Author Archives: Grace Porter

About Grace Porter

I am the Events Co-ordinator in the Communications and Marketing team at JISC.

TransferSummit/UK

When : 24/25/26 June, 2010 Where: Keble College, Oxford, UK More info: http://www.transfersummit.com/ With nearly all global organisations using Open Source software today, the industry faces a challenge of properly understanding the development, contribution, and communities instrumental to creating an enterprise-grade Open Source policy and ensuring its successful adoption. At the same time with increasing … Read more

AoC Information, Data and Technology Conference

  The Information, Data and Technology Conference (formerly NILTA CIS Conference) is a well established national event focusing on the technical issues associated with the collection of data and on the main challenges confronting College MIS departments. The event will consider the crucial importance of data management in the effective running of Colleges, not least … Read more

Welcome to the JISC Conference 2010

Welcome to the JISC Conference blog. Elsevier is delighted to sponsor this year’s JISC10 blog and bring you the live blog posts from JISC’s pre-conference debate, conference parallel sessions, keynote speakers and from delegates taking part. Elsevier serves more than 30 million research and information professionals worldwide, and we are proud to play an essential … Read more

e-asy Assessment: Creating assessment for better learning

e-asy Assessment 17 May 2010 National Space Centre, Leicester Creating assessment for better learning This event is a unique opportunity for practitioners to engage with innovative ways of assessing learners to make assessment e-asy for them. Organised by the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and the JISC Regional Support Centres the event is designed for lecturers … Read more

Turning your research ideas into reality – 10-11 March 2010, Edinburgh

Collaboration increasingly lies at the heart of successful research. To help develop new collaborations, the Collaborations Workshop will bring together researchers, funding body representatives and technology experts in Edinburgh on 10-11 March 2010. This expertise, combined with the workshop’s novel structure, will create the perfect opportunity to meet researchers with complementary skills who, in collaboration, … Read more

eResearch – What is it and how can it help me?

Date: Tuesday 17 November Venue: Priorslee Hall, Telford Campus, University of Wolverhampton, Shifnal Road, Priorslee, Telford, Shropshire, TF2 9NT Website This JISC-sponsored roadshow, for researchers and those providing IT support services, will introduce the concept of e-research and some of the tools, along with case studies from practitioners in various disciplines. Many academics engage in … Read more

JISC Conference 2010 Sponsorship and Exhibition Bookings Open

We are delighted to announce that sponsorship and exhibition bookings are now open for the JISC Conference 2010. The conference will be held at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre London on 12-13 April 2010. For the past 7 years the JISC annual conference has been bringing expertise and knowledge to over 750 academics, IT experts, … Read more