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 …]
News
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 …]
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 …]
Funded PhD Opportunity: Policy changes for inclusion of disabled students in HE
Higher education institutions in Scotland are legally bound to provide an inclusive learning environment. Tinklin & Hall (1999) conducted a study to explore the experiences [more …]
Funded PhD Opportunity: Organisational learning & agile coaching
Here is a further PhD idea that missed our main list: There are currently many agile coaches tasked with mentoring remits within the IT function. [more …]
Fully funded PhD Opportunities for 2023!
We are very happy to announce that we can offer funded PhD opportunities in five wide ranging social informatics projects for a number of students [more …]