Join us as Associate Professor in Applied Informatics
Edinburgh Napier University is currently has a vacancy for an experienced academic or researcher with expertise in Applied Informatics related fields to join the Creative and [more …]
Articles by Bruce Ryan
‘Information Literacy and Society’ project well under way
Earlier this year, Bruce Ryan, Marina Milosheva, and Peter Cruickshank started on a literature review project to understand the impacts of information literacy (IL) on society. In this project, Bruce, [more …]
RIVAL Reunion event, 25 May 2023
The fifth RIVAL* event was held on Thursday 25 May 2023, at Edinburgh Training and Conference Venue. Presentation slides and videos of some of the presentations [more …]
New paper: ‘An information literacy lens on community representation for participatory budgeting in Brazil’
Back in 2019, Wegene Demeke and I (Bruce Ryan) carried out a research visit to São Paulo City in Brazil, kindly funded by the Global [more …]
Activity Theory workshop: 18 May (1pm to 5pm)
Our Visiting Professor, Brian Detlor of McMaster University, Canada, is leading a workshop on Activity Theory (AT) on 18 May (1pm to 5pm) in room [more …]
Platform to Platform presentation at ‘BBC at 100’ symposium, 13 to 15 September 2022
This post outlines the round-table presentation on the Platform to Platform project by Bruce Ryan, Hazel Hall, Marianne Wilson (all of the Centre for Social [more …]
‘Platform to Platform’ project goes live!
Dr Bruce Ryan (PI), Professor Hazel Hall (CoI) and Dr Iain McGregor (CoI) are delighted that the Platform to Platform project went live today (2 February 2022). This project will transform diaries of [more …]
Mapping creative industries in south-east Scotland
Bruce Ryan has recently mapped data about creative industries in south-east Scotland. This was for the Creative Informatics programme. The maps show creative companies in [more …]
CILIPS Autumn Regathering, 26 October 2021
Bruce Ryan and Rachel Salzano were lucky enough to get spaces at CILIP Scotland’s first in-person gathering for two years. Many thanks to CILIPS East [more …]
Spreading the news of RIVAL at the 2021 CILIPS and SCURL conferences #cilips21
Professor Hazel Hall and Dr Bruce Ryan have been speaking about the success of the Royal Society of Edinburgh funded Research Impact Value and Library and Information Science (RIVAL) project.