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Last night I spent a couple of hours in the kitchen with my friend Richard playing at Desert Island Discs, the popular BBC Radio 4 show currently hosted by Kirsty Young. I put together a list of eight tracks on an iTunes playlist, plugged an iPod ...
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...
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.]
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...
Top image: 'Community for the 21st Century' / flickr.com/photos/choconancy/5613817067/Bottom image: my own! (Taken ahead of the 20x20 event.)
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...
There come points in every PhD when the intrepid researcher has to account for what they've been doing. Fair enough I say, we can't spend our time reading and pondering and reading some more in isolation ??? that would just reinforce the stereotype....
A year ago I wrote about the trip I took to Breda in the Netherlands as part of a project to bring some of their students across to Edinburgh for a research project. Now it???s 2012 and the project has just seen its third iteration with another two ...
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...
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...
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...
One of the contributors to a recent In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg made the glaringly obvious point that ???clockwise??? is only so because of the sundials that preceded clocks and watches. With most of the R&D being done in the northern hemisphere, th...
via guardian.co.uk I've always enjoyed Clay Shirky's work since happening upon an article of his, or an interview perhaps, a few years ago. Some of the criticisms of his work focus on its sometimes evangelising nature, but I'm struck by the insigh...
Three resources, linked and embedded to and from social media, on the subject of media and events ??? specifically the Olympic Games. ___ Dr David McGillivray at the launch of the #citizenrelay project ___ Professor Andy Miah on The 360 Olympic Medi...
Eight years ago today I sent the last in a series of diary emails home, missives which I've since been reposting on this blog. I hadn't intended for this to be the final one, but it took on a life of its own after it had been sent, so perhaps it w...