public engagement

‘Reading in the Pandemic’ recordings now available
The READ-IT team were pleased to host the event ‘Reading in the Pandemic’, on 18 November, for the Being Human Festival. We enjoyed a great turnout for the online event,…
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Language toggle function now available on the Contribution Portal
The READ-IT team are continually exploring new ways to talk to readers across the world. It is with great pleasure that we introduce the language toggle function on our public…
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READ-IT launches its friendly chatbot
Fancy having a chat about your reading in realtime? Now you can, with the project chatbot. Our friendly bot will ask you questions about your reading, interact with your answers,…
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READ-IT Consortium Meetings, 20-21.10.2020 (online)
The Open University were pleased to host the most recent consortium meeting on the 20-21 October 2020. On 20 October, we focussed on individual reports from all colleagues on different work…
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Crowdsourcing Evidences
The READ-IT UK technical team have published an ontology for describing the READ-IT crowdsourcing of reading experiences on GitHub. This new ontology is used to describe the data collected through the READ-IT…
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Dr Maya Parmar returns to the READ-IT project (04.05.2020)
Dr Maya Parmar (The Open University) has returned from maternity leave to resume her work supporting dissemination for public engagement and impact on the READ-IT project. She will be working…
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New Italian social media champion, Camilla Antonioni joins the team (10.03.2020)
The READ-IT team is delighted to announce that Camilla Antonioni (pictured above) has joined us as our new Italian social media champion, from March 2020. She will…
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READ-IT annotation and contribution workshop in Glasgow (11.12.2019)
Want to learn more about how to identify the evidences of reading in printed texts? Want to contribute your own thoughts and experiences of reading to our new European research…
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Dr Sally Blackburn-Daniels joins the READ-IT team (1.09.2019-30.04.2020)
Dr Sally Blackburn-Daniels (Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Open University) has now joined the READ-IT project team for 8 months, from 01.09.2019 to 30.04.2020. She is based at The Open University…
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Dr Henry Stead (The Open University) joins the READ-IT team (8.05.2019-30.04.2020)
Dr Henry Stead (Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Open University) has now joined the READ-IT project team for 12 months, from 8.05.2019 to 30.04.2020. He is based at The Open University…
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