Archive for October, 2009
International Workshop/Seminar on Public Data Visualisation
This workshop will focus on the implications of using data structure visualization to aid in public processes of decision-making. Selected projects and papers will tackle the topic of Open Data and Visualization for Government Transparency and Civic Engagement. Visualizar’09 includes an international seminar and an advanced project development workshop. Both activities will tackle the topic [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Explore Edinburgh’s Diversity
For 1mile² Edinburgh, Zoe Walker and Neil Bromwich invite you to join them in forming The Bank of Reason. Working with both an ecologist and an economist Zoe and Neil will lead tailored walks exploring the diversity of Edinburgh’s city centre. The walks will be followed by discussions that will be deposited into The Bank [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Course: The Body Politic, Social and Ecological Justice, Art and Activism
Artist-activist group PLATFORM and their collaborators are running C Words, a two-month investigation into carbon, climate, capital and culture. Based on PLATFORM’s 25 years of research, art and action, C Words cross-examines the present and looks to the next two decades. How did we get here? Where are we going? Who’s deciding? Who’s made invisible? Whose future [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Science Communicator Training
‘Dialogue academy: Professional development for science communicators’ is a training program supported by the Wellcome Trust, led by Explore-At-Bristol, and developed in partnership with the UK Association for Science and Discovery Centres (ASDC) and four other science centres: Centre for Life, Newcastle; Glasgow Science Centre; The Living Rainforest and Thinktank, Birmingham. ‘Dialogue academy’ is all [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Deputy Director, Centre for Mountain Studies, UHI, Perth
The Centre for Mountain Studies is based in Perth, at Perth College UHI, an academic partner of the UHI Millennium Institute, the future University of the Highlands and Islands. They are looking for a Deputy Director, who will play a key role in the Centre, working on all aspects of project development and implementation, and leading [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Science Communication Masterclass
The Science Communication Unit at the University of the West of England have announced the next instalment of their annual Masterclass in Science Communication. Further details are provided below or visit http://www.scu.uwe.ac.uk/index.php?q=node/81 for more information. UWE Masterclass in Science Communication (application deadline: 21st December 2009) The Masterclass is a five-day intensive course in Science Communication and draws on [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Best Practice: Engaging the Public with Sustainability
This is your chance to hear how Joseph Murphy, an environmental social scientist, has used a 1500km walk along the Atlantic coast of Ireland and Scotland as a vehicle to write about issues of sustainability and community, producing a book aimed at a wider non-academic audience about how issues of sustainability are played out in relation to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Design Collaboration to Reinvent Scotland’s Church Pews
A student from Edinburgh College of Art has joined forces with a city community project to help develop a range of handcrafted design classics made from recycled Scottish church pews. Mark Kobine, who is studying Product Design at the College, is working with GROW – Greyfriars Recycling of Wood – a social enterprise initiative, developed [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )QMU Conversations series
The distinguished theatre critic, Joyce McMillan, is to interview prominent figures from the worlds of theatre and screen in front of a public audience. Joyce McMillan, who is a visiting Professor at Queen Margaret University’s School of Drama and Creative Industries, will conduct a series of high profile interviews with well known actors, directors and [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )BSL:UPTAKE opens door to the web
The growing visibility of British Sign Language (BSL) on the Edinburgh campus of Heriot-Watt University took another step forward with the launch of the website of BSL:UPTAKE at the James Watt Conference Centre on Friday 9 October. The launch included a preview of one of the first major pieces of translation into BSL by the [...]
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