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Artefacts from a rewarding PhD experience

22 August 20198 June 2021 Frances Ryan

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

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My PhD Studies Teaching Training and Development

Teaching to learn; learning to teach

23 October 201729 May 2021 Frances Ryan

As my time as a PhD student (hopefully) winds to an end, I am beginning to look towards my career as an academic. I hope that part of that career includes teaching, which is why I eagerly accepted the opportunity

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20×20 at iDocQ 6

3 July 201630 May 2021 Frances Ryan

I attended the sixth annual Information Science Doctoral Colloquium (iDocQ) on 23rd June. It was my third time attending the event and, as always, I learned a lot from the experience. This year’s iDocQ was held at the University of

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Training season

19 June 201619 October 2021 Frances Ryan

Spring and early summer are busy training months for me. Not as in marathon training (although it should be that, too) but rather academic training. And that means that I seem to spend quite a bit of time out of

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Planning the annual retreat

6 May 201628 May 2021 Frances Ryan

The annual School of Computing PhD Retreat took place earlier this week, and I am exhausted from all of the fun (and the planning!). Traditionally, the retreat is planned and organised by a member of staff, but due to other

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The conference circuit

2 July 201419 October 2021 Frances Ryan

I’ve had a busy few weeks of conferences and seminars and am finally catching my breath again. I had originally planned to share each of these events separately, but I was fighting off the deadly common cold for much of

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Retreat, retreat!

7 May 201423 May 2021 Frances Ryan

I’ve been meaning to update this blog for a while now, but have been in retreat mode. And when you’re in retreat mode, sometimes blogs get ignored. (I am suppressing the urge to say “sorry about that”, for reasons explained

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My PhD Studies Technology Training and Development

Prezi or PowerPoint: Can I have both?

17 January 201410 June 2021 Frances Ryan

I spent a chunk of my day in a very useful Prezi workshop as part of my ongoing Vitae Researcher Development Framework training. I wasn’t sure what I would get out of the day, but I’m really looking forward to

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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.

Read more about my background here.

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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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