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March 2025 work highlights

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For a retired person, work-wise March 2025 has been a super-busy month for me. I have:

  • Helped edit a draft journal article manuscript
  • Provided feedback on documents related to the next Research Excellence Framework in 2029 (REF)
  • Prepared and delivered a presentation for archives and records professionals with Dr Bruce Ryan on our work on the Lorna Lloyd archive
  • Joined in the reboot of the Edinburgh Coffee Morning
  • Attended lectures on a range of topics ranging from radical thinking to dark matter
  • Written an award nomination for a former student who has achieved great things since graduating from Edinburgh Napier University in 2009
  • Submitted an abstract for a talk to be delivered in May 2025

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Creative informatics: unleashing the power of data – exhibition review

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Edinburgh Science Festival 2024 brochure coverOn Thursday 4th April, I attended a private reception to celebrate the exhibition Creative Informatics: unleashing the power of data. The exhibition was hosted at the National Museum of Scotland as part of the Edinburgh Science Festival 2024 to mark the end of the funded phase of the Creative Informatics (CI) programme. Since its inception in 2018, Edinburgh Napier University has been one of the four partners of the CI programme alongside the University of Edinburgh, Creative Edinburgh and Codebase.

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FameLab 2017: Edinburgh heat #FameLab

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FameLabhttps://dublin.sciencegallery.com/files/podcast/images/famelab-square-31.jpg is a science communication competition in which scientists, mathematicians and engineers have three minutes to convey a scientific concept of their choice. The next international grand final takes place at the Cheltenham Science Festival in June 2017.

Yesterday Heriot-Watt University hosted the Edinburgh FameLab heat to select four presenters to put forward to the Scottish final at the National Museum of Scotland on Saturday 7th January 2017. I was delighted to be invited to serve on the judging panel this afternoon alongside four fellow judges: Continue reading →

Social media in the heritage sector: Edinburgh Napier prize-winning student project

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Patrick Notz

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At the exam boards this week it was announced that one of the projects that I supervised in 2012/13 has won the Institute of Informatics and Digital Innovation award for knowledge exchange.

The winning work examined the application of social media in the heritage sector, drawing on a case study of social media practice at the National Museum of Scotland. It was completed by final year undergraduate student Patrick Notz.

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