Why Public Libraries? An Art Exhibition for Refugee Festival Scotland 2022
Jun 17, 2022
Location Wester Hailes Public Library, Edinburgh. Description This project was part of a larger PhD study about the relationship between culture and public library use. This portion of the project was used creative research methods and co-production techniques to develop the exhibition's content. The exhibition had the goal of showcasing refugee and asylum seeker perspectives of the public library. The end product sparked conversation and understanding among community members, emphasising the importance of public libraries. People Rachel Salzano
Events (9)
School of Computing PhD Workshop Series - Final Event
Oct 31, 2018
Location 16:00 in CoRe44 (room C44) Merchiston Campus Description Please join us for the closing event of the PhD masterclass. As a reminder, PhD masterclass was a seminar series run last semester to promote knowledge and skills exchange between students. For this closing event, there will be 4 short talks on:
How can students take a step towards research impact?
Lindsey Middleton
How to simplify reality ? An introduction to the purposes and approaches of modelling
Cedric Perret
Why statistics matter
Sean McKeown
Visualising your results and other tricks with R
Andreas Steyven
The seminar starts at 4pm in C44 and it is followed by a social gathering (including a lot of food).
All students and staff welcome.People Sean McKeown
Andreas SteyvenOrg Units School of Computing
School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment
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 Org Units School of Computing
School of Computing Engineering and the Built EnvironmentURL https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rival-research-impact-value-and-lis-lis-rival-registration-45585730146#
10 reasons why I should learn about HPC - School of Computing PhD Workshop Series
Feb 7, 2018
Location CORE44, room C44 Merchiston Campus Description High Performance Computing (HPC) is a fundamental technology used in
solving scientific problems. Many of the grand challenges of science
depend on simulations and models run on HPC facilities to make progress;
for example: protein folding, the search for the Higgs boson, and
developing nuclear fusion. In this talk, several key concepts about HPC
will be introduced. In addition, we will also talk about ARCHER, the
latest UK National Supercomputing Service, and how to make the most of
it by requesting ARCHER time or attending training courses, among others.
Speaker: Dr Juan Rodriguez Herrera (EPCC)
I joined EPCC as an Applications Developer in December 2015 after
completing a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Almeria
(Spain). At EPCC, I am currently involved in the NEXTGenIO project (an
EC H2020 project about the I/O challenge for the Exascale), and the Farr
Institute of Health Informatics Research. I am also one of the ARCHER
Helpdesk team. Occasionally I collaborate in teaching ARCHER training
courses as well as Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry workshops.People Andreas Steyven Org Units School of Computing
School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment
Centre for Social Informatics contribution to ASIST2017
Oct 27, 2017
Location Washington DC, USA Description Centre for Social Informatics PhD student Frances Ryan presented a poster at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST2017). This work, which Frances developed with the members of her supervision team (Hazel Hall, Peter Cruickshank, and Alistair Lawson), is entitled ‘Building identity in online environments: an Information Science perspective‘.
For further information please see: https://hazelhall.org/2017/10/19/centre-for-social-informatics-at-asist2017/People Alistair Lawson
Peter Cruickshank
Frances RyanOrg Units School of Computing
School of Computing Engineering and the Built EnvironmentURL https://hazelhall.org/2017/10/19/centre-for-social-informatics-at-asist2017/
Centre for Social Informatics contribution to Ways of Being in a Digital Age conference
Oct 10, 2017
Location Liverpool Description Centre for Social Informatics PhD student Alicja Pawluczuk presented a paper entitled ‘Digital culture co-creation: capturing the social impact of small-scale community projects’ at the Ways of Being in a Digital Age conference in October 2017. The paper was co-authored with Alicja's PhD supervisors Dr Gemma Webster, Dr Colin Smith, and Professor Hazel Hall.
For further information please see: https://hazelhall.org/2017/10/10/centre-for-social-informatics-at-the-ways-of-being-in-a-digital-age-review-conference/People Gemma Webster
Colin SmithOrg Units School of Computing
School of Computing Engineering and the Built EnvironmentURL https://hazelhall.org/2017/10/10/centre-for-social-informatics-at-the-ways-of-being-in-a-digital-age-review-conference/
Centre for Social Informatics contribution to ECIL
Sep 18, 2017
Location St Malo, France Description Dr Bruce Ryan presented the paper 'Exploring Information Literacy through the lens of Activity Theory' at the 5th European Conference on Information Literacy in St-Malo, France on Wednesday 20th September 2016. During the presentation Dr Ryan argued that Activity Theory is valuable in projects that investigate group information practices, and can contribute to the generation of findings that relate to existing Information Literacy models.
The full paper, which is co-authored with Peter Cruickshank and Professor Hazel Hall, will be published in due course by Springer in the ECIL conference proceedings as part of the Communications in Computer and Information Science series.
For further details please see: https://hazelhall.org/2017/09/18/exploring-information-literacy-through-the-lens-of-activity-theory-csi-at-ecil-2017-ecil17-ecil2017/People Peter Cruickshank
Bruce RyanOrg Units School of Computing
School of Computing Engineering and the Built EnvironmentURL https://hazelhall.org/2017/09/18/exploring-information-literacy-through-the-lens-of-activity-theory-csi-at-ecil-2017-ecil17-ecil2017/
Centre for Social Informatics contribution to ECKM 2017
Sep 7, 2017
Location Barcelona, Spain Description Centre for Social Informatics PhD student Iris Buunk presented ‘Skills in sight: how social media affordances increase network awareness’ at the 18th European Conference on Knowledge Management in Barcelona at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC).
This work, coauthored with Professor Hazel Hall and Dr Colin Smith, examines the extent to which social media afford new capabilities in the sharing of tacit knowledge.
For further details please see: https://hazelhall.org/2017/09/08/centre-for-social-informatics-at-the-18th-european-conference-on-knowledge-management-eckm2017/People Colin Smith Org Units School of Computing
School of Computing Engineering and the Built EnvironmentURL https://hazelhall.org/2017/09/08/centre-for-social-informatics-at-the-18th-european-conference-on-knowledge-management-eckm2017/
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 Org Units School of Computing
School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment