Dr Colin Smith's Recognition (16)

External Examiner (PhD) - Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
2020

Description	Invited to act as Overseas Examiner for a PhD thesis titled: Surmounting Boundaries: Closing the Governance Gap. Governance arrangements in public sector ICT shared services (PSISS)
Research Areas	Information society Social informatics
Research Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Social Informatics

UUK / Department for Education roundtable
2019 - 2019

Description	Invited member of this roundtable held jointly by Universities UK and the Department for Employment, on supporting the development of digital skills and enhancing the employability of computer science graduates
Research Areas	Employability Information society
Research Themes	AI and Technologies Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Higher Education Research
Projects	e-Placement Scotland
Org Units	School of Computing

External Examiner (PhD) - Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
2018

Description	Invited to act as PhD external examiner by Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand "From street-level to screen-level bureaucracy: Front-line public servants’ recordkeeping behaviours in ICT-enabled agencies" Rapson, Anita
Research Areas	Information science Information society Social informatics
Research Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Social Informatics
Org Units	School of Computing

Grasping a Jellyfish? Some problematic aspects of 'Belonging'
2018

Description	Invited to address the opening session of the SHED (Scottish Higher Education Developers) meeting
Research Areas	Social informatics
Research Themes	AI and Technologies Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Social Informatics
Org Units	School of Computing
URL	https://scottishhedevelopers.wordpress.com/2018/09/17/shed-27th-september-2018-university-of-the-west-of-scotland-paisley-campus-a-sense-of-belonging-what-does-it-mean-why-does-it-matter/

External Examiner for BSc Information Systems, Heriot-Watt University
2018 - 2022

Affiliated Organisations	Heriot-Watt University
Org Units	School of Computing

Programme Committee Member - BHCI
2017

Research Areas	Information science Information society
Research Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Social Informatics
Org Units	School of Computing
URL	http://hci2017.bcs.org/outline-programme/

Digital Skills for Graduates
2016

Description	Invited speaker at this event held by Holyrood Conferences https://www.holyrood.com/event/digital-skills-graduates
Research Areas	Employability Education
Research Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Higher Education Research
Org Units	School of Computing

Employability and Social Mobility Workshop - 'Exploring Barriers'
2016

Description	Invited speaker at event held by the SRHE Network for Employability, Enterprise and Work Based Learning https://www.srhe.ac.uk/networks/employability_enterprise_and_work-based_learning.asp
Research Areas	Education
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Higher Education Research
Org Units	School of Computing

Member of ISO-WACE Advisory Board
2016

Research Areas	Education
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Higher Education Research
Org Units	School of Computing
URL	https://www.hv.se/en/work-integrated-learning/wace/

Member of Reviewers Panel: Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
2015

Research Areas	Education
Research Themes	Culture and Communities
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Higher Education Research
Org Units	School of Computing

External Examiner (PhD), University of Derby
2014

Description	Invited to act as PhD external examiner by the University of Derby "e-Government Implementation and adoption: a case study of Botswana Government" Moatshe, Racious M.
Research Areas	eGovernment Information society
Research Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Social Informatics
Org Units	School of Computing

Member of the Editorial Board: Information Polity
2013

Research Areas	eGovernment Information society
Research Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Social Informatics
Org Units	School of Computing

External Examiner (PhD), University of Udine, Italy
2011

Description	Invited to act as PhD external examiner by The University of Udine, Italy "The Internet and the Structural Elements of Bureaucracy: the case of Venice Local Government" Alfano, Giuseppe
Research Areas	eGovernment Information society
Research Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Social Informatics
Org Units	School of Computing

Reviews Editor: Information Polity
2010 - 2013

Description	The journal is dedicated to publishing work from two main sources: academic and practitioner. The journal publishes work from academics that is both of top quality and, equally, of high strategic relevance to practitioners. Secondly, the journal is intent on publishing work undertaken by practitioners – professional, administrative and political – who are actively engaged in the broad arenas of government and democracy, whether at local, regional, national or supra-national levels. http://www.iospress.nl/journal/information-polity/
Research Areas	eGovernment Information society
Research Themes	AI and Technologies
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Social Informatics
Org Units	School of Computing

External Examiner (MBA), Liverpool John Moores University
2009 - 2013

Description	External Examiner on the MBA programme, covering information management, international business & IT, research methods and dissertation.
Affiliated Organisations	Liverpool John Moores University
Research Centres/Groups	Centre for Social Informatics
Org Units	School of Computing

COST A14 - Government and Democracy in the Information Age
1998 - 2003

Description	COST (Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action (A14), established a European research network spanning 16 countries and around 70 researchers, called GaDIA (Government and Democracy in the Information Age) The network pioneered work on the relations between democracy, politics and ICT, and was instrumental in establishing this as a research field within European political science. One of the UK’s two nominated representatives in the ‘ICTs and Political Organisations’ Working Group (W.G.2), then subsequently appointed as a ‘specialist advisor’ to the ‘Cyberdemocracy’ Working Group (W.G.1).
Research Areas	Information society
Org Units	School of Computing