Dr James Stewart, PhD, MSc, BEng, MIET

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1 Dr James Stewart, PhD, MSc, BEng, MIET Sept 2013 OVERVIEW James Stewart is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation in the University of Edinburgh. He is returning to Edinburgh after three year leave of absence working as a research scientist/administrator at the JRC-IPTS, European Commission. Areas of expertise James works in the field of technology and innovation studies. This work brings social science theories to bear on issues of technology development, diffusion and policy. His research and teaching covers a range of themes in areas of relevance to most the major collaborations of the Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Unit including innovation in the Digital Media and ICT sectors, design and policy in informatics and telecommunications, social and employment policy, health and care policy, intellectual property, and renewable energy. His skill and experience enables him to integrate technical knowledge and understanding with social science methods and insights. This has been applied in both 'pure' social research and collaborative research with researchers and non-researchers from many disciplines. This is also reflected in teaching delivered to students in disciplines included sociology, design, cultural studies and engineering. Research James has a broad range of research experience, focusing on contemporary challenges in the social shaping of technology, contributing to the theoretical domain of Edinburgh social shaping/social learning approach, especially the incorporation of the role of users and intermediaries in explanations of sociotechnical change. He has developed new interdisciplinary research areas and lines, informed by emerging empirical developments, theory, and policy demands. This involved addressing the methodological challenges of distributed research domains, and use of multiple primary sources. Examples of research include the development of a research by design methodology in collaboration with colleagues in Informatics and the College of Art (e.g. Branded Meeting places project), in-depth research on business and technical change in collaboration with industry partners (FLOWS project), mixed method online survey-case study-qualitative interview method (Web2.0 in UK research project) and multi-case, multi-country study research with other social science researchers (SIGIS project). At the JRC-IPTS he was responsible for identifying emerging research areas, and specifying, 1

2 James Stewart commissioning and managing research by teams of researchers from multiple disciplines. James has worked combining conventional and digital research methods his entire career. Teaching James has taught postgraduate and undergraduate courses on Innovation, ICTs, the Information society and the politics and sociology of the Internet. He took over as convenor of the post-graduate course Social Shaping of ICTs in 1998, continually updating the course, and recruiting new guest lecturers. He developed and delivered the Internet and Society course over 5 years. James also gives invited lectures in postgraduate courses in Digital Design, Cultural studies, Engineering and Informatics. These courses establish the basis for development of new teaching incorporating both new issues and research, that can be delivered to student groups where these issues continue to become ever more important. From mid-2000s these courses incorporated online learning methods and tools, using wikis, blogs, shared student produced material and social media services. James recent research on use of digital game approaches offers interesting futures pathways to support learning. From 2002 James has been a student research supervisor, for MSc and Honours projects, and as first and second supervisor for PhD students. This includes 5 PhDs, 2 M.Res, many MSc on topics including the culture of Facebook to use, Chinese technology policy, open source development communities, and Twitter in political protest, many of which used digital, online primary sources. Administration James work at JRC-IPTS involved administration of research grants, including running tendering processes up to 120K, recruitment of staff, and organisation of workshops. In 1996 he was co-organiser of a major industryacademic conference on Interactive Television. Impact James work has had impact in many ways, through conventional academic publishing, in research for policy at a European and UK level, with industry users and collaborators, in interdisciplinary research, and through teaching. For example, the CARICT project on ICTs and Long Term care had direct impact on policy documents at the European Commission, the FLOWS project was disseminated to industry through conference and participation in industry working groups, and the research on Web2.0 and digital infrastructures in science contributed to report for decision makers in the UK research community. James has experience in running many different styles of workshops and conferences that aim not only to present academic work, but also engage with 2

3 and communicate with academic, policy, civil society and business audiences on topics of contemporary concern. Recent work at both ISSTI and JRC-IPTS has focused on addressing topics of interest to policy, building stakeholder and expert consensus, and communicating research results to policy makers. James has published number of research articles submitted to the REF, numerous book chapters, and conference papers. In James also lead a (failed) initiative to develop a Living Lab in Scotland and in the University of Edinburgh, as a way of linking research and teaching in the field of ICT applications to industrial and user stakeholders, a project that attempted to turn research insights into productive infrastructures. SPECIFIC SKILLS Interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research in technology studies. Qualitative Research (interviewing, including senior industry and policy actors, and end users; analysis of qualitative data) Research planning and administration Teaching Postgraduate and undergraduate across disciplines PhD and MSc student supervision Organising and chairing academic and non-academic workshops and conferences Publishing scientific papers in international journals Writing reports for policy makers IT skills, including web site management, and tools for blended learning. EDUCATION University of Edinburgh, PhD, Science and Technology Studies ESRC CASE Award. Thesis title: "Encounters with the Information Society: Personal and social issues in appropriation of new media products in everyday life: adoption, non-adoption, and the role of the informal economy and local experts." University of Edinburgh, MSc, Science and Technology Studies Dissertation: Multimedia and Socio-technical Change: A review of multimedia and a look at firm behaviour during the configurational stage of a pervasive technology Imperial College, London, BEng, Electrical and Electronic Engineering 2:2 Sponsored by Ferguson (ThornEMI) EMPLOYMENT JRC IPTS, European Commission, Sevilla. Research Scientist, Information Society Unit. Responsible for leading and 3

4 James Stewart commissioning research in a number of areas of related to policy on Social Inclusion, building stakeholder and expert consensus and communicating research to policy makers. Projects in the fields of Long Term Care, Digital Games and social inclusion, impact assessment of telecentres and New forms of internet mediated employment present University of Edinburgh. Senior Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation, and ( ), Dept of Architecture. Core research staff member with responsibility for interdisciplinary research in EC and UK funded projects as named research or co-investigator ; PhD and MSc supervision of students; development and delivery of teaching to undergraduate and postgraduates in SPS University of Edinburgh. Research Associate, RCSS/JETS Research Assistant on EC funded projects. Details of projects and responsibilities Research Scientist, Information Society Unit, JRC IPTS, European Commission, Sevilla, Spain. Responsible for leading and commissioning research in a number of areas of work in the Social Inclusion and ICT Action, developing the research agenda ICTs for employability, communicating research results to the European Commission, and work on specific projects listed below. This work include defining research, running calls for tender up to 120K, administering research contracts, writing research reports for policy and making contributions to policy documents. This work focused on identifying potential for policy impact of ICT-based interventions, and identifying options and roadmaps for policy to support these interventions. A key challenge of this work involved reorienting the research from the traditional customer with responsibility for the Digital Agenda and ICT policy, DG CNECT, towards DG EMPL, a customer with responsibility for Social Inclusion and Employment Lead researcher and commissioner of project ICT4EMPL Future modes of work, and CrowdEmploy, investigating crowdsourcing, crowdfunding and timebanks as emerging forms for organisation of labour Project Lead Digital Games for Empowerment and Inclusion (DGEI), Commissioning research, Administering subcontracted work, conducting industry research, producing final reports, and running policy and stakeholder workshops 2012 ICTs for Employability. Commissioning and editing reports Commissioned and edited report Theory and Explanations for the impact of of telecentres and cybercafes Project MIREIA Measure the impact of E-inclusion Intermediaries: development of research, reviewer Project lead on CARICT for DG. Administering subcontracted work, organising policy and expert workshops, Analysis of case for final report. 4

5 2005-present Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer, Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation, University of Edinburgh. Responsible for leading and executing research in a number of areas, in the following projects Lead researcher in Edinburgh in MyFIRE consortium project, (FP7 CSA) Commissioned to interview leading policy makers and academic researchers in the field of e-infrastructures for research to formulate Action Plan for UK Department for Business Innovation and Skills Co-investigator, Use and Relevance of Web 2.0 Resources for Researchers, with the National Centre for e-social Science funded by The Research Information Network Co-investigator. The China EU Information Technology Standards Research Partnership, ProHeatPump, Intelligent Energy Europe project Co-Investigator. Project Branded Meeting Places: Ubiquitous technologies and the design of places for meaningful human encounter 400k grant from AHRC-EPSRC Design in 21st Century Programme. (with Edinburgh College of Art). Multidisciplinary research project PROMETEA. Researcher on EC-funded project on female research engineering careers Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation/Research Centre for Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh Non-place. (Dept of Architecture) AHRC-EPSRC cross-disciplinary network on design of contemporary public spaces. Named researcher FLOWS: Flexible Convergence of Wireless Standards and Services: collaborative project with Philips, Telenor, Siemens, TUL-IST, University of York, TUHH, Mobicom and FTW. Named researcher and principal research fellow ATBEST: Assessment Tools for Breakthrough and Emerging Science and Technology, EC funded project on Nanotechnology SIGIS: Social Inclusion: Gender and the Information Society. EC IST project. Named Researcher ParcelCall EC FP5 RTD project real-time pan European parcel tracking system development in collaboration with TNT, Siemens, Philips and Ericsson Social Learning in Multimedia (SLIM) EC TSER project studying innovation process around new media technology. 2007/8 Convenor Scottish Living Lab Network project Convenor/Lecturer on Honours/ Msc course in Sociology The Internet and Society Convenor and Lecturer on postgraduate course Social Shaping of the Information Technology. 5

6 James Stewart Student research supervisor. Responsible for supervising postgraduate student research. Supervision of 5 PhDs, 2 M.Res, many MSc on topics including the culture of Facebook to use, Chinese tech policy, and Twitter in political protest Member of Wireless World Research Forum Working Group on Users 2000/2001 Consultant to UK government departments of Education and of Health on aspects of interactive television Editor and Founder, "itvnews" On-line web news service on business, user and policy aspects of interactive television. Funded by Aegis plc Founder and director of conference "Interactive Television 1996", first industry-academic international conference on user and business aspects of interactive TV. Responsible for setting conference programme, engaging speakers and marketing. OUTPUTS Reviewed journal articles and books Shen, X., Graham I., Stewart, J., Williams R. (2013) Standards Development as Hybridization, IJITSR 11(2) *Stewart, J. R Proctor, M Poschen, R Williams (2013) The role of academic publishers in shaping the development of Web 2.0 services for scholarly communication. New Media and Society. vol. 15 no. 3 pp *Stewart, James K., Shen, Xiaobai, Wang, Chengwei and Graham, Ian, (2012) From 3G to 4G : Standards and the Development of Mobile Broadband in China. Technology Analysis & Strategic Management, 23:7, *Procter, Rob, Williams, Robin, Stewart, James K., Poschen, Meik, Snee, Helene, Voss, Alex and Asgari-Targhi, Marzieh (2010), Adoption and Use of Web 2.0 in Scholarly Communications. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Vol. 368, No. 1926, pp , *Stewart J and Hyyslo, S (2008) Intermediaries, Users and Social Learning in Technological Innovation, International Journal of Innovation Management, Vol 12, No 3. (Sept 2008) pp Stewart, J (2007) Local Experts in the Domestication of Information and communication Technologies, Information, Communication and Society, 10, 4 August 2007 Lagran, A.S. and Stewart, J. (2003) Internet Cafes, New Media & Society' Vol 5 (3) Stewart, J. (2003) Investigating ICTs in everyday life: Insights from research on the adoption and consumption of new ICTs in the domestic environment", Journal 'Cognition Technology and Work Vol

7 Reviewed conference papers Shen, X. I. Graham, J.Stewart, R.Williams (2011), Developing an IT standard in China-What lessons can we learn from this? Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology, SIIT 2011, Berlin, Germany, September 28-30, 2011, IEEE. Stewart J., Carretero, S., Centeno C., (2012) ICT-enabled services for carers and care: Lessons for policy and innovation. Gerontechnology. 11(2):392 Wright, M., Henrik Ekeus, Richard Coyne, James Stewart, Penny Travlou, Robin Williams (2008) Augmented duality: overlapping a metaverse with the real world, Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Wright, M., Henrik Ekeus, Richard Coyne, James Stewart, Penny Travlou (2008) Augmented Duality: Overlapping a Metaverse with the Real World ACM ACE (Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology) Yokohama Japan 3-5 December 2008 Books Williams, R., Stewart, J, Slack, R. (2005) Social Learning in Technological Innovation, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. Book Chapters Stewart J, Mark Wright, Penny Travlou, Henrik Ekeus, Richard Coyne (2011) The Memory Space and the Conference exploring future uses of Web2.0 and Mobile Internet though Design Interventions, in Pierson Et al (eds) New Media technologies and User Empowerment. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Stewart, James K. and Claeys, Laurence (2011) Problems and Opportunities of Interdisciplinary Work Involving Users in Speculative Research for Innovation of Novel ICT Applications. Chapter 6 in J. Pierson, E. Mante- Meijer, and E. Loos (ed) New Media Technologies and User Empowerment, Peter Lang. Faulkner W., Stewart J.. (2012) Reaching for the digitally excluded in Sørensen, Faulkner, Rommes (2012). Technologies Of Inclusion. Tapir Academic Press (N). Stewart J and Hyyslo S (2008) Intermediaries and Social Learning bridging users and producers, in ed. Pierson et al COST 298 Book, European Commission, Brussels. Richard Coyne, Mark Wright, James Stewart and Henrik Ekeus (2008) "Virtual Flagships and Sociable Media" in A Kent (Ed) Flagships: Concepts and Places", London: Routledge. Coyne R and Stewart J (2007) "Orientating the Future: Design Strategies for Non-Place" in Tom Inns (ed) Designing for the 21st Century Interdisciplinary Questions and Insights, Gower Ashgate Aftelak A., Ahn J-Y, Nelissen H, Sasse A, Stewart J, (2005), The role of scenarios in the development of future wireless technologies, White paper 7

8 James Stewart for World Wireless Research Forum, Working Group 1 on Users. WWRF Stewart J, Buckley, K. (2006), Television, Video and Computers at Home, A review of Qualitative Research in Scotland, Compendium of Scottish Ethnology vol 6, Stewart, J. (2005) "Context Perspectives for scenarios and research development in mobile systems" in Wireless World: Mobiles - Past, Present and Future, edited by Lasen A, and Hamill L, Springer-Verlag, 2005 Stewart, J. and Williams, R. (2005) "The Wrong Trousers? Beyond the Design Fallacy: Social Learning and the User", in User involvement in innovation processes. Strategies and limitations from a socio-technical perspective, Edited by Harald Rohracher, Profil-Verlag, Munich, 2005 Stewart, J. (2004) Boys and girls stay in to play: creating computer entertainment for children, in Carol MacKeogh, Paschal Preston (eds) Private Sector Efforts to Include Women in ICTs, NTNU Working Paper Series, Trondheim. Stewart, J. (2003) Information Society, the Internet and Gender. A Summary of Pan-European Statistical Data, in Sørensen and Stewart, (2003), Social Inclusion: Gender and the Information Society: European perspectives, NTNU, Trondheim. Stewart, J. (2000) Cafematics: the Cybercafe and the Community, in Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies. ed M. Gurstein. Idea Group, Toronto. Stewart, J. (1999) Interactive Television at Home: Television Meets the Internet, in Jensen, J. and Toscan, C. eds. (1999) Interactive Television. TV of the Future or the Future of TV? Aalborg University Press, Aalborg. Reports for Policy Stewart, J et al (2013) Digital Games for Empowerment and Inclusion: Challenges, JRC Scientific and Policy Report. Stewart J, Misuraca G, (2013) The Industry and Policy Context for Digital Games for Empowerment and Inclusion: Market Analysis, Future Prospects and Key Challenges in Videogames, Serious Games and Gamification, JRC Technical Report. Carretero, S, Stewart J et al (2012) Can technology based services support long-term care challenges in home care? Analysis of evidence from social innovation good practices across the EU. JRC Scientific and Policy Report Procter, R., R Williams, J Stewart (2009) If You Build It, Will They Come? How Researchers Perceive and Use Web 2.0, Research Information Network. RIN (2010) E-infrastructure - taking forward the strategy. Synthesis of interviews with expert stakeholders. A Research Information Network report. September

9 Stewart, J. (2000) The Digital Divide in the UK: a review of quantitative indicators and Public Policies, Report commissioned for the conference: the Digital Divide, Bremen, Germany, Edited Collections de Hoyos, Maria., Anne E Green, Sally-Anne Barnes, Heike Behle, Beate Baldauf and David Owen. Editors: Clara Centeno and James Stewart (2013) Literature Review on Employability, Inclusion and ICT, Part 2: ICT and Employability, JRC Technical Report Green, Anne E. Maria de Hoyos, Sally-Anne Barnes, Heike Behle, Beate Baldauf and David Owen. Editors: Clara Centeno and James Stewart (2013) Literature Review on Employability, Inclusion and ICT, Part 1:, JRC Technical Report. Garrido,M., Araba Sey, Tabitha Hart, And Luis Santana. Stewart, J (Editor) (2012) Exploratory study on explanations and theories of how Telecentres and other community-based einclusion actors operate and have an impact on digital and social inclusion policy goals. JRC Technical report. Lizzy Bleumers, Anissa All, Ilse Mariën, Dana Schurmans, Jan Van Looy, An Jacobs, Koen Willaert, Frederik de Grove. Editor: James Stewart (2012) State of Play of Digital Games for Empowerment and Inclusion: A Review of the Literature and Empirical Cases. JRC Technical report. EUR Luxembourg (Luxembourg): Publications Office of the European Union; JRC77655 Research Reports Williams, Stewart, Graham, Final Report of China EU Information Technology Standards Research Partnership. D16 Analysis of implications for policy and practice, April 2010 Stewart J, Wang C. (2009) Final report on Standards dynamics in domain of Mobile Telephony: mobile broadband from 3G to 4G, China EU Information Technology Standards Research Partnership Deliverable 11 Blind, Knut., Hakon Steen, Ian Graham, James Stewart, (eds) (2008) Review of State of Art - EU and China, Deliverable 3, China EU Information Technology Standards Research Partnership. Oct 2008 Stewart, J (ed) et al (2008) Deliverable D3.3. Report on initial mapping. A comparison of the standardisation environment for Mobile Communications, Mobile Video Broadcasting, and Audio/Video Codecs in the EU, China, and the US, for EC FP7 project "China EU Information Technology Standards Research Partnership ", 15 Oct Stewart, J. et al (2004), Analysis of the Market for Multiple Standard Wireless Communications, FLOWS Project Report D17 UoE/FLOWS/EC IST, Dec 2004,pp84. Stewart J., et al (2003),Cost and Benefit of Use Scenarios: The selection environment for MIMO-enabled multi-standard wireless devices including 9

10 James Stewart cost benefit analysis of various convergence technologies, FLOWS Project Report D12 Stewart J., et al, 2002, Scenarios and Definition of Services, FLOWS Report D6: EC IST, FLOWS, Selected Recent Conference Papers, Presentations and Posters etc Stewart J (2013) New forms of internet mediated Employment. Presentation to the COST Virtual Work Meeting, Darmstadt, Germany, May 2013 Stewart J, and van Looy, J (2012) Digital Games for Empowerment & Inclusion,Challenges and Opportunities, DGEI Stakeholder Workshop, DG CNECT, , Brussels. Stewart J, (2012) Supporting EC policy development for Digital Games for Empowerment & Inclusion (DGEI), Workshop: Exploring online gaming to reengage people in society, Bilbao 12 July 2012 Stewart J, Making Web2.0 for science, Co-production of Web2.0 platforms and knowledge, The Co-Production of Knowledge, York, July 2012 Stewart J (2012) Supporting EC policy development for Digital Games for Empowerment & Inclusion (DGEI), Invited talk at online Education internet group, University of Edinburgh, July 2012 Carretero, S., James Stewart & Clara Centeno, (2012) ICT-enabled services for carers and care: pathways and actors in the development of services for Long Term Care, Edinburgh University, June 2012 Centeno, C., and Stewart J (2012) ICT in support of carers, Presentation to Social Protection Committee, Working Group Age Meeting, DG-EMPL, Brussels 17th Jan 2012 Stewart J, (2011) Searching for evidence: Assessing the impact of initiatives using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to support family carers of older people. Presentation to Workshop on Social Experimentation and home care 12 Sept 2011, DG EMPL, Brussels. Stewart J (2011) Searching for evidence: Assessing the impact of initiatives using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to support family carers of older people. AAL FORUM 26 Sept 2011, Lecc Stewart J, Centeno C. (2011) Can Information And Communications Technologies (Icts) Support Carers? Facts, Opportunities And Challenges Ahead Eurocarers 2011, 6 May 2011, Dublin Stewart el al (2010) Adoption and Use of Web 2.0 in Scholarly Communications, Presentation to EASST 2010, Trento, September 2010 Stewart (2010) It's not about the users: academic publishers as innovation intermediaries in the creation of Web2.0 services for scholarly communication, Invited Speaker, Workshop "Role of users in the intertwined changes of technology and practice", Helsinki, Finland, August Stewart (2010) Annotation/Marginalia of everyday life, Invited Expert ESF/COST policy workshop on Electronic Textuality, Istanbul, June 15-16,

11 Stewart J and Graham, I (2009) Presentation of Project Findings to China EU Information Technology Standards Research Partnership Policy Workshop, CEN/CENLEC, Brussels, Feb 2010 Stewart J, Service confusion and user ambivalence: the slow progress of software and services for collaboration, University of Edinburgh IT Futures Conference 2009, Dec 15, 2009 Stewart J Mobile Broadband: from 3G to 4G, Presentation to China EU Information Technology Standards Research Partnership Policy Workshop, Beijing 8th December 2009 Stewart J, Presentation to Networking session "ICT Standardisation - China and the European Research Area Exploring the implications of ICT standard-setting in China - global convergence or standards wars?", ICT 2008 Lyon. Networking Session, 26/11/2008 Stewart, J And Claeys L (2009) Problems And Opportunities Of Interdisciplinary Work Involving Users In Speculative Research For Innovation Of Novel Ict Applications, Cost 298 Conference, Copenhagen, May 2009 Stewart, J (2007) A Living Lab for Edinburgh University, IT Futures Conference, University of Edinburgh, December 2007 Stewart J (2007) Scottish Living Lab Initiative, Presentation to working group of the Centre for Creativity and Innovation, December Stewart J (2007) A social scientist among designers and engineers: a dual role, ESRC Masterclass on Interdisciplinary research, Edinburgh Stewart, J, Wright, M Coyne, R (2007) Research by Design, Presentation at Conference - Good Bad and Unexpected, Cost 298, Moscow May Stewart, J, Hyyslo, S (2007) Intermediaries in Social Learning, Conference - Good Bad and Unexpected, Cost 298, Moscow May Stewart, J (2005)Local Experts and domestication of technology, Presentation at seminar on Technology Studies and Building, Durham University, Oct Stewart J, el al 2004 Social and Economic Dimensions of FLOWS, FLOWS project Open Workshop, Dec, 2005, Philips Research Labs, Redhill, UK Stewart, J (2004) "Mum, how do I send that by ?" Informal learning in the mass adoption of ICTs, at EASST/4S, Ecole des Mines, Paris, August 2004 Stewart, J (2004) Social division of ICT work: the role of local experts, at EASST/4S, Ecole des Mines, Paris, August 2004 Stewart J (2004), Mobile Internet or Rich Voice: The Socio-technical Shaping of Convergence, poster and paper at Wireless World Research Forum, Oslo, 9 June 2004 Stewart J (2004) Selection Environment multi-modal multi-standard devices, Presentation to MX Alliance industry group workshop, Edinburgh, May Stewart J, Williams R (2003) The Wrong Trousers: Beyond the Design Fallacy: Social Learning and the User Invited lecture, Napier University, May

12 James Stewart Stewart, J (2004) Multimedia Bazaar: understanding the future of television and multimedia communications from a user perspective, Schott Glass Long range planning meeting, April 2004, Hong Kong 12