I write these pieces every 6 months. This one will be my ‘about my research’ contribution to the Applied Informatics research community gathering on Wednesday 11 February. (At previous Centre for Social Informatics all-centre gatherings I’ve been incapable of speech by the time it’s my turn to report.[1] But this is mostly because I hate public speaking.) Click this link to see all the pieces in this series.
Continue readingI write these pieces every 6 months, usually for the Centre for Social Informatics’ all-centre meetings. (I’m usually incapable of speech by the time it’s my turn to report.[1]) Click this link to see all the pieces in this series.
Continue readingI write these pieces every 6 months, usually for the Centre for Social Informatics’ all-centre meetings. (I’m usually incapable of speech by the time it’s my turn to report.[1]) I’m still really miffed that we can’t get together in person. Click this link to see all the pieces in this series.
Continue readingI write these pieces every 6 months, usually for the Centre for Social Informatics’ all-centre meetings. (I’m usually incapable of speech by the time it’s my turn to report.[1]) Really miffed that we can’t get together in person this time. Click this link to see all the pieces in this series. Continue reading
This was originally written as a ‘reserve’ presentation for RIVAL event 3‘s ‘sharing our skills’ section. Fortunately enough people who are good at presenting volunteered, so Hazel Hall suggested I turn it into a blog-post.
So here it is. The first part is a whistle-stop tour through my current ‘life under lockdown’; the second part is some lessons from recent online conferences I’ve attended, and from many community council online meetings. It’s meant to be somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but with some genuine lessons and realisations.
I should admit that the title of this post is a deliberate misnomer. I’ve despaired over many things, but turning RIVAL events virtual is not one of them. (It has been a lot of work though.)
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I recently attended an European chapter of ASIS&T Information Science Trends online conference This year it focussed on health information hehaviour. The following are my digitally-assisted memories of #AECIST20, i.e. adaptations of my live-tweets from the event. As ever, this report is mostly to help me sort what I need to do from what I want to do after being stimulated by many fascinating presentations. Any mistakes or misrepresentations in the below are of course my mistakes. Continue reading
My personal side has been blowing his trumpet:
Read more at https://bruceryandontexist.info/2019/10/31/bruce-of-all-trades/
| When | What | outcome and notes |
| December to early January | marking Work-based learning mid-year reports | Success: Marking was done, including handling students’ queries, and writing and delivering a presentation on how I will mark final reports. |
| January | PB in Brazil: whether and how PB benefits the very poor in Sao Paulo | work on a paper was stalled for ages. It took until late June to get a focus-group transcribed. Translation is to follow… |
| February to May | running WriteNow! sessions on Wednesday afternoons |
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| February onwards | RIVAL: 4 networking events in 2019-2020 for Library and Information Scientists and practitioners | See project website for details. |
| March onwards | GCRF map/database The Scottish Funding Council wants a map of all of the GCRF projects it funds. Image of possible look-and-feel is here | awaiting contract-signature |
| February, May | Internal examiner for 3 BIT MSc students | All three passed. (Credit belongs to the students and their supervisors!) |
| April-May | Writing RFC funding applications |
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| May | Marking Computing in Contemporary Society courseworks | Work was done. |
| June | Marking Work-based learning final reports | work in progress |
| January onwards | minuting meetings between Community Councils Together on Trams and Edinburgh Council’s Trams Team | better citizen-involvement? |
| September 2018 onwards | member of £eith Chooses steering group | Success! See website. Survey on possible improvements due to close soon. |
| since time immemorial | minutes and websites for three Edinburgh community councils: Leith Central, Leith Harbour & Newhaven, New Town & Broughton | Success, I think: better recording and publicising of hyperlocal government activities |
| ongoing | taking part in various democracy events, e.g. practical democracy project, Democracy Alive | Some better understanding of what various bodies are doing to improve democracy. I’m not sure how effective they will be, or what my role should be. |
So I did go out to try to sample São Paulo night life.
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