The Ragged University Library and my contribution: 'Connected' by Christakis and Fowler
The RSA Scotland 2013 annual conference: 26 September, Scottish Parliament
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...
Parallel discussions.
Another week and another slew of podcasts down the wires from the RSA. Of note to me recently has been the discussions that focus on some of my favourite themes, yet apply them to subjects other than events. Two of note have been:Loyd Grossman et ...
Open innovation.
Inspace, housed within the University of Edinburgh, has hosted a number of events that I've enjoyed over the past year ??? from mushroom-inspired improvised music to film screenings. On Wednesday 23 February I attended an 'openness' discussion: open...
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...
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...
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...
St Andrew's Day round up of links and events: part 1.
This is my forking moment for the month. A couple of weeks' work on other projects, university business and time spent choosing a dining table has left me with a myriad different ideas, links, articles and events to try and rationalise... they are...