Developing Research Excellence and Methods

The latest issue of the LIS Research Coalition newsletter is now available at http://lisresearch.org/news/coalition-newsletters/#July. The top stories are:

1. The DREaM project concluding conference: “a fantastic day”
2. DREaM project – the next stage
3. RiLIES2 project
4. Highlights from the RiLIES1 project
5. Ronan O’Beirne and Michael Jubb contribute guest blogs to the Coalition web site

It is now possible to register for the DREaM conference on Monday 9th July at the British Library in London. 

The conference fee is £95. Ten travel bursaries will be made available to PhD students and new professionals who are not London-based, as well as one travel bursary for an international delegate. 

The conference programme is at http://lisresearch.org/dream-project/dream-event-5-conference-monday-9-july-2012/

To register your place, please go to http://store.napier.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=155&modid=1&compid=1  

Further details will be publicised on the LIS Research Coalition web site, Twitter and the mailing lists later this week. 

Next week Edinburgh Napier University is hosting three events of interest
of LIS practitioners and researchers. Anyone interested and within easy reach of
Edinburgh will be most welcome at one, two or all three of these events.

All events are free of charge, and Hazel Hall's inaugural professorial
lecture on the evening of Thursday 15th March also includes a drinks
reception.

**Wednesday 14th March**
Speaker: Professor Blaise Cronin, Indiana University, US
Presentation theme: Bibliometrics and biography ("biobibliometrics")
Further details: http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/c/news/newsid/13370794
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: room F29, Edinburgh Napier Merchiston campus
(http://www.napier.ac.uk/aboutus/Maps/Pages/Merchiston.aspx)
To register: please e-mail Hazel Hall h.hall@napier.ac.uk

**Thursday 15th March**
Speaker: Professor Hazel Hall, Edinburgh Napier University
Presentation theme: Social informatics (Hazel Hall's inaugural
professorial lecture)
Further details:
http://www.napier.ac.uk/Events/Pages/EventDetails.aspx?NewsID=159
Time: presentation from 18:00-19:00, followed by drinks reception
19:00-20:00 (no charge)
Venue: Lindsay Stewart Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh Napier Craiglockhart
campus (http://www.napier.ac.uk/aboutus/maps/pages/craiglockhart.aspx)
To register: please e-mail events@napier.ac.uk

**Friday 16th March**
Speaker: Professor Gunilla Widen, Abo Akademi, Finland
Presentation theme: Social information research
Further details: http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/c/news/newsid/13371311
Time: 14:00-15:00
Venue: room D40, Edinburgh Napier Merchiston campus
(http://www.napier.ac.uk/aboutus/Maps/Pages/Merchiston.aspx)
To register: please e-mail Hazel Hall h.hall@napier.ac.uk