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Portrait system wins RCUK prize

Gemma Webster from the University of Dundee has been awarded £10,000 to further her research on the Portrait system for carers of dementia sufferers. Read More

DMY Festival

New CraftCubes go to DMY Festival, Berlin; this year the festival will be showing jewellery by SiDE researcher Jayne Wallace. Read More
date: 01.09.2010

Interview with Atau Tanaka

Interview with SiDE's Creative Media Co-Investigator and Director of Culture Lab, Prof. Atau Tanaka. Read More
date: 06.06.2011

Parliamentary Select Committee

Professor Phil Blythe of the Transport Operations Research Group was invited to give oral evidence to the Transport Select Committee at Westminster on the 7th June 2011. Read More
date: 24.08.2011

Vicki Hanson chairs DE All Hands

Following the successful inaugural ‘Digital Futures’ conference in Nottingham in 2010, SiDE hosted the second meeting for the Digital Economy community, in Newcastle upon Tyne. Prof Vicki Hanson, SiDE’s lead at Dundee University chaired the event which attracted over 250 delegates from a wide range of disciplines from across the Digital Economy community.  Read More
date: 08.12.2011

  • Kyle Montague presents at DE All Hands - Kyle Montague presented a paper at the Digital Economy All Hands conference entitled Evaluation of Adaptive Interaction with Mobile TouchScreen Devices.

  • SiDE to play major role in £4m Knowledge Exchange hub - The SiDE project and Newcastle University are to play a leading role in the formation of a new regional consortium aimed at boosting the UK’s digital and creative industries. Led by Lancaster University in partnership with Newcastle and the Royal College of Art, the £4million hub – dubbed ‘The Creative Exchange’ – aims to address the changing digital landscape to inform the development of new products and services.

  • Digitally Mediated Futures - Angela Abbott presented a paper entitled “Informal Care Economies and Self-Directed Support in Tyne and Wear: Digitally Mediated Futures?”

  • Culture Led Regeneration - Ranald Richardson presented a paper entitled “Culture-Led Regeneration, Creative Practice and Digital Technology: Enrolling the ‘digital natives’”, at the Regional Studies Association’s Annual Conference.

  • ITS Value Proposition - Prof Phil Blythe and Dr Yvonne Huebner coordinate a team of experts from the IET (Institution on Engineering and Technology) and ITS UK to produce an advice note to government.

  • Transport host ITS events - The Transport Operations Research Group in partnership with ITS UK, hosted three events in four days from 28th June to 1st July 2011.

  • Angela Abbott's PhD success - Angela Abbott, Research Associate in SiDE Society strand, successfully defended her thesis in July 2011, and has been awarded a PhD, subject to minor revisions. 

  • Digital Marketing Communications in Industrial Marketing (DIMAR) - Dr Heikki Karjaluoto, Professor of Mobile Marketing from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, visited Professor Feng Li and the SiDE Business Research Team in the Digital Economy Hub on 27-28 June 2011.

  • Technology training for regional charities - An event, held on July 6, 2011, returned 60 members of regional Independent Sexual/Domestic Violence Agencies (ISVA/IDVA) to the classroom.

  • Press Launch for SiDE - The press launch for SiDE, in addition to the two other RCUK-funded Digital Economy Research Hubs at Nottingham and Aberdeen, took place at the British Library in London on 28th April 2009.

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