{"id":3503,"date":"2023-10-23T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/scebe-research\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2023-10-30T15:45:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T15:45:22","slug":"3503-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/scebe-research\/3503-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Debbie Meharg is appointed as new Deputy Director of Education for SICSA Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.napier.ac.uk\/people\/debbie-meharg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr Debbie Meharg<\/a>, Head of the Applied Informatics subject group, on her appointment as the new Deputy Director of Education for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sicsa.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scottish Informatics Computer Science Alliance (SICSA Scotland<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The new role will see Debbie contribute to the strategic direction of SICSA and work closely with its network \u2013 dubbed its Education Champions \u2013 to develop how the science of collecting and processing information is taught.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/napier.ac.uk\/about-us\/news\/informatics-summit-enu-debbie-meharg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Congratulations to Dr Debbie Meharg, Head of the Applied Informatics subject group, on her appointment as the new Deputy Director of Education for the Scottish <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/scebe-research\/3503-2\/\" title=\"Dr Debbie Meharg is appointed as new Deputy Director of Education for SICSA Scotland\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":3504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,44],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research","tag-informatics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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