#enubs12 Day 1: Edinburgh Napier University Business School Research Conference 2012
Top image: 'Community for the 21st Century' / flickr.com/photos/choconancy/5613817067/Bottom image: my own! (Taken ahead of the 20x20 event.)
#enubs12 Day 1: Edinburgh Napier University Business School Research Conference 2012
A few days ago I wrote about some of the differences between working in academia and my previous gainful employment with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe ??? I???ll continue the reflective theme to kick off this post. Given my position at Edinburgh Napie...
Seeking a little focus for my research
There come points in every PhD when the intrepid researcher has to account for what they've been doing. Fair enough I say, we can't spend our time reading and pondering and reading some more in isolation ??? that would just reinforce the stereotype....
Breda revisiting
A year ago I wrote about the trip I took to Breda in the Netherlands as part of a project to bring some of their students across to Edinburgh for a research project. Now it???s 2012 and the project has just seen its third iteration with another two ...
Culture Hack Scotland (#chscot) and Citizen Relay (#citizenrelay): on events and projects and communities and networks
Here are some notes on two projects I???ve recently been involved with ??? shame on me for not getting this onto the blog before now. On consecutive weekends I attended Culture Hack Scotland (Glasgow) and Citizen Relay training (Edinburgh). From Cultu...
DREaM workshop three. (Part four of five events.)
Part four of the DREaM events took place at Edinburgh Napier's Craighouse campus, on the same format as the previous two workshops. These three workshops have seen the cohort introduced to a wide range of research methods, suitable for an array of...
Multi-story.
Two elements of Edinburgh Napier???s annual cycle of staff and research student development are a couple of events that I???m becoming involved with: the Business School research conference and the whole-university staff conference. The research confe...
The Onward March.
One of the contributors to a recent In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg made the glaringly obvious point that ???clockwise??? is only so because of the sundials that preceded clocks and watches. With most of the R&D being done in the northern hemisphere, th...
Clay Shirky at The Guardian (video)
via guardian.co.uk I've always enjoyed Clay Shirky's work since happening upon an article of his, or an interview perhaps, a few years ago. Some of the criticisms of his work focus on its sometimes evangelising nature, but I'm struck by the insigh...
Events and social media: three links
Three resources, linked and embedded to and from social media, on the subject of media and events ??? specifically the Olympic Games. ___ Dr David McGillivray at the launch of the #citizenrelay project ___ Professor Andy Miah on The 360 Olympic Medi...