Advertising and Recruiting through Social Media

1. When using social media for recruitment/advertisement it has to be clear and visible where the project, event or researcher belongs and who is responsible for it. Thus, a UiO web page presenting the project or event must be set up and linked from SoMe. The web page and SoMe post has to be in accordance with the UiO profile and design manual.

2. Contact info@psykologi.uio.no for campaign assistance
   • Contact the Communication Department at the Faculty of Social Sciences kommunikasjon@sv.uio.no for professional counselling, guidance and training when you want to make sponsered posts on research projects or events. Read also the distribution of resposibility between faculty and department.
   • Smaller projects should contact datamanager@psykologi.uio.no to have a web page set up

3. Web forms for contact, consent or data collection, should be linked to the project's/ event's web page and not shared directly in the SOME-posting. A link to the project's or event's web page is the only link you should share on social media.

4. The SOME post must inform that person-identifiable information must be avoided in the commentary field. Regularly monitoring of the commentary field is required 

5. Details of the recruitment process (including advertising) must be described in the project description/data management plan, and therefore available in ForskPro.

6. A social media post needs a good illustration to make it more visible.

See also: A Guide to Internet Research Ethics