Travelogue 16: 'away and home 21.02.03'
I remember writing this post as it gook about two weeks to compile and twenty minutes to type up: a compilation of some standout memories from a year in Australia. I returned to the UK with little focus on what was to come next, although it didn't...
Current projects: Twestival and Breda.
I'm involved in two very interesting projects at the moment and this post is to introduce them both and record where we're up to just now with them.___First up is Edinburgh Twestival 2011. Every year cities around the world put together an event f...
The Guardian Hacks SXSW
via guardian.co.uk The Guardian has the best conference-festival-hack-day-event, it's due this time next week. The conference-festival is South by South West, the hack-day is a way to bring people together to make stuff for following SXSW, and the...
Blank canvas: crowdsourcing as curation. (Help needed.)
I want help decorating my flat: the dining/spare room has big empty walls that need filling and I'm looking for suggestions from the web. What do you recommend?This is the next step in transforming what was my tenants' room for my first couple of ...
Travelogue 15: 'january sails 26.01.03'
Eight years ago today, when I was still a carefree backpacker, I posted this despatch from Western Australia. I had just stepped off the tall ship Windeward Bound after a three week voyage around the south west corner of Australia: Fremantle to Al...
Pg Certificate professional study now posted online.
After a year of getting used to my current role as lecturer and programme leader, Edinburgh Napier supported me through their Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning for Higher Education (2008-2010). This is my professional qualification...
Travelogue 14: 'riding through the sand 20.12.02'
Happy new year for 2011.Recent events in Australia have taken me back to my trips out there, prompting another travelogue re-posting. This one covers some great days helping Bruce build his house on Kangaroo Island - here it is on Google Maps. I t...
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...
EventScotland 'International Events Conference' 2010, Perth Concert Hall
Perth Concert Hall hosted yesterday's 'International Events Conference' - a biannual gathering under the auspices of EventScotland. In quick order, some of the key things I took home with me through the chilly, snow covered fields... ___ It was ve...
Minor hurdle negotiated: PhD proposal drafted.
Feeling a sense of slight dizziness just now, I've drafted my PhD proposal and sent it to a couple of colleagues for their thoughts. Referees have also been approached. Hopefully all will be in place by this time next week and I can rest up over C...