Find out more about how our free FindAPhD CONNECT tool and seamlessly integrate your listings onto your own website
It can be difficult to maintain and update a robust directory of research opportunities that your institution offers. However, if you have research opportunities listed with us on FindAPhD (find out more about listing with us here) you can take advantage of our free FindAPhD CONNECT tool, to seamlessly integrate those listings onto your own website, on any webpage you would like, with dozens of customisable search options.
Our CONNECT software integrates your PhD listings into your university website so you only ever need to maintain & update one set of data. You can even use it to add your PhDs to a Facebook page.
How does it work?
Using some simple code provided by our Client Services team, you simply insert it into your Content Management System or HTML editor for your desired webpage, and CONNECT will instantly pull through any research opportunities you have listed on FindAPhD.
If you are interested in finding out more about using CONNECT, please speak to our Client Services team at clients@findauniversity.com
CONNECT is a direct reflection of what you have listed on FindAPhD. Any content changes that need to be made to opportunities will need to be done via your dashboard upon logging in (see our log-in guide here) or through our Client Services team via customerhelp@findauniversity.com
Any changes made to opportunities will then be updated on CONNECT.
Can I apply search filters to the CONNECT search tool?
There are dozens of editable parameters you can apply to CONNECT. For example, if you wanted to display opportunities under a specific department, you can do so with another simple line of code added into the CONNECT.
You can also 'lock down' CONNECT so it only displays those opportunities, and doesn't allow users to apply a different filter to the search. This is handy if you want to promote and push specific opportunities.
Just a brief list of some of the editable parameters include:
- Discipline / subject area filters
- Supervisor filters
- Number of search results visible
and many more!
You can also customise the colour of the CONNECT tool to reflect your own institution's branding!
How to set up CONNECT
To set up CONNECT, you will firstly need to have some opportunities listed on FindAPhD (find out more here for how to advertise on FindAPhD), then simply:
- Send an email to clients@findauniversity.com and let us know you are interested in using CONNECT.
- Our Client Services team will get back in touch and ask for details on which opportunities you'd like to list, as well as offer you the chance for a video walkthrough of how the CONNECT code works.
- Once we know the parameters you would like for your CONNECT, we will build you the code snippet and send it over.
- Copy the code snippet into your desired webpage using your Content Management System / HTML editing system.
And voila! Your CONNECT should be up and running immediately. If something doesn't look quite right, or you need to tweak something in the code, simply get in touch with us again and we will assist.