This week, the relaunched Canadian journal of higher Education, Academic Matters, published with a theme called ‘Professor 2.0′. In it, i have a piece that examines how media change and impact are reshaping what it is to be a 21st century academic.
Last night, I attended the PODIUM awards on behalf of #media2012. PODIUM is the London 2012 education initiative, which has been focusing the HE, FE and school sector on the build up to the Games. Their awards ceremony has 8 categories and #media2012 received a Bronze medal in the Creative and Cultural Category. It was also shortlisted among 5 other candidates from the 230 nominations for the Pierre de Coubertin Vision award. While we didn’t win, the competition was really fierce with some massive projects being our competitors. It was really amazing that we were shortlisted.
A couple of weeks ago, the Scotland on Sunday published a 4-page profile piece about my work. It was written by the awesome Anna Burnside, with whom I’ve been in dialogue about my research for a few years. It’s a really lovely article and a real privilege to have given so much space to explain what I do. It’s certainly the most in depth and personal examination of my background, motives and interests. Here’s the link to the full piece. The portait was taken by an amazing photographer called Ian MacNicol, who turns out to be (we think) the only Scotland based photographer accredited at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Small world!
Last week, I took part as a judge in the Debating Matters programme, part of the Institute of Ideas work, funded by Wellcome Trust. It was one of the most rewarding work days I’ve had in a while and so exciting and inspiring to see the school students get into debates about contemporary issues. This is an awesome international programme and every school in the country should try to compete.
The #media2012 project is really ramping up now. We have been shortlisted for a prize, which will be decided on public vote. Please vote for #media2012 here (takes 5 seconds).
Over the next week, I’ll be speaking at 2 events within the @edscifest. The first is on Thursday 5th April titled ‘Designer Athletes: Fair Play or Foul?‘ and the other is called ‘Human 2.0‘ Hope you can join us.
Today I hit the road again to Brussels for an EC Digital Futures foresight workshop.
Last month, I had a photo essay published in the Dutch architecture journal S+RO.
Photography from Taipei
Last week, I was in Taiwan and gave a lecture about social media and sport at Da-Yeh University. I focused on aspects of the London 2012 Olympics, while also talking about other dimensions of my next book titled ‘A Digital Olympics’, which covers everything digital in sport, from citizen journalism to virtual reality simulations. Taiwan is an amazing place, unlike any other place in Asia I have visited.
