Category Archives: Supervision

Deliberation in e-Participation

In a PhD supervision meeting with Professor Stephen Coleman, we reflected on the role of deliberation in e-participation. Drawing a distinction between collaboration and deliberation and noting the differences between talk, political talk, deliberation and political deliberation, we talked about … Continue reading

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Supervision meeting three

After my meeting with Ann, Stephen was aware of my difficulties in projecting a structure of research that is worthy of PhD. I talked about the areas I had worked on: case studies; different technologies and ways of looking at … Continue reading

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Back to the drawing board…

I decided to run some of my thoughts past Professor Ann Macintosh – an expert in argument visualisation and one of the most knowledgeable people in my area of research. Putting to her my thoughts about interface design and its effect on … Continue reading

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The real first supervision meeting

Having learnt a lot about the work done in argument visualisation as well as definition, creation and importance of deliberation in policy creation, I met with Stephen again, this time able to really talk about moving forward with the PhD. … Continue reading

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Meeting my supervisor

I was a little bit nervous before my first meeting with my PhD supervisor, Stephen Coleman. When I last spoke to him I had a fistful of hastily scribbled ideas and a rough draft proposal. Having spent the last 5 … Continue reading

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