This friday we had a different type of journal club – we had a visit from David Coyle – a post-doctoral research fellow working jointly with Trinity College Dublin and the University of Cambridge. David is working in an area directly related to our recently-funded EPSRC project, which is investigating ways of using online social [...]

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Last friday we gave our research centre ‘coffee and cake’ discussion over to the topic of “dogs, cats and video games”. Because of the topic, we opened this discussion up to a wider group than normal, including Duncan Rowland from the Mixed Reality Lab at Nottingham and Daniel Mills and Sarah Ellis from Biological Sciences. [...]

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Jamie Wardman led an interesting discussion on Crisis Informatics and Emergency Responses to Terrorist Events. The papers discussed covered the topic of ‘crisis informatics’ and in particular the issue of social networking and response to crisis events. The papers discussed are generally aimed at analysing behaviour on Twitter surrounding natural disasters, but there are other [...]

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