Overview: Invitations to Conferences

Introduction

The Invitations to Conferences sub-category provides for conferences to be listed where you have been invited in a professional capacity either as a delegate, speaker, keynote speaker, plenary speaker or a session chair.

Information may be captured relating to the conference title, location, dates, invitation capacity, conference website address and whether this is an instance of engaged scholarship.

Each Invitation to Conference entry requires at least the Title and the Invited as field to be completed.

Each entry is listed by Conference Title and Date/s.  There is no restriction on the total number of entries you may add.

Existing entries may be edited / updated subsequently, if required, or deleted.  

Entries may be manually sorted into a logical order which will be used when generating CVs and displaying on websites.

Each subsequent entry on this page will be listed in a new row and will be displayed alternately in a blue / black font colour.  This formatting is only used within the eResearch Profile context and purely for ease of visual display of multiple entries.

Invitations to Conferences procedures

Working with fields in this sub-category

Field types/fields

Description/field rules

Compulsory fields

  • All fields which are UCT compulsory fields are noted by *

  • All fields which are NRF compulsory fields are noted by *

  • If synchronisation with the NRF is required, completion of the National Research Foundation (NRF) fields is mandatory.  For more information, see: NRF funding overview (external link).

  • Note: Not all academics/researchers require synchronisation with the NRF

Free text fields

  • Title free text fields are restricted to 100 characters.

  • The NRF Summary text is restricted to 5500 characters.

  • Other free text fields are restricted to 500 characters and have no limit on type of character input.

Drop-down list fields

  • Drop-down list fields contain a list of pre-defined options.

  • To view and select items in the drop-down list:

  • Click on the drop-down arrow.

  • Select an item from the drop-down list.

  • The selected item appears in the field .

Check box

  • Check boxes are square selection options.

  • When selected, a check box contains a tick (check) mark.

  • When cleared, a check box is empty.

  • Clicking in the check box toggles the appearance of the tick (check) mark.

See also: Overview: Working with fields in the Researcher Profiles module