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 …]
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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 …]
#ISIC2022 at IBI-HU, Berlin: Marina presents the CIEL conceptual framework
The Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) 2022 conference is just around the corner! It will be held at the Humboldt University School of Library and [more …]
Information Literacy Impact Framework report published
Peter Cruickshank, Bruce Ryan and Marina Miloshava worked together to carry out a review of recent research literature on information literacy (IL) impact. This is [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 …]
Welcome back
A couple of brief updates for the new academic year. The School of Computing and the School of Engineering & the Build Environment are now [more …]
Congratulations to Dr Alamri, Dr Chita, and Dr Meharg
Many congratulations to all who graduated at the Edinburgh Napier University ceremonies last week! I am especially pleased that three members of the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) were [more …]