Seminar on Delphi technique
Last week’s Social Informatics Research Group meeting was a seminar on the Delphi technique. Marianne Wilson and David Haynes introduced the technique, which is a ‘structured way of [more …]
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Participants Needed: Experience teaching diverse cohorts
Increasing the diversity of the student population is a priority for the higher education sector. Attracting more diverse cohorts provides many benefits for students, academics [more …]
Plans for early 2024
A brief round-up of some Social Informatics Research Group members’ plans for this trimester. Busy busy busy!
Exploring the relationship between listener receptivity and the source of music recommendations
Music recommender systems are used by music streaming platforms to provide listeners with personalised recommendations for new artists and songs. These algorithmic systems use dynamic [more …]
Using Podcasts to ‘Shake the Archive’
Marianne Wilson had the pleasure of presenting the outcome of the HOPSS project at the Shaking the Archive conference on the 25th of June. As [more …]
Music Recommendations Research
Earlier this summer, Katherine Stephen and Marianne Wilson were encouraged by Hazel Hall to think of a potential idea for the regular Creative Informatics grant [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 …]
Two new outputs from SDS/ESRC sponsored PhD students
The Centre for Social Informatics is currently home to five PhD students who are funded by Skills Development Scotland’s partnership with the Scottish Graduate School [more …]
Project Update: Heritage Organisations and Podcasts: Scoping Study
The HOPSS project is now well underway, with the literature review complete and preparation for empirical work in progress. The literature shows that podcasts are [more …]
Introducing Heritage organisations and podcasts: scoping study (HOPSS)
We are delighted to introduce our new project Heritage organisations and podcasts: scoping study (HOPSS). The aim of HOPSS is to scope the research landscape on the role [more …]