Guides: UOW Scholars &amp; Elements: UOW Scholars

The redirect from previous URL to the new UOW Scholars will cease on 1st September 2023.

The link to your UOW Scholars changed with the launch of the new platform in 2023. The new format of the URL is: https://scholars.uow.edu.au/firstname-lastname

The new URL has a hyphen, between your first name and your last name and you can check the URL of your profile by searching for yourself at https://scholars.uow.edu.au

You might need to make updates to your link at the following locations:

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School or Faculty webpages
research group webpages
websites where you have a profile (i.e. https://rms.arc.gov.au or https://orcid.org/)
print or digital business cards
social media websites.

For further assistance please contact the Library.

UOW Scholars

Your research and teaching expertise, research outputs, funding success, teaching and supervision, service and leadership activities can all be showcased in your UOW Scholars profile and, as it’s visible to the world, it’s important to keep it up to date.

Changes you make to your Elements profile will update your UOW Scholars. Some sections are automatically populated in Elements from other UOW systems; however, you can edit most data.

UOW Scholars profile overview

Your UOW Scholars profile is broken down into six areas:

Sidebar: contains your photo, ORCiD iD, appointments listed under UOW appointments, contact information, collaboration network and links to key websites (as personalised by you)
About: contains your bio, UOW and other academic appointments, non-academic appointments, qualifications, availability denotes opportunities you are interested in being contacted about (industry projents and media enquiries for example) and field of research (FOR) codes you align yourself with
Research outputs: contains a list of automatically populated publications and other research outputs from Elements
Funding: contains a list of automatically populated details of grants or funding you have attracted, these details are sourced from the UOW system, RIS Grants. You can add additional sources of funding as well as your Research Interests statement (add this from the About section)
Service & leadership: contains details of editorial work, journal review, fellowships, awards and prizes, Government funded Centres of Excellence and more
Teaching & supervision: contains an overview of your teaching interests and a list of your teaching and HDR supervision.

You can add, edit or hide most sections of your profile using Elements.

Sections with no content will not be displayed in your UOW Scholars profile.