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Who is the user?
26 January 2010

Programme

Who is the User?
Loughborough University, 26th January 2010 

9.30am Registration, teas and coffees

10.00am Welcome and introduction, Professor Leela Damodaran

10.15am Keynote presentation: Personal reflections on the challenges of user-led research, Professor Irene Hardill, Nottingham Trent University

11.15am Refreshments 

11.45am Engagement, benefit and exchange: Variations on the theme of research use, Professor Chris Caswill, Visiting Professor, University of Exeter, Associate Fellow, INSIS, University of Oxford

12.30pm Lunch and networking

1.30pm  Capturing user requirements, Wendy Olphert, Senior Research Fellow, Loughborough University

2.00pm  Interactive theatre (demonstration on an innovative requirements elicitation method), Professor Alan Newell, School of Computing, University of Dundee

2.45pm  Refreshments

3.15pm   Person into the provision: a service provider's perspective on using research, Dr Guy Dewsbury, Research Associate, Kings College London (formerly Telecare Manager, London Borough of Barnet)

4.00pm  A third sector user's perspective, Professor James Goodwin, Head of Research, Age Concern/Help the Aged

4.45pm Closing remarks

5.00pm End

You can find some of the presentations of the workshop to download here.

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