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 …]
conferences, events, publications
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 …]
Knowledge Organization and Information Discovery: Improving user experience, quality and trust
The 7th ISKO UK biennial conference will be in Scotland for the first time. Strathclyde University in Glasgow is hosting the conference on 24-25th July. [more …]
Old and new: Highlights from our experiences at iConference 2023
By Professor Diane Rasmussen Pennington and PhD Student Marina Milosheva The more things change, the more they remain the same. This 19th century French epigram [more …]
Registration open for RIVAL Reunion, 25th May, Edinburgh
Hazel Hall, who is now our Emeritus Professor, founded the RIVAL network, with the assistance of Bruce Ryan. Funded in 2019-2021 by the Royal Society [more …]
Ada Scotland Festival 2022
The 3rd Ada Scotland Festival starts on Wednesday 12th October, with two weeks of activities and events, mostly online, but including in-person events for the [more …]
#ISIC2022 at IBI-HU, Berlin: Marina presents the CIEL conceptual framework
The Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) 2022 conference is just around the corner! It will be held at the Humboldt University School of Library and [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 …]
ASIS&T 24-Hour Global Conference: Research in Times of Crisis
On April 27, 2022, I had the pleasure of presenting work conducted by Marina Milosheva and myself, Rachel Salzano, at the inaugural ASIS&T 24-Hour Global [more …]