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I present to you … 2016!

7 January 201614 June 2021 Frances Ryan

I returned to the office this week, signalling that the New Year is now fully underway. It’s looking to be a pretty exciting (and hopefully extremely productive!) year, too. This will be a busy year for me, as it’s the

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Presenting a paper: Assessing the available and accessible evidence

28 June 201525 May 2021 Frances Ryan

I spent the past week in Aberdeen* for academic conferences. It was a great experience that allowed me to meet with other information science academics and to present some of my research. And, importantly, it was an opportunity for me

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Ready for iWeek!

21 June 201514 June 2021 Frances Ryan

I am heading up to Aberdeen today for a week of i-conferences with other members of the Edinburgh Napier University “CSI” team. The first conference is a day-long doctoral colloquium, iDocQ. I was on the organising committee last year, and

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A Woman of STEM!

16 October 201414 June 2021 Frances Ryan

Tuesday was Ada Lovelace Day, an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), and as part of the celebration, I attended a dinner hosted by Equate Scotland and Edinburgh Napier University. [Note: Click here

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Public talk: Life in a digital fishbowl

19 August 20143 June 2021 Frances Ryan

I gave my first full-on public talk last night and am pretty excited about how it went. The talk, titled “Life in a digital fishbowl: Managing your reputation online”, was part of the 2014 Skeptics on the Fringe lineup in

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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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