#citizenrelay Citizen Relay is just the start
This is a short post with a big link: www.citizenrelay.net Maybe I'll add to the post in the coming days, but for now I'm just glad to have been part of this project to trace the London 2012 Olympic Torch as it travelled around Scotland. I spent W...
Desert Island Kitchen
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 ...
#futr Day 2: FutureEverything, Manchester, May 2012
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...
#futr Day 1: FutureEverything, Manchester, May 2012
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.]
#enubs12 Day 2: Edinburgh Napier University Business School Research Conference 2012
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...
#enubs12 Day 1: Edinburgh Napier University Business School Research Conference 2012
Top image: 'Community for the 21st Century' / flickr.com/photos/choconancy/5613817067/Bottom image: my own! (Taken ahead of the 20x20 event.)
#enubs12 Day 1: Edinburgh Napier University Business School Research Conference 2012
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...
Seeking a little focus for my research
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....
Breda revisiting
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 ...
Culture Hack Scotland (#chscot) and Citizen Relay (#citizenrelay): on events and projects and communities and networks
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...