LILAC conference, 25 to 27 March 2024
Two members of the Social Informatics Research Group – Bruce Ryan and Drew Feeney – attended this conference, held in Leeds Beckett University in March 2024. Here they briefly [more …]
Information literacy
PhD presentation: ‘New Clicks’: developing user-led digital literacies in older adults within Scottish public libraries
This was the first of the social informatics research group’s PhD presentations in 2024. Here, Drew Feeney reports on his project ‘New Clicks’: developing user-led digital [more …]
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 …]
Information literacy: a SIRG seminar
On Friday 26 January, the social informatics research group hosted a seminar on its research into information literacy. SIRG members were delighted to welcome attendance [more …]
Article now out: Information literacy of community representatives in Brazil
Our article “An information literacy lens on community representation for participatory budgeting in Brazil ” has now been published by the Journal of Information Literacy
‘Information Literacy and Society’ project report published
Dr Bruce Ryan, Marina Milosheva and Associate Professor Peter Cruickshank have delivered their final report on the impacts of information literacy (IL) research on society. It is now available [more …]
Social Informatics researchers at ECIL 2023
This post follows on from the pre-event post. Two Social Informatics Research Group PhD research students – Marina Milosheva and Drew Feeney– were delighted to present their work at [more …]
Social Informatics Research Group at ECIL2023!
Two Social Informatics Research Group PhD researchers, Marina Milosheva and Drew Feeney, will present their work at the 2023 European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL2023).
‘Information Literacy and Society’ project well under way
Earlier this year, Bruce Ryan, Marina Milosheva, and Peter Cruickshank started on a literature review project to understand the impacts of information literacy (IL) on society. In this project, Bruce, [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 …]