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Associate Directorship with BOP Consulting
Hannah Rudman has joined BOP Consulting as an Associate Director, to lead the development of their new Organisational Transformation services and practice. BOP is an international consultancy with a 20-year track record of working in the cultural and creative economy with government bodies, leading arts and cultural organisations, property developers, and international agencies. Consistently growing over the…
Paper published in Educational Action Research
As Honorary Fellow at Durham University, our multidisciplinary academic team is running a research and development project with a Science Centre in Newcastle, the International Centre for Life. We are investigating whether engagement with science improves when innovation and creativity is at the heart of science education. In order to test this, Durham University’s researchers have worked…
Putting Digital Ethics on the Map
I’ve been thinking and writing recently about digital ethics, considering whether we are putting technology infrastructure ahead of people and society. Its a challenging conversation that academia has engaged with, but that has previously been missing from Digital Transformation and IT professional practice. Technology itself currently has little ethics or empathy – people become numbers, algorithms…
Developing Digital Transformation services with Leidos UK
Dr Hannah Rudman has been supporting Leidos UK to develop a Digital Transformation practice as Associate Principal Consultant. Leidos is a $10bn t/o global science and technology solutions company, undertaking complex critical work to solve some of the world’s toughest challenges. In the UK, Leidos works with with the Ministry of Defence, NATS, Ministry of Justice…
Dr Hannah Rudman FBCS, FRSA – on what can not be automated…
Dr Hannah Rudman has been awarded Fellowship status from the British Computer Society (BCS), The Chartered Institute for IT. This means some more post nominal letters (FBCS), and formal recognition for Hannah as an IT Professional. To celebrate, she wrote a guest post for the BCS’s Future Tech blog – on what cannot be automated…
Lessons from Creative Science at Life at ASTC 2016
Dr Hannah Rudman and Andy Lloyd of the Designing for Creativity and Innovation in Informal Science Learning project presented learnings and findings to international informal science learning practitioners and academics at the 2016 conference of the Association of Science-Technology Centers in Tampa, Florida. “Embedded in the Exhibit” was presented at ASTC 2016 in Tampa, Florida, the…
Chair of Wellcome Trust visits exhibit pod
The Chair of the Wellcome Trust, Baroness Manningham-Buller visited the exhibit pod, and spoke to the Design for Creativity and Innovation in Informal Science Learning team of academic researchers and science centre practitioners. The team explained to the Baroness about the live science experiments we are undertaking with it, and the research outcomes we might see.…
Designing for creativity and innovation in science learning
Head over to the Centre for Life in Newcastle UK’s blog to read about Rudman Consulting’s latest research work. Undertaken with anthropologists and digital humanities experts at Durham University, and practitioners from the Centre for Life, Hannah Rudman has introduced participatory action research methods and design processes to a novel project funded by the ESRC. Together, we…
Design thinking works for organisational change
A key aspect of the success of Rudman Consulting’s AmbITion Approach for digital business transformation is its inclusions of design thinking approaches and tools, and creative practices. We have studied and academically verified that most businesses which used more design and creative practices during change journeys, such as the AmbITion Approach, were very likely to digitally adapt, and over a…
Summary of Envirodigital video case studies
Hannah Rudman presents the case study of Claimexpenses.com – a development to help freelancers calculate their CO2 footprint when working with different organisations, as well as claim travel expenses back: Hannah Rudman presents the case study story of the virtual world digital content development that The Scape Trust have created at Timespan Arts & Heritage…
Envirodigital’s work for government
Envirodigital has been working with Scotland’s 2020 Climate group and Scottish Enterprise to develop a response to Scottish Government about how the Creative and Interactive Industries will respond as a sector to Scotland’s low carbon transition. View our report. Envirodigital approached the Scotland’s 2020 Climate Group, suggesting that the Creative & Digital Industries should be…
Five Minute Theatre: co-production with National Theatre of Scotland
Envirodigital created larger scale, but smaller environmental impact, live productions for arts, cultural and heritage organisations, event organisers, and content producers by adding a digital element to them. 24 hours of 5 minute pieces of live theatre from around Scotland were broadcast by us! UPDATE: June 2012 – Five Minute Theatre wins a Critics Award…
A framework for the transformation of the creative industries in a digital age
From 2011 – 2015, Hannah undertook PhD research at the Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation at Edinburgh Napier University’s School of Computing. The doctoral research studied the concepts, methodologies, and tools of The AmbITion Approach, and validated it as a framework for business transformation of the creative industries in a digital age. Hannah has…
Summary of Envirodigital publications
‘Culture’s role in environmental change’, article for The Guardian ‘Green Digits‘ article for Arts Professional Top Tips for E-publishing How to Webcast
The Touring Network builds digital tools to measure CO2 of rural touring
The Touring Network (TTN) works to support, represent and develop professional live performances happening in small-scale venues across the Highlands & Islands. Across such a vast geographic area, from Shetland to Argyll and Perthshire to Skye, the carbon costs of touring to remote and varied locations can be significant – not only are distances great but transport and buildings infrastructure is also often limited. In order…
Scottish Sculpture Workshop’s digital transformation
Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW) is a rurally based artist residency centre. Offering workshop facilities, technical expertise and curatorial support, the programme supports hundreds of artists every year. Alongside this SSW runs a series of curatorial enquiries, focusing on landscape, craft, material and the commons. SSW has undergone significant change over the last five years, from…
Interview on Climate Justice – with Dame Susan Rice, MD Lloyds Banking Group
On behalf of The 2020 Climate Group (@2020climategrp), it was a real privilege for me to interview Dame Susan Rice, MD of Lloyds Banking Group, about the importance of #climatejustice and what the Lloyds Banking Group is doing internally around reducing business travel. She spoke also about how the group is helping client businesses to…
Uist Wool – from The AmbITion Approach to building the strategy
Uist Wool is a community benefit society that will operate a new spinning mill and wool centre on the island of Grimsay. Uist Wool is based on the principles of People, Planet, Profit: seeking to benefit the many, establishing sustainable practices and creating a viable enterprise to support the communities of the Outer Hebrides. They…
Hannah Rudman keynote at the NARPACA Ticketing Professionals 2014
Hannah Rudman was the keynote speaker at the NARPACA Ticketing Professionals 2014, 17-19 February 2014 in Brisbane, Australia. Speaking on the subject of Event Horizon, Hannah considered the opportunities and impacts of disruptive existing and emerging digital technologies on cultural events and experiences in her keynote speech on 17th February. On 18th February, Hannah also led…
The National Piping Centre reduce their carbon footprint through live streaming
The National Piping Centre has been working to raise its live streaming capability and capacity through the support of Rudman Consulting‘s digital development programme, AmbITion Scotland. This case study shows how they’ve increased the reach and scale of live events from the centre, generating a new income stream. And their unusual wind powered assets, the…