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Net Assets Seminar

Liz Robson was asked to present the findings of the SiDE Society perspective's research into harnessing digital technologies to engage young people. Read More
date: 18.09.2012

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. Read More
date: 24.08.2011

• 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.

• 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.

• Interdisciplinary collaborations within SiDE - The Creative Media team has organised meetings with researchers from the Social Sciences, Business and User perspectives.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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. 

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

• Creative Uses of ICT in Connected Communities: A Scoping Study - SiDE Society and Creative Industries researchers presented at this year's Digital Economy All Hands conference: Digital Engagement.

• Internet Safety and Young People report published - Liz Robson, Visiting Fellow at CURDS, has recently finished a report to the RYWU to help extend knowledge across the youth sector by looking into online safety issues and how youth organisations might utilise these technologies to engage young people more effectively.