Who Invented the Web?

It is received wisdom that Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web; but there is a lot more technology and historical context that plays a part.

Study Skills: Precis and Argumentation

Society is catching up with the implications of the Web; its use is not straightforward and well-understood. Web Scientists will need to be able to handle arguments about equivocal perspectives on the Web's impact.

ELEC1032 Team Working and Profiling

Powerpoint Slide set used to manage in class activity based introduction to team profiling from the Belbin perspective.

Report Writing (or a few useful things about writing)

Lecture Slides on the topic of report writing which incorporate a few in class activities. These slides deal with IEEE format referencing.Also briefly discusses academic integrity.

Overview of the ECS School Ethics Committee

Describes the function and purpose of the ECS School Ethics Committee

Writing a Technical Report for Electronic and Electrical Engineers

Has a mixture of factual information (conventions on how a report should be structured) and motivational information on improving writing and communication skills

Research Method Overview: Experimental and Comparative Methods

Experimental and comparative methods in the social sciences

Creating Effective Conference Posters

A PowerPoint presentation that outlines the key issues that people planning a conference poster need to consider.

University of Southampton logos

This PowerPoint file has the new-brand University logo in a format that you can copy-and-paste to Word and PowerPoint. You can scale them without 'jaggies' and they have a transparent background. Several approved colours are included.

Creating Effective Conference Posters

This is a 9-minute narrated video of the PowerPoint presentation of the same name

Project Management: A Tale of Fact, Failure and Fiction

This is a presentation given to 3rd year Project students on our BSc degree programmes to help them project manage their 3rd year dissertations. It covers three practical methods. Fact: Skills Audits to help make projects realistic. Failure: Risk Assessment to help with contingency planning. Fiction: Gantt Charts to help with managing time and effort.

Academic Integrity Yes or No - Questions Only

A set of questions to be used in class to introduce the concept of academic integrity.

Methods and Methodology: an introduction

methodologies, methods, and… Theory Ontology Epistemology Positivism; interpretivism, constructionism, critical approaches

The Web Social

Sociology of the Internet and the Sociology of the Web