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The Communities of Practice model for understanding digital engagement by hyperlocal elected representatives (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2016). The Communities of Practice model for understanding digital engagement by hyperlocal elected representatives. In E. Tambouris, H. Jochen Scholl, M. Janssen, M. A. Wimmer, K. Tarabanis, M. Gascó, …Ø. Sæbø (Eds.), Electronic Government and Electronic Participation (11-18). https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-570-8-11

There has been much research into citizens’ engagement with their representatives. This paper offers an approach to understanding sustained take-up of internet technologies by these representatives in a (hyperlocal) democratic context using Community... Read More about The Communities of Practice model for understanding digital engagement by hyperlocal elected representatives.

A study of the UK Information Workforce. (2016)
Report
Hall, H., Irving, C., Ryan, B., Raeside, R., Dutton, M., & Chen, T. (2016). A study of the UK Information Workforce. London: The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

In 2014, CILIP and the Archives Records Association (UK & Ireland) (ARA) commissioned Edinburgh Napier University to undertake major research to map the workforce across the Library, Archives, Records, Information and Knowledge Management Services an... Read More about A study of the UK Information Workforce..

Interviews with Community Councillors for IL-DEm project November - December 2016 (2016)
Dataset
Hall, H., Cruickshank, P., & Ryan, B. (2016). Interviews with Community Councillors for IL-DEm project November - December 2016. [Dataset]. https://doi.org/10.17869/ENU.2017.682133

Transcripts of semi-structured interviews with 19 Community Councillors from around Scotland. Most questions were around their use of information skills, for a project around information literacy in community-level democracy, but some questions were... Read More about Interviews with Community Councillors for IL-DEm project November - December 2016.

Digital engagement workshop for community councils: Glasgow 2016 report. (2016)
Report
Ryan, B., & Cruickshank, P. (2016). Digital engagement workshop for community councils: Glasgow 2016 report

This report covers a workshop on digital engagement for Community Councils supported by the School of Computing's public engagement fund. It was held in Glasgow on 22 March 2016. The workshop combined presentations by subject experts with attendee-... Read More about Digital engagement workshop for community councils: Glasgow 2016 report..

Digital engagement workshops for Community Councils and Registered Tenant Organisations (2016)
Report
Ryan, B., & Cruickshank, P. (2016). Digital engagement workshops for Community Councils and Registered Tenant Organisations. Scotland: Scottish Government

In October and November 2015 Edinburgh Napier University (Napier) hosted a series of workshops on digital engagement for Community Councillors and representatives of Registered Tenants Organisations. These ‘#digiCC’ workshops were held in Ayr, Elgin,... Read More about Digital engagement workshops for Community Councils and Registered Tenant Organisations.