Author Archives: Joss Winn

A few slides about Virtual Research Environments (VRE)

By Joss Winn | Published: March 17, 2010
Just a few slides I threw together that might save someone else the effort. The links on the penultimate slide are a useful quick reference to JISC’s work on VREs. Useful if you’re trying to introduce the idea in your university. It’s interesting to see VREs described as ’socio-technical systems’ and the emphasis that is [...]
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Towards a manifesto for sharing

By Joss Winn | Published: March 5, 2010
One of the conclusions I’ve come to over the course of the ChemistryFM project is that sharing doesn’t need institutionalising. I don’t think we need to develop policy and processes for sharing the work we do. I’ve been drafting the final report for the ChemistryFM project this week and have written that “the overall approach [...]
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Becoming a scholar activist

By Joss Winn | Published: March 3, 2010
I’ve been looking for information about ’scholar activism’ and recently came across an MA in Activism and Social Change at Leeds University. It’s run by Dr. Paul Chatterton, lecturer in the School of Geography. His colleague has written a really interesting, reflective paper about setting up the MA degree, and Paul has written a couple [...]
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JISC Greening ICT Keynote Presentation

By Joss Winn | Published: February 26, 2010
Here are the slides I used for JISC’s Greening ICT Programme Meeting. There are 25 slides with lots of notes and references from slide 26 onwards. JISC Greening ICT Keynote Presentation View more presentations from Joss Winn.
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