Imperial Profiles is a dynamic and user-friendly platform that can be used as a personal web page.
Imperial Profiles seamlessly integrates with Symplectic Elements (Imperial's research information management system), providing a robust and intuitive interface for showcasing:
- a personal summary and profile photo,
- information about your role,
- a description of research interests,
- academic and research achievements, and
- links to research publications
The purpose of an Imperial Profile is to publicise and connect staff at Imperial and across the wider higher education and research community.
Who can get an Imperial Profile?
All members of staff and postgraduate research students will by default have access to their own Imperial Profile that can be activated and made live.
It is not something that needs to be requested from your Faculty Web Officer or department, and is automatically available to all staff and postgraduate research students.
How to manage you Imperial Profile
- To manage your records and publish your Imperial Profile, log into Symplectic Elements.
- Training on your Imperial Profiles is available here: Imperial Profiles training course
Latest updates
- Imperial Profiles now include a rich text editor that allows you to format your biographical content and include hyperlinks to related materials
- Improvements to template structure to ensure compliance with accessibility regulations
- Inclusion of abstracts in publications feeds
- Search capability within each profile feed i.e. publications, professional experience.
- Search relevance is explained for every result in the profile directory, for example when searching by keywords: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/search?by=text&type=user&v=mathematics
- Improvements to publication ordering to included acceptance dates and online publication dates from records.
FAQs
- What is the URL for my Imperial Profile?
- How do I edit my Imperial Profile?
- How do I change my profile’s privacy level?
- What if the 'Change profile privacy level' setting is not available?
- I’m not an academic and I don’t do any research – can I still have an Imperial Profile?
- What will happen to my old PWP URL?
- I would like to change my current job title
Copy and paste the following URL into a new web browser tab: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/abc
Replace ‘abc’ with the first part of your Imperial email address (everything before the '@' sign) and hit return
For example:
If your Imperial email address is c.hankin@imperial.ac.uk,
your Imperial Profiles URL will be https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/c.hankin
Please see How to go into edit mode
Please see Changing your profile’s privacy level
You will need to update the college directory setting. Please follow these steps
- Log in to the College Directory
- Change the setting ‘Show the above information in external directories’ to ’Y’
setting won’t be immediately available to you
Yes, all staff including administrative and support staff will have access to publish an Imperial Profile.
Automatic redirects will be set up when the old PWP system is decommissioned. Anyone trying to visit your old PWP URL will be directed to your new Imperial Profiles URL avoiding any loss of traffic.
Please contact your faculty representative who can help with the job title change request.