Colin Smith
Colin Smith

Dr Colin Smith

Associate Professor

 0131 455 2774

  Cf.Smith@napier.ac.uk

  

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

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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'
  • Digital Skills for Graduates
  • Employability and Social Mobility Workshop - 'Exploring Barriers'

 

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

 

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Members of the Scottish Parliament on the net.

Journal Article
Smith, C. F. & Webster, C. W. R. (2004)
Members of the Scottish Parliament on the net. Information Polity. 9, 67-80. ISSN 1570-1255

What's on the box? electronic public services and the future of television.

Presentation / Conference
Smith, C. F., & Webster, W. (2003, September)
What's on the box? electronic public services and the future of television. Paper presented at XVIIth meeting of the Permanent Study Group on Informatization in Public Administration, European Group of Public Administration Annual Conference, Lisbon, Portugal

Final report on 'INtouch Kirklees - iDTV for Dewsbury West'

Report
Smith, C. F. & Webster, W. (2003)
Final report on 'INtouch Kirklees - iDTV for Dewsbury West'

Political parties and democracy in the information age.

Book
Löfgren, K., & Smith, C. F. (2003)
Political parties and democracy in the information age. In R. Gibson, P. Nixon, & S. Ward (Eds.), Political Parties and the Internet: Net Gain?, 39-52. Routledge

Members of the Scottish Parliament on the net: using internet based technologies in the Scottish Parliament.

Presentation / Conference
Smith, C. F., & Webster, W. (2003, January)
Members of the Scottish Parliament on the net: using internet based technologies in the Scottish Parliament. Paper presented at Government and Democracy in the Information Ade (GaDIA) 'Cyberdemocracy' Working Group, Copenhagen, Denmark
This paper presents research undertaken into the use of Internet Based Technologies (IBTs) by Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). It is based on research findings from ...

Delivering public services through digital television.

Journal Article
Smith, C. & Webster, W. (2002)
Delivering public services through digital television. Public Money and Management. 22, 25-32. doi:10.1111/1467-9302.00326. ISSN 0954-0962
Digital television (DTV) is central to the future electronic delivery of public services in the UK. Central government has been actively promoting the use of DTV in the public...

Political parties and democracy: theorising the relationships.

Presentation / Conference
Löfgren, K., & Smith, C. F. (2001, September)
Political parties and democracy: theorising the relationships. Paper presented at European Group of Public Administration Annual Conference; meeting of the Permanent Study Group on Informatization in Public Administration, Vaasa, Finland

Introduction: Managing Parliaments in the 21st Century

Book
Falconer, P., Smith, C. F., & Webster, W. (2000)
Introduction: Managing Parliaments in the 21st Century. In P. Falconer, C. Smith, & W. Webster (Eds.), Managing Parliaments in the 21st Century, 1-6. IOS Press

Managing parliaments in the 21st Century.

Book
(2000)
P. Falconer, C. F. Smith, & W. Webster (Eds.), Managing parliaments in the 21st Century. IOS Press
This book reports on the endeavour, undertaken by EGPA, to make the discipline of public administration fruitful for the management of parliaments. The theme was deemed approp...

British political parties: continuity and change in the information age.

Book
Smith, C. F. (1999)
British political parties: continuity and change in the information age. In I. Horrocks, J. Hoff, & P. Tops (Eds.), Democratic Governance and New Technology: Technologically Mediated Innovations in Political Practice in Western Europe, 72-87. Routledge

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

  • COST A14 - Government and Democracy in the Information Age

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