As part of last week’s Explorathon 2020 activities, I ran an interactive event with my RAInS colleagues asking “Who’s to blame when AI gets it wrong?” The purpose of the event was to help people to better understand the decisions that
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Last week, the RAInS team participated in Explorathon 2020 Flashmob as part of Scotland’s participation in European Researchers’ Night, a European Commission-funded initiative. The flashmob was part of the Scottish Research Showcase, run in collaboration with the Global Science Show, and reached
Last week, I co-hosted an online event as part of my Post-doctoral Fellowship at the University of Aberdeen. The event was organised in partnership with members from Industrial Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research in Digital Diagnostics (iCAIRD) and was presented as
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Artefacts from a rewarding PhD experience
A few weeks ago, I mentioned that I cleared out my PhD office ahead of my holidays to The Homeland. And now that I am back in my Heartland of Scotland, I have finally cleared through (most of) the bags
I have been accepted to present a poster at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology. This year’s event will be held in Washington, DC. It will be my second time attending the conference, and
I have recently started a new Twitter account that is dedicated to my professional or “academic” self (@FrancesRyanPhD). It wasn’t something I was desperate to do, and it isn’t something I’m completely happy about. However, it is something that I
Last week I ran a one-day research symposium at Edinburgh Napier University, along with Professor Hazel Hall. The symposium, “Connecting people, connecting ideas” (CPCI), focused on research priorities in Information Science as related to everyday life information seeking and information
Yesterday was the Edinburgh Napier University’s Research Conference. Based at our Craiglockhart campus, the conference was designed to bring together research-active staff and research degree students from across the university. (Read up about the event on the Twitter hashtag #NapRes17.)
Last week I spoke at the “Academics Online: Building your research profile in the digital age” workshop to be held at Edinburgh Napier University’s Craiglockhart Campus. The event was organised by Dr Ivana Rihova and Dr Nathalia Tjandra, thanks to support from the Research and Innovation Office (RIO)
I have been invited to speak at the “Academics Online: Building your research profile in the digital age” workshop to be held at Edinburgh Napier University’s Craiglockhart Campus on 2 May 2017 (9.30 am – 3.30 pm). The event, hosted
Today I delivered a set of workshops about the “online world” to schoolchildren as part of Edinburgh Napier University’s Cyber Academy. And I did it all offline! I didn’t know how old the schoolchildren would be, or if they would
I attended the 79th Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Annual meeting last week in Copenhagen, Denmark, supported by a grant from the John Campbell Trust. This was the first time the ASIST meeting has taken place outside of
Next week I will be attending the 2016 Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) Annual Meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, supported by a grant from the John Campbell Trust. As part of the full and exciting programme, there will be a university
I leave for Croatia tomorrow morning (early, early tomorrow morning) where I will be presenting at the 2016 ISIC: The Information Behaviour Conference. The conference will take place 20-23 September at the University of Zadar and I will present my paper on
Last week’s Edinburgh Napier University Research Conference was an outstanding success! As the first conference of its type for the university, the Research and Innovation Office (RIO) did an amazing job at putting the show together. [Note: Click here to