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Grants and Funding Miscellany My PhD Studies

The buck stops here

27 October 201611 June 2021 Frances Ryan

Note: This post was originally shared on my personal blog. So please forgive me if it’s a bit more touchy-feeling than you would expect. But, as I am researching online information and personal reputation, I suppose it’s a good example

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2016 SoC postgraduate research conference

16 May 201630 May 2021 Frances Ryan

Last week was the annual Postgraduate Research Conference for the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University. The event was organised by a committee of students (Iris Buunk, Lyndsey Jenkins, Baraq Ghaleb, John McGowan, Andreas Steyven, and me) with oversight by Dr Kevin

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Miscellany My PhD Studies

Poster parcel pizzazz

19 July 201423 May 2021 Frances Ryan

I’m heading to the iFutures: Research into Practice Conference in Sheffield early next week to present a poster. It’s the same poster I presented at the SICSA Conference in St Andrews in June, but I’m pretty excited about the opportunity to

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Grants and Funding My PhD Studies

Finding money

18 February 201424 May 2021 Frances Ryan

I think that one of the hardest things about doing a PhD might be finding money. For my own studies, I know that I would have been unable to proceed without a studentship or other large funding source – which makes me

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Meet Frances (She/Her)

I am Frances Ryan (She/Her), a university lecturer based in Central Scotland. My research focuses on information sharing and use in online environments, especially as it relates to everyday life and “lived” or real-world experiences.

This blog is about my academic life including research and teaching activities, conferences and events, publications, milestones of note, and more.

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  • Published: Ontologies Applied to Archival Records: A Preliminary Proposal for Information Retrieval
  • Invited talk: Social media as a power for good
  • Librarians as Proxies: An exploratory study on the digital proxy practices of librarians
  • Published in Information Research: Social Media by Proxy: how older adults work within their ‘social networks’ to engage with social media
  • Research survey: Managing PKD with e-Health tools and online information sources
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