Yesterday I was in email contact an old friend of mine from our undergraduate days at the University of Birmingham. When he mentioned that he has connections to Malvern, I told him about Lorna Lloyd and our research centred on her Diary of the war, written at her parents’ house in the town. This discussion led to the discovery of the publication of a Wikipedia entry about Lloyd.
I am delighted that Lorna Lloyd has been recognised in this way.
This year’s iConference was hosted by my former colleagues at Edinburgh Napier University, with on-site sessions for 340 delegates taking place at the University’s Craiglockhart campus between 29th March and 2nd April 2026. I was delighted to join the event to catch up with old colleagues and external work friends, and to learn about new directions in information science research from the next generation of researchers. Continue reading
March 8th 2026 marks a decade since staff in the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh posted the first entry to the Dangerous Women Project web site on International Women’s Day 2016. In the year that followed, over 350 provocation pieces were added to the site in a bid to answer the question What does it mean to be a ‘dangerous woman’? Continue reading
Dr Lyndsey Middleton
Congratulations – and good luck – to Edinburgh Napier University 2020 PhD graduate Dr Lyndsey Middleton as she embarks on the next stage of her career.
Lyndsey has recently transferred from her Senior Assistant Statistician post at the Scottish Government into the role of Senior Statistical Officer within the Capital and Borrowing Statistics team in the UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). This also means a switch of work base for Lyndsey from Edinburgh in Scotland to Darlington in England. Continue reading
Awards winner trophies at the ceremony. Photo credit: Greg Macvean.
Congratulations to Toni Scullion, Computing Science teacher and co-lead of Scottish Teachers Advancing Computing Science (STACS). Toni was recognised as an Edinburgh Napier University Alumni Excellence Award winner at a ceremony at the University’s Craiglockhart campus last Thursday 6th November. Continue reading
Dr Bruce Ryan
After 13 years at Edinburgh Napier University, Dr Bruce Ryan’s role as Senior Research Fellow has come to an end. Last Friday, I joined Bruce for a special meal to mark his last day in paid employment at the University. Amongst the other guests were our (former) colleagues Dr Peter Cruickshank, Dr David Haynes, and Dr Rachel Salzano.
I worked closely with Bruce for over a decade when we were colleagues in the Centre for Social Informatics. Of the many projects on which we collaborated, three stand out: Continue reading
Congratulations to Phil Bradley, named today by the UK eInformation Group (UKeiG) as the recipient of the 2025 Jason Farradane Award. Continue reading
Dr Rachel Salzano
Congratulations to Dr Rachel Salzano, who starts the new academic year 2024/5 with a permanent contract as a lecturer in the Applied Informatics subject group of the School of Computing, Engineering, and the Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University.
Rachel initially took up a fixed-term post within the Group soon after completing her PhD on public libraries, forced migrants, and culture, which I supervised from 2019 within the Centre for Social Informatics alongside Dr David Brazier and Dr Gemma Webster (now a lecturer at Dundee University). It is great news that Rachel‘s contract is now open-ended. Continue reading
There is still time to submit contributions to the next iSchools iConference. However, if you are working on a research paper (full or short), or a poster, next week’s Monday deadline is fast approaching. Continue reading
Hazel Hall 