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James and Percival Everett's Dialogue with US Storytelling

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keeble, A. (2025, December)
James and Percival Everett's Dialogue with US Storytelling. Paper presented at PERCIVAL - an international conference on the literature and art of Percival Everett, London
This paper considers James within Everett’s famously diverse oeuvre – to date including twenty-four novels, four collections of short fiction, three collections of poetry and ...

Hypnos (San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival)

Exhibition / Performance
Milne, L. Hypnos (San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival)
[Video]. 1 July 2025 - 1 July 2025
Official selection (semi-finalist) for San Francisco Arthouse Short Festival 2025. An Ancient Egyptian poem, driving through a storm, radio, memory and the otherworld. A drea...

The Voice of the Sea: Sound in Dion Fortune's The Sea Priestess

Digital Artefact
Martin, S. (2025)
The Voice of the Sea: Sound in Dion Fortune's The Sea Priestess. [Film]. Edinburgh
An exploration of the locations and role of sound in Dion Fortune's (1890-1946) novel The Sea Priestess (1938).

Paths of Desire (preview screening)

Presentation / Conference Contribution
Milne, L. (2025, June)
Paths of Desire (preview screening). Presented at Unquiet Shores Conference, Edinburgh Napier University
Preview presentation and discussion of 'Paths of Desire' film, as part of Experimental Films conference session, Unquiet Shores conference 2025.

Dream in the Mirror (Chicago Filmmaker Awards)

Exhibition / Performance
Milne, L., & Martin, S. Dream in the Mirror (Chicago Filmmaker Awards)
[Digital video]. 22 May 2025
The Dream in the Mirror is a documentary commissioned by Criterion, NYC for their new Blue-Ray /streaming restored edition of Tarkovsky's Mirror (1975). It is an official sele...

Sound and Music Dramaturgy in Documentary Film

Book
Stutterheim, K. Sound and Music Dramaturgy in Documentary Film. Routledge

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Stutterheim, K. Sound and Music Dramaturgy in Documentary Film. Routledge
The book aims to serve as an introduction to the dramaturgical relevance of sound and music in the conceptualisation and production of documentary films. It is designed to be ...

“To Hear The Mermaids Sing”: Visual Figuration, Myth and Desire in the Case of The Waterwoman

Journal Article
Milne, L. (2025)
“To Hear The Mermaids Sing”: Visual Figuration, Myth and Desire in the Case of The Waterwoman. Folklore, 95(4), 7-68. https://doi.org/10.7592/FEJF2025.95.milne
The idea of a female spirit attached to a place of water has endured for millennia in literature, folklore and the visual arts. Supernatural aquatic women – mermaids, sirens, ...

Plundrarna [Fantomen 10/2025]

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Bishop, D. (2025)
Plundrarna [Fantomen 10/2025]. Malmö, Sweden
Siblings Kit and Heloise Walker intervene when scavengers took advantage of lawlessness in post-disaster Bengali. This 23-page story written by David Bishop was illustrated by...

A Summer Sunday Evening

Digital Artefact
Stutterheim, K. A Summer Sunday Evening. [Film]

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Stutterheim, K. A Summer Sunday Evening. [Film]
An experimental Short Documentary After a busy summer weekend at one of southern England’s most beautiful beaches, people gather for BBQs, dip their feet in the sea, snap pho...

Publishing as a Creative Industry

Book
Marsden, S. (2025)
Publishing as a Creative Industry. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003187905
Book publishing is big business, contributing significant employment in the creative industries and adding billions to the global economy. Despite this, the sector is often ov...

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VR Home Haemodlaysis Training Application - VR Equipment Future-proofing and Evaluation

2024 - 2025
This proposal seeks funding to acquire the latest generation virtual reality (VR) headsets to evaluate and enhance VR applications designed for haemodialysis training. Haemodialysis is a life-sustaini...
Funder: Kidney Research UK | Value: £1,873

MeCCSA 2025 Conference: Identity and Belonging

2024 - 2025
Media and culture play a crucial role in shaping identity, especially in contemporary contexts marked by economic struggles, conflict, and migration. The significance of identity is heightened as indi...
Funder: Fees (CPD courses and Conference Delegate)

Homework: Music Collaboration in Domestic Spaces

2024 - 2025
MUSCIDS is an interdisciplinary research project that investigates collaborative music making in the digital age. Our aim is to better understand changing ecologies of music production in the domestic...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £7,105

Engaging with Sustainable Materials and Approaches in Film

2024 - 2025
The project follows on the AHRC Scoping Project Sustainable Materials in the Creative Industries, where Ita Jansen was a CO-I. It disseminates the findings and outcomes of this project to different s...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £64,786

A Giant on the Bridge

2024 - 2025
‘A Giant on the Bridge’: live narrative gig, writing, rehearsals and performance. Creative practice-led research project.
Funder: KT Producing | Value: £3,000

The Hip-Hop Studies Listener

2023 - 2025
A collection – a published compendium of writings in song format. Taking Rap Academics (Hook, 2022) (https://www.solareye.co.uk/rapacademics) as a starting point, this project involves creating a co...
Funder: University of Bristol | Value: £3,000

VR Peritoneal Dialysis Training System v2.0

2023 - 2025
VR Peritoneal Dialysis (VRPD) Training System version 2.0 End-stage kidney disease (ESKD) in children is rare - approximately 100-120 children enter ESKD per year in the UK, of whom about 30-35% will...
Funder: NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde | Value: £6,192

ARCS proposal: Peterhead Prison Museum

2023 - 2027
Prison museums are part of Scotland’s cultural heritage tourism portfolio, and they are, by consequence, iconic public history venues that interpret historical and contemporary narratives of crime, pu...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £63,592

'White Thinking' and the failed promise of diversity in Scottish heritage

2023 - 2024
'White Thinking' and the failed promise of diversity in Scottish heritage This project responds to a key challenge in the Scottish heritage sector: what is the next step in transitioning small-scale d...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £11,332

PhD Blogging for Beginners: A Bootcamp of Multimedia Content Production to Increase Your Research Impact

2023 - 2024
The project consists in the organisation and delivery of a one-day workshop on research impact aimed at PhD students from arts and humanities subjects across Scottish universities. The idea is to teac...
Value: £1,355

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Women’s Travelling Writing in the Twentieth Century

2025 - date
Melissa Davies | Director of Studies: Dr Scott Lyall | Second Supervisor: Dr Emily Alder

2025 - date
Shuya Zhang | Director of Studies: Prof Kerstin Stutterheim | Second Supervisor: Dr Wendy Wu

A Study into the idolisation of fictional and dramatised killers in television and the repercussions of social media on audience perception

2025 - date
Molly Devine | Director of Studies: Prof Anne Schwan | Second Supervisor: Dr Kirstin Anderson

Exploring Musical Improvisation as a Conduit for Embodied Socio-Cultural Expression

2025 - date
Robert McLaughlin | Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Prof Kerstin Stutterheim

The theoretically scaffolded embodied improvisor: the emerging primacy of emotion, meaning and metaphor

2024 - date
Tom Bancroft | Director of Studies: Prof Haftor Medboe | Second Supervisor: Dr Dimitris Papageorgiou

Managing Author Care in UK Trade Publishing

2024 - date
Francesca Barbini | Director of Studies: Avril Gray | Second Supervisor: Dr Alice Piotrowska

Marginal perspectives: a diasporic body of cinematic works

2024 - date
Ms Sana Bilgrami | Director of Studies: Prof Kerstin Stutterheim

Flamenco music: its origins and influences towards a developing canon of classical guitar repertoire

2023 - date
Brandon Walker | Director of Studies: Mr. Ken Dempster | Second Supervisor: Dr John Hails

Is there a space of performativity which is neither and/or both masculine or feminine?

2023 - date
Mx Ashley Stein | Director of Studies: Dr Paul Harkins | Second Supervisor: Dr Dave Hook

‘Bring back manly Muppets, anyone?’ The critical analysis of gender-neutral characters in children’s fiction television

2023 - date
William Muir-Kirk | Director of Studies: Dr Emily Alder | Second Supervisor: Dr Tara Thomson

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Meet Dr. Joe Qiao Li, Our Final Judge for the Taylor’s University Film Festival 2024!

5 May 2024
Meet Dr. Joe Qiao Li: Final Judge of the Taylor’s University Film Festival 2024! 🎬 🎞️ Dr. Joe Qiao Li is a Film Studies lecturer and PhD supervisor at Edinburgh Napier University, specializing in C...

Films by Napier academics Paul Gray and Ita Jansen screen at Cameo

29 April 2024
Films by Edinburgh Napier academics are screening at Cameo as part of the Folk Film Gathering.

Film by Napier academic wins the Grand Prize at the Arizona International Film Festival

28 April 2024
The film Itu Ninu by Itandehui Jansen, Programme Lead for the MA Film at Edinburgh Napier University, has just received the Grand Prize at the Arizona International Film Festival.

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.

Edinburgh Napier shines at Wonderful World International Student Media Art Festival in USA

15 June 2023
Edinburgh Napier Triumphs at International Student Media Festival Edinburgh Napier University made a strong impact at the 4th Wonderful World International Student Media Art Festival, winning four to...

'MacDiarmid at 100'

31 August 2022
The Scottish Revival Network is organising a one-day conference on 31 August 2022 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Scottish poet and cultural provocateur Hugh MacDiarmid’s first appearance in...

Students hit the right note with record label launch

10 May 2021
Up and coming musicians, bands and artists from across Scotland have a new platform to showcase their talents on thanks to a new record label launched by Edinburgh Napier music students. Dr Paul Har...

Edinburgh Napier appoints Rosie Howie as Publisher in Residence

7 May 2021
The Bookseller, the leading publishing industry magazine, ran a feature on our ground-breaking Publisher in Residence appointment. Full page coverage of my initiative (two years in the making), firs...

Dr Scott Lyall awarded RSE Network Grant

15 December 2020
Dr Scott Lyall (PI) has been awarded a Network Grant from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to found and facilitate a Scottish Revival Network. He will collaborate with Dr Michael Shaw (CI) of the Univer...

Social and community impact: award winner and runners-up

25 November 2020
Bleedin Saor Project (Bloody Big Project) runner-up in the Guardian University Awards

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

Craiglockhart Campus
5 May 2022

Research Roundtable on 'Global Atrocities in Literature and Culture' (online)

Online via WebEx
8 December 2021

Das Drehbuch als dramaturgische Grundkonstellation

Hannover, Germany
12 November 2021 - 13 November 2021

Research Seminar hosted by Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW): Maja Brandt Andreasen (U of Strathclyde), 'Just Sex? The Discursive Construction of Sexual Violence in Internet Humour about #MeToo' AND Amy King (Edinburgh Napier U), '"Tied up in knots" - Ethical Tensions in my Research of Linguistic Violence on Twitter'

Online
9 June 2021

Research Seminar hosted by Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW): Professor Nathalie Jaeck (U Bordeaux Montaigne), 'Dickens's Redefinition of the Rhetoric of Landscape'

Online
19 May 2021

Research Seminar hosted by Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW): Dr Alice Kelly (U of Oxford/U of Sussex), 'Commemorative Modernisms - Women Writers, Death and the First World War'

28 April 2021

Research Seminar hosted by Centre for Literature and Writing (CLAW): Dr Maisha Wester (Indiana U, Bloomington/Sheffield U), 'New World Monsters for an Old World Problem - Redefining Terror in Black Diasporic Gothic Literature'

17 March 2021

(Re)presenting cover girls: Exploring female diversity in magazines

Merchiston Campus
20 February 2020

Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature

Edinburgh Napier University
9 December 2019

Cinematic Inclusions: Traditions and Experiments in Lithuanian Documentary Cinema

Lecture Theatre A17, Merchiston Campus, Edinburgh Napier University
24 October 2019