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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...
Part three of the DREaM sequence took place in the British Library???s conference facilities on Monday 30 January ??? full details are here, presentation videos are here (for community members). This was the half way mark in a series of events that I???...
Having been socialised into a society that worships the ???0??? I???m using a small anniversary to ponder social music. Just as we celebrated the arrival of the year 2000 with fireworks (and fears that it would kill our computers and bring planes out of...
Part two of my New Zealand tales, back on schedule as this was originally sent eight years ago today. Some poetic meanderings about the brilliant wonderfulness of the flora, geology and water cycle are followed by a quick summary of Christmas when...
I've been using this blog to post some travelogue emails I wrote to friends and families when I was a young, carefree global vagrant. Blogs had barely entered my vocabulary at this point, so I recklessly invaded the inboxes of my nearest and deare...