Presentation about the AHRC-funded Developing Research Excellence and Methods project (DREaM) to the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, Edinburgh, Monday 22nd April 2013.

1. Sharing the DREaM blueprint: lessons in community
network building from the Developing Research
Excellence and Methods project
Presentation to the Royal Commission on the Ancient and
Historical Monuments of Scotland
Monday 22nd April 2013
Professor Hazel Hall

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Welcome to today‟s presentation
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Professor Hazel Hall
@hazelh
http://hazelhall.org
http://about.me/hazelh
h.hall@napier.ac.uk
0131 455 2760
Slides on SlideShare at:
http://slideshare.net/hazelhall

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Work of the Centre for Social Informatics
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CPD
Knowledge management
Library and Information Science, e.g.
research resources for LIS
Social media strategies with focus on knowledge
management, risk management and engagement
strategies
…
Research – research councils, Europe
E-participation
E-governance
Information Society
Library and Information Science, e.g. AHRC
Smart cities
…
Research: contract, consultancy, “other”
Knowledge management
Library and Information Science e.g. CILIP
Market research
Online communities
Project management
Social computing
Sociotechnical project evaluation
…
One of five research centre within IIDI
Distributed Computing, Networking & Security
Emergent Computing
Information & Software Systems
Interaction Design
Social Informatics: exploring human-
technology relationships in context, and their
impact, e.g. on organisations, communities

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To facilitate a co-ordinated
and strategic approach to LIS
research across the UK
(2009-2012)
To explore the extent to which
LIS research projects
influence practice (2011)
To create outputs to support
the use and execution of
research by librarians and
information scientists (2012)
To develop a UK-wide
network of LIS researchers
(2011-2012)

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http://lisresearch.org
http://lisresearch.org/dream

6. Funding to develop a UK-wide network of LIS
researchers
Build research capacity and capability
Raise quality and standards: research training,
practice, output, value, impact, and influence
Secure foundation for long-term research
collaborations – in LIS and beyond

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Launch conference
British Library Conference Centre, July 19th 2011
87 participants
Programme included:
 2 keynotes
12 one minute madness presentations
4 breakout sessions
Plenary
Networking
Excellent feedback

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Three linked workshops
Edinburgh Napier University & British Library
25th October 2011, January 30th 2012, & 25th April
2012
30 workshop cadre members attended all three
12 formal sessions:
broad research approaches
qualitative and quantitative techniques
research practicalities
“Unconference half hour” and networking
Excellent feedback

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Concluding conference
British Library Conference Centre, July 9th 2012
93 participants
Programme included:
 2 keynotes
20 one minute madness presentations
Invited paper
Panel session
Award presentation
Networking
Excellent feedback

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Project infrastructure: technical and social
Project web page http://lisresearch.org/dream-project
All events previewed, amplified live, reviewed and
archived online (slides, recordings, and summaries)
Online community site: http://lis-dream.spruz.com/
Linked Lanyrds: http://lanyrd.com/profile/lis_dream/
Twitter account: @LIS_DREaM
Twitter DREaM participant list:
https://twitter.com/#!/LIS_DREaM/dream-participants

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Professional event amplification

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Event reviews by delegates

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The DREaM online community

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The Twitter feed

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The Twitter list

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Participation and reach in numbers
5 events
led by 33 „official‟ contributors
for 213 on-site delegate participants
from 12 countries (and 4 continents)
not counting „remote‟ audience of ~80 blog posts,
~1000+ tweets, multiple web pages, SlideShares,
Vimeos, SoundClouds etc.

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Brettle, A., Hall, H., & Oppenheim, C.
(2012).We have a DREaM: the Developing
Research Excellence and Methods
network. Paper presented at the 4th
International Conference on Qualitative and
Quantitative Methods in Libraries, Limerick,
Ireland, 22-25 May 2012.
1. Did we increase research capability
and capacity?
2. Did we raise standards?
3. Did we create a foundation for future
research collaborations?

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Never heard
of this
Heard but
unfamiliar
In theory Applied in
practice
Expert
Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post
Ethnography 2 0 9 1 8 23 3 1 0 0
Social network analysis 3 0 10 0 8 23 1 2 0 0
Discourse analysis 2 0 12 1 6 19 2 4 0 0
Ethics & legal issues 0 0 3 0 6 10 12 12 2 3
Action research 4 0 4 1 8 18 6 6 0 1
Research techniques from
history 5 0 9 0 4 20 3 5 0 0
Web metrics 3 0 10 0 5 23 4 2 0 0
Tying research output to
policy 0 0 8 0 5 14 8 8 1 3
Horizon scanning 4 0 7 1 7 17 4 5 0 0
Repertory grids 17 0 5 2 0 22 0 1 0 0
Data mining 0 0 11 2 10 21 1 1 0 0
Increasing research impact 0 0 5 0 8 13 8 10 1 2
TOTALS 40 0 93 8 67 223 52 57 4 9
Research skills
audits conducted in
workshops 1 and 3

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Never heard
of this
Heard but
unfamiliar
In theory Applied in
practice
Expert
Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post
Ethnography 2 0 9 1 8 23 3 1 0 0
Social network analysis 3 0 10 0 8 23 1 2 0 0
Discourse analysis 2 0 12 1 6 19 2 4 0 0
Ethics & legal issues 0 0 3 0 6 10 12 12 2 3
Action research 4 0 4 1 8 18 6 6 0 1
Research techniques from
history 5 0 9 0 4 20 3 5 0 0
Web metrics 3 0 10 0 5 23 4 2 0 0
Tying research output to
policy 0 0 8 0 5 14 8 8 1 3
Horizon scanning 4 0 7 1 7 17 4 5 0 0
Repertory grids 17 0 5 2 0 22 0 1 0 0
Data mining 0 0 11 2 10 21 1 1 0 0
Increasing research impact 0 0 5 0 8 13 8 10 1 2
TOTALS 40 0 93 8 67 223 52 57 4 9
Research skills
audits conducted in
workshops 1 and 3

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Never heard
of this
Heard but
unfamiliar
In theory Applied in
practice
Expert
Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post
Ethnography 2 0 9 1 8 23 3 1 0 0
Social network analysis 3 0 10 0 8 23 1 2 0 0
Discourse analysis 2 0 12 1 6 19 2 4 0 0
Ethics & legal issues 0 0 3 0 6 10 12 12 2 3
Action research 4 0 4 1 8 18 6 6 0 1
Research techniques from
history 5 0 9 0 4 20 3 5 0 0
Web metrics 3 0 10 0 5 23 4 2 0 0
Tying research output to
policy 0 0 8 0 5 14 8 8 1 3
Horizon scanning 4 0 7 1 7 17 4 5 0 0
Repertory grids 17 0 5 2 0 22 0 1 0 0
Data mining 0 0 11 2 10 21 1 1 0 0
Increasing research impact 0 0 5 0 8 13 8 10 1 2
TOTALS 40 0 93 8 67 223 52 57 4 9
Increased
familiarity with
workshop themes

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Never heard
of this
Heard but
unfamiliar
In theory Applied in
practice
Expert
Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post
Ethnography 2 0 9 1 8 23 3 1 0 0
Social network analysis 3 0 10 0 8 23 1 2 0 0
Discourse analysis 2 0 12 1 6 19 2 4 0 0
Ethics & legal issues 0 0 3 0 6 10 12 12 2 3
Action research 4 0 4 1 8 18 6 6 0 1
Research techniques from
history 5 0 9 0 4 20 3 5 0 0
Web metrics 3 0 10 0 5 23 4 2 0 0
Tying research output to
policy 0 0 8 0 5 14 8 8 1 3
Horizon scanning 4 0 7 1 7 17 4 5 0 0
Repertory grids 17 0 5 2 0 22 0 1 0 0
Data mining 0 0 11 2 10 21 1 1 0 0
Increasing research impact 0 0 5 0 8 13 8 10 1 2
TOTALS 40 0 93 8 67 223 52 57 4 9
Overall growth
in theoretical
knowledge

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Never heard
of this
Heard but
unfamiliar
In theory Applied in
practice
Expert
Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post
Ethnography 2 0 9 1 8 23 3 1 0 0
Social network analysis 3 0 10 0 8 23 1 2 0 0
Discourse analysis 2 0 12 1 6 19 2 4 0 0
Ethics & legal issues 0 0 3 0 6 10 12 12 2 3
Action research 4 0 4 1 8 18 6 6 0 1
Research techniques from
history 5 0 9 0 4 20 3 5 0 0
Web metrics 3 0 10 0 5 23 4 2 0 0
Tying research output to
policy 0 0 8 0 5 14 8 8 1 3
Horizon scanning 4 0 7 1 7 17 4 5 0 0
Repertory grids 17 0 5 2 0 22 0 1 0 0
Data mining 0 0 11 2 10 21 1 1 0 0
Increasing research impact 0 0 5 0 8 13 8 10 1 2
TOTALS 40 0 93 8 67 223 52 57 4 9
Small increase
of application in
practice

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Never heard
of this
Heard but
unfamiliar
In theory Applied in
practice
Expert
Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post
Ethnography 2 0 9 1 8 23 3 1 0 0
Social network analysis 3 0 10 0 8 23 1 2 0 0
Discourse analysis 2 0 12 1 6 19 2 4 0 0
Ethics & legal issues 0 0 3 0 6 10 12 12 2 3
Action research 4 0 4 1 8 18 6 6 0 1
Research techniques from
history 5 0 9 0 4 20 3 5 0 0
Web metrics 3 0 10 0 5 23 4 2 0 0
Tying research output to
policy 0 0 8 0 5 14 8 8 1 3
Horizon scanning 4 0 7 1 7 17 4 5 0 0
Repertory grids 17 0 5 2 0 22 0 1 0 0
Data mining 0 0 11 2 10 21 1 1 0 0
Increasing research impact 0 0 5 0 8 13 8 10 1 2
TOTALS 40 0 93 8 67 223 52 57 4 9
Increase in
number of cadre
member experts

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Critical incident technique - cadre reported
Increased research capacity and capability
Growth in knowledge and research confidence
Raised standards
Impact and influence – demonstrating research knowledge in the
workplace
Quality of training – new resources to share
Research practice – methodological choice
Foundations for future collaborations
Widened networks and research relationships

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Broader impacts of the investment
LIS research on the agenda, e.g.
CILIP‟s Professional Knowledge and
Skills Base
CILIP Library and Information
Research Group (LIRG)
reinvigorated
Increased research capacity,
particularly amongst DREaM cadre
New approaches to supporting LIS
at “industry” level - Coalition
New approaches to delivering
support, e.g. DREaM infrastructure
Popularising new approaches, e.g.
One Minute Madness (see July
2012‟s video)
Export to other subject domains

26. Sharing the DREaM blueprint: lessons in community
network building from the Developing Research
Excellence and Methods project
Presentation to the Royal Commission on the Ancient and
Historical Monuments of Scotland
Monday 22nd April 2013
Professor Hazel Hall