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 her work for a couple...
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 Napier a couple of years ago...
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... wouldn't you say...
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 groups of Breda students...
(download) Click here to download: culture-hack-scotland-chscot-and-citizen-relay-citizenrelay-on-events-and-projects-and-communities-and-networks-kvHhHcoHarymlnzcapsw.zip (6.48 MB) Here are some notes on two projects...
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 projects and approaches...
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 conference focuses on the...
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, the way we read our...
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 insight he brings to his...
