Joint research groups meeting
On Thursday 21st May we had a joint meeting with the Society and Information Research Group (SIRG). This was to help us to see what the two groups had in common and how we might work together.
The people there from TERG were: Karen, Jon, Giselle, Wendy, Steve and Helen (by phone).
The people from SIRG were: Chris, Ian, David, Allan, Hazel and Clem (by phone).
It was a good meeting, with interesting discussions around two papers about social perspectives on Technology:
Kling, R. (2000) Learning about information technologies and social change: The contribution of social informatics. Information Society, 16 (3), 217-232.
Williams, R., and D. Edge. (1996) The social shaping of technology. Research policy 25, no. 6 : 865–899.
After the discussion of these papers we talked about how we would like to work together in the future. We decided:
- to have further joint reading meetings
- to have an ‘awayday’ in July to share our research ideas and research writing
- to see if we can gain funding for a residential ‘writers retreat’ in late August
- to plan possible funding bids
- to consider strategies for the REF
Ian will be setting up a ‘meetomatic’ page to set a date for the July awayday. Karen will investigate the possibilities for the writers retreat (probably located in the Peak District, to minimise travel for the ‘Northern branch’ (Wendy, Clem, Steve and Helen).
September 17th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
I think that the idea of woking together two groups is very important,
I would like to join to SIRG group,
I hope to be useful for common work
Thank you
Xenia
September 17th, 2009 at 5:57 pm
This summer I write a book “Machine Learning Methods for Commonsense Reasoning Process: Interactive Models”, this book has been taken for publication by IGI Global in the beginning of 2010 year,
I hope that my approach to machine learning is adequate to the TFRG’woks,
My dream is to participate in international project and have good and competents colleages and friends,
Xenia
17.09.2009