Congratulations to Farshid Golzadeh

Many congratulations to Farshid Golzadeh who has successfully upgarded earlier this  year!

Congratulations to Xuguang Li

Many congratulations to Xuguang Li, who has successfully upgraded earlier this year!

Wie sehen uns bald, Alex

Alexander Schauer is returning to Australia where he will be working on his research for the next few months. His enthusiasm, contribution to group discussions and work on creating and maintaining this blog, as well as leading the revamping of the KIM site has been much appreciated by all. So from all of us, a fond wie sehen uns bald, Alex!

New KIM representative

The new Rep for KIM at RSSC is Soureh Latif - many thanks for taking this on!

KIM initiated lunch 22 Nov 12

Ana Vasconcelos kindly organised the first KIM lunch Thursday 22 November 2012 at the Noodle Bar in Sheffield. Both KIM staff and students as well as two research staff joined the table. The informal setting sparked discussions on food, cultural nuances and festivities in countries such as Austria, Germany, Portugal, Syria and the UK. Below a picture of the setting:

LimeSurvey seminar Thursday 8 Nov 11-13h, iSchool

Alexander Schauer is offering a two hour seminar on the theoretical and practical aspects of LimeSurvey.  This will involve setting up a personal test survey and collecting and exporting the responses.

When: Thursday 8 November 2012 11am to 1pm

Where: iSchool, Tom Wilson Teaching Lab (RC-205)

Who: All iSchool staff, research staff and research students welcome to attend

 

Twenty two qualitative data methods presentation

Nigel Bairstow produced a presentation briefly outlining 22 qualitative data methods and includes references to each one.

The link to the slides is: http://www.slideshare.net/nbairstow/twenty-two-qualitative-data-methods

ESRC - knowledge navigator for local government

The Economic and Social Research Council, in partnership with the Local Government Association and the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers, invites applications for a knowledge navigator for local government.  Funding is available for a knowledge navigator to act as an evidence broker and to develop opportunities for future knowledge exchange and collaboration activities between the local government sector and the academic research base.
Funding available: £170,000
Closing date: 17 October 2012

Upcoming KIM meetings

Dear all,

This is to let you know that the October and November KIM meetings will be held on:

- Tuesday 23rd October 11.30-12.30, led by Ana Vasconcelos, on a presentation on project OrganiK;

- Tuesday 27th November, 12.00-13.00, led by Barbara Sen, on a discussion of David Snowden's work.

The location will be confirmed closer to the date.

A new KIM group representative for the Research-Staff-Student-Committee is also required with Alexander Schauer handing over the role as of November 2012.

The networked student - how students can share information and knowledge

The Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler's high school students. The Networked Student concept map was inspired by Alec Couros' Networked Teacher. The authors hope that teachers will use it to help their colleagues, parents, and students understand networked learning in the 21st century.

The video and the description above can be found under:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Funding opportunity for knowledge exchange activities

The scheme provides the opportunity to apply for funding for knowledge exchange activities at any stage of the research lifecycle, and is aimed at maximising the impact of social science research outside academia.  The flexibility built into the scheme is intended to encourage applicants to think creatively about knowledge exchange, and applications are welcomed for either a single activity or a combination of activities; be it setting up a network to help inform the development of a research proposal, arranging an academic placement with a voluntary or business organisation, or developing tools such as podcasts and videos aimed at communicating the results of research to the general public, or developing existing research to make it more applicable to policy or practice.

Funding available: Up to £125,000, match funding (cash or in-kind) is required.

Closing date: 2 October 2012 (call opens on 20 August).  The next call will be 3 December – 7 February 2013

If you are thinking about applying to the ESRC Knowledge Exchange scheme please contact the Public Services Academy psa@sheffield.ac.uk to let them know about your plans, and for support with your application.  Please also note that applications to this scheme will be subject to the internal peer review process for ESRC funding applications.  The deadline for submission to the internal review panel will be Friday 14 September.

For more information, please see: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/collaboration/knowledge-exchange/opportunities/index.aspx

Change to KIM meeting Thursday 19 July 2012

This is a reminder that we will be having the July KIM meeting this week on Thursday, 19th, 11-12h, in the level 2 Common Room (now meetings room). There is a change of plan in that we will be discussing questionnaire design issues and discussing and giving feedback to Alex Schauer's questionnaire, which will go live in September.

Upcoming KIM meetings

The KIM group will be meeting on Tuesday, 19 June at 12pm to discuss the input for the Advisory Panel presentation.  An Advisory Panel is basically a group of senior people in diverse sectors such as industry, consultancy, public sector and academic organisations that provide advice to the School on a strategic level.

The second KIM meeting will be held on Thursday, 19 July at 11am led by Barbara Sen to discuss work done by David Snowden on KM.

Congratulations to Alex Schauer, Alice Schofield and Dimitris Bibikas

...who have all now upgraded from MPhil to PhD following the successful review of their preliminary research results. Many congratulations to all!

Ana Vasconcelos and Andrew Cox delivered keynote addresses at the SLA-AGC Conference in Bahrain 12-14 May 2012

Drs. Andrew Cox and Ana Vasconcelos delivered keynote addresses at the SLA-AGC Conference in Manama, Bahrain, 12-14th March. Further details can be found at http://www.slaagc2012.org/index.php/agenda-a-speakers/keynote-speakers

Alexander Schauer attended 11th Students' Spring Symposium in Thessaloniki 18 May 2012

Alexander Schauer along with Emily Wood from ScHARR have been selected by the Symposium Committee to present their PhD research live in Thessaloniki at the 11th Students' Spring Symposium organised by CITY College. The title of the abstract was "A multi-cultural study on knowledge, individual, team, organisational and institutional factors affecting knowledge sharing willingness and eagerness in the IT services industry".

Elaborations of grounded theory and of arenas theory in information management research 24 May 2012

Dr Ana Cristina Vasconcelos, Ms Barbara Sen and Ms Ana Guedes Pereira Rosa, all from the Knowledge and Information Management Research Group, will be presenting grounded theory and arenas theory in information management research.

This will take place Thursday May 24th at 4pm, Lecture Room RC-204 in Regent Court with refreshments afterwards.

A Study of Knowledge Sharing and Construction in Virtual Product User Communitie

Xuguang Li, a PhD student at the Information School, has successfully given his upgrade presentation today. Many congratulations.


Li's research project focuses on knowledge construction in an online customer support community, otherwise known as a virtual product user community.  This type of virtual community is a producer sponsored customer aggregation existing on the Internet to share usage experience and to collaboratively find technical solutions to problems with specific brand products. It is an interest/knowledge focused virtual community that exists on asynchronous online discussion boards and is tightly connected with the sponsoring organization.  In order to explore collaborative knowledge building patterns within such groups, a qualitative content analysis framework is used, drawing on existing analytical models but also patterns emerging from data.  A prototypical model of a knowledge construction process in the virtual product user community was presented.

Developing Your Publishing Strategy - lunchtime seminar Wednesday 16th May 2012

Food For Thought, the lunchtime seminar series, presents

Developing Your Publishing Strategy

Wednesday May 16th, 12pm-1pm, Humanities Research Institute (lunch included)

Do you have questions about how, when and where to publish?

Do you want to find out more about the benefits of digital publishing?

Would you like to explore the role of new and alternative formats, such as academic blogging or self-publishing?

 Then Developing Your Publishing Strategy is for you.

The phrase "Publish or perish” is so often cited in academic circles that it has become a cliché; yet, undoubtedly, publishing your work is crucial.

Publishing is the primary means of getting the results of your research into the public domain, and if you want to pursue a career in academia, your publication record will be a critical measure of the effectiveness of your research.

No pressure, then!

Developing Your Publishing Strategy will give you the chance to hear Professor Cathy Shrank (from the University's School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics) talk about how leading academics develop and manage a successful publishing strategy, and how to ensure that your published work raises your academic profile and supports your professional ambitions.

Michael Pidd, the HRI Digital Manager, will also be there to talk about the opportunities presented by digital publishing and the ways in which you can use digital publishing to undertake as well as to disseminate your research.

You will have further opportunity to discuss these issues with Cathy and Michael, as well the other attendees, over an informal lunch and Q&A session.

Lunch will be provided, so please register here to attend.  If you have any queries, please do get in touch with me. Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Food for Thought is a new lunchtime seminar series for researchers, organised by the Researcher Development Programme, in conjunction with academic colleagues. If you have an idea for a future seminar, please contact me at sarah.j.bell@sheffield.ac.uk

Best wishes,

Sarah

 

Sarah Bell

7th Annual South East European Doctoral Student Conference 24/25 Sep 2012 in Thessaloniki - Greece

Building on the success of the six previous Doctoral conferences which each attracted over 100 papers from countries all over the SE European region and beyond, we are pleased to announce the 7th Annual South East European Doctoral Student Conference which will be held 24^th and 25^th of September 2012 at CITY College an International Faculty of the University of Sheffield, Thessaloniki, Greece. The aim of the conference is to further facilitate the exchange of knowledge between young researchers and to consolidate the established network of scholars currently undertaking research in South East Europe. Doctoral students or young researchers in the areas of Business Administration, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing, Information & Communication Technologies, Psychology, Politics, Sociology as well as Education are invited to attend and present papers related to their doctoral research.


Knowledge Management is part of Research Track 1.


Further information can be found on http://www.seerc.org/dsc2012/index.html

Dr Stephen Pinfield on Open Agenda 9 May 2012

Dr Stephen Pinfield, CIO and Director of the Centre for Research Communications at the University of Nottingham will give a seminar on the Open Agenda this afternoon at 4 pm in Room 204 followed by tea/coffee and biscuits/cookies in the iSchool Common Room. Stephen will discuss strategies for providing Open Access to a range of organisational resources - scholarly publications, research data, educational resources and more.

This event also offers a timely opportunity to discuss the recent announcement of government plans to require open access to publicly funded research - see BBC News at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17921442 and The Guardian at http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/01/open-free-access-academic-research.

Interdisciplinary postgraduate conference at ICOSS 30 May 2012

You are invited to attend 'Representation and Participation', an interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, which will take place at ICOSS on Wednesday 30th May 2012 (registration from 9.15, conference starting at 10.00). The conference will showcase postgraduate research on a wide range of topics, and offers an opportunity to engage with fellow students from social science departments across Leeds, Sheffield and York. We are also pleased to announce the keynote speaker will be Professor Allison James from the Sociological Studies department at the University of Sheffield.

Attendance at the conference is free, but please email Jennifer Kettle (sop06jk@sheffield.ac.uk) by Monday 14th May to confirm your attendance. You will receive a timetable and details of the speakers nearer the time.

Kind regards,

Jennifer

Ana Guedes Rosa joins PG Café Forum

PG Café Forum is looking for a new committee for the 2012-2013 academic year.

Ana Guedes Rosa from the Information School has kindly agreed to be part of the new committee, taking on the liaison role with the RTP/DDP office and academic lead as well as maintaining the budget.

For more information or to become involved with PG Café Forum, please visit the website www.pgcafeforum.co.uk and specifically www.agm.pgcafeforum.co.uk

PG Café Forum talk by Ana Guedes Rosa

PG Café Forum is holding the April event next Tuesday (24th April), 6-8pm in the Raynor Lounge. There are 3 more exciting speakers and topics presenting their work this month:

Freyja Docherty: Investigating prostate cancer metastasis to bone.
Ana Guedes Rosa: eGovernment: what is that all about?
Alifiya Kapasi: Investigating mechanisms of neuronal migration.

For free paperless tickets, please register at www.registration.pgcafeforum.co.uk.

Upcoming KIM meetings

After a busy Christmas and Easter period, two KIM meetings have now been scheduled.

The first is Thursday 26 April at 12pm. This is an informal gathering to update each other on what we have been doing, discuss the organisation of activities/meetings for the next six months, who will do them and do a reading club session on a paper.

The second is on Tuesday 8 May at 12pm, with a presentation by Barbara Sen, Ana Rosa and Ana Vasconcelos to gather feedback on it and review it before the presentation is held within the School/Faculty.

Both meetings will be held in the iSchool common room, level 2.

Students' Spring Symposium in Thessaloniki

Since 2002, The University of Sheffield International Faculty has organised the Students' Spring Symposium where students from TUoS International Faculty celebrate student co-operation, provocative thinking and interaction. This event is centred on student projects, research and ideas in the following areas:-

* Web technologies

* Software Development

* Information Security

* Open Source

* Network Technology and engineering

* E-Learning

* Human Resource Information Systems

* IT, Change Management and e-Business

* Understanding Organisational Behaviour and HR

* Developing Strategic thinking in SMEs

* Managing knowledge and innovation in Organisations

* Understanding Corporate Finance

* Holistic Marketing

* Health/ Clinical psychology

* Cognitive neuroscience

* Developmental psychology

* Social/work psychology

This year, University of Sheffield Enterprise (USE) is offering two University of Sheffield students the opportunity to go the Spring Symposium, between the 18th and 19th May, with return flights to Thessaloniki, accommodation and meals included.

To apply for a place on the Symposium, you will be required to submit an extended abstract (1-2 pages) about your research or project to the secretariat of the symposium (s3-12@city.academic.gr) for review. The two students whose papers are accepted by TUoS International Faculty will get the places. Theoretical and empirical papers will be equally valued. The deadline for paper submission is the 26th April 2012.

Weblink:- http://www.city.academic.gr/s3-12/

Contact:- s3-12@city.academic.gr

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