DREaM event 3 – workshop Monday 30 January 2012
Building the skills to build the evidence base
This workshop took place on Monday 30th January 2012. To find out how it went, read the delegate reviews. If you are interested in the workshop materials (PowerPoint slides, videos of the presentations, and presentation summaries) please follow the links embedded in the programme below.
Workshop 2 details
- Monday 30 January 2012, 10:30-16:15 (registration from 09:45; delegate access to the conference centre from 09:00)
- British Library Conference Centre, London
- Participants included librarians, information scientists, LIS academics, new professionals and PhD students from all LIS backgrounds/sectors
- Workshop hashtag #lis_dream3
Who participated?
- Many of the participants are listed in the DREaM project participants Twitter list
- The DREaM project participants also meet in the DREaM online community. If you’re interested in LIS research, please feel free to join the community, whether or not you are able to attend any of the DREaM project events
- There is a workshop Lanyrd at http://lanyrd.com/2012/dream-event-3-workshop-2/
- Some of those in London on the evening of Sunday 29 January met for an informal social gathering at the Betjeman Arms the night before the workshop
| 09:45-10:30 | Registration, coffee/tea Includes sign-up for unconference half hour (please see below) |
| 10:30-10:45 | Welcome and introduction – Professor Hazel Hall, Edinburgh Napier University and the LIS Research Coalition |
| 10:45-11:30 | User Involvement In Research: Making sense of a radical new development (action research) – Professor Peter Beresford OBE, Brunel University |
| 11:30-12:30 | Techniques from history – Dr Thomas Haigh, University of Wisconsin Tom will also introduce the workshop 2 game/task in this session |
| 12:30-13:00 | Unconference half hour Short presentations by DREaM project participants as decided at registration |
| 13:00-13:45 | Lunch |
| 13:45-14:45 | Introduction to webometrics – Professor Mike Thelwall, Wolverhampton University |
| 14:45-15:15 | Tea/coffee Includes conclusion of workshop 2 task/game |
| 15:15-16:15 | Making the bullets for others to fire (research and policy) – Professor Nick Moore, Acumen |
Amplified discussions surrounding the event
We used CoverItLive to capture the Twitter discussions surrounding the event hashtag #lis_dream3 and to provide a forum for non-Twitter users to participate in the event remotely. A full archive of these conversations is available online.
The venue – British Library Conference Centre
The workshop venue was the British Library’s state of the art Conference Centre. Located in central London, the British Library Conference Centre is within easy walking distance of three mainline railway stations – St Pancras (Eurostar terminal), Euston and King’s Cross – and six tube lines, and is thus at the heart of the UK and European transportation network.
Details of the other DREaM project events
