6-10 January 2014 (Cranage Hall, Cheshire) The AHRC is working in partnership with ESRC, EPSRC, Dstl and CPNI, to commission new research to develop a greater understanding of how empathy and trust are developed, maintained, transformed and lost in social…
Garden grown by social media is all a Twitter at Chelsea
Twitter will be in control of a unique digital garden at the 100th RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year. Fresh garden ‘Digital Capabilities’ will respond to live Twitter activity, enabling the public to directly influence how the garden appears at…
The Rules of Engagement
The national co-ordinating centre for public engagement have recently announced a series of seminars to be held by the Culture Capital Exchange. The Culture Capital Exchange are producing The Rules of Engagement, a series of informal seminars aimed at assisting…
How Do Humanities Researchers Manage Information?
Humanities researchers don’t conform to the typical stereotype of the lone scholar, more interested in depth than breadth and collaborating only in dispersed networks. That’s according to a recent Research Information Network (RIN) report on how researchers in the humanities…
Successful Media of Diaspora 2011 Conference
Dr. Ola Ogunyemi, Principal Lecturer in the Lincoln School of Journalism, has recently returned from TU Dortmund University, Germany, where he led and participated in the 2nd annual Media of Diaspora Research Group Conference. The event focused on the so-called…
Investigating Academic Impact: Presentations and Podcasts Online
What’s the point of a blogging academic? This question as well as issues about the nature of academic impact were raised and discussed at a recent major national conference on “Investigating Academic Impact” held at the LSE in June. The…