What I am working on: Four weeks in Greece, Blogging at IOA
Realised that I’ve been *really* busy on a couple of things but I haven’t blogged about anything in a while (the problem when you only seem to write up things that you’ve completed or attended) – I’m going to try and write some more “what I am working on” posts rather than simply waiting until the final product. A few months ago, I wrote about how I had been given the opportunity to attend the International Olympic Academy for their 18th Postgraduate Session in Olympic Studies. The session is due to begin in just over a week’s time and I’ve …
What I’ve been working on: #dgsocialmedia explained
Realised that I’ve been *really* busy on a couple of things but I haven’t blogged about anything in a while (the problem when you only seem to write up things that you’ve completed or attended) – I’m going to try and write some more “what I am working on” posts rather than simply waiting until the final product. At the end of July I began a new role as a research assistant at the university where I am registered for my PhD (UWS). I will be ‘in post’ until Summer 2012. Already, this has been my most ‘virtual’ of research contracts, …
Guardian Higher Education Panel: The Impact of New Technologies on Academic Research
Last Friday I broke my holiday up to take part as an invited panelist for a 3 hour Guardian Higher Education Panel about the impact of new technologies on academic research. The structure of Guardian live panels canbe a little clunky as they are situated in the comment thread of an article (think comment is free on crack) but overall, there was an interesting discussion at play. You can read the five pages of comments over here. There are several points that I took away from the discussion and I wish to note when we are discussing ‘new’ technology in …