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All change for Dr Bruce Ryan

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Dr Bruce Ryan

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 →

Dr Bruce Ryan wins CILIPS funding to explore school librarians’ roles in tackling misinformation and disinformation

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Congratulations to Dr Bruce Ryan, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University, on securing funding for a new research project.

The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals Scotland (CILIPS) has funded Bruce to undertake research into the ways that school librarians can help pupils understand the implications of misinformation (i.e. incorrect information that has been created and disseminated by mistake) and disinformation (i.e. false information that has been deliberately created and disseminated with intent to mislead).

Bruce will collect qualitative and quantitative data from school librarians by focus group and in interviews on their: (1) efforts to help pupils in navigating challenging information landscapes and handling misinformation and disinformation; (2) training needs in fulfilling this role; and (3) collaborative work with teachers to address pupils’ understanding of misinformation and disinformation. Continue reading →

Career information literacy and the decision-making behaviours of young people: PhD thesis now available

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career, information, literacy, decision-making, young, people, thesisDr Marina Milosheva’s full PhD thesis Career information literacy and the decision-making behaviours of young people is now available from the Edinburgh Napier repository.

On the basis of the ESRC/SDS-funded empirical work reported in the thesis, Marina presents three main contributions to theory:

  1. Articulation of career information seeking as a two-stage process.
  2. Identification of two distinct career decision-making styles: (1) fulfilment-based; (2) pragmatic.
  3. Demonstration of resilience as an information literacy skill.

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Congratulations Dr Marina Milosheva!

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Shakespeare’s pub on Lothian Road was transformed into the Napier Graduate last week

Congratulations to Dr Marina Milosheva, whose doctoral degree was conferred in absentia at the Edinburgh Napier graduation ceremony at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh last Friday 5th July. Although Marina did not attend the ceremony in person, this day was a significant milestone in her PhD journey. This is because it is only from the date of the graduation ceremony that new PhD graduates are permitted to place the term ‘Dr’ before their names. Continue reading →

How do young people and careers advisers collaborate in their use of careers information? New publication in the Australian Journal of Career Development

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The collaborative use of career information by young people and career advisers: a thematic content analysis of career counselling records has been published in the April 2024 issue of the Australian Journal of Career Development. I am one of the co-authors of this article alongside Marina Milosheva, Professor Pete Robertson, and Dr Peter Cruickshank.

In this work we discuss the information behaviours of young people and careers advisers. We highlight three modes of information seeking: (1) that prompted by careers advisers; (2) that undertaken by careers advisers on behalf of young people; and (3) that completed collaboratively by young people with their careers advisers. The patterns of the interactions, the language deployed over their duration, and the roles of each set of actors in the process of information seeking, point to ways in which career services may be improved, and career information, advice and guidance policies developed. Continue reading →

Information literacy competencies for career transitions in the digital age: book chapter now published

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Pete Robertson, Hazel Hall, Marina Milosheva, Peter Cruickshank

L to R: chapter co-authors Pete Robertson, Hazel Hall, Marina Milosheva, and Peter Cruickshank

Information literacy and the digitalisation of the workplace has recently been published by Facet. I picked up my copy of the book this morning when I was on campus for a meeting with my fellow co-authors of Chapter 6: Marina Milosheva, Pete Robertson, and Peter Cruickshank (pictured above). Continue reading →

Community-led digital literacy training: presentation open to all at Edinburgh Napier University, Monday 22nd May 2023

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Professor Brian Detlor - Digital Literacy Training LectureDr Brian Detlor, Professor and Area Chair (Information Systems) at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Canada, and Visiting Professor to the Social Informatics Research Group at Edinburgh Napier University, will be in Scotland next month. Continue reading →

Information literacy and the digitalization of the workplace: new book to be published on 13th April 2023

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Along with my co-authors Marina Milosheva, Pete Robertson, and Peter Cruickshank, I am excited to see that the details of Information literacy and the digitalization of the workplace are now available in Facet’s publishing catalogue.

The anticipated publication of the book next month on 13th April comes just over two years since its first editor Gunilla Widén (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) initially approached me about the possibility of contributing to this new work. The conversation ultimately led to the preparation of a chapter that draws primarily on some of the research that PhD student Marina Milosheva has undertaken for her ESRC/Skills Development Scotland funded doctoral study on career information literacy and career decision-making, and team discussions in Marina’s supervision meetings. In it we focus on the importance of employability information literacy and career information literacy to sustainable employment in largely digitised work environments. Continue reading →

A conceptual framework of career information behaviour and career information literacy: new research published in ‘Information Research’

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Abstract, CIEL, conceptual, framework, career information literacy, Milosheva, Hall, Cruickshank, Robertson, #isic2022Capturing career information use in everyday life: introducing the CIEL conceptual framework by Marina Milosheva, Hazel Hall, Peter Robertson, and Peter Cruickshank has been published. The paper features in the proceedings of Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) 2022 in a special issue of Information Research. ISIC 2022 took place between 26th and 29th September at the Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt University. Continue reading →

Funded Social Informatics PhD opportunities at Edinburgh Napier University: apply by 15th January 2023

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If you would like to study for a PhD from October 2023, the Social Informatics Research Group at Edinburgh Napier University is currently advertising the following projects:

  1. Behaviour change for cybersecurity: Increasing awareness and reducing susceptibility – supervised by Dr JP Vargheese
  2. A new model for information literacies of community representatives – supervised by Dr Peter Cruickshank
  3. Online safety and digital literacy – supervised by Dr David Haynes
  4. Organisational learning and agile coaching – supervised by Dr Pritam Chita and Dr Peter Cruickshank
  5. Policy changes for inclusion of disabled students in HE – supervised by Dr Debbie Meharg
  6. Privacy and identity in the metaverse – supervised by Dr David Haynes
  7. Trust, risk and digital identity for digitally-unsure citizens – supervised by Dr Peter Cruickshank

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