Professor Hazel Hall and new PhD graduate Robert Irvine in June 2013
My research group welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students students whose research interests align with ours. For a sense of the PhD experience within the Centre for Social Informatics, please see the final post on Dr Lyndsey Middleton’s PhD blog. If you have a research idea for doctoral study that you would like to discuss, 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:
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- Democratic digital engagement
- e-Government
- Information behaviour and practices
- Information and digital literacy
- Information and knowledge management
- Information policy
- The Information Society
- Online communities
- Technology and policy development
- Work-based and organisational learning
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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- Gender and apprenticeships
- Machine learning and natural language processing for labour market intelligence
- Applications of artificial intelligence to support careers guidance
- Work-based learning environments and skills development
- Levels of trust in digitisation and democratic thinking
- Information systems and organisational strategies
- Information literacy and career decision-making
- Public library use of newcomer populations
- Metaskills development in the workplace
- Interactive education
- Activity Theory and agile computing
- Eparticipation and hyperlocal democracy [completed 2021, thesis available from the Edinburgh Napier repository]
- Social media and tacit knowledge sharing [completed 2020, thesis available from the Edinburgh Napier repository]
- 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. Further information is available on the University’s web page Find out about research degrees at Napier. For details about fees, please see the Fees and funding page.
Forms for registered research students are found on the Research degrees form page. Here you will also find a ink 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 (2020/1), also accessible from the same page.
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:
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