How do I update my profile?
Profile and Account are separate pages, and the difference matters: Account holds your email, password and security; Profile holds who you are.
Editing your profile
Open Profile from your user settings. You can set:
- First and last name
- Username — your handle, and part of your public URL. Availability is checked as you type.
- Headline and job title
- About — a longer description
- Affiliation and location
- Website and ORCID iD
- Avatar image URL
- Expertise — the areas you work in
- Interests — the areas you want to see
- Social and scholar links
Your email address is shown here but changed on the Account page. See How do I change my email address?
What’s public
If you have a researcher profile, these fields make up your public researcher page — the one linked from studies you run. Affiliation, ORCID iD and expertise are the fields participants and collaborators use to work out who’s behind a study, so they’re worth filling in properly.
Anything you’d rather not publish, leave blank.
Becoming a researcher
Creating surveys and studies needs a researcher profile. If you don’t have one yet, the app prompts you when you first try to create something, and setting one up means choosing a username and filling in the fields above.