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Why academics ought to use social media

The University of Southampton's Head of Multidisciplinary Research Guy Poppy has been getting to grips with social media. He tweeted and blogged about his visit to Rio+20, the UN conference on Sustainable Development. I caught up with him on his return to Southampton. To listen to our interview and find out what Guy thinks about social media, listen here. Continue reading →

Sustainability & the Creative/Cultural Industries

The 2nd INTERREG conference in Socially Responsible and Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation will be held here at Southampton in the Management School, October 24/25. There are many interesting streams at the conference, http://www.ecole-management-normandie.fr/web/2nd_interreg_conference_.html, but if you are interested in issues about sustainability and value creation in relation to the creative and cultural industries, check out Stream 5 (below). Continue reading →

SMiLE in LSE Impact and Smart Insights blogs

The first outputs from SMiLE have been published on the LSE Impact Blog: “If you don’t have social media, you are no one: How social media enriches conferences for some but risks isolating others” How researchers can collect and share relevant social media content at conferences The impact of social networking activity on an intended ‘real world’ outcome has been difficult to measure, but one of our Social Media in Supporting Live Events (SMiLE) action project objectives is to... Continue reading →

Roman coins and rubbish bins…

What do roman coins and rubbish bins have to do with multi disciplinary research? Collaboration between scientists at the British Museum, the mu-Vis computed tomography centre and the Archaeological Computing Research Group at Southampton University has applied x-ray volume imaging techniques to produce 3D images of Roman coins BEFORE they are removed from the blocks of soil in which they were found. Continue reading →

New Centre of Excellence for Research in Cyber Security

Interested staff and students are invited to attend the launch of the GCHQ/EPSRC Academic Centre of Excellence for Research in Cyber Security on Wednesday 11 July in 32/3077 (seminar room). The schedule is as follows: 12:30 Introduction - V. Sassone 13:00 CyberSecurity through (secure and anti-tamper) hardware (nano) devices - K. De Groot and W. Redman-White 13:15 Software-based CyberSecurity - M. Butler and G. Continue reading →

Half a million website visits!

At 1.30pm on Tuesday July 3rd a website created by the eLanguages team in Modern Languages received its 500,000th visit. ‘Prepare for Success’ (www.prepareforsuccess.org.uk) is a website of free interactive learning resources for international students planning to study at any UK university or college. It is also being used extensively by receiving institutions in the UK, as well as by institutions overseas. Continue reading →

Digital Literacies at the Good Practice Event

Each year Faculties recognise and highlight individual staff and teams who provide examples of good practice in education, which is aimed at providing an outstanding education and student experience.  Under the auspices of the University Programmes Committee, a University event takes place on Friday 13th July from 10.30am to 2.30pm to provide colleagues with the opportunity to share and promote their good practice. Continue reading →