I have the following actual and potential work-streams.
Title | What is it? | Funder | Status, dates and notes |
Longitudinal Information literacy for democratic engagement (LIL-DEM) | Further research into factors affecting community councillors’ information literacies | Edinburgh Napier University | to start, February to April 2017 |
Information literacy for democratic engagement (IL-DEM) | Research into factors affecting community councillors’ information literacies | CILIP‘s Information Literacy Group | finished, October 2016 to January 2017 |
DigiCC workshops | How can community councils improve their digital engagement with citizens | Edinburgh Napier University, Scottish Government | finished, January 2015 to January 2016 |
Delivering on DREaM | researcher/practitioner knowledge-sharing in Library and Information Science, supervised by Professor Hazel Hall | CILIP | finished, June to July 2015 |
Workforce Mapping | mapping the workforce in the Libraries, Archives, Records, Knowledge and Information Management sector | CILIP, ARA | finished, summer 2014 to summer 2015 |
Hyperlocal government engagement online | Social network analysis and Communities of practice research around 3 Edinburgh CCs | CCN+ | finished, summer 2014 |
Community Council Location Finder | a searchable map of all Scottish Community Councils | Improvement Service | finished, spring 2014
My version is archived here, and the current version created by the Improvement Service is here. |
2014 survey of community council internet presences | How well do CCs use the internet to engage with citizens?
What are the lessons and consequences from the findings? |
Edinburgh Napier University | finished, spring 2014 |
2012 survey of community council internet presences | duplicate! | Self-funded | finished, summer 2012 |
Communities of Practice and Knowledge Management around CC digital engagement | 2-year main research project, to extend CCN+ seed-project and other relevant previous work | TBC | funding application in progress, TBC |
Writing paper(s) based on my MSc dissertation, to further updates of technology models | to report on local aspects of CC digital engagement | TBC | to start, TBC |
Visualisation of hyperlocal data | to extend Community Council Location Finder | TBC | to start, TBC |
2017(?) survey of CC online presences | to build on 2012 and 2014 surveys | TBC | to start, TBC |
Digital Proxies | Who guards vulnerable peoples’ digital presences | TBC | idea crystallised, TBC |