Travelogue 15: 'january sails 26.01.03'
Eight years ago today, when I was still a carefree backpacker, I posted this despatch from Western Australia. I had just stepped off the tall ship Windeward Bound after a three week voyage around the south west corner of Australia: Fremantle to Al...
Pg Certificate professional study now posted online.
After a year of getting used to my current role as lecturer and programme leader, Edinburgh Napier supported me through their Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning for Higher Education (2008-2010). This is my professional qualification...
Travelogue 14: 'riding through the sand 20.12.02'
Happy new year for 2011.Recent events in Australia have taken me back to my trips out there, prompting another travelogue re-posting. This one covers some great days helping Bruce build his house on Kangaroo Island - here it is on Google Maps. I t...
London dispatch: proposal feedback.
Travel chaos has blown a cool breeze through Britain's festive spirit of late, with folks trapped at Heathrow and many more forced into extended circumnavigations of broken railway paraphernalia. I suffered from the latter on my way down from Edin...
EventScotland 'International Events Conference' 2010, Perth Concert Hall
Perth Concert Hall hosted yesterday's 'International Events Conference' - a biannual gathering under the auspices of EventScotland. In quick order, some of the key things I took home with me through the chilly, snow covered fields... ___ It was ve...
Minor hurdle negotiated: PhD proposal drafted.
Feeling a sense of slight dizziness just now, I've drafted my PhD proposal and sent it to a couple of colleagues for their thoughts. Referees have also been approached. Hopefully all will be in place by this time next week and I can rest up over C...
Click for curtain-up: technology and theatre | Culture | The Guardian
via guardian.co.uk Theatre has the best technology? A quick post from a Guardian article looking at technology-in-theatre, as fostered by a 'Pervasive Media Studio' project in Bristol. The analogy is with the use of surround sound in the movies: i...
St Andrew's Day round up of links and events: part 3.
By the titles of some of today's posts you'd have thought there were some events to talk about, which haven't made much of an appearance so far. Now that I'm nearly blogged out for the day, here are some comments:- I attended an RSA event at the S...
Internet Week Europe - November 2010
via internetweekeurope.com London has the best festivals, yes? Internet Week Europe is born of a similar event in New York, attracting some fantastic contributors, audiences and media coverage. Of course, in my world there's every chance that thes...
St Andrew's Day round up of links and events: part 2.
Following hot on the heels of a long post wrapping up disparate thoughts collated over a few weeks, this shorter post is little more than an annotated reading list: a to do list of thoughts and contributions. ___ Greg Richards Building on his work...