Matthew Sillence

With the uncertainty over Brexit continuing, I will be deactivating my main website www.matthewsillence.eu on 30 April 2019. This is an unfortunate step, but the recent guidance from the .EU website recommends re-registration to continue using the domain in future. I have opted for the new domain www.matthewsillence.org, but this will only... [Read More]

There are a number of highlights of my year in working with postgraduate research students, and the Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age programme led by the Open University through the CHASE partnership is definitely on the list. Each year, a group of postgraduate research students from across the UK comes together to learn about... [Read More]

I am currently preparing the teaching materials for the MA in Higher Education Practice pilot module on postgraduate research supervision, that will begin this autumn at the University of East Anglia. In preparing the second session of the seminar series that forms the core of the module, I began by... [Read More]

Postgraduate research students and staff at the University of East Anglia were very fortunate to receive an amazing workshop on ArcGIS online and Story Maps with Dr Katy Appleton and Addy Pope (Esri UK). ArcGIS online is a lighter weight version of the popular spatial data platform, and using our institutional account, we worked through several... [Read More]

This is the final day. Our workshop participants have gone their separate ways or down to the pub for a final drink. It has been an exhilarating experience, and very challenging, but probably one of the most welcoming events that I have ever attended. One of the reasons for this... [Read More]