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).
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Librarians as Proxies: An exploratory study on the digital proxy practices of librarians
I have recently been awarded a small research grant from Edinburgh Napier University. The project, for which I am PI, is called “Librarians as Proxies: An [more …]
New PhD project: User led approaches to supporting digital literacies and online information systems use
Hi everyone – my name is Drew Feeney and I recently joined the PhD programme at Edinburgh Napier University. I am a part-time PhD student [more …]
New publication on research methods in Library and Information Science research
Dr Leo Appleton and Professor Hazel Hall have recently published one of the two final outputs from Leo’s PhD, completed within the Centre for Social [more …]
Applications sought for funded PhD studentship jointly supervised by colleagues from the University of Glasgow, Edinburgh Napier University, and the National Library of Scotland
With colleagues Dr Paul Gooding (University of Glasgow) and Amina Shah (National Library of Scotland), Dr David Brazier of the Centre for Social Informatics has been awarded an Applied Research Collaborative PhD Studentship [more …]
CILIPS Autumn Regathering, 26 October 2021
Bruce Ryan and Rachel Salzano were lucky enough to get spaces at CILIP Scotland’s first in-person gathering for two years. Many thanks to CILIPS East [more …]
Invitation to the Information Literacy Communities of Practice
Dr David Brazier recently attended the Information Literacy Communities of Practice bi-annual meeting to briefly discuss ongoing work on the Public Engagement Project: Information Literacy [more …]
The Relationship Between Culture and Public Libraries
Participants are being recruited for a research project in the group headed by Rachel Salzano! My PhD research project explores relationship between culture and public [more …]