DREaM event 4 – workshop Wednesday 25 April 2012
Building the skills to build the evidence base
This workshop took place on Wednesday 25th April 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 3 details
- Wednesday 25 April 2012, 10:30-16:15 (registration from 09:45)
- Edinburgh Napier University Craighouse campus
- Participants included librarians, information scientists, LIS academics, new professionals and PhD students from all LIS backgrounds/sectors
- Workshop hashtag #lis_dream4
Get to know your fellow delegates
- Follow the DREaM project participants Twitter list
- “Meet” with the DREaM project participants in the DREaM online community
- Check the workshop Lanyrd at http://lanyrd.com/2012/dream-event-4-workshop-3/
- Some of those in Edinburgh on the evening of Tuesday 24 April joined locally-based delegates for an informal social gathering at the Café Royal the night before the workshop
| 09:45-10:30 | Registration, coffee/tea Included 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 The workshop task will also be introduced in this session. |
| 10:45-11:30 | Horizon scanning – Dr Harry Woodroof, Defence Science & Technology Laboratory |
| 11:30-12:30 | Techniques from psychology – repertory grids – Dr Phil Turner, Edinburgh Napier University |
| 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 data mining – Kevin Swingler, Stirling University |
| 14:45-15:15 | Tea/coffee |
| 15:15-16:15 | Impact snakes and ladders: workshop exercise on links between research and its impact on practice, including conclusion of workshop task – Professor Hazel Hall, LIS Research Coalition |
Amplified discussions surrounding the event
We used CoverItLive to capture the Twitter discussions surrounding the event hashtag #lis_dream4 and to provide a forum for non-Twitter users to participate in the event remotely. A full archive of these conversations is available online.
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