Research Practices 2.0: Reflections on #RP2NOTT
Back in the summer, I was approached by Andy Coverdale to be interviewed and to help out on a project around social media for PhD students. The first part of the task was to be interviewed about how I use social media as part of my research practice, to be used as part of a web resource hosted by the University of Nottingham Graduate School. This was launched this week, ahead of an event in accompany the site. The event, “Research Practices 2.0” was organized for PhD students and facilitated by PhD students – where alongside Andy, I was approached …
Cultural Leadership Development in Istanbul: Working for the British Council
“Evening on Bosphorus” by andra_life shared under creative commons license. Tomorrow I am heading to Istanbul to do some work with the British Council as part of a teamfrom Little Star, a digital production company from Manchester. We have been asked to cover a Cultural Leadership workshop, a event that brings together 47 cultural leaders worldwide to discuss individual and collective notions of responsibility in this area. My role is to live-blog the event (which includes the speakers listed here), update the BC’s social media accounts, interview participants using audioboo and to help with the film making process. The event is being …
What I’ve been working on: UWSDigital.com
http://www.uwsdigital.com [October, 2011] Last month I wrote about a research project that I’ve been working on with UWS where we would be running workshops and social media surgeries in the south of Scotland in partnership with South of Scotland Business Solutions. I’ve been working on the website since August, which contains some informations about the events, some resources and will act as a hub over the course of the project. It is built using buddypress, rather than wordpress, so at later stage if we want to maintain a community beyond the session dates, we can use the social features and encourage users …
Hacking the Olympics. Guest Post for @scraperwiki #media2012
Reposted from a post I was asked to write for the Scraperwiki blog about #media2012 event at FACT Liverpool as part of AND Festival last Sunday. Last weekend, Scraperwiki hosted a ‘hacks and hackers’ event at FACT in Liverpool as part of Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival, focusing on scraping data related to the Olympics for the #media2012 network. There is plenty of information, plenty of activity and plenty of action that is happening and can be done in order to tell the untold stories and equip citizens with the skills and the tools to see beyond the sporting frame. The #media2012 …
Conclusions from the International Olympic Academy, Postgraduate Session
For the last four weeks I was in Ancient Olympia studying at the International Olympic Academy as part of their 18th Postgraduate Session. The sessions were split by weekly topics (week 1: Ancient Greece/Olympics; week 2: Revival of the modern games/social, economic and sports management; week 3: Philosophy and Ethics; week 4: Conclusions) and at the end were asked as groups of 6-8 to prepare conclusions that would be presented during the final ‘closing ceremony’ and would be published, and eventually shared with the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland. Although my work is closer to topics presented in week 2/week …