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Career information podcast

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Harking back to my latest ‘what has Bruce been up to?’ post, the Career Information podcast project is now finished. Everyone is welcome to visit the website and listen to the episodes:

  1. Introduction
  2. Career information skills
  3. Automated career advice and information
  4. Technology, equality and careers

My contributions to this project include creating the website, adding episodes to our RSS.com account and commenting on draft episodes. All the content is from my project-colleagues Professor Pete Robertson, Susan Meldrum, Maria Cecil, Marina Milosheva, Elysha Ramage and Marianne Wilson. The sound-editing work was by Maria Foti Rossitto. Professor Peter Cruickshank contributed to the project development and thoughts on where to go next. (Read more about their contributions on our ‘project team’ page.)

We believe we have very worthwhile episodes covering topics that are very important to any career-seeker and those who advise them, while introducing academic research in an accessible way. We look forward to making the most of this series, and perhaps producing a further series. We are grateful to Edinburgh Napier University’s public engagement team for funding this work.

Please send us your feedback via our contact page!

What has Bruce been up to in the first half of 2023?

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I usually write these pieces every 6 months, although I appear to have not done so at the end of 2022. They have tended to be my contributions to Social Informatics Research Group all-centre gatherings, because I tend to be incapable of speech by the time it’s my turn to report[1].This is mostly because I hate public speaking.

Click this link to see all the pieces in this series.

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The power of audio – presenting archives via podcasts: submission accepted for Shaking the archives conference, Edinburgh, June 2023

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Along with my colleagues Professor Hazel Hall, Marianne Wilson, and Dr Iain McGregor, I am delighted that the submission that we made earlier this year to the Shaking the archive – reconsidering the role of archives in contemporary society conference has been accepted.

This conference takes place at Queen Margaret University Edinburgh between 23rd and 25th June 2023. Delegates at this hybrid, multidisciplinary event will discuss the power of/within archives, while also exploring ways in which archives may be interrogated, re-imagined, and represented.

Please read more about our submission on Hazel’s post. Meanwhile, I look forward to 3 days of interesting discussions. As an information scientist, specifically interested in information literacy (IL), I begin to wonder how IL theory and practice can be used to engage with archives. A very, very quick online search didn’t bring up any hits, so perhaps there is a research gap here. Of course I stand ready to be proven wrong!

What is Bruce up to in the first half of 2022?

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I’ve just updated my list of projects (on my CV page) to include 5 projects that are now current or imminent. They are

  • Platform to Platform, investigating changes in reactions to a historical diary as it moves from a textual platform to an audio platform (podcasts)
  • Heritage organisations and podcasts: scoping study, investigating the research landscape on the role of podcasts in the work of heritage organisations
  • Information Literacy Impact Framework, reviewing relevant literature to create a framework of information literacy impact. (The link is to a post about several new projects in my research group.)
  • Animation and games legacy collection of Scotland, addressing gaps in the documentation of the Scottish animation, visual effects and games sectors
  • Community Councils online 2022, surveying community councils’ online presences.

I’m also doing some marking in April, and contributing to outputs from some previous projects. This includes waiting to see what changes the reviewers want me to make to a paper submitted to ISIC 2022. I can’t tell you how much I want to go to Berlin!

And a big shout out to my colleagues on these projects and outputs: David Brazier, Alison Brettle, Peter Cruickshank, Pritam Chita, Wegene Demeke, Paul Gooding, Hazel Hall, Ingi Helgason, Iain McGregor, Marina Milosheva, Jon Mortimer, Gemma Webster, Marianne Wilson, 2 MSc students on the MSc/CPP programme.