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 …]
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View from the BRIDGE
This post describes the recent Scottish briefing for the BRIDGE project, at the National Library of Scotland. The account is based on livetweets from the session. [more …]
Plans for early 2024
A brief round-up of some Social Informatics Research Group members’ plans for this trimester. Busy busy busy!
New roles for research group members Drew Feeney and Bruce Ryan
Congratulations to Social Informatics Research Group member Drew Feeney, who is now the Public Libraries representative on CILIP’s Information Literacy Group (ILG). He will represent the UK’s national Public [more …]
Working with colleagues in Brazil
During the summer I (David Haynes) worked with some amazing students and respected research colleagues in Brazil. I ran a short course on digital literacy [more …]
Introducing Franziska Heck (Franzi)
Three weeks ago, a flight to Scotland marked the beginning of an exciting new chapter in my life. The path that led me to Napier [more …]
Social Informatics Research Group at ASIS&T 2023
Edinburgh Napier University’s Social Informatics Research Group will have a strong presence at the Association for Information Science and Technology’s 2023 annual meeting. Check out [more …]
Introducing Collins Ovie
About me In 2017, I embarked on a transformative journey when I began my MBA program at Edinburgh Napier Business School. During this enriching experience, [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 …]
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 …]