Professor Hazel Hall and new PhD graduate Robert Irvine in June 2013
I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students students whose research interests align with mine (as outlined on the About Hazel Hall page). If you have a research idea for doctoral study that you would like to discuss with me, please feel free to get in touch by e-mail.
We regularly advertise fully-funded studentships. Please check my blog home page for current calls for applications. We accept applications from students who are self-funding at any time.
Within the Centre for Social Informatics we are particularly interested in receiving applications related to the broad research themes of:
- Democratic digital engagement
- e-Government
- Information Policy
- Information seeking behaviour and use
- Knowledge Management
- The Information Society
- Online communities
- Open data and open government
Recent and current research students supervised by Centre for Social Informatics staff engage in a range of doctoral studies on topics that include:
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- Applications of artificial intelligence to support careers guidance
- Information literacy and career decision-making
- Work-based learning environments and skills development
- Culture and public library use amongst incomer populations
- Metaskills development in the workplace
- Interactive education
- Activity Theory and agile computing
- Eparticipation and hyperlocal democracy
- Social media and tacit knowledge sharing [completed 2020]
- Public libraries in the public sphere [completed 2020, thesis available from the Edinburgh Napier repository]
- Innovative work behaviour [completed 2020, thesis available from the Edinburgh Napier repository]
- Social impact of youth digital culture co-creation [completed 2019, thesis available from the Edinburgh Napier repository]
- Personal online reputation management [completed 2019, thesis available from the Edinburgh Napier repository]
- Social networking and career management skills [completed 2018, thesis available from the Edinburgh Napier repository]
- Off-line and online spaces and participation in community and civic life [completed 2016, thesis available from the Edinburgh Napier repository]
- Knowledge working as a management innovation [completed 2015, thesis available from the Edinburgh Napier repository]
- Sociotechnical aspects of information risk [completed 2014, thesis available from the Edinburgh Napier repository]
- Organisational factors and information systems development projects [completed 2013, thesis available from the Edinburgh Napier repository]
- Processes of knowledge creation, creativity and innovation [completed 2012, thesis available from the Edinburgh Napier repository]
Formal applications to study for a PhD within the Centre for Social Informatics should be made through the official Edinburgh Napier University process. This is explained on the Edinburgh Napier University research degree applications process page, where you will find full details on how to make an application, and of fees.
Forms for registered research students are found on the Research degrees form page. Here you will also find a link to the regulations. For full information and guidance on the academic, management and administrative procedures associated with research degrees at Edinburgh Napier University, please see the Research degrees framework document(October 2019 v2, also accessible from the Research degrees web page). There is also a Research degree handbook for students in the School of Computing (issued on an annual basis) and an ethics wiki for the School of Computing.
Edinburgh Napier PhD students have access to a wide range of training opportunities.These include “local” courses and events offered by their Schools, and other internal events run as part of the University’s researcher development programme. PhD students are also supported to participate in external training events such as those offered by the:
- Scottish Graduate School of Social Science
- Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA)
- National Centre for Research Methods
The output of the Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) project workshops includes much valuable material on a number of research topics including:
