The Urban Informatics Research Lab is pleased to announce that three of our team members will be joining colleagues at the University of Oxford in the UK this year.

Two of our PhD students – Richard Medland and Mark Bilandzic – have been accepted to participate in the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme 2011 (OII SDP) to be held this July. The OII SDP brings together advanced doctoral students who are engaged in research that looks at the socio-cultural implications of the Internet. The students will have opportunities to share their knowledge with other high-achieving students from around the world, and learn from eminent academics in related fields. We have no doubt Richard and Mark will have a memorable and valuable time in beautiful summery Oxford. They join a growing group of Urban Informatics alumni who also participated in the program, starting with the lab’s Director, Associate Professor Marcus Foth, in 2004.

Our post-doctoral fellow, Dr Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, has been awarded a prestigious Visiting Fellowship at the Oxford Internet Institute. She will spend three months at the OII this year to further expand her current ARC Linkage research, Eat, Cook, Grow: Ubiquitous Technology for Sustainable Food Culture in the City. She will collaborate with colleagues at the OII and the Lincoln Social Computing Research Centre to examine the current contexts that influence individual dispositions towards and practices of eating, then analyse social, cultural, and technological challenges for active participation in creating sustainable eating cultures. She intends to compare the outcomes with the findings from different research sites including Brisbane, Australia; Seoul, South Korea; and Portland, Oregon, U.S.

We look forward to continued dynamic collaborations with the Oxford Internet Institute.

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