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What do you do with your community IT centre?

1. Doctorate

   1. What do you do with your community IT centre?

      1. An account of the findings, reporting on motivation and factors influencing participation

      2. Roberts, George. preprint. “What do you do with your community IT centre?”

      3. Status: completed, formatted first draft, preprint for comment

   2. How do we know what people do with a community IT centre?

      1. methodological reflections on a strength-based biographical approach to understanding

      2. Roberts, George. 2011. “How do we know what people do with a community IT centre: methodological reflections on a strength-based biographical approach to understanding.” in draft.

      3. Status: in draft

   3. Sociocultural factors influencing People's use of the CITC

      1. An Activity-theoretical consideration of DWR in community development education contexts

      2. Status: planned. This paper relates to a broad research aim, about which I have had discussions with diverse communities and other constituents: e.g. Oxford City Council, Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa (TESSA). I have connections or contacts with the Scottish Refugee Council, Positive Action in Housing in Glasgow, and COSLA

      3. PhD Thesis, University of Southampton: a biographical narrative interpretive study of adult users of a community IT centre

   4. Why Identity and community matter for personal and community development learning in a community IT centre

      1. A theoretical reflection: Third Space theory and post colonial criticism and its applicability to understanding personal and community development education policy on local, national and global levels

      2. Roberts, George. 2011. “Why Identity and community matter for personal and community development learning in a community IT centre.” in draft.

      3. Status: in draft

2. Other research

   1. Innovation-based development work

   2. Informed by:

      1. Neary, Mike, et al. 2011. Student as producer: Home. Student as Producer.

   3. Roberts, George. 2011. Developing and supporting communities for learning and professional development: Towards a project programme proposal, draft for discussion. May 11.

   4. Potential funding

      1. Knowledge Transfer Partnership with local authority

      2. ESRC Seminar series

      3. JISC Digital literacy

      4. AHRC Connected Communities

      5. Local, community-based initiatives

      6. more...

1. Journals

   1. British Journal of Sociology of Education

   2. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE)

   3. Adult Education Quarterly (AEQ)

   4. British Educational Research Journal (BERJ)

   5. International Journal of Lifelong Education

   6. Journal of Vocational Education and Training

   7. Studies in the Education of Adults

2. JISC

   1. Institutional Innovation

   2. Users and Innovation

   3. HEA/JISC Benchmarking and Pathfinding

   4. myWorld

   5. Petal

3. Research Plan

   1. George Roberts

      1. 12 May 2011