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 …]
Librarians as Proxies: An exploratory study on the digital proxy practices of librarians
I have recently been awarded a small research grant from Edinburgh Napier University. The project, for which I am PI, is called “Librarians as Proxies: An [more …]
Five fully funded PhD studentships available – October 2023 start
A chance to apply for one of up to five fully funded PhD project in applied informatics. Apply by 21 May for an October 2023 start.
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 …]
Edinburgh Napier University joins the iSchools Organisation
We are delighted to announce that the School of Computing, Engineering, & the Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University has just become the 125th iSchool! [more …]
New Director of the Centre for Social Informatics
I’m delighted to post here that Edinburgh Napier University has appointed me, Diane M. Rasmussen Pennington, as Professor of Social Informatics. I arrived at Edinburgh [more …]