Information Studies Research

Electric Dreams - Art and Technology before the Internet

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:21:14 GMT

An exhibition based on our doctoral student Bilyana Palankasova

Documentary casts light on relationship between art and physics

Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:26:00 GMT

Researchers from the University of Glasgow are featured in a new documentary which is set to open a top international film festival.

Doctoral scholarships available for 2025/26

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 09:02:00 BST

Deadline for applications: 2 December 2024

Professor Gooding's inaugural lecture

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:48:00 BST

Wednesday 23 October 2024

Congratulations to Rebecca Noone on the publication of her new book

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:02:00 BST

'Location Awareness in the Age of Google Maps'

Dr David McMenemy elected as Vice-President of Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

Tue, 19 Mar 2024 13:00:00 GMT

CILIP's Vice President for 2024, who will then serve consecutively as President in 2025, is UofG's Dr David McMenemy

Responsible AI across education, policing and the creative industries

Tue, 06 Feb 2024 14:00:00 GMT

New funding is announced today to help propel the UK to the forefront of advanced artificial intelligence research.

Professor Maria Economou's inaugural Lecture: Digital Cultural Heritage: Engaging Communities, Connecting Collections

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 15:22:00 GMT

Wednesday 31 January 2024

Doctoral scholarships available for 2024/25

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:02:00 BST

Deadline for applications: 4 December 2023

Museums in the Metaverse to let you build your own virtual collection

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 06:00:00 BST

An ambitious new £5.6 million project to develop Virtual Reality museums has been officially unveiled today

Former students, friends and colleagues share their memories of Johanna Green

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 08:46:00 BST

Following the sad news of Johanna's passing, we share memories of her.

Dr Johanna Green - teacher, scholar, and friend

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 12:00:00 BST

A tribute to the life of Dr Johanna Green who has died five years after being diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer.

Dr Johanna Green

Fri, 21 Jul 2023 15:00:00 BST

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our colleague and friend Dr Johanna Green, Senior Lecturer in Information Studies, specialising in book history and digital humanities.

Information Studies now in the Top 50 in the 2023 QS World University Rankings

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:05:00 BST

A testament to the continuing hard work of all colleagues

Dr David McMenemy on the Board of the Scottish Library and Information Council

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 13:49:00 GMT

The Scottish Library and Information Council is the independent advisory body to the Scottish Government on library and information related matters.

PhD scholarships available for 2023/24

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 09:02:00 BST

Deadline for applications: 28 November 2022

Congratulations to Professor Sarah Cook on gaining a guest Professorship at the University of Umea

Fri, 07 Oct 2022 15:42:49 BST

An exciting contribution to the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software programme (WASP)

UofG is first University globally to receive CILIP accreditation for a Microcredential

Fri, 24 Jun 2022 08:00:00 BST

The University of Glasgow has become the first institution in the world to be able to offer a professionally accredited Microcredential course in information management.

British Academy/Wolfson Professorships awarded to pioneering SHAPE research

Wed, 18 May 2022 09:00:00 BST

The British Academy and the Wolfson Foundation have today announced five new British Academy/Wolfson Research Professorships including the College of Arts' Professor Maria Economou.

REF recognition

Thu, 12 May 2022 10:00:13 BST

Information Studies celebrates world-leading research achievement

Digitally Exhibiting Textual Heritage: Workshop 2

Tue, 22 Feb 2022 14:47:00 GMT

25 February 2022

Digitally Exhibiting Textual Heritage: Workshop 1

Wed, 19 Jan 2022 14:47:00 GMT

28 January 2022

Congratulations to Dr Johanna Green for her Teaching Excellence Award

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 14:04:00 GMT

Johanna's award was presented at the University's graduation ceremony on 9 December 2021

Re@ct: Social Change Art Technology

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 09:49:00 GMT

A new publication by Professor Sarah Cook

Curating Lively Objects: Exhibitions Beyond Disciplines

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 09:59:49 GMT

A new publication with a chapter about curating art-science collaborations by Sarah Cook

James McCune Smith Scholarships

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 09:02:00 BST

10 Four-year PhD scholarships available to Black British students at the University of Glasgow

PhD scholarships available for 2022/23

Sun, 11 Oct 2020 09:02:00 BST

Deadline for applications: 6 December 2021

Virtual Teaching with University Collections: Lessons learnt & ways forward

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 15:24:00 BST

Friday 22 October 2021

£3.6m awarded to UofG-led project to transform digital exploration of community and citizen histories

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 10:00:00 BST

A UofG-led research project that will use artificial intelligence to explore digital community heritage collections across the UK has been awarded £3.6m as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Towards a National Collection programme to create a unified virtual ‘national collection’.  

PhD studentship on Extended Reality (XR) for alternative understandings of forced migration and difficult heritage of Middle Eastern cultural sites

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 12:37:58 BST

Closing date for applications: 2 July 2021

Professor Maria Economou wins Best Arts & Culture Collaboration award

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 12:07:00 BST

For her work on the EU Horizon2020 EMOTIVE research project

PhD studentship available on Imagining ancient Egypt in the age of empire: Identity and Power in Scottish Museum Displays of Egyptian Objects, 1860 to 1930

Wed, 12 May 2021 16:46:00 BST

Deadline for applications: Monday 7 June 2021

PhD studentship on Mental Models of the Organisation of Scholarly Information Across the Academy: Disciplinary Similarities and Differences

Mon, 10 May 2021 14:34:00 BST

Deadline for applications: Friday 11 June 2021

Immersive Technologies in Cultural Heritage Research and Practice

Sun, 18 Apr 2021 13:43:00 BST

Tuesday 20 April 2021

Professor Lorna Hughes appointed DGE Europe

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:00:07 BST

The University of Glasgow is delighted to announce that Professor Lorna Hughes has been appointed as Dean for Global Engagement for Europe.

Johanna Green receives GUSRC's Student Teaching Award for Best Practice in Online Learning

Thu, 25 Mar 2021 15:52:00 GMT

Huge congratulations to Johanna!

Miriam Matthews participating in 3-min thesis competition

Sun, 21 Feb 2021 15:58:00 GMT

Tuesday 2 March 2021

Artist's interview by Professor Sarah Cook

Mon, 01 Feb 2021 12:01:36 GMT

Tamiko Thiel about deepfakes, machine learning and online artistic projects

A new 'virtual codicology' app

Sun, 06 Dec 2020 12:35:00 GMT

A project led by Johanna Green and Bill Endres

Rebecca Whiting on the controversies of captured records

Wed, 18 Nov 2020 14:57:00 GMT

On the latest episode of International History Declassified

PhD scholarships available for 2021/22!

Sun, 11 Oct 2020 09:02:00 BST

Deadline for applications: 7 December 2020

Impact of Covid-19 on postgraduate research methodologies

Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:30:46 GMT

Thursday 3 December 2020

Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future

Tue, 27 Oct 2020 12:52:28 GMT

Thursday 5 November 2020

Academia Europaea honour for Professor Lorna Hughes

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:00:00 BST

Professor Lorna M Hughes has been elected to one of Europe’s foremost senior research bodies, the Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe).

Lorna Hughes and Andrew MacKillop part of new UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Collaborations

Fri, 04 Sep 2020 09:00:00 BST

12 New UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Collaborations Announced including two projects involving Lorna Hughes and Andrew MacKillop

Launch of Professor Sarah Cook's curated project Sleep Mode online from Somerset House

Thu, 18 Jun 2020 10:26:00 BST

23 to 28 June 2020

PhD studentship: Valuing festivals as incubators of digital creativity

Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:26:37 BST

Deadline for applications: 3 July 2020

Somerset House podcast nominated for Best Arts & Culture podcast at the @britpodawards

Thu, 28 May 2020 15:27:49 BST

Listen to Professor Sarah Cook's podcasts

Wednesday 19 February 2020 - Information Studies Lecture

Thu, 30 Jan 2020 20:08:00 GMT

Collaboration and networking: learning from DREaM and RIVAL

Friday 8 March 2019

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:50:27 GMT

Aesthetic Glitches, Enhanced Performance

University of Glasgow launches Games and Gaming ArtsLab

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 11:00:00 GMT

UofG officially launches the Games and Gaming Lab, a cross-disciplinary Arts lab on how games and gaming can be used to aid research, teaching and learning.

Tuesday 8 October 2019

Mon, 30 Sep 2019 07:57:00 BST

Digital Infrastructure: New Frontiers for the Public Intellectual

DESIR: a DARIAH-EU project

Mon, 15 Apr 2019 15:36:00 BST

Strengthening European research relationships

Friday 8 March 2019

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:44:46 GMT

Feminism in the Humanities

Wednesday 6 March 2019

Tue, 20 Nov 2018 11:37:00 GMT

Information Studies Annual Lecture: Collecting the National Memory in a Digital Age

Wednesday 23 January 2019

Sat, 29 Sep 2018 16:12:00 BST

Alberto Sierra Reguera: Virtual Reality and Immersive Technologies

8 November 2018 - Information Studies Public Lecture

Tue, 20 Nov 2018 10:52:00 GMT

Endangered Iraqi Heritage & Digital Technology

Welcome to our new POEM Marie Curie Research Fellows

Wed, 28 Nov 2018 11:09:00 GMT

Part of the Participatory Memory Practices European Training Network