or ‘Add Partnership.’
- Once you have selected an option, you will be prompted to fill in the required fields.
- Select to ‘Submit’ your changes.
Uploading Publications
We report all publications to the Natural Environment Research Council each year. This information feeds into their system collection database, and then to the Gateway to Research.
How to import your publications
The easiest and most reliable way for you to add your publications to the NCAS Publications Database is via your ORCID.
An ORCID is a unique digital tag that distinguishes you from every other researcher. It is essentially the people equivalent of the DOI number. You may have been encouraged to register for an ORCID by a journal, university or funder in the past, and registration can be completed quickly online.
Add your ORCID to your NCAS staff profile and our software will automatically pull all your publications onto the NCAS Publications Database. Pretty clever, right?
Add your ORCID to your staff profile
If you do not want to apply for an ORCID, you may still manually upload your publications to the NCAS Publications database.
Manually upload your publications
Prizes
Highlight your prizes
You can add prizes and awards to your staff profile. This includes prizes for presentations at conferences, young scientist awards, media awards or any relevant prizes.
You should include
Example
I was awarded the LF Richardson Prize by the Royal Meteorological Society on the 19th May 2020. The prize is awarded for a paper in a Royal Meteorological Society journal by an author under the age of 35. The prize was jointly awarded to Dr John Doe and I for our work on weather forecasting.
Patents
List your patents
You can granted or filed patents to your staff profile.
You should include
Public Engagement
Share your public engagement
You can share your public engagement activities on your staff profile. This includes school talks, demonstrations, blogs, podcasts, science festivals, media interviews or open days.
You should include
Example
I gave a lecture on the science of climate change to ASCENT (the Ascot Community Environment Network) in Sunningdale.
Science to Policy
Add your policy advice
If you’ve provided advice to Government, now’s the time to let us know.
You can add policy advice activities to your staff profile.
You should include
Example
I was appointed as Lead Author for Working Group 1 Chapter 11 of the fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Achievements & Science Highlights
Add your achievements
You can add achievements and science highlights to your staff profile. This will keep a record of any work that you’re really proud of.
You could include
Please bare in mind that these achievements won’t be shown on your NCAS website profile page. If there’s a piece of science you’d like to shout about, or if you have a recent research highlight, let us know via our Staff News Submission. That’s where the Communications Team look for news to put on our website, share on social media, or pass on to our stakeholders.
It’s unlikely the Communications Team will hear about your achievements unless you’ve messaged us directly or used the Staff News Submission.
Social Media Links
Link your social accounts
We’ve now provided a way to link to your individual LinkedIn and Twitter accounts from your NCAS website profile page. This can help direct website visitors to your social media accounts – building your network and influence.
Example
www.twitter.com/AtmosScience
If you provide a url address in the LinkedIn or Twitter fields, you’ll notice a small social media icon appears on your NCAS website profile page. Hey presto! Website users can now click on this icon to visit your individual social media account page.
If you don’t provide social media links, you won’t see the social media icons appear on your public-facing website profile page. Don’t worry. That’s fine too.
Find your NCAS People database login details
- Visit the NCAS People Database
- Select ‘Log in’
- If you have forgotten your username or password. Use the recovery options provided on the login page.
- If you have never logged in before, use the ‘forgotten password’ option.
- Your recovery username or password will be sent to your registered email address.