Congratulations Iris Buunk: awarded a John Campbell Trust travel bursary

Posted on December 13, 2016 by Hazel Hall

Iris Buunk

Many congratulations to Centre for Social Informatics PhD student Iris Buunk on the award of a John Campbell Trust travel bursary.

Iris will use the bursary to support participation at the 18th European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM). This conference takes place at Universitat, Internacional de Catalunya (UIC), in Barcelona, Spain from 7th to 8th September 2017.

While she is in Spain Iris also plans to attend the ECKM pre-conference workshop. In addition she will arrange to meet other researchers who share her interests in Knowledge Management at the Institute for Innovation and Knowledge Management (ESADE), and in Library and Information Science at the Faculty of Library and Information Science at the Univesitat de Barcelona. Continue reading →

Generation X, personal reputation, and social media: new publication in Information Research

Posted on December 7, 2016 by Hazel Hall

‘Managing and evaluating personal reputations on the basis of information shared on social media: a Generation X perspective‘ has been published this week in Information Research. I co-authored this paper with Centre for Social Informatics PhD student Frances Ryan, and colleagues Peter Cruickshank and Alistair Lawson. Continue reading →

From #asist2016 in Copenhagen to #ili2016 in London – and back home to Edinburgh again

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Hazel Hall

Last month I participated at two conferences back-to-back: the 79th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST2016) in Copenhagen from Friday 15th to Tuesday 18th October, and then the second day of Internet Librarian International (ILI2016) in London on Wednesday 19th October. Continue reading →

Congratulations Leo Appleton: winner of the LIRG LIS Researcher Practitioner Award 2016

Posted on October 31, 2016 by Hazel Hall

Congratulations to Leo Appleton, who was awarded the 2016 Research Practitioner Excellence Award by the Library and Information Research Group (LIRG) at the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) 2016 New Professionals Day in London last Friday 28th October 2016. Leo is Associate Director of Library Services at the University of the Arts, London, and a part-time PhD student within the Centre for Social Informatics at Edinburgh Napier University, where I am his Director of Studies.

Leo Appleton LIRG Research Practitioner Excellence Award

Leo Appleton at the awards ceremony in London on Friday 28th October 2016 (photo credit LIRG)

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Call for applications for PhD student bursaries to attend ASIST-sponsored event, Edinburgh, 30th November 2016 #asist_al16

Posted on October 17, 2016 by Hazel Hall

Are you a student based outside Scotland studying for a PhD in Information Science or a related discipline? If so, this is for you!

Apply for a bursary award to support attendance at the ASIST Annual Lecture 2016 and an Information Science Masterclass at Edinburgh Napier University on Wednesday 30th November 2016. Continue reading →

Centre for Social Informatics at #ASIST2016, Copenhagen

Posted on October 12, 2016 by Hazel Hall

Next week I will be attending the 2016 Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Annual meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. On the evening of Tuesday 18th October there will be a University reception at the conference. I have created a flyer to distribute at this event with Frances Ryan (one of my PhD students, whose participation at the conference is supported by the John Campbell Trust). The flyer provides details about the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) at Edinburgh Napier University. Continue reading →

Information Seeking in Context 2016 #isic2016: reviews

Posted on October 2, 2016 by Hazel Hall

A postcard and some presents, featuring (l to r) Lyndsey Jenkins, Iris Buunk, Frances Ryan, and John Mowbray

The research students from the Centre for Social Informatics who participated at Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) 2016 from 20th to 23rd September returned to the office this week.

As well as enthusiastic tales of the Croatia and the conference itself, Iris Buunk, Lyndsey Jenkins, John Mowbray, and Frances Ryan also brought back to Edinburgh some rather delicious goodies and a fun selfie postcard of the four of them enjoying the sunshine on the Adriatic.

All four students have now reviewed the conference and associated doctoral workshop on their blogs. To find out more, please see:

That was ISIC by Iris Buunk
Participation in the ISIC conference by Lyndsey Jenkins
Post ISIC: some conference thoughts by John Mowbray
ISIC 2016: Zadar by Frances Ryan

ISIC 2016: contributions from the Centre for Social Informatics #ISIC2016

Posted on September 20, 2016 by Hazel Hall

Four PhD students from the Centre for Social Informatics – Iris Buunk, Lyndsey Jenkins, John Mowbray, and Frances Ryan – are in Zadar, Croatia this week for Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) 2016. Today they are taking part in the pre-conference doctoral workshop. Tomorrow they will join the conference itself, which continues until Friday. You can follow both the doctoral workshop and conference on Twitter hashtag #isic2016. Continue reading →

Looking forward to Information Seeking in Context 2016 (#ISIC2016)

Posted on July 18, 2016 by Hazel Hall

Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) 2016 takes place in Zadar, Croatia 20-23 September 2016. The programme for the conference is now available. Four research students from the Centre for Social Informatics will be making contributions at this event. They are Iris Buunk, Lyndsey Jenkins, John Mowbray, and Frances Ryan. Continue reading →

Hazel Hall

Emeritus Professor, Edinburgh Napier University

Category Archives: PhDs

From #asist2016 in Copenhagen to #ili2016 in London – and back home to Edinburgh again

Centre for Social Informatics at #ASIST2016, Copenhagen

Information Seeking in Context 2016 #isic2016: reviews

ISIC 2016: contributions from the Centre for Social Informatics #ISIC2016