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Updated flyer details work of social informatics researchers at Edinburgh Napier University

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A new version (v18) of the Centre for Social Informatics flyer is now available from the Social Informatics blog on the Edinburgh Napier University web pages.

Please follow the link to read about the work of our research group, including details of research expertise, funders, recent PhD completions, and recent publications. The flyer also profiles the academic and research staff within the research group, alongside our current research students.

Centre, Social, Informatics, flyer, Napier, Edinburgh, University

Page 1 of the  updated flyer features photos from our last ‘all centre’ meeting, which took place on 22nd June 2022

The creative use of digitised archives: roundtable to be presented at the BBC at 100 Symposium

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The BBC at 100 symposium, organised by Dr Marcus Collins, Reader in Contemporary History and AHRC BBC 100 Fellow at Loughborough University, takes place at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford, and online, between 13th and 15th September 2022. A team from the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI), with a colleague from the BBC Archive, is delighted to be presenting at this event. Continue reading →

Forthcoming contributions to the Organisational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC) conference 2022

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The next Organisational Learning, Knowledge and Capabilities (OLKC) conference takes place in in Trollhättan, Sweden from September 7th-9th 2022. Several members of the Centre for Social Informatics have contributed to research outputs that will be presented at the conference. Continue reading →

Congratulations to Dr Alamri, Dr Chita, and Dr Meharg

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Edinburgh Napier University graduation 2022 logo
Many congratulations to all who graduated at the Edinburgh Napier University ceremonies last week!

I am especially pleased that three members of the Centre for Social Informatics (CSI) were awarded their PhDs on 7th July 2022: Continue reading →

Centre for Social Informatics ‘all centre’ meeting June 2022

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Social Informatics Research Group Edinburgh Napier University selfie

Dr Peter Cruickshank, Dr David Brazier, Dr David Haynes, Dr Hazel Hall, Katherine Stephen, Dr Bruce Ryan, and Dr JP Vargheese pose for a post-meeting selfie

For the first time since 18th December 2019, this week members of my research group gathered for an end of year ‘all centre’ meeting to celebrate our recent research highlights.

Although not everyone could make it on this occasion, those who could enjoyed spending the afternoon of Wednesday 22nd June together. We took it in turns to deliver short personal updates to the rest of the group on our own research. We also read out details sent to us by email from those who could not participate in person, and gave each absent colleague a round of applause. Continue reading →

The public library as public sphere: a longitudinal analysis – full article available as EarlyCite

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Appleton Hall 2022 public library sphere EarlyCiteThe public library and pubic sphere: a longitudinal analysis is now available as a full paper (HTML or PDF) from the Journal of Documentation as an EarlyCite publication. This is the final output from Dr Leo Appleton‘s part-time doctoral study, completed in 2020 within the Centre for Social Informatics at Edinburgh Napier University. Continue reading →

Applications open for 10 fully-funded PhD studentship places within the School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University

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PhD supervisors Dr Frances Ryan, Dr David Haynes, Debbie Meharg, Dr David Brazier

PhD supervisors from the Centre for Social Informatics

The School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University is currently advertising ten fully-funded PhD studentships across a wide range of subjects, from sound technologies to cybersecurity. Amongst these are four proposed by Centre for Social Informatics colleagues: Continue reading →

Lorna Lloyd’s ‘Diary of the war’ podcast series launch event: review and resources

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Bethany Ray plays Lorna Lloyd

Actor Bethany Ray, pictured here with the original  Diary of the war, plays her great-great aunt Lorna Lloyd in the podcast series

After several weeks of preparation, on Tuesday 24th May 2022 we launched the Diary of the war podcast series at Great Malvern Priory. This blog post provides a review of the launch. It also provides links to materials related to this event, and to the wider Platform to platform (P2P) project. (Please scroll to the bottom of the post for the full list of resources.)

The content of the podcast series episodes centres on 25 year old Malvern resident Lorna Lloyd‘s chronicle of the first 16 months of World War II, complemented with contemporaneous news coverage related to the events and issues that she discusses in her writing. A further four ‘bonus’ episodes that comprise a selection of Lloyd’s poetry are included in the series. Continue reading →

Acceptances at Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) 2022 for Edinburgh Napier team #isic22

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iSchools, Inc. - Contributions sought for 2022 Information Seeking in Context

Centre for Social Informatics PhD student Marina Milosheva has recently learnt that both of the submissions that she made earlier in the year for Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) 2022 have been accepted. Marina will participate in the doctoral workshop, and present a full paper co-authored with her PhD supervisors (myself, Professor Pete Robertson, and Dr Peter Cruickshank) as one of the contributions to the conference programme. Continue reading →

Is the public library included? New paper on local authority services for forced migrants from Edinburgh Napier University team at #CoLIS11

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CoLIS11 logo Oslo 2022Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS) 11 opens today in Oslo, Norway. Hosted by the Department of Archivistics, Library and Information Science at Oslo Metropolitan University, the conference runs until Wednesday 1st June. Continue reading →