Alistair Lawson's Supervisions (5)

PhD
Doctorate

Level	Doctorate
Student	Mr Aleksander Bielinski
Status	Current
Part Time	No
Years	2021
Project Title	Enhancing Labour Market Intelligence using Machine Learning
Awarding Institution	Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies	David Brazier
Second Supervisor	Dimitra Gkatzia
Additional Supervisor	Alistair Lawson

PhD
Doctorate

Level	Doctorate
Student	Connor Sword
Status	Withdrawn
Part Time	No
Years	2021
Project Title	Design of a smart system for pathogen detection in bathing water using deep learning
Awarding Institution	Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies	Abdelfateh Kerrouche
Second Supervisor	Alistair Lawson
Additional Supervisor	Sonja Rueckert

PhD
Doctorate

Level	Doctorate
Student	Hannah Law
Status	Withdrawn
Part Time	Yes
Years	2019
Project Title	Implications and recommendations for the management of medical advisory notifications in clinical cardiology
Awarding Institution	Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies	Lis Neubeck
Second Supervisor	Coral Hanson
Additional Supervisor	Alistair Lawson

PhD
Doctorate

Level	Doctorate
Student	Dr Paul Lapok
Status	Complete
Part Time	No
Years	2015 - 2020
Project Title	Evolving planar mechanisms for the conceptual stage of mechanical design
Awarding Institution	Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies	Alistair Lawson
Second Supervisor	Ben Paechter

PhD
Doctorate

Level	Doctorate
Student	Dr Frances Ryan
Status	Complete
Part Time	No
Years	2013 - 2019
Project Title	Reputation management in a digital world: The role of online information in the building, management, and evaluation of personal reputations
Project Description	This PhD is concerned with the role of online information in the creation, building, and evaluation of personal reputations. In this context term “personal reputation” refers to the reputation of private individuals rather than corporate identity and brand. Two broad research themes are being investigated: (1) the means by which people evaluate or assess the personal reputations of others from the online evidence available to them and (2) how people manage their own personal reputations through their use of online information, and to what extent those behaviours are intentional. These themes are addressed with reference to the broader information science literature on information behaviour and use, including aspects of bibliometric research that focuses on citation practice and citation analysis and prior work on everyday life information seeking (ELIS). The interdisciplinary nature of the research themes means that much of the relevant academic literature has been found to be dispersed across a number of other subject domains. Included in this are articles from computing, employment research, human-computer interaction, human resources management, information systems, management and organisational studies, marketing, media and communication studies, and physical and mental health. These themes and concepts are also researched in the domain of information science through citation analysis. Citations can help to build a researcher’s own identity and reputation as well as the identity and reputations of others, as well as help researchers increase their visibility among peers. These citations can impact both the researchers giving the citation and the researchers receiving the citation. In addition to traditional academic literature, an examination of non-academic sources—for example current news stories, as well as reported trends in social media use—has been undertaken. These non-academic sources indicate that topics related to information seeking behaviour, as related to personal reputation management, are also of interest to professionals in human resources and reputation management fields, social media practitioners and owners, and managers of online platforms and social networking sites, as well as a large portion of society as a whole. The research approach adopted for this study involves the use of participant diaries and in-depth, semi-structured interviews, as is common in ELIS studies. A multi-step data collection process has been undertaken where participants were asked to keep a diary over the course of one week as they engaged with their social media accounts. Following the completion of the diaries, participants took part in hour-long, semi-structured interviews. Short participant surveys were also conducted prior to the diary exercise to collect demographic and social media use data.
Awarding Institution	Edinburgh Napier University
Second Supervisor	Alistair Lawson
Additional Supervisor	Peter Cruickshank