Lighting research-talks – photo

I’ve had a bit of involvement with a visit to Edinburgh Napier by Professor Brian Detlor, culminating in the RIVAL Reunion event on 25 May. One of the events during Brian’s visit was lighting talks by members of the Social Informatics research group on 19 May.

Hazel has blogged about the content of these talks but the picture below doesn’t show me – thus relieving your eyestrain!

From left to right: Professor Diane Pennington, Drew Feeney, Maria Cecil, Tomasz Stupnicki, Aleksander Bielinski, Rachel Salzano, Dr David Brazier, Dr Peter Cruickshank, Emeritus Professor Hazel Hall and Professor Brian Detlor.

‘It took how long?’: a story of publishing academic research

Five years ago – in 2018 – Dr Wegene Demeke and I were awarded £10,000 from the Global Challenges Research Fund for a visit to São Paulo City, Brazil, to begin to investigate the extent to which participatory budgeting (PB – Orçamento Participativo in Portuguese) benefits the very poor. Our research visit took place in January 2019, but it has taken to now – May 2023 – to get a paper accepted for publication. So why did this process take 5 years?

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