The UWS academic portal features the research and enterprise activities within the University of the West of Scotland and highlights the particular teaching interests and skills of our academics and postgraduate research students. Information on the portal is managed through Pure.

Login to Pure to update your personal profile and add your research outputs, awards, and activities

Contact pure@uws.ac.uk with any questions

It is important to keep your Pure profile regularly up to date with your research outputs and areas of interest together with appropriate keywords so your research is easier to find online and your profile provides an accurate reflection of research activity. Each member of staff is responsible for updating their own profile which should be a useful resource in the generation of academic CVs and assist with metrics, reporting, REF submissions and career development.

Editing your PURE profile

Editing your PURE profile is quick and easy to do:

1. Log on to Pure
2. Click the button ‘Edit profile’
3. In the new window scroll down to the section you need to update and click the ‘Edit’ button to the right of each field you need to update
4. Use the “Add profile information” button to add additional fields.
5. Once you have finished, remember to SAVE all updates;

Changes will usually be immediately available to view on your public profile, but in some cases it might take up to 24 hours for them to be visible.

Most of your standard information is taken from the staff record system and should not be edited on Pure (e.g., name, title, date of birth, gender, HESA ID, employee ID, FTE, organisational affiliation). If you notice errors in any of these fields, please contact pure@uws.ac.uk.

Fields to edit

Below is a list of fields for each section of your PURE profile.Each field is tagged either “compulsory” (C) or “recommended” (R). You MUST complete all fields marks (C). 

 

Personal identification

In this section, you will be able to add:

• Name variants (R)
• IDs (e.g., Scopus) (R)
• ORCID ID (C)
• Profile photo (R). Maximum file size 1 MB (.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .bmp, .gif)
• Links to your online pages such as LinkedIn, Twitter and other online professional profiles (R)

 

Curriculum and research description

• Overview (R)
• Area of academic expertise (C)
• Current research activities (C)
• Current teaching activities and interests (R)
• Desired research direction (C)
• Target collaborative organisations (R)
• Target collaborative companies (R)
• Other areas of expertise available for knowledge exchange (R)

The order in which each sub-section displays can be modified by using the up and down arrows to the right of each sub-section. The minus sign allows you to remove the sub-section entirely. See an example of what content to add to each of these sections

 

Positions outside of the institution

It is strongly recommended that this field is populated and kept up-to-date with details of any appointment you held and currently hold outside of the university.

 

Education/Qualification

Add your education/academic and your professional qualifications to your profile.

• Education/Academic qualification (C) Professional qualifications (R)

 

Keywords

You can associate yourself with particular keywords. In turn, your profile will be returned in the search results for these terms in the UWS Academic Portal.

 

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG keywords are compulsory. Some keywords will be automatically added by the system. It is your responsibility to ensure that these are relevant (or remove them if not) and to manually add additional relevant SDG keywords.

How to update your profile with Sustainable Development Goals keywords

1. Login to PURE and click 'Edit profile'
2. In the new window, scroll down until you find the section 'Sustainable Development Goals'
3. Click 'Add Sustainable Development Goals' and select the relevant ones (you can only select one SDG at the time)
4. Save the changes
5. The keywords will be displayed on your UWS Academic Portal profile

 

Portal details

It is recommended that you indicate whether you are willing to take PhD students and provide a list of the PhD research projects available, if so. This will help any potential prospective students.

 

Person expertise

You must add at least 3 areas of expertise.

 

Relations

Your PURE profile is not really complete without up-to-date information on your research outputs, activities, prizes, media engagement and impact. It is highly recommended that you add details of all these types of content, to have a comprehensive CV in Pure.

You must update information on your research outputs in a timely and accurate manner, to ensure funders’ requirements are met.

• For journal articles and conference proceedings, accepted author manuscripts must be deposited in Pure within 1 month of acceptance for publication.
• For other output types, we strongly encourage the deposit of an open access version, as this will increase the visibility of your work and will help other researchers. If you are not sure which version to deposit, contact pure@uws.ac.uk