Colin Smith

Dr Colin Smith

Associate Professor

Cf.Smith@napier.ac.uk

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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

School

School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

Research Groups

Centre for Social Informatics

Themes

AI and Technologies

Research Areas

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Events

10 July 2016 - Social Media and Society 2016

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

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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...

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

COST A14 - Government and Democracy in the Information Age

Edinburgh Napier University

Dr Colin Smith

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

Gendered information landscapes and their impact on routes into and through apprenticeships

PhD Studentship 2019: Work Based Learning and Firm Performance

Can pay, should pay? a comparison of outcomes for paid and unpaid work opportunities for employers and students.

e-Placement Scotland

Euro Petition

e-Representative: A virtual desktop to support the mobile elected Representative

DEMO-Net - Network of Excellence on eParticipation

iDTV

Pre-Napier Funded Projects

Current Post Grad projects

Effects of trust in digitalisation on democratic thinking - Natalie Wangler, Dr David Brazier, Dr Colin Smith (Second Supervisor), Dr Wegene Demeke, Dr Imed Romdhani

Metaskills Maturity for future workplaces - Katherine Stephen, Dr David Brazier, Prof Hazel Hall, Dr Colin Smith (Additional Supervisor), Dr Thomas Tan

Towards a Novel Multi-Modal Arabic Sentiment Analysis Framework: Integrating Dependency-Grammar Rules and Deep Learning Based Models - Arwa Diwali, Prof Amir Hussain, Dr Taoxin Peng, Prof Ahmed Al-Dubai, Dr Colin Smith

Investigating the Role of Auditory Affordances in Enhancing Mixed Reality User Engagement - Rachael Grant, Dr Iain McGregor, Dr Michael Smyth, Dr Colin Smith

Previous Post Grad projects

Participation Space Studies: a socio-technical exploration of activist and community groups? use of online and offline spaces to support their work - Dr Ella Taylor-Smith, Dr Colin Smith (Director Of Studies), Dr Michael Smyth, Prof Lissie Davenport, Prof Ben Paechter

Research grounded support of student learning in Higher Education: The importance of dialogue and subject embedded, contextualised language and content - Dr Kendall Richards, Dr Colin Smith (Director Of Studies), Prof Sally Smith

Youth digital culture co-creation: Measuring social impact in Scotland - Alicja Pawluczuk, Dr Gemma Webster, Dr Colin Smith (Second Supervisor), Prof Hazel Hall, Dr Neil Urquhart

Enabling female student interaction in synchronous virtual classrooms in Saudi Higher Education - Najla Alamri, Prof Sally Smith, Dr Colin Smith (Second Supervisor), Dr Colin Smith (Second Supervisor), Alistair Lawson

Social media as facilitators of tacit knowledge sharing practices amongst public sector employees - Iris Buunk, Prof Hazel Hall, Dr Colin Smith (Second Supervisor), Dr Michael Smyth

Obstacles and opportunities in implementing large-scale agile project management: Re-positioning activity theory as an analytical tool - Dr Pritam Chita, Dr Peter Cruickshank, Dr Colin Smith (Second Supervisor), Dr Kendall Richards, Dr Neil Urquhart

Identity and identification in an information society: Augmenting formal systems of identification with technological artefacts - Mr Will Abramson, Prof Bill Buchanan, Dr Owen Lo, Dr Colin Smith