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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
With the podcast still playing, I want to note this RSA event: The Big Society: Challenges and opportunities for membership organisations. (I wasn't expecting to tag anything with 'Big Society', but as the term gains currency and becomes more clea...
I'm a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, but I've talked about that before. Why am I a fellow... it's partly to support work like this: The range of expertise that they attract to the RSA events is astonishing at times, tapping into a wealth of ...
Three years into my job at Edinburgh Napier Uni and I've managed to work through almost fifty business cards. I'm meeting nearly 1.4 people a month it seems, although that average will come down once relatives are taken out.*Cards come in packs of...