Personal Information

Biography

Name:

• Duncan Timms

 

Nationality:

• British

 

Recent Positions:         

• Dean, Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Stirling
• Honorary Professor, University of Stirling
• Director, Centre for eLearning Development, University of Stirling

 

Areas and Length of Expertise:

• The relationship between social capital and information and communications technology, specifically the role of local nets and the Internet in marginalised communities
• eLearning, especially the use of ICT to support collaborative learning
• Longitudinal research methods, especially prospective cohort studies in relation to mental health

 

Recent research, development and consultancy and organisations:

• Co-ordinator, ODELUCE (Open and Distance Education and Learning through University Continuing Education) EU Minerva Project 2001-03
• Partner, UNIVe (the development of a model eUniversity for small states) EU Minerva Project (co-ordinated from Estonia) 2004-6

 

Qualifications, Recognitions, Positions, Memberships:

•  Director: SOCInfo: the Computers in Teaching Information Centre for Sociology and the Policy Sciences 1988-98.
• Director, VARSETILE (the Value-Added Reuse at Stirling of Existing Technology in the Learning Experience) 1993-97
• Director, EC Human Capital & Mobility Grant: Comparative Studies in Social Welfare, 1994-97
• Co-ordinator, SCHEMA (Social Cohesion through Higher Education in Marginal Areas): EC Telematics Project 1998-2000
• Consultant, The Higher Education Academy, Social Policy and Social Work (SWAP), 2006-

 

Selected Publications:

•  2007: Identity, Local Community and the Internet”. In M. Osborne, M. Houston & N. Toman (eds) The Pedagogy of Lifelong Learning: Understanding effective teaching and learning in diverse contexts. London: Routledge. (in press due June)2006: Ferlander, S. & Timms, D.W.G. “Bridging the dual digital divide: a local net and an IT-Café in Sweden”. Information, Communication & Society, 9 (2): 137-59
• 2005: (with L. Timms) “Community Portraits”. In J. Lõssenko & I. Reimand (eds). The UNIVe Project. Tallinn: Estonian Information Technology Foundation. DVD and http://www.e-uni.ee/Minerva
• 2004: Attwell, G. and Timms, D.W.G. (eds): Exploring models and partnerships for eLearning in SMEs. Bremen: Knownet. (available online at http://www.theknownet.com/ict_smes_seminars/papers.html)
• 2003   “The Internet, senior citizens and social cohesion. In Zaphiri, P., Kurniawan, S.H.& Ellis, R.D. (eds) Workshop on the Web and Ageing. Crete: HCI International (http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~zaphiri/Workshop/workshop.pdf
• 2001: (with Ferlander, S.) “Local nets and social capital”. Telematics & Informatics,18:51-65.

History

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