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Beyond the Research-Teaching Divide: Practical Steps for Educators

Newspaper / Magazine
Illingworth, S. (2025)
Beyond the Research-Teaching Divide: Practical Steps for Educators. Online

Future-Proofing Business: Aligning Sustainability Goals with Workforce and Digital Transformation

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cameron, J. (2025, April)
Future-Proofing Business: Aligning Sustainability Goals with Workforce and Digital Transformation. Presented at Future-Proofing Business: Aligning Sustainability Goals with Workforce and Digital Transformation, Jakarta, Indonesia [and online]
This roundtable convenes leading academics and industry experts to discuss strategic alignment of digital transformation, sustainability imperatives, and workforce preparednes...

Beyond Universal AI Literacy: Fostering Deeper Connections in Higher Education

Digital Artefact
Drumm, L. (2025)
Beyond Universal AI Literacy: Fostering Deeper Connections in Higher Education. [Blog]
The rapid advancement of generative AI tools continues to reshape the landscape of higher education, yet core academic principles remain steadfast. This blog post explores the...

GenAI use in higher education: stakeholder perceptions and attitudes

Report
Kiezebrink, K., Preston, S., McIlwhan, R., Drumm, L., & Lafferty, N. (2024)
GenAI use in higher education: stakeholder perceptions and attitudes. Advance HE
This project investigates the attitudes and perceptions of higher education students and staff, both academic and professional services, to the use of Generative Artificial In...

In the room, and the digital canvas, where it happens

Book Chapter
Jarman, D. In the room, and the digital canvas, where it happens. In Making Active Learning Happen for All. Active Learning Network

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Jarman, D. In the room, and the digital canvas, where it happens. In Making Active Learning Happen for All. Active Learning Network
Opening paragraph: Active learning methods and a collaborative ethos gave me the confidence to start delivering the digitally supported classes I have always wanted to teach. ...

Towards Inclusive Intelligence: A Comprehensive Examination of GenAI Attitudes Among Higher Education Stakeholders (Dataset)

Data
Kiezebrink, K., Preston, S., Drumm, L., Lafferty, N., McIlwhan, R., & Cleland, E. (2024)
Towards Inclusive Intelligence: A Comprehensive Examination of GenAI Attitudes Among Higher Education Stakeholders (Dataset). [Data]
This research project aimed to delve into the attitudes and perceptions of diverse higher education stakeholders regarding the integration of Generative Artificial Intelligenc...

Workplace Mentor Training for Inclusion: Training resources for work-based learning mentors

Digital Artefact
Taylor-Smith, E., Smith, S., Cecil, M., & Scott, A. (2024)
Workplace Mentor Training for Inclusion: Training resources for work-based learning mentors. [Blog]
This is a resource for work-based learning mentors, with a special focus on mentoring for inclusion, featuring Key Elements of Inclusion for Mentors infographic and Intro to I...

Employability attributes: Meeting deadlines, time management

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cameron, J., Gutu, M., & Kurtzke, S. (2024, June)
Employability attributes: Meeting deadlines, time management. Presented at Marketing Professional Advisory Group Meeting, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
This talk aims to excavate marketing practitioner insights on whether meeting deadlines and time management are important graduate attributes that should be carefully consider...

AI Literacy Framework for Marketing Education and Assessment Design.

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kurtzke, S. (2024, June)
AI Literacy Framework for Marketing Education and Assessment Design. Presented at Marketing Professional Advisory Group Meeting, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
This talk aims to collect feedback from marketing practitioners on an evidence-based AI Literacy Framework that shows how higher-order human and applied AI skills can be embed...

Integrating AI Literacy in Higher Education: A Practical Framework

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kurtzke, S. (2024, June)
Integrating AI Literacy in Higher Education: A Practical Framework. Poster presented at The Gathering: Edinburgh Napier's Learning & Teaching Conference, Edinburgh, UK
This project is a rapid response to the UK Russell Group's 2023 first principle on the use of generative AI (GAI) tools to "support student and staff to become AI literate" (R...
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Are nurses ready for robots? Understanding the digital technologies needs of nursing students

2024 - 2026
We are witnessing an increased interest in digital health: from AI to robotics, technology is entering the healthcare environment and is proving to be an asset. During Covid-19, robots were used in ho...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £9,999

Investigating the Experiences of ChatGPT and AI by Students in UK Universities

2024 - 2026
The proposed research project aims to study the usage of ChatGPT and other such tools by students in UK universities. The objective is to understand how these technologies are being utilised in their ...
Funder: Leverhulme Trust | Value: £142,760

Global Film Industry, International cultural heritage and public engagement. A Panel Discussion by UNESCO Cities of Film Network Officials/Researchers

2022 - 2022
This panel discussion explores the relationship between international cultural heritage/public engagement and research and creative practice with panel speakers from UNESCO Cities of Film Network.
Funder: University of Glasgow

Let's Play Wester Hailes: Community Produced Video Games of Edinburgh

2021 - 2022
This project aims to engage children and young people with the computer games industry. Working with WHALE Arts we will build games and upload them onto bespoke arcade machines. The games created wi...
Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering | Value: £25,708

How are we positioning apprenticeships? A critical analysis of job adverts for degree apprentices

2020 - 2021
The introduction of the degree apprenticeship presents opportunities for students to pursue a degree while working in paid positions relevant to their studies. Within this model, employers take an act...
Funder: Society for Research into Higher Education | Value: £4,999

Innovation voucher Gamification

2019 - 2019
The project will produce recommendations for the application of gamification to the training product, informed by the company context, with a design led by the latest academic research in gamification...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £4,959

Developing entrepreneurial capabilities for the global labour market: A cross national study of IT students in the UK and Australia

2017 - 2018
The overarching aim of this study is to investigate how universities are preparing IT students for the global labour market. The focus of this study is entrepreneurship which is now given high priorit...
Funder: Society for Research into Higher Education | Value: £1,656

Associate Student Project

2014 - 2023
The Associate Student Project (ASP) builds partnerships between the School of Computing and local further education colleges (FEs) to support students who study for the first two years of their degree...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council

Learning from Korea - Media Skins as Public Art

2012 - 2015
Academic research into the use of video content for public art projects involving archival research, content preparation & knowledge transfer in preparation for a groundbreaking collaboration between ...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £2,242

e-Placement Scotland

2010 - 2022
Between 2010 and 2014, e-Placement Scotland worked with industry to create over 800 paid placements for students in Scotland’s universities and colleges. The project team disseminated widely to both e...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council

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Assessing the early impact of data skills training initiatives

2024 - date
Mr Fredrick Mbuya | Director of Studies: Dr Khristin Fabian | Second Supervisor: Prof Sally Smith

Research grounded support of student learning in Higher Education: The importance of dialogue and subject embedded, contextualised language and content

2017 - 2018
Dr Kendall Richards | Director of Studies: Dr Colin Smith | Second Supervisor: Prof Sally Smith

'A journey that motivates': Discovering the associate student experience

2015 - 2022
Dr Debbie Meharg | Director of Studies: Ms Alison Varey | Second Supervisor: Dr Sandra Cairncross

The role of interactive technology in the co-creation of experience in Scottish visitor attractions

2014 - 2019
" As a sector that is reliant on the creation and management of memorable experiences, visitor attrac...
Dr Ellis Urquhart | Director of Studies: Prof Anna Leask | Second Supervisor: Dr Ivana Rihova

Leadership for the CIO: building capacity through applying leadership theory using frameworks

2012 - 2016
At present the Information Technology profession appears to be dogged by high profile project failure, high...
Prof Sally Smith | Director of Studies: Mr Grant MacKerron | Second Supervisor: Dr Vaughan Ellis

Participation Space Studies: a socio-technical exploration of activist and community groups? use of online and offline spaces to support their work

2011 - 2016
Participation Space Studies explore eParticipation ...
Dr Ella Taylor-Smith | Director of Studies: Dr Colin Smith | Second Supervisor: Dr Michael Smyth

An analysis of EHEA business school approaches to the development, configuration and management of international academic alliances

2011 - 2017
Dr Patrick Harte | Director of Studies: Prof Anne Munro | Second Supervisor: Prof Mary Fischer

?National literature is now rather an unmeaning term; the epoch of world literature is at hand? ? notions of capital and symbolic power in the globalised European fiction market

2010 - 2014
Dr Stephanie Craighill | Director of Studies: Prof Alistair Mccleery

Complex pleasures: designing optional interactions for public spaces

2008 - 2017
This research will investigate the nature of interactions between people and experience-oriented technologies such as new-media artw...
Dr Ingi Helgason | Director of Studies: Dr Michael Smyth

The influence of duality and Poe?s notion of the ?Bi-Part Soul? on the genesis of detective fiction in the nineteenth-century

2008 - 2010
This thesis examines the meaning, origin and influence of Edgar Allan Poe’s...
Dr Stephanie Craighill | Director of Studies: Prof Linda Dryden | Second Supervisor: Prof Anne Schwan

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3MT Competition is Open!

7 May 2025
3MT Competition is open for submissions! Can you convince non-specialist audiences that your research is really as important as you believe it is? Here’s your chance to find out!

Educational Visit to a Retrofit Project and Offsite Manufacturing Facility

18 February 2025
Students from Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) have been learning first hand from the deep retrofit of Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST)’s National Retrofit Centre. The agenda includ...

Dr Kulpa organises a gender & sexuality-focused event to celebrate inclusive queer-feminist politics across the month of March 2024.

6 March 2024
Dr Kulpa organises an inclusive queer-feminist event celebrating our diverse lives and work across Edinburgh Napier University.

AI research to look at student use of ChatGPT at UK universities

9 January 2024
An Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) project investigating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT in Universities across the UK is set to get underway after being backed by near...

Dr Zack Moir Elected to the Board of Directors of the Prestigious Association for Popular Music Education

27 June 2019
Dr Zack Moir from Music has been elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the Association for Popular Music Education, which is an international organisation with a mission to promote and advance...

Lecturer in Music is Editor of Recently 'Routledge Research Companion to Popular Music Education'

24 January 2017
Dr Zack Moir from music is one of the editors of the recently published 'Routledge Research Handbook of Popular Music Education', which is a new edited volume containing contributions from a wide rang...

Visiting Fellow, Professor Ganesan Kannbiran and Sally Smith win funding for business incubator study

21 April 2016
Visiting Fellow, Professor Ganesan Kannbiran and Sally Smith win funding for business incubator study

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