#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...
Networks: readings, notes and links
I???ve been soaking up quite a bit of social network literature recently as it is becoming the central theme in my PhD planning. As a focus for analysis it can often be found sharing space with discussions on social capital, yet the events literatur...
December catch-up: creativity applied conference (RSA, ICC, Creative Scotland, NESTA and others)
In the short lull between teaching and marking, when I should be working directly on my PhD research, I have a chance to write up some notes from a conference I attended on 21 November 2011: Adding Value ??? Creativity Applied. Held at the Royal Col...
DREaM workshop one. (Part two of five events.)
I???m getting used to the idea that piecing together a PhD is likely to involve periods of thinking about all sections at once. Reading some expansive texts one day, which provide a theoretical context for ones ideas, is then followed by a day???s dis...
#SMWglasgow Social media, research, academia and industry
A week ago, while Edinburgh was enjoying one of its local holidays, I took the express train to Glasgow ??? partly for an Apple Store pilgrimage, partly to attend Jillian Ney's (@jillney; blog here) session as part of Social Media Week. Glasgow was ...