Oligopolies of Knowledge, {Digital Humanities} and Open Access: Looking at Scopus from the Global South… [form the North]

10/07/201916/07/2019 ~ Ernesto Priego

Video and slides from my DH2019 presentation, DH2019 Conference, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 10 July 2019.

Thoughts on University Module Evaluation

06/06/201910/06/2019 ~ Ernesto Priego

This post discusses the limitations of University Module Evaluation processes and shares a series of recommendations that could improve their design and implementation.

Awareness, Engagement and Overload – The Roles We All Play

30/05/201930/05/2019 ~ Ernesto Priego ~ 1 Comment

tl; dr An increase in email traffic constitutes an increase in workload, and viceversa. But what's key is that email per se is workload. The very awareness of email, and of a known/expected amount of email, implies a cognitive load, and excessive cognitive load is stressful. The recent HEPI Report on Mental Health in Higher … Continue reading Awareness, Engagement and Overload – The Roles We All Play

Parables of Care at the Graphic Medicine 2019 Conference, Brighton, UK

20/05/2019 ~ Ernesto Priego

I am pleased to (slightly belatedly) announce on this blog that our multidisciplinary panel discussing Parables of Care will feature in the programme of the Graphic Medicine 2019 international conference in Brighton, UK. Our panel will feature team members from the UK and Canada components of the Parables of Care project. The title of the … Continue reading Parables of Care at the Graphic Medicine 2019 Conference, Brighton, UK

Salut, Notre-Dame (A comic)

16/04/201916/04/2019 ~ Ernesto Priego

I made another comic thingy. I deposited it on figshare: Priego, Ernesto (2019): Salut, Notre-Dame.... figshare.https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7999418.

What the Grid Reveals: An Introduction to The Strip Hay(na)ku Project

06/04/201906/04/2019 ~ Ernesto Priego

Here I share with you the Introduction I wrote for The Strip Hay(na)ku Project. A collaborative experiment in sequential graphic poetics (Meritage Press & L/O/C/P, 2019).

Spring has sprung: The Comics Grid Volume 9 (2019) so far

03/04/201903/04/2019 ~ Ernesto Priego

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship has now closed for submissions until 1st November 2019. Here you will find a listing of the articles published so far in Volume 9 (2019).

A decade later it’s here: The Strip Hay(na)ku Project. A collaborative experiment in sequential graphic poetics (Meritage Press & L/O/C/P, 2019)

29/03/2019 ~ Ernesto Priego

Meritage Press and Laughing/Ouch/Cube/Publications are pleased to announce the release of The Strip Hay(na)ku Project, a collection of hay(na)ku poems in comic strip form, edited and co-created by Ernesto Priego with contributors.

PhD studentship-Understanding UK digital comics information and publishing practices: From creation to consumption

26/03/201910/06/2019 ~ Ernesto Priego

The advert for the UK Digital Comics information and publishing practices: from creation to consumption PhD studentship opportunity is now available.

MakeWrite: Supporting Writing with Constrained Creativity

22/03/201922/03/2019 ~ Ernesto Priego

The INCA project has now launched MakeWrite, an iPad app that was co-designed by and for people with aphasia (a language difficulty following brain injury).

Addressing Sylvia: A Comic about Sylvia Plath’s Last Address

05/03/201907/03/2019 ~ Ernesto Priego

I made a comic. You can download it open access from figshare.

Digital Comics AHRC Collaborative PhD Opportunities with the British Library

26/02/201927/02/2019 ~ Ernesto Priego

The British Library and City, University of London will offer a fully-funded PhD studentship on ‘Understanding UK digital comics information and publishing practices: From creation to consumption.’