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Professor of Social Informatics, Edinburgh Napier University

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Tag Archives: Information Literacy for Democratic Engagement

Information sharing, information literacy, and #Finland100

Posted on December 11, 2017 by Hazel Hall
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Turku graffii

Mural in Turku city centre

Last week I travelled to Turku to spend some time with colleagues at Åbo Akademi University. This was my first visit to Finland since my appointment last February as Docent in Information Studies within the Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics at the University. Continue reading →

Posted in Events, Projects | Tagged #Finland 100, activity theory, Åbo Akademi, Bruce Ryan, Centre for Social Informatics, CILIP, community councillors, community councils, CSI, DiWIL, Edinburgh Napier University, Eeva-Liisa Eskola, ESRC, Fahran Ahmad, Farhan Ahmad, Gunilla Widén, hyperlocal democracy, IL-DEM, Improvement Service, Information Literacy for Democratic Engagement, Innovation, Isto Huvila, Jannica Heinström, Jose Teixeira, Lyndsey Jenkins, Ming Zhan, Muhaimin Karim, Peter Cruickshank, research, SCONUL model, Shahrokh Nikou, social cognitive theory, Stefan Ek, Turku, Vincent Zhan, workplace learning | Leave a reply

Exploring Information Literacy through the lens of Activity Theory: CSI at ECIL 2017 #ECIL17 #ECIL2017

Posted on September 18, 2017 by Hazel Hall
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Dr Bruce Ryan

Dr Bruce Ryan

The 5th European Conference on Information Literacy takes place in St-Malo, France this week between Monday 18th and Thursday 21st September 2017. My colleague Dr Bruce Ryan is travelling to France to join the conference and deliver a presentation on a recent project that he and I completed with our Centre for Social Informatics colleague Peter Cruickshank.

Our paper Exploring information literacy through the lens of Activity Theory will be presented alongside three others in session entitled Information Literacy Research chaired by Dr Jesús Lau on Wednesday 20th September between 11:10 and 11:35 UK time (12:10-12:35 in France). The slides are already available on SlideShare and below.

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Posted in Events, Projects | Tagged activity theory, Bruce Ryan, Centre for Social Informatics, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, CILIP, conference, CSI, Dr Bruce Ryan, Edinburgh Napier University, France, IL-DEM, ILG, information literacy, Information Literacy for Democratic Engagement, Information Literacy Group, Jesús Lau, Peter Cruickshank, research, St-Malo | 1 Reply

Looking forward to the European Conference on Information Literacy #ECIL2017

Posted on July 17, 2017 by Hazel Hall
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ECIL header #ecil2017With my co-authors Peter Cruickshank and Bruce Ryan, I am delighted that our paper Exploring information literacy through the lens of Activity Theory has been accepted for the 5th European Conference on Information Literacy in St-Malo, France. The conference runs for four days between 18th and 21st September 2017. Continue reading →

Posted in Events, Projects, Publications | Tagged activity theory, Bruce Ryan, Centre for Social Informatics, Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, CILIP, conference, CSI, Dr Bruce Ryan, Edinburgh Napier University, France, IL-DEM, ILG, information literacy, Information Literacy for Democratic Engagement, Information Literacy Group, Peter Cruickshank, research, St-Malo | 1 Reply

New funding for information literacy project

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Hazel Hall
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Information Literacy group logoThe Centre for Social Informatics has won funding to investigate levels of digital and information literacy within Scotland’s Community Council system in a project entitled Information Literacy for Democratic Engagement (IL-DEM). The award has been granted by the CILIP Information Literacy Group.

Peter Cruickshank, Dr Bruce Ryan and I will explore how community councillors develop the skills required to inform and engage with the citizens that they represent, and how libraries support this work. It will build on two established research streams within the Centre for Social Informatics: Cruickshank and Ryan’s work on digital engagement in local democracy (such as our recent DigiCC workshops), and my work with Christine Irving on information literacy and life-long learning. It will also build on our group’s track record in library and information science research. Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, Projects | Tagged #digiCC, Bruce Ryan, Centre for Social Informatics, Christine Irving, CILIP, community councillors, community councils, CSI, grant, IL-DEM, information literacy, Information Literacy for Democratic Engagement, Information Literacy Group, information science, librarians, Peter Cruickshank, research | 1 Reply

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