Serena

A guest blog post by Abigail McBirnie, who completed her PhD at Aberystwyth University in December 2012. Her thesis examined networked and quantitative aspects of […]

Doing research on serendipity enables me to reflect more than I would have done otherwise on experiences that I’d class as serendipity. Preparing for a […]

Horace Walpole, the effete author of the first gothic novel and the first gothic house, defined the word serendipity in response to the Persian tale. […]

The SerenA Project has been gathering Stories of Serendipity for our research, we regularly present and talk about this work and encourage submissions of stories […]

Another SerenA meeting took place a couple of weeks ago…this time in beautiful Nottingham! Being out for some after-work drinks, we came to experience (once […]

Guest blog by James Lawley, Psychotherapist and partner of The Developing Company. It’s clear why researchers, scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs would be interested in serendipity, […]

As part of our interest in supporting serendipitous connections between researchers, the SerenA project team at Heriot-Watt University have been developing software which uses available […]

Multi-agent systems are broadly conceptualised as a collection of specialised software components (the agents) inhabiting some notional space (the environment). Agents can range from the […]

I sat in my hotel room in the Hilton Baltimore a few weeks ago, staring at the gallon of water, fluorescent shake-me-to-wake-me torch and stash […]

This is a guest blog article by Jim Hensman from Coventry University. I have been involved over a number of years in various projects relating […]