Organisation - University of Portsmouth

• e-Collaboration Workshop: Access Grid, Portals and Other VREs for the Social Sciences

  Rob Allan, Rob Crouchley and Michael Daw cover a one-day workshop reporting on the latest developments in e-Collaboration technology and applications.

• Virtual Research Environments: Overview and Activity

  Michael Fraser provides an overview of the virtual research environment (VRE) and introduces three JISC-funded projects in which Oxford University is participating.

• Planet-SOSIG

  Humphrey Southall looks at a new Web site's Vision of Britain while Emma Place examines new changes to the RDN Virtual Training Suite.

• ILRT: The Institute for Learning and Research Technology

  Gillian Austen, External Relations Manager at the recently founded Institute for Learning and Research Technology at the University of Bristol, gives an overview of its structure and objectives.

• British Academy Symposium: Information Technology and Scholarly Disciplines

  Seamus Ross provides the programme for a symposium which seeks to explore how information technology has affected research in the humanities and social sciences.

• Humphrey Southall