Social media talk: 3 December 2012, Sighthill
As part of an event for 'Supporting Researchers at Edinburgh Napier University' I've been asked to put together some resources and reflections on the ways blogs and blogging can play a part in the life of a humble researcher, such as me. Rather th...
#enconf Using Storify to tell the story of an academic conference
Edinburgh Napier University, my employer, hosts an annual conference for academic and professional services staff ??? an opportunity to get people together, focus on chosen themes and discuss ways of integrating them into our teaching and learning. ...
#futr Day 2: FutureEverything, Manchester, May 2012
Day two of FutureEverything dawned after the long round trip to Preston where I was staying. I???ve written up the first day, over the course of about 1,500 words here. As for day two you can read the organisers??? own thoughts here. But to the bu...
#futr Day 1: FutureEverything, Manchester, May 2012
Top image: 'Deirdre_BlueOrange_Futr' / flickr.com/photos/stuartchilds/6998237316 [This is the FutureEverything logo.]Bottom image: @jennifermjones discusses London 2012 as a media spectacle [Taken by me.]
#enubs12 Day 2: Edinburgh Napier University Business School Research Conference 2012
Day one of the Business School conference is covered here. This second post focuses on the day???s keynote from Dr Farida Vis (@flygirltwo), who took a very early train up from Manchester to be with us. I???d never met Farida before, but have followed...
#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...
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...