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Is the public library included? An analysis of local government documentation on the integration of forced migrants in Scotland

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Salzano, R., Hall, H., Webster, G., & Brazier, D. (2022)

Is the public library included? An analysis of local government documentation on the integration of forced migrants in Scotland. Information Research, 27, https://doi.org/10.47989/colis2218

Introduction - Library and information science researchers identify public library roles in the integration of forced migrants into local communities. Here an analysis of form...

What are public libraries for? Culture as a determinant of conceptualizations of public library services for forced migrants

Journal Article

Salzano, R., Brazier, D., Hall, H., & Webster, G. (2022)

What are public libraries for? Culture as a determinant of conceptualizations of public library services for forced migrants. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 59(1), 276-286. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.752

Public libraries offer important services for newcomer populations, including forced migrants. They help facilitate the integration of forced migrants into the host country, i...

Social Media by Proxy: how older adults work within their ‘social networks’ to engage with social media

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Webster, G., & Ryan, F. (in press)

Social Media by Proxy: how older adults work within their ‘social networks’ to engage with social media. Information Research,

Introduction. Social media use is at an all-time high, and the adoption of online tools by older adults is increasing. This paper reports an exploratory qualitative study inve...

Let’s Play the Arcade Machines

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Stewart, F., Flint, T., Grandison, T., Webster, G., & Tyrie, C. (2022)

Let’s Play the Arcade Machines. In Proceedings of the 35th British HCI and Doctoral Consortium 2022, UK. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/HCI2022.46

“Let’s Play the Arcade Machines” showcases games made by children in schools in the Wester Hailes area of Edinburgh. The project aims to expose the children to a constructioni...

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Let's Play Wester Hailes: Community Produced Video Games of Edinburgh

This project aims to engage children and young people with the computer games industry. Working with WHALE Arts we will build games and upload them onto bespoke arcade machines. The games created wi...

Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering | Value: £25,708

Social media by proxy: Managing online information for adults with dementia

As social media use by older people increases, along with an increased rate of dementia diagnoses, the management or oversight of social networking sites by carers is likely to increase. This research...

Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £9,534

dot.rural Portrait KE

Portrait is a software tool developed to help care staff get to know personal and social information about clients that live in residential care facilities. The Portrait system consists of a biography...

Funder: University of Aberdeen | Value: £3,287

e-Placement Scotland

Between 2010 and 2014, e-Placement Scotland worked with industry to create over 800 paid placements for students in Scotland’s universities and colleges. The project team disseminated widely to both e...

Funder: Scottish Funding Council

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User centred approaches to supporting digital literacies and online information systems use

Drew Feeney | Director of Studies: Dr David Brazier | Second Supervisor: Dr Gemma Webster

Multi-modal ubiquitous Quantum Self monitoring – a driver of mental health improvements in the prison environment

Tomasz Stupnicki | Director of Studies: Dr Gemma Webster | Second Supervisor: Dr Christine Haddow

Haptic User Experience Evaluation for Virtual Reality

Joanna Aldhous | Director of Studies: Dr Emilia Sobolewska | Second Supervisor: Dr Gemma Webster

The influence of culture on perceived use of public libraries by forced migrants in the United Kingdom

Dr. Rachel Salzano | Director of Studies: Dr Gemma Webster | Second Supervisor: Prof Hazel Hall

Getting stuck and getting help: How children access support when using technology

Ms Fiona Stewart | Director of Studies: Dr Tom Flint | Second Supervisor: Dr Gemma Webster

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Dr Webster becomes a full member of the EPSRC Peer Review College

30 October 2020

Dr Gemma Webster has been promoted from the EPSRC Associate College to Full College membership.

Dr Websters research included in Digital Economy Decade of Success

Dr Websters research project Portrait is included in the RCUK's 'A decade of success in the Digital Economy'. Seeing the person on page 13 - https://epsrc.ukri.org/newsevents/pubs/a-decade-of-success-...

Centre for Social Informatics contribute to the ESRC ‘Ways of being in a digital age’ project review conference

10 October 2017

The Centre for Social Informatics made a contribution to the the ESRC ‘Ways of being in a digital age’ project review conference in October 2017.

Centre for Social Informatics contribute nine papers to i3 2017

Staff and research students from the Centre for Social Informatics presented nine papers at Information: interactions and impact (i3) in June 2017.

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