News Archives
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Paul Watson debates how IT is changing the UK at the Guardian "Smart" Conference
Paul Watson debates how IT is changing the UK at the Guardian "Smart" Conference.
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Newcastle Council for Voluntary Service advise on Community Engagement
Newcastle Council for Voluntary service delivered an interactive session as part of the SiDE seminar series, highlighting how research projects can engage with community and voluntary organisations.
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SiDE User Pool links with McKinnon centre
Marianne Dee met with staff at the McKinnon centre in Dundee to discuss links with the SiDE User Pool.
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Marianne Dee speaks at U3A event
SiDE researcher Marianne Dee spoke to a group of over 200 individuals at a University of the third Age event in Perth. -
ALIP showcase event
Professor Feng Li gave an invited presentation at the 'Assisted Living Innovation Platform' showcase event in Glasgow on 8th June 2011.
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EMCIS 2011 Keynote
Professor Feng Li was invited to deliver a keynote speech at the 8th European, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS2011).
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Interview with Atau Tanaka
Interview with SiDE's Creative Media Co-Investigator and Director of Culture Lab, Prof. Atau Tanaka.
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North East Electric Vehicle Trials
Several activities have been ongoing with the data logging and analysis system that has been established for use in the SWITCH-EV electric vehicle demonstrator and for the SIDE driving laboratory.
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SiDE Research Pool Needs more People with Diverse Needs & Abilities
SiDE is concerned with investigating the ways in which the power of technology can transform people's lives. We want a broad community of people with diverse needs and abilities to compliment our existing research pool of willing research participants.
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David Schlesinger talk at Culture Lab - The software platforms: When the open source business makes economic sense
While traditional "community-based" open source has had significant success in server room and "back office" applications, its impact on the desktop and in mobile devices has been more limited. The reasons for this were examined by David Schlesinger in a talk to SiDE researchers.
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Monitoring of Upper Limb Rehabilitation and Recovery after Stroke Through Gaming
SiDE researchers will be involved in a new project funded by the Wellcome Trust and Department of Health (DoH) under the Health Innovation Challenge Fund.
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Regional Studies Association conference
SiDE researcher Angela Abbott has had an abstract accepted for the Regional Studies Association conference which will take place in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Interdisciplinary collaborations within SiDE
The Creative Media team has organised meetings with researchers from the Social Sciences, Business and User perspectives.
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Situating communities through creative technologies and practice
Following the award of the AHRC’s Connected Communities Scoping Study’ award, the “Connected Communities” team will produce and interdisciplinary think piece entitled “Situating Communities through Creative Technologies and Practise”,
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Mapping of Cultural and Creative Organisations in the North East
The Creative Media team (Creative Researcher Andreia Cavaco and Ph.D student Ben Jones), in collaboration with Researchers on the Society Perspective (Liz Robson) have been mapping Creative and Cultural on the ground organisations as well as key stakeholders in the North East.
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Shaping the future of ICT research
Graeme Mearns was one of thirty-eight early career researchers invited to the EPSRC’s ‘Future Leaders in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)’ workshop hosted at Warwick University, February 16-17th 2011.
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SMART Team Wins Identity Deployment of the Year Award
The SMART team, part of the Centre for Cyber Crime led by SiDE CoI Prof Aad van Moorsel, has won the prestigious IDDY award.
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SiDE awarded AHRC ‘Connected Communities’ grant
The “Connected Communities” team which incorporates the Creative Media and Social Science researchers on SiDE, was awarded the AHRC’s Connected Communities Scoping Study.
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SiDE Launches at Culture Lab
SiDE held its launch event on Thursday 18th November with short talks on the project, a drinks reception and demonstrations of innovative digital technologies created by project researchers.
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Festival de l’eau 2010
From the 26th of December 2010 to the 2nd of January 2011, the Festival de l’eau visited Burkina-Faso stopping in 3 villages : Léri, Walo and Ouessa. The festival series spans the decade, 2000-2010, and its long term nature offers rare insights into sustained relationships with rural, hard to reach, tribal communities.
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Routledge ‘Major Works’
Prof. Feng Li to edit a new book set for Routledge ‘Major Works’ series.
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Discipline Hopping Award
Dr Katie Brittainhas been awarded anEPSRC Discipline Hopping Awardallowing her to work closely with SiDE.
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AppJam winner
SiDE researchers Kyle Montague, Mike Crabb and colleagues have been awarded the top prize for ‘Best Overall Ap.
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New ALIP3 project - SALT
Prof Feng Li has been successful with a £2 million ALIP3 research proposal to TSB/ESRC on sustainable business models for assisted living in the digital economy.
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ICADI 2010
The SIDE project presented at the International Conference on Ageing, Disability and Independence (ICADI) which was hosted outside of the US for the first time.
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CraftCubes at DMY Festival
New CraftCubes go to DMY Festival, Berlin; this year the festival will be showing jewellery by SiDE researcher Jayne Wallace.
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SiDE Launches at Culture Lab
SiDE held its launch event on Thursday 18th November with short talks on the project, demonstrations of research prototypes, and a drinks reception.
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Regional Youth Work Unit
SiDE is working with the Regional Youth Work Unit - North East, a registered charity which works across the North of East of England to promote and support the development of youth work.
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CENEX launch Smart Move report
CENEX, the Centre of Excellence for low carbon and Fuel cell technology launched the ‘Smart Move Trial’ report at the Green Vehicle Congress, held at the Baltic Centre, Gateshead on the 25th March 2010.
