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Derek Thomson

It’s all gone quiet because I’m firmly back in the marking season…

Interviewing for two new RA posts next week – hopefully we’ll be able to get a couple of good people to work on the Benefits Quantification project..

SNA needs friendship for innovation?

12 April 2009

Derek Thomson

Not my work, but interesting perspective:

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/toastkid/3433555871/

Scottish Borders Campus

7 April 2009

Derek Thomson

This project is turning out nicely.  We’re studying the processes it used to align the needs of two academic institutions in a shared estate…

Derek Thomson

Placeholder – times of difficulty breed innovation.

A sensible context for Grounded Theory

5 April 2009

Derek Thomson

Before I forget where I saw this:

it was Lincoln and Guba (1985) Naturalistic Inquiry.

Also a nice clarification of induction.

concrete2cookers is spreading

3 April 2009

Derek Thomson

Looking good – and we haven’t done any promotion yet…

A break from teaching (for a little while…)

3 April 2009

Derek Thomson

It would be wrong to say I’m glad it’s over for the moment, but it would be fair to say I’m relieved to have some time back for a bit of research and some professional development.

Plus, it will be nice not to be in the office on Sundays prep’ing this lot for Monday’s classes:

concrete2cookers

31 March 2009

Derek Thomson

It’s been quiet on here for the last few days because I’ve been working flat out on this:

www.concrete2cookers.org

We launch tomorrow!!

Now that the site’s up, I just need to sort out all the presentations and animations for tomorrow.  Plenty of time…

An unclear definition of value…

25 March 2009

Derek Thomson

Imagine this in a construction project with multiple stakeholders, each of whom thinks they know what they want although they are not certain what that is, but they do know it’s different to what everyone else wants, and everyone else wants something different and unique to them…

http://xkcd.com/309/

Crichton Campus, Dumfries

24 March 2009

Derek Thomson

We spent the day here, speaking to the Assistant Principal about their co-location project.  Strange that it looks a lot like Glasgow Caledonian’s Saltire Centre.  That will be because they’re both BDP projects, then.