Colin Smith
Colin Smith

Dr Colin Smith

Associate Professor

Biography

My research addresses ICTs, strategic innovation and organisational change particularly in public sector organisations, and often in relation to ‘e-government’ and ‘e-democracy’.
I am a member of the Centre for Social Informatics http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/c/main/site/csi

I also undertake pedagogic research looking at emergent professionalism in computing students and the role played by placement and professional practice in underpinning employability. I am a member of the Centre for Computing Education Research (CCER) where I lead on employability research.

Core areas of interest:
- Role of the Internet for political parties in contemporary democratic practices.
- Digital delivery platforms for public services.
- Use of new technology by parliamentarians.

Journal/Conference Roles:

March 2015 - Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning
Member of the Review Panel for this journal, focusing on the interface between higher education and the workplace.

March 2010 – Dec 2013 Information Polity
Reviews Editor and then member of the Editorial Board (December 2013- ) for this leading journal in the field of critical assessment of information age governance and democracy http://www.iospress.nl/journal/information-polity/

1995 - European Group of Public Administration
Member of Permanent Study Group 1: e-Government

News

Events

Esteem

Advisory panels and expert committees or witness

  • UUK / Department for Education roundtable
  • Member of ISO-WACE Advisory Board

 

Conference Organising Activity

  • Programme Committee Member - BHCI

 

Editorial Activity

  • Member of Reviewers Panel: Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
  • Member of the Editorial Board: Information Polity
  • Reviews Editor: Information Polity

 

External Examining/Validations

  • External Examiner for BSc Information Systems, Heriot-Watt University
  • External Examiner (MBA), Liverpool John Moores University

 

Invited Speaker

  • Grasping a Jellyfish? Some problematic aspects of 'Belonging'
  • Employability and Social Mobility Workshop - 'Exploring Barriers'
  • Digital Skills for Graduates

 

Research Degree External Examining

  • External Examiner (PhD) - Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
  • External Examiner (PhD) - Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
  • External Examiner (PhD), University of Derby
  • External Examiner (PhD), University of Udine, Italy

 

Date


81 results

Political parties, democracy and the new information and communication technologies: theorising the relationships

Journal Article
Löfgren, K., & Smith, C. F. (1999)
Political parties, democracy and the new information and communication technologies: theorising the relationships. Working paper / Faculty of Business, Glasgow Caledonian University,
As a result of the increased public penetration of the Internet and other forms of electronic networks in western liberal democracies there has, for some years now, been a gro...

Building a parliamentary democracy in the information age.

Presentation / Conference
Smith, C. F. (1999, November)
Building a parliamentary democracy in the information age. Paper presented at Colloque International - Les parlements dans la societe de l´information, Paris, France

The Scottish Parliament: [re-]shaping parliamentary democracy in the information age.

Book
Smith, C. F., & Gray, P. (1998)
The Scottish Parliament: [re-]shaping parliamentary democracy in the information age. In S. Coleman, W. Donk, & J. Taylor (Eds.), Parliament in the Age of the Internet, 67-79. Oxford University Press

Political parties, democracy and new communication technologies.

Journal Article
Löfgren, K. & Smith, C. F. (1998)
Political parties, democracy and new communication technologies. COS-rapport. 3. ISSN 1395-0657

Telematics and the Scottish Parliament: transferable democratic innovations

Report
Burt, E., Smith, C. F., Webster, W. & McGourty, J. (1998)
Telematics and the Scottish Parliament: transferable democratic innovations

Political parties in the information age: from 'mass party' to leadership organization?

Book
Smith, C. F. (1997)
Political parties in the information age: from 'mass party' to leadership organization?. In I. Snellen, & W. Donk (Eds.), Public Administration in an Information Age, A Handbook, 175-190. IOS Press
In providing an overview of British political parties on the threshold of the 'information age', this chapter argues that any thorough analysis is incomplete without addressin...

British political parties online: consumerist democracy?

Presentation / Conference
Smith, C. F. (1997, September)
British political parties online: consumerist democracy?. Paper presented at XIth meeting of the Permanent Study Group on Informatization in Public Administration, European Group of Public Administration Annual Conference, Leuven, Belgium

Looking for evidence of deep learning in constructively aligned online discussions.

Conference Proceeding
Brown, N., Smyth, K. & Mainka, C. (2006)
Looking for evidence of deep learning in constructively aligned online discussions. In Banks, S., Hodgson, V., Jones, C., Kemp, B., McConnell, D. & Smith, C. (Eds.). Proceedings of the fifth International Conference on Networked Learning 2006ISBN 1-86220-182-X
Building upon previous work by the authors, this paper describes a small-scale study that involved analysing the depth of thinking evident within asynchronous discussion contr...

Bringing social and technological innovation to the work of national, regional and local elected representatives: the eRepresentative project.

Conference Proceeding
Karamagioli, E., Koulolias, V., Smith, C. F. & Cruickshank, P. (2007)
Bringing social and technological innovation to the work of national, regional and local elected representatives: the eRepresentative project. In Parycek, P. & Prosser, A. (Eds.). EDem08 E-Democracy Conference
Members of elected assemblies have a number of overlapping roles. eRepresentative is a project of the European Commission’s IST programme, and has investigated the potential f...

Can pay, should pay? Comparing employer and student outcomes of paid and unpaid work opportunities.

Conference Proceeding
Smith, C. F., Smith, S. & Irving, C. (2013)
Can pay, should pay? Comparing employer and student outcomes of paid and unpaid work opportunities. In Proceedings of the HEA STEM Learning and Teaching Conference (2013): Where practice and pedagogy meet, 114-119. doi:10.11120/stem.hea.2013.0025
This paper looks across and beyond this project to examine the range of placement and work experience forms currently experienced by computing students, and asks the question ...

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

  • COST A14 - Government and Democracy in the Information Age

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