Last week, members of the
Information School attended the 2017 iConference in Wuhan, China. One of our PhD
students, Wasim Ahmed, gives his highlights below, along with some of his
photos from the trip.
It was also really good to meet Lee (Dr Xuguang Li) an Information School alumni who is now working as an academic in Wuhan. Lee was a very popular student among the iSchool, and I had heard many great things about him, so it was great to meet him, and we are very grateful that he showed us around Wuhan. I look forward to working with Lee in the future.
I am looking very much forward to the iConference in 2018 and welcoming delegates from across the world to Sheffield. I was born and raised in Sheffield and studied both my undergraduate and masters degrees here. Sheffield is a brilliant city, and I think delegates will really enjoy visiting the city as well as enjoying the conference.
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My highlights from my trip
included me presenting a poster on my pilot study from my PhD, and which
received good interest from delegates, particularly concerning the methodology
that was used. A number of very useful connections were made from across the world,
and there was a lot of interest in the 2018 edition of the iConference which
will take place in Sheffield
I also enjoyed visiting the
Yellow Crane Tower, Hubei Provincial Museum, the East Lake, Wuhan, and the Yangtze
River. Wuhan is a beautiful city, and the people are very friendly. I read
online that the people in Wuhan are unusually nice, and I have to say that this
is very true and I felt very welcome in the city.
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