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SUMMARY:Scholarly Networking - Dr Laura James (CARET)
DTSTART:20090421T170000Z
DTEND:20090421T181500Z
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CONTACT:Professor John Naughton
DESCRIPTION:The university experience\, whether teaching\, learning or res
 earching\, has always been built around interactions between people\, and 
 the network of people one meets. CARET is investigating many aspects of sc
 holarly networking\, including supporting and enhancing these real world c
 onnections online\, and the ways in which academic networking differs from
  social networking (whilst drawing on the viral and compelling nature of c
 onsumer social tools). Dr James will present various parts of this work in
 cluding design personas drawn from user research into the ways that academ
 ics at all levels communicate today\, which are informing user-centric des
 ign of scholarly networking concepts. In addition\, she will touch upon bu
 siness models for sustainability of academic networking systems and the di
 fferent organisations who might host them.\n\n\n*About the speaker*\n\nDr 
 Laura James manages people\, projects and operations at the Centre for App
 lied Research in Educational Technologies at the University of Cambridge\,
  and leads the CARET projects about scholarly networking. Her background i
 s in high tech research and development\, and she has worked at AT&T Labs 
 in the US and UK \, designing and prototyping cutting edge internet-connec
 ted wireless devices and systems. Dr James was the first employee at Alert
 Me.com (a consumer electronics company\, producing connected home technolo
 gy) and lead the engineering design team there through from idea to shippi
 ng product. She holds Masters and PhD degrees in Engineering from the Univ
 ersity of Cambridge. Dr James was a NESTA Crucible fellow in 2007\, and is
  an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Engineering Leadership Award and Execu
 tive Engineer programmes.\n\n*About the Arcadia Project*\n\nThe Arcadia Pr
 oject is a three-year project funded by a generous grant from the Arcadia 
 Fund to explore the role of academic libraries in a digital age. A major p
 art of the project is a Fellowship Program which will bring interesting pe
 ople to Cambridge to work on aspects of this very broad subject. For more 
 information see the "project website":http://arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk/
  .
LOCATION:Wolfson College
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