Public Scholarship Resources and Information
About these Resources
Resources and information are available on campus for UNO faculty who wish to communicate their research and creative activity more effectively to mainstream audiences.
From individual consultation to hands-on workshops, campus experts can help you sharpen your writing, presentation, and interviewing skills and gain insights on how to make your research or creative activities more accessible via all forms of media.
What's Available?
- Assistance in writing, presentation, and interview skills when communicating your subject area expertise to public audiences on local—or global—platforms.
- Campus resources that can support, promote, and enhance the likelihood of the publication and/or presentation of research or creative activity with the mainstream media.
- Pathways to connect with faculty on and off campus who share interests in the public humanities, public policy and advocacy, and STEM.
- Technical support in creating and maintaining video, digital and social media platforms.
Enhance Your Skills
Resources
These campus resources provide opportunities for faculty to enhance their skills in the area of public scholarship.MarComm Media Relations
UNO's Office of Strategic Marketing and Communications (MarComm) and its Media Relations team work to educate the world around us by sharing the UNO story through the cultivation of individual campus stories, the exchange of information with members of the media, and the coordination of interviews with faculty experts.
The Media Relations team can provide consultation and support as you interact with media and news outlets to share your public scholarship. Media Relations staff share best practices, identify key messages, and can conduct a practice interview with you.
Contact the Media Relations team at unonews@unomaha.edu
Writing Center
The UNO Writing Center, located in ASH 150, offers individual consultation to faculty, staff, and students from any discipline and for any writing project. individual consultation for writing projects of any nature.
Speech Center
The UNO Speech Center located in ASH 185 offers provides individual consulting and coaching services to UNO students, faculty, and staff to help improve public speaking techniques, speeches, and presentations.
Maverick Digital Network (MDN)
A service of University Television, MDN provides a variety of video-on-demand programming and resources including:
- Creating digital content for faculty by recording lectures, panels, and other events upon request.
- Producing a weekly program, Consider This, an issues-oriented program focusing on current events and often featuring UNO faculty. It is distributed statewide on Nebraska Public Media (public broadcasting) and the Knowledge Network.
- Offering a website (in development) for streaming and storing digital content for campus organizations and individuals. UNO Television can provide training for television appearances.
To discuss opportunities through this resource, please email Chris Allen, Ph.D. at callen@unomaha.edu.
Center For Faculty Excellence (CFE)
The CFE provides a wide array of training opportunities that foster ongoing faculty development in research and teaching innovation, leadership, and career success. The CFE offers seminars and workshops that support.
Promote/Document Your Public Scholarship
Resources
These campus resources provide opportunities for faculty to share expertise with wider audiences via a variety of media.
The Impact Statement
The Impact Statement is a monthly newsletter and key communication tool to update external stakeholders on the exceptional work occurring at UNO.
To read more stories like the above, visit impact.unomaha.edu. For additional information about the impact statement, please contact Victoria Kohout at vkohout@unomaha.edu.
The Conversation
The Conversation is a nonprofit publisher that serves as an outlet for commentary and analysis, written by academics and edited by journalists, for the general public.
UNO faculty experts can register to write online or directly through UNO's Office of Strategic Marketing and Communications, as well as receive one-on-one support regarding topics, content, and editorial advice from MarComm.
Contact the Media Relations team at unonews@unomaha.edu
Access the Experts with UNO
Access the Experts is an innovative partnership between the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) and News Channel Nebraska (NCN), where viewers submit their questions to be answered by UNO faculty members.
Curious People Lecture Series
Curious People events feature a UNO faculty member who lectures on a topic, often related to their scholarship, to a public audience.
These events are free and open to the Omaha community to explore and learn about a number of topics, ranging from parasitic brain drain to technology developed to bring missing service members home.
Community Engagement Partnership Initiative (CEPI)
CEPI is an online tool, developed by UNO students, that collects and showcases meaningful partnerships through individual projects. Faculty can use CEPI to communicate and elevate their engaged partnership activities by entering unique projects into the system.
Watermark Faculty Success (formerly Digital Measures)
In addition to documenting traditional forms of scholarship and creative activity, faculty may document their public scholarship on Watermark.
Office of Research and Creative Activity (ORCA)
The ORCA team is uniquely designed to assist targeted areas including Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, and STEM. View our staff directory to see who may best assist you with your project.