Bios

Greg has taught at a number of institutions across the United Kingdom, specialising in the fields of media and cultural studies, film studies, digital media, audio cultures and psycho-social studies. As may be evident from this, his teaching experience covers a wide remit of subjects and reflects an interdisciplinary interest in the study of cultural production and consumption in general. More specifically, Greg’s role within the Division is to strengthen the links between the various disciplinary fields, and development and leadership in Digital Media subject provision.

He has published in a number of related fields, including a monograph on depth psychology and film theory ((Film After Jung: Post-Jungian Approaches to Film Theory (Hove: Routledge, 2009)) and a book on the emotional work of cinema (Feeling Film: Affect and Authenticity in Popular Cinema (Hove: Routledge, 2014)). Currently finishing work on a third monograph for Routledge Mental Health, titled The Death of Web 2.0 (London: Routledge, 2017). Research Interests include: Affordance and the psychology of connectivity in Web contexts; Media and connectivity ethics; The disassembling tendencies of Collective Intelligence and its implications for individuation in community and group dynamics (in both research and in pedagogical/curriculum development); and, Cinephilia and fandom in popular cinema cultures.

Eddy Borges-Rey is a lecturer in journalism studies at the Division of Communications, Media and Culture of the University of Stirling. His research interests broadly focus on the relationship between digital technologies, power and the media. In particular, he has examined practices such as data journalism, mobile journalism and photojournalism to look at the tensions arising between discourses of innovation and actor-actant power struggles. In this vein, Borges-Rey has focused on areas such as open data, data literacy, big data and AI, mobile TV, and online popular music. He is a former broadcast journalist and media producer with more than 15 years of professional experience.

Joe is founder and Director of Creative Stirling. Having worked within other Scottish Arts organisations for a number of years. Being a passionate advocate for lifelong learning, media literacy, audience development in arts and culture, she decided to follow her instinct to devise and lead a new model of arts organisation that would both benefit the community and the local economy, whilst providing employment opportunities to young creatively-oriented people.

Daria is Head of Programmes and Evaluation at Wikimedia UK, an open knowledge charity, where she’s worked for the last 5 years. She manages programme planning and delivery, which includes setting up partnerships, running volunteer engagement projects, and evaluating Wikimedia UK’s work. She brings experience of working in the charity sector, both from staff and board perspective – she’s a trustee at Share, an education organisation in London.

Joshua is a programme manager and innovation consultant. He joins from Nesta where he set up and launched the Longitude Prize and designed and ran multi-million-pound international challenge prizes in the fields of digital technology and the environment.

Steven is a smart cities practitioner with proven expertise in data management and use.  He represents the Scottish Cities Alliance as their Smart Cities Open Data Manager promoting a coordinated approach across Scotland’s 7 Cities.

He is currently on secondment from UrbanTide (where he is Co-Founder and Director) a specialist consultancy who believe we can use data to build better places.  The Company provides consultancy & training services and software products.

Steven has 4 years direct experience in the use of open data in a smart cities context having delivered core components of the Glasgow Future Cities Demonstrator Programme and services through UrbanTide to various UK clients in relation to both open data and smart cities and was central to development of the co-designed Scottish Smart Cities Maturity Model (2015).  He has also taken part in various groups developing temporary BSI PAS Smart Cities standards.

Dr Cristina Costa is a Lecturer in Technology Enhanced Learning in the School of Education, Strathclyde University. Her research focuses on the intersection of education and the participatory web through a sociological lens, especially Pierre Bourdieu’s key concepts.  She is also interested in broader issues regarding the participatory web in the context of a changing society.

Cristina has a research record that links social theory to emerging academic areas such as Technology Enhanced Learning in an attempt to bridge existing gap between theory and practice. This has resulted in researching areas as diverse as Curriculum Innovation, Digital Scholarship, and e-Health. In 2013 she completed her PhD on the participatory web in the context of academic research: landscapes of change and conflicts. She is the co-editor of the Social Theory Applied blog/website www.socialtheoryapplied.com

Craig Steele is a digital skills educator and creative technologist, who helps people develop digital skills in a fun and creative environment.

He is founder of CoderDojo in Scotland, former Digital Learning Manager at Glasgow Science Centre, a Raspberry Pi Certified Educator, and digital learning consultant.

Craig is a first year PhD student based in Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Stirling. Craig completed hisundergraduate degree in Software Engineering at the University of Stirlingalso. His doctoral work is an impact studentship jointly funded by the:Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs, University ofStirling Research and Enterprise Office, Computer Science and Mathematics Department.

His research focus is on the use of Gamification and Serious Games for Education, Outreach and Engagement in Tree and Plant Health. This involveslooking at ways in which these techniques may be used to engage thepublic, stakeholders, and citizen science groups on relevant and emergingbio-security information in an accessible and engaging manner.

Outside immediate research he is also a co-originator, and lead organizer, of StirHack – the annual hackathon held at the University of Stirling.

With regards to the Digital Literacy project, Craig hopes to bring his hackathon expertise to the team as well as exploring ways in whichgamification and serious games might be used to support the outreach andeducation work being undertaken as part of the project.

Sally is Head of Digital Participation at SCVO. She supports the co-ordination of public, private and third sectors across Scotland so the third sector in particular can support people to make the most of digital technologies. An experienced programme manager she has a background in developing and delivering large-scale social inclusion and change management programmes.

Third Sector professional with over twenty years experience of achievement in third and public sectors at local, regional and national levels. Experience: Change Management; transformational change; social inclusion; staff management and development; financial management and generation; grant making; policy development and implementation; project and programme management; training and facilitation and relationship management. Strengths: Analytical skills; strategic vision; ability to operationalise strategy to implementation; drive and determination; sense of humour. Interests: Governance; dynamics between trustees and officers; volunteering; stakeholder relationships.

Dr. Catherine Lido is a lecturer in Social Justice Place and Lifelong Education at the University of Glasgow, working for their Urban Big Data Centre, and housed within the School of Education. She works with Prof Mike Osborne on assessing the city’s learning access and metrics, as well as working with large data and multi-media data sources (details at: www.ubdc.ac.uk).

She is also a member of the (SJPLE) Research and Teaching Group in Social Justice, Place & Lifelong Education, as well as an associate member of the Robert Owen Research Centre in Education at Glasgow University. She was previously a Research Fellow, senior lecturer and former BSc Programme leader for the University of West London (2004-2014). Her teaching and research interests are mainly within the social psychology of education and quantitative methods in the social sciences. Dr. Lido also acts as a visiting lecturer for the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

He is programme director of the MSc. in Big Data and runs a spin-out company that provides hardware, software and consultancy for the collection, processing and use of data. Before moving into academia, he ran a company that produced machine learning and data analytics software, selling solutions in banking, insurance, marketing and automotive sectors. His current research interests include new machine learning algorithms and the use of data analytics in health and wellbeing.

She has worked in STEM Directorate for over six years developing vocational digital media and technology qualifications, and leading cross-sectoral digital skills projects with a range of partners. Hilary has over ten years’ experience working in the creative industries managing theatre, television and film projects in Scotland, and as a Media Studies teacher in London.