Time, finances, confidence, knowledge – research communicators should be attentive to the resource inequalities inherent to academia

Funding for research communication is a growing feature of grant applications and whilst digital scholarship may have started as an individual undertaking, it is now a mainstream and, in some instances, commercial activity. Commenting on how research communication represents a potentially widening field of inequality in academia, Andy Tattersall, suggests that research communicators should consider how their work contributes, or counteracts these trends.