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News and Announcements Post-Doctoral

A new job: Research Fellow in User-Centred Innovation for Accountable AI

30 March 202024 May 2021 Frances Ryan

Today marks my first day as a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen where I am working in the School of Natural and Computing Science as part of an interdisciplinary, EPSRC-funded project called RAInS (Realising Accountable Intelligent Systems).

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TAPESTRY Sandpit: Register your interest today!

22 December 201926 May 2021 Frances Ryan

Registration now closed. Calling all PhDs and Early Career Researchers (ECRs) for a sandpit-style workshop. When is it? February 3-4 @ University of Surrey, UK Who is it for? PhD students or Early Career Researchers (ERCs) working on topics in

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Post-Doctoral Projects

What is TAPESTRY?

20 December 201926 May 2021 Frances Ryan

I have been working at the University of Dundee since April on an EPRSC-funded research project called TAPESTRY: Trust, Authentication and Privacy over a DeCentralised Social Registry. My role in the project is as a qualitative researcher looking at how individuals

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Post-Doctoral Projects Research Activities

A study on trust and online dating

20 September 201926 May 2021 Frances Ryan

As part of my work with the Living Digital group at the University of Dundee, I am starting to recruit participants for a study related to trust and online dating. I will be using qualitative interviews and focus groups for

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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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