School of Computing

Cyber Security Career Showcase
Apr 4, 2016

Location 4 April 2016 13.00 - 16.00 pm

Description This showcase event aims to demonstrate the career roles that there are within Cyber Security, and includes companies who are activitely seeking Cyber Security graduates.
It runs from 1pm until 4pm on Monday 4 April 2016 in The Glass Room at the Merchiston Campus. The event is hosted in collaboration with NTT Com.

People Bill Buchanan

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Distributed Computing, Networking and Security

Location	4 April 2016 13.00 - 16.00 pm
Description	This showcase event aims to demonstrate the career roles that there are within Cyber Security, and includes companies who are activitely seeking Cyber Security graduates. It runs from 1pm until 4pm on Monday 4 April 2016 in The Glass Room at the Merchiston Campus. The event is hosted in collaboration with NTT Com.
People	Bill Buchanan
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Distributed Computing, Networking and Security

Head of Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) to provide Keynote Talk at Big Data in Cyber Security Conference
Feb 17, 2016

Description Stevie Wilson will provide a key talk at the International Conference on Big Data in Cyber Security on 10 May in Edinburgh.
Steve is currently the Head of Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), which supports activities around cybercrime investigations in EU Member States. EC3 thus provides a pooling cyber intelligence in order to fight cybercrime networks at EU level and to coordination with law enforcement authorities outside the EU.
The increasing usage of data within cyber investigations is thus a key focus for EC3 and Stevie aims to outline how intelligence gathering and the sharing and analysis of data will be used across the EU, in order to combat a range of threats.
The conference is one of a number of conference events hosted by The Cyber Academy.

OutlineThe world is moving towards Big Data, and Cyber Security is one of leading applications of this, where events are tracked across a network infrastructure. Along with this the threats to organisations increase by the day, and many organisations have moved towards the integration of SIEM (Secure Incident and Event Management) to detect malicious activity.
This event is hosted by The Cyber Academy, in collaboration with HP and ISACA, and aims to investigate best practice within industry and look to future infrastructures of Big Data for the benefit of organisations in not only monitoring security events, but also in the automated generation of auditing information and business analytics.
The application of SIEM is now being applied in many areas including with security monitoring, incident response and Cyber Crime investigation, and the event aims to showcase best practice in industry and in investigations.
More details here:

http://thecyberacademy.org/events/bigdata/
Bio
Mr Wilson completed 30 years of service with Police Scotland, previously having also served with Strathclyde Police, Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary. He has worked in a wide range of Senior Detective roles including major investigations, counter terrorism, covert policing, management of sex offenders, fugitives and witness protection. He had responsibility for all aspects of cyber and cyber enabled　 crime in Scotland and sat on government, industry and academic groups. He also represented Scotland on UK national and European cyber groups.

People Bill Buchanan
Rich Macfarlane
Gordon Russell
Jamie Brogan

Research Areas Cyber-security

Themes AI and Technologies

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Distributed Computing, Networking and Security

Description	Stevie Wilson will provide a key talk at the International Conference on Big Data in Cyber Security on 10 May in Edinburgh. Steve is currently the Head of Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), which supports activities around cybercrime investigations in EU Member States. EC3 thus provides a pooling cyber intelligence in order to fight cybercrime networks at EU level and to coordination with law enforcement authorities outside the EU. The increasing usage of data within cyber investigations is thus a key focus for EC3 and Stevie aims to outline how intelligence gathering and the sharing and analysis of data will be used across the EU, in order to combat a range of threats. The conference is one of a number of conference events hosted by The Cyber Academy. OutlineThe world is moving towards Big Data, and Cyber Security is one of leading applications of this, where events are tracked across a network infrastructure. Along with this the threats to organisations increase by the day, and many organisations have moved towards the integration of SIEM (Secure Incident and Event Management) to detect malicious activity. This event is hosted by The Cyber Academy, in collaboration with HP and ISACA, and aims to investigate best practice within industry and look to future infrastructures of Big Data for the benefit of organisations in not only monitoring security events, but also in the automated generation of auditing information and business analytics. The application of SIEM is now being applied in many areas including with security monitoring, incident response and Cyber Crime investigation, and the event aims to showcase best practice in industry and in investigations. More details here: http://thecyberacademy.org/events/bigdata/ Bio Mr Wilson completed 30 years of service with Police Scotland, previously having also served with Strathclyde Police, Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary. He has worked in a wide range of Senior Detective roles including major investigations, counter terrorism, covert policing, management of sex offenders, fugitives and witness protection. He had responsibility for all aspects of cyber and cyber enabled　 crime in Scotland and sat on government, industry and academic groups. He also represented Scotland on UK national and European cyber groups.
People	Bill Buchanan Rich Macfarlane Gordon Russell Jamie Brogan
Research Areas	Cyber-security
Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Distributed Computing, Networking and Security

Academics from the Ionian University of Corfu visit the School of Computing
Apr 11, 2016

Description Dr Petros Kostagiolas and Dr Christina Banou, both from the Ionian University of Corfu took part in an Erasmus exchange with the School of Computing in the week beginning 11th April 2016.

Their visit was organised jointly by Brian Davison, who hosted a research seminar at which both speakers presented, and Hazel Hall, who invited the visitors to contributed to a two-day ESRC-funded training event for students undertaking doctoral studies in Information Science and other related disciplines. 

Davison will be making a reciprocal trip to Greece in October 2016.

People Brian Davison

Research Areas Information science
Social informatics

Themes AI and Technologies

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Social Informatics

Description	Dr Petros Kostagiolas and Dr Christina Banou, both from the Ionian University of Corfu took part in an Erasmus exchange with the School of Computing in the week beginning 11th April 2016. Their visit was organised jointly by Brian Davison, who hosted a research seminar at which both speakers presented, and Hazel Hall, who invited the visitors to contributed to a two-day ESRC-funded training event for students undertaking doctoral studies in Information Science and other related disciplines.  Davison will be making a reciprocal trip to Greece in October 2016.
People	Brian Davison
Research Areas	Information science Social informatics
Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Social Informatics

CodeRace - A competitive event for teams of four cyclists. Teams have to visit locations displayed on a mobile app and solve clues to claim them.
Aug 4, 2012

Location Edinburgh - city-wide

Description A competitive event for teams of four cyclists. Teams have to visit locations displayed on a mobile app and solve clues to claim them. The team with the largest number of locations at the end of the game wins.

The original event was reported here by one of the competitors: https://river.cat/2012/08/Coderace

The game was later run for other groups including students at ESISAR in Valence, France, and in St. Andrews as an activity for students of the Destination Leaders Programme (Edinburgh Napier Business School).

People Brian Davison

Research Areas Software systems

Themes AI and Technologies
Health

URL http://www.coderace.co.uk/

Location	Edinburgh - city-wide
Description	A competitive event for teams of four cyclists. Teams have to visit locations displayed on a mobile app and solve clues to claim them. The team with the largest number of locations at the end of the game wins. The original event was reported here by one of the competitors: https://river.cat/2012/08/Coderace The game was later run for other groups including students at ESISAR in Valence, France, and in St. Andrews as an activity for students of the Destination Leaders Programme (Edinburgh Napier Business School).
People	Brian Davison
Research Areas	Software systems
Themes	AI and Technologies Health
URL	http://www.coderace.co.uk/

RIVAL (Research Impact Value and LIS) #lis_rival
Jul 11, 2018

Location Room 1/10, Craiglockhart Campus

Description Entitled Research Impact Value and LIS (RIVAL), this event brought together members of three main groups – creators, users, and end-user beneficiaries of LIS research output – to explore concepts and examples of the impact and value of LIS research to services delivery in practice. The format of the day encouraged the strengthening of links between these interacting communities, narrowing of gaps between LIS research and practice, and laying the ground for future research-related support and collaborations across the sector.

There were practitioner delegates from a range of libraries (academic, health, national, prison, public, special), plus others from the research community, the main UK professional body for library and information professionals, and independent consultants. Organisations represented were:

Birmingham City University
British Library
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)
City of Edinburgh Council
Department for International Development
Edinburgh City Libraries
Edinburgh Napier University
Goldsmiths, University of London
Healthcare Improvement Scotland
LKN Foundation
National Library of Scotland
Northumbria University
Scottish Poetry Library
Scottish Prison Service College
University College London
University of East Anglia
University of Edinburgh
University of Salford
University of Strathclyde

For further information, including the full programme and links to presentation slides, please see: https://hazelhall.org/2018/07/11/follow-lis_rival-for-updates-on-research-impact-value-lis-at-edinburgh-napier-today/

People Bruce Ryan

Research Areas Information science

Themes AI and Technologies

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Social Informatics

URL https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rival-research-impact-value-and-lis-lis-rival-registration-45585730146#

Location	Room 1/10, Craiglockhart Campus
Description	Entitled Research Impact Value and LIS (RIVAL), this event brought together members of three main groups – creators, users, and end-user beneficiaries of LIS research output – to explore concepts and examples of the impact and value of LIS research to services delivery in practice. The format of the day encouraged the strengthening of links between these interacting communities, narrowing of gaps between LIS research and practice, and laying the ground for future research-related support and collaborations across the sector. There were practitioner delegates from a range of libraries (academic, health, national, prison, public, special), plus others from the research community, the main UK professional body for library and information professionals, and independent consultants. Organisations represented were: Birmingham City University British Library Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) City of Edinburgh Council Department for International Development Edinburgh City Libraries Edinburgh Napier University Goldsmiths, University of London Healthcare Improvement Scotland LKN Foundation National Library of Scotland Northumbria University Scottish Poetry Library Scottish Prison Service College University College London University of East Anglia University of Edinburgh University of Salford University of Strathclyde For further information, including the full programme and links to presentation slides, please see: https://hazelhall.org/2018/07/11/follow-lis_rival-for-updates-on-research-impact-value-lis-at-edinburgh-napier-today/
People	Bruce Ryan
Research Areas	Information science
Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Social Informatics
URL	https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rival-research-impact-value-and-lis-lis-rival-registration-45585730146#

Activity theory as a tool for data analysis - School of Computing Seminar Series
Sep 6, 2017

Location Core44, room C44, Merchiston Campus

Description This seminar reports on recent research designed to understand how community-level elected representatives (Scotland’s community councillors)
1. learn about their roles
2. gather, process and share information of interest to the citizens they represent and higher authorities such as local authorities (e.g. Edinburgh Council, NHS Lothian).

In this presentation, and the corresponding conference paper, Activity Theory is presented as a framework for explaining Information Literacy as a technologically mediated social practice.
This work demonstrates the value of Activity Theory as
· a tool for Information Literacy research that seeks to present information practices in their social contexts
· as a means of highlighting underlying issues within the social environment under review through the identification of contradictions within the activity system.
These aspects of the research are particularly important because Information Literacy is generally conceived as an aspect of individuals, particularly students in higher education. However, work roles involving information gathering, processing and sharing are often collective/social, and mediated by workplace hierarchies and norms.

People Simon Wells
Bruce Ryan

Research Areas Information society
eGovernment

Themes AI and Technologies

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Social Informatics

Location	Core44, room C44, Merchiston Campus
Description	This seminar reports on recent research designed to understand how community-level elected representatives (Scotland’s community councillors) 1. learn about their roles 2. gather, process and share information of interest to the citizens they represent and higher authorities such as local authorities (e.g. Edinburgh Council, NHS Lothian). In this presentation, and the corresponding conference paper, Activity Theory is presented as a framework for explaining Information Literacy as a technologically mediated social practice. This work demonstrates the value of Activity Theory as · a tool for Information Literacy research that seeks to present information practices in their social contexts · as a means of highlighting underlying issues within the social environment under review through the identification of contradictions within the activity system. These aspects of the research are particularly important because Information Literacy is generally conceived as an aspect of individuals, particularly students in higher education. However, work roles involving information gathering, processing and sharing are often collective/social, and mediated by workplace hierarchies and norms.
People	Simon Wells Bruce Ryan
Research Areas	Information society eGovernment
Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Social Informatics

digiCC workshop, Glasgow
Mar 4, 2016

Location 22 March at Banqueting Hall, Glasgow City Chambers, George St, Glasgow G2 1DU

Description Peter Cruickshank and Bruce Ryan will run a workshop on digital engagement for community councils in Glasgow this month. This workshop will bring together community council members from Glasgow and environs to learn and share knowledge on how CCs can use the internet to engage with their citizens. It will enable CC members to learn of support for CCs from the Scottish Government and the Improvement Service, and to learn about the Democratic Society's work on participatory budgeting.

The workshop is funded from Edinburgh Napier University's public engagement stream and hosted by Glasgow City Council Democratic Services team.

People Peter Cruickshank
Bruce Ryan

Research Areas Information society

Themes AI and Technologies

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Social Informatics

Location	22 March at Banqueting Hall, Glasgow City Chambers, George St, Glasgow G2 1DU
Description	Peter Cruickshank and Bruce Ryan will run a workshop on digital engagement for community councils in Glasgow this month. This workshop will bring together community council members from Glasgow and environs to learn and share knowledge on how CCs can use the internet to engage with their citizens. It will enable CC members to learn of support for CCs from the Scottish Government and the Improvement Service, and to learn about the Democratic Society's work on participatory budgeting. The workshop is funded from Edinburgh Napier University's public engagement stream and hosted by Glasgow City Council Democratic Services team.
People	Peter Cruickshank Bruce Ryan
Research Areas	Information society
Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Social Informatics

Digital engagement report published
Jan 27, 2016

Location 27/01/2016

Description Peter Cruickshank and Bruce Ryan today publish their report on workshops on digital engagement for Community Council and Registered Tenant Organisation members.  Key findings include CCs’ frequent lack of human resources, without which digital engagement their citizens is a non-starter. Suggested solutions include planning around the needed human resources, tailored training and demonstrations of the benefits of digital engagement, improving contact channels for CCs and RTOs, and promotion of the KnowledgeHub and national website for community councils, so that skills and knowledge can be shared and grown.
Marco Biaggi, Minister for Local Government and Community Empowerment welcomed the report, demonstrating the continuing practical value and positive impact of CSI’s research.

People Bruce Ryan
Peter Cruickshank

Research Areas eGovernment

Themes AI and Technologies

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Social Informatics

Location	27/01/2016
Description	Peter Cruickshank and Bruce Ryan today publish their report on workshops on digital engagement for Community Council and Registered Tenant Organisation members.  Key findings include CCs’ frequent lack of human resources, without which digital engagement their citizens is a non-starter. Suggested solutions include planning around the needed human resources, tailored training and demonstrations of the benefits of digital engagement, improving contact channels for CCs and RTOs, and promotion of the KnowledgeHub and national website for community councils, so that skills and knowledge can be shared and grown. Marco Biaggi, Minister for Local Government and Community Empowerment welcomed the report, demonstrating the continuing practical value and positive impact of CSI’s research.
People	Bruce Ryan Peter Cruickshank
Research Areas	eGovernment
Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Social Informatics

Hasten Slowly
Aug 26, 2021

Location The Lions' Gate Garden: ENU, 10 Colinton Road, EH10 5DT

Description Over 30 attendees ate, drank, blethered, engaged, questioned, laughed, listened, chilled-out, and learnt a thing or two about what living sustainably actually is.
We unveiled our interactive storytelling chair and memorial to Professor David Benyon, crafted by Neil Fyffe (https://www.facebook.com/Neil-Fyffes-Workshop-1405191703026383). Brian Davison demonstrated an environmental sensor network developed in collaboration with students. Kris Plum exhibited an interactive plastics-recycling bin. Aisling Murphy delved into the wildlife and plants of The Lions' Gate and demonstrated Shona Burns' interactive Lions' Gate audio tour. Graham Bell talked eloquently of the history of Hasten Slowly (Festina Lente), the impact of climate collapse, and shared insights into how to live sustainably. Participants added their wishes to our COP26 Wishing Tree on tags with seeds embedded in them, that we'll plant up as a COP26 garden. Juliete, Sally and Zhoa served up - herb teas, courgette cake and pizzas. Allan MacMillan provided soothing background to it all with delightful acoustic guitar work.
We kept the door to the library open, and inside was a wee chill-out area next to our book case.

People Callum Egan

Research Areas Ethics and sustainability

Themes Culture and Communities
Health
AI and Technologies

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Interaction Design

URL https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/thelionsgate/

Location	The Lions' Gate Garden: ENU, 10 Colinton Road, EH10 5DT
Description	Over 30 attendees ate, drank, blethered, engaged, questioned, laughed, listened, chilled-out, and learnt a thing or two about what living sustainably actually is. We unveiled our interactive storytelling chair and memorial to Professor David Benyon, crafted by Neil Fyffe (https://www.facebook.com/Neil-Fyffes-Workshop-1405191703026383). Brian Davison demonstrated an environmental sensor network developed in collaboration with students. Kris Plum exhibited an interactive plastics-recycling bin. Aisling Murphy delved into the wildlife and plants of The Lions' Gate and demonstrated Shona Burns' interactive Lions' Gate audio tour. Graham Bell talked eloquently of the history of Hasten Slowly (Festina Lente), the impact of climate collapse, and shared insights into how to live sustainably. Participants added their wishes to our COP26 Wishing Tree on tags with seeds embedded in them, that we'll plant up as a COP26 garden. Juliete, Sally and Zhoa served up - herb teas, courgette cake and pizzas. Allan MacMillan provided soothing background to it all with delightful acoustic guitar work. We kept the door to the library open, and inside was a wee chill-out area next to our book case.
People	Callum Egan
Research Areas	Ethics and sustainability
Themes	Culture and Communities Health AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Interaction Design
URL	https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/thelionsgate/

Social Media and Society 2016
Jul 11, 2016

Location Goldsmiths College, London

Description Ella Taylor-Smith presented the paper "Non-public eParticipation in social media spaces" at Social Media and Society 2016.
Paper: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2930974
Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/EllaTaylorSmith/nonpublic-eparticipation-in-social-media-spaces

Abstract: This paper focuses on the importance of non-public social media
spaces in contemporary democratic participation at the grassroots
level, based on case studies of citizen-led, community and activist
groups. The research pilots the concept of participation spaces to
reify online and offline contexts where people participate in
democracy. Participation spaces include social media presences,
websites, blogs, email, paper media, and physical spaces. This
approach enables the parallel study of diverse spaces (more or less
public; on and offline). Participation spaces were investigated
across three local groups, through interviews and participant
observation; then modelled as Socio-Technical Interaction
Networks (STINs) [1].
This research provides an alternative and richer picture of social
media use, within eParticipation, to studies solely based on public
Internet content, such as data sets of tweets. In the participation
spaces studies most communication takes place in non-public
contexts, such as closed Facebook groups, email, and face-to-face
meetings. Non-public social media spaces are particularly
effective in supporting collaboration between people from diverse
social groups. These spaces can be understood as boundary
objects [2] and play strong roles in democracy.

People Ella Taylor-Smith
Colin Smith

Research Areas Social informatics

Themes AI and Technologies

Research Centres/Groups Centre for Social Informatics

URL https://socialmediaandsociety.org/

Location	Goldsmiths College, London
Description	Ella Taylor-Smith presented the paper "Non-public eParticipation in social media spaces" at Social Media and Society 2016. Paper: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2930974 Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/EllaTaylorSmith/nonpublic-eparticipation-in-social-media-spaces Abstract: This paper focuses on the importance of non-public social media spaces in contemporary democratic participation at the grassroots level, based on case studies of citizen-led, community and activist groups. The research pilots the concept of participation spaces to reify online and offline contexts where people participate in democracy. Participation spaces include social media presences, websites, blogs, email, paper media, and physical spaces. This approach enables the parallel study of diverse spaces (more or less public; on and offline). Participation spaces were investigated across three local groups, through interviews and participant observation; then modelled as Socio-Technical Interaction Networks (STINs) [1]. This research provides an alternative and richer picture of social media use, within eParticipation, to studies solely based on public Internet content, such as data sets of tweets. In the participation spaces studies most communication takes place in non-public contexts, such as closed Facebook groups, email, and face-to-face meetings. Non-public social media spaces are particularly effective in supporting collaboration between people from diverse social groups. These spaces can be understood as boundary objects [2] and play strong roles in democracy.
People	Ella Taylor-Smith Colin Smith
Research Areas	Social informatics
Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Social Informatics
URL	https://socialmediaandsociety.org/

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