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Integrating nature-based solutions with traditional smallholder farming systems to build climatic resilience in the Caribbean

Book Chapter
Roop, R., Weaver, M., Fonseca, A. P., & Matouq, M. (in press)
Integrating nature-based solutions with traditional smallholder farming systems to build climatic resilience in the Caribbean. . Springer
Despite the current technological advancement in agriculture to improve the production capacity and livelihood of the estimated 570 million smallholder family farmers, the upt...

Sustainability concepts in global high-rise residential buildings: a scientometric and systematic review

Journal Article
Lam, E. W., Chan, A. P., Olawumi, T. O., Wong, I., & Kazeem, K. O. (in press)
Sustainability concepts in global high-rise residential buildings: a scientometric and systematic review. Smart and Sustainable Built Environment, https://doi.org/10.1108/sasbe-04-2023-0094
Purpose Sustainability has been the subject of several scientific investigations. Many researchers in the construction industry have also examined a range of sustainability-re...

Facilitators and benefits of implementing lean premise design: A case of Hong Kong high-rise buildings

Journal Article
Lam, E. W., Chan, A. P., Olawumi, T. O., Wong, I., & Kazeem, K. O. (2023)
Facilitators and benefits of implementing lean premise design: A case of Hong Kong high-rise buildings. Journal of Building Engineering, 80, Article 108013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2023.108013
Defective design, poor stakeholder participation, and a mismatch between design provisions and end-user requirements cause most building construction waste. However, lean buil...

Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies?

Presentation / Conference
Kulpa, R. (2022, December)
Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies?. Presented at Go West! Conceptual Explorations of “The West” in History of Education, University of Münster, Germany
The invited lecture reflected on the contemporary queer studies and the geo-temporal ‘unsettlement’ of Central and Eastern Europe in the occidental (and occidentalist) imagina...

Lessons from the Past for the Future

Book Chapter
Victoria, M. (2022)
Lessons from the Past for the Future. In M. Victoria (Ed.), Methodological Issues and Challenges in Researching Transculturally. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

IoT for Sustainability

Book Chapter
Davison, B. (2022)
IoT for Sustainability. In R. Buyya, L. Garg, G. Fortino, & S. Misra (Eds.), New Frontiers in Cloud Computing and Internet of Things (253-286). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05528-7_10
The Internet of Things (IoT) comprises a set of complementary technologies which offer unprecedented opportunities for interacting with the physical environment. Faced with mu...

The Build for Purpose Canvas

Presentation / Conference
Weaver, M., Fonseca, A., Tan, H., & Pershina, E. (2022, September)
The Build for Purpose Canvas. Paper presented at OR64 The Annual Operational Research Conference, University of Warwick
The paper proposes the “Build for Purpose Canvas” (B4PC) to help organisations to put purpose at the heart of their business, build meaningful relationships with communities a...

Grand Challenges and OR: the Cost of Living Crisis

Presentation / Conference
Weaver, M. (2022, September)
Grand Challenges and OR: the Cost of Living Crisis. Presented at OR64: OR For a Better World Together, University of Warwick
Each year we pose a “grand challenge” to provide an opportunity to identify how OR can be used to help solve real-world issues in our host city region, the UK and beyond. We h...

Sustainable Human Resource Management and Organizational Sustainability

Book Chapter
Bratton, A., & Paulet, R. (2022)
Sustainable Human Resource Management and Organizational Sustainability. In P. Holland, T. Bartram, T. Garavan, & K. Grant (Eds.), The Emerald Handbook of Work, Workplaces and Disruptive Issues in HRM. Bingley: Emerald

Sound Dramaturgy for Poetic Documentaries

Journal Article
Stutterheim, K. (in press)
Sound Dramaturgy for Poetic Documentaries. International Journal of Film and Media Arts,
Dramaturgy is just as relevant for documentaries as it is for feature films, if not more so. Dramaturgical knowledge can considerably support and facilitate the development, p...
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Gender Mainstreaming in Logistics and Supply Chain Management - ‘Seed-Corn’ Research Fund 2023/2024

2023 - 2024
This paper aims to identify the drivers of environmentally sustainable last-mile delivery. Covid-19 has redesigned urban last-mile deliveries with a 25% increase in e-commerce deliveries in 2020. Last...
Funder: The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport | Value: £7,471

In Our Hands II

2023 - 2024
Since 2020, British Council has worked with partners from academic and creative sectors (private) to develop the necessary spaces where youth can reinterpret Nepal’s natural and cultural heritage to d...
Funder: British Council | Value: £1,000

Fixing the Future: The Right to Repair and Equal-IoT

2022 - 2024
Our 2-year interdisciplinary project will investigate how the lack of repairability in the consumer Internet of Things (IoT) will adversely impact equity, inclusion, and sustainability in the digital ...
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | Value: £94,392

RESIST - Fostering Queer-Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics

2022 - 2026
Anti-gender politics pose a grave threat to modern democratic formations because they challenge people's everyday survival, bodily integrity, and self-determination. Anti-gender spans the political sp...
Funder: European Commission | Value: £443,089

In Our Hands

2022 - 2023
Following on from last year's Road to COP26 Innovation Programme with British Council Nepal, Kathmandu University and applied Arts Scotland, a revised version is planned for 2022 and the invitation to...
Funder: British Council | Value: £3,388

Failure to plan is planning to fail: An evidence informed approach to sustainable tourism planning

2022 - 2024
A comparative analysis between Ireland and Scotland which examines the extent to which local authorities plan for sustainable tourism. This study uses mixed methods, both content analysis and intervie...
Funder: British Academy of Management | Value: £3,999

Photosynethics: Responsibility, Sustainability and Plant Work in Professional Kitchens

2022 - 2023
Photosynethics: Responsibility, Sustainability and Plant Work in Professional Kitchens
Funder: British Academy | Value: £1,869

Restoring Environments, Societies, Ecosystems and Trees (RESET)

2021 - 2023
Africa is due to experience the most rapid urbanisation and population growth in this century. The combination of these phenomena in other countries has led to two dire outcomes: enormous loss of ecos...
Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering | Value: £29,868

Researching and proposing a standard rule of responsibility for embodied carbon emissions through the value chain

2021 - 2026
Researching and proposing a standard rule of responsibility for embodied carbon emissions through the value chain
Funder: Scottish Government | Value: £15,195

Texonomy Prize Challenge - British Council Researchers Link Climate Challenge

2021 - 2022
The project is funded by British Council and led by Northumbria University at Newcastle. It is part of the "Researcher Link Climate Challenge" funding to establish links between early career researche...
Funder: British Council | Value: £7,000
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Outside-In Thinking: Retail & Fashion Industry Perspectives on Sustainable, Circular Economy, its Benefits and Challenges

2017 - 2023
The interpretive approach develops an understanding on the particularity and co...
Carina Legl | Director of Studies: Dr Miles Weaver | Second Supervisor: Dr John Thomson

Enhancing storm surge resilience for coastal habitat: A framework to support sustainable development

2016 - 2021
In most countries, population, poor management of water policies, infrastructure and coastal develop...
Ms Anitha Karthik | Director of Studies: Prof Luca Mora | Second Supervisor: Prof Sean Smith

The impact of team-focussed transformational and ethical leadership on team innovation: an investigation of the role of team engagement and team developmental climate

2013 - 2019
Dr Britta Heidl | Director of Studies: Prof Thomas Garavan | Second Supervisor: Sandra Watson

The potential for 'green' fiscal policy measures to influence individuals' vehicle purchasing decisions in Scotland

2009 - 2015
This research focuses upon measures targeting individuals’ future vehicle purchasing ...
Dr Sarah Borthwick Saddler | Director of Studies: Michael Carreno | Second Supervisor: Kevin Cullinane

Adult learning: Towards a framework for participation

2008 - 2014
This thesis explores participation in adult learning and focuses upon three key areas of interest: reasons for participation, the challenges of par...
Dr Lesley McLean | Director of Studies: Dr Monika Foster | Second Supervisor: Prof Anne Munro

Moisture conditions in external timber cladding: field trials and their design implications

2004 - 2011
This research was funded by the EU Northern Periphery Programme as part of a trans-national project titled: E...
Dr Ivor Davies | Director of Studies: Charles Fairfield | Second Supervisor: Alastair Stupart
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Dr Roberto Kulpa speaks about "RESIST - Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics" research consortium at the special seminar of the Centre for Arts, Media, & Culture, Edinburgh Napier University.

Centre for Arts, Media, & Culture, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
8 March 2023

Launch of "Business for Good" Programme (Everyone's Edinburgh with ENUBS)

Craiglockhart Campus
28 June 2022 - 28 September 2022

Dark Tourism Research Symposium: Memory, Pilgrimage and the Digital Realm

Craiglockhart Campus
4 May 2022

Knowledge exchange workshops organised as part of the "Friendship for LGBTIQ+ (post-)pandemic social resilience" grant.

1 February 2022 - 30 July 2022

#NextGen Sustainability Conference 2021

Craiglockhart Campus
8 March 2021 - 12 March 2021

Call for Papers: Management, Governance and Ethical Finance Conference 2019

Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University.
9 April 2019 - 10 April 2019

Training course: "An Evidence-Based Approach to Camera Trapping"

The Environment Agency Office King’s Meadow House King's Meadow Road Reading RG1 8DQ
22 March 2019

Next Generation Business: Shaping a New Economy

Craiglockhart Campus
13 March 2019

Financing Issues in the Belt and Road Initiative

Research Centre for Sustainable Hong Kong (CSHK), City University of Hong Kong.
6 November 2018

The Belt and Road Initiative: Challenges and Opportunities

The Confucius Institute for Scotland, The University of Edinburgh
4 October 2018