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Identifying a research agenda for postgraduate taught education in the UK: lessons from a machine learning facilitated systematic scoping review

Journal Article
Macleod, G., Dozier, M., Marvell, R., Matthews-Smith, G., Macleod, M. R., & Liao, J. (2024)
Identifying a research agenda for postgraduate taught education in the UK: lessons from a machine learning facilitated systematic scoping review. Oxford Review of Education, 50(1), 95-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/03054985.2023.2203376
This research aimed to describe and evaluate research on the Postgraduate Taught (PGT) sector in the UK from January 2008 to October 2019. The focus on PGT allowed a detailed ...

Putting the individual and context back into national human resource development research: A systematic review and research agenda

Journal Article
Garavan, T., Wang, J., Nolan, C., Lai, Y., O'Brien, F., Darcy, C., …McLean, G. (in press)
Putting the individual and context back into national human resource development research: A systematic review and research agenda. International Journal of Management Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12308
Conceptualizations of NHRD emphasise that it is an ongoing process of developing the individual shaped by context. However, the extant literature has focused primarily on desc...

Entrepreneurship Education and Training Programmes: A Lifespan Development Perspective

Book Chapter
Garavan, T., O’Brien, F., Power, C., Matthews-Smith, G., & Buckley, J. (2022)
Entrepreneurship Education and Training Programmes: A Lifespan Development Perspective. In P. Holland, T. Bartram, T. Garavan, & K. Grant (Eds.), The Emerald Handbook of Work, Workplaces and Disruptive Issues in HRM (335-365). Bingley: Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-779-420221033
In this chapter, we propose that EETPs should be understood as a lifelong dynamic process and highlight how entrepreneur knowledge, skills and abilities develop across the lif...

Rallying to the Flag - A Consolidated Picture of Armed Forces Children’s Education in Scotland in 2021: Laying Foundations & Promoting Development

Report
MacLeod, C., Short, G., & Matthews-Smith, G. (2022)
Rallying to the Flag - A Consolidated Picture of Armed Forces Children’s Education in Scotland in 2021: Laying Foundations & Promoting Development. Edinburgh: Association of Directors of Education in Scotland
This report provides an overview of the numbers of armed forces children at national and local authority level, together with a review of how some authorities have responded t...

You’re in your own time now: Understanding current experiences of transition to civilian life In Scotland. Interim Report

Report
Matthews-Smith, G., MacKay, D., Sholl, S., & Thomas, L. (2021)
You’re in your own time now: Understanding current experiences of transition to civilian life In Scotland. Interim Report. Edinburgh: Forces in Mind Trust
This report is structured as follows: ❖ Chapter 2 briefly outlines the background and context for the research. ❖ Chapter 3 outlines the research framework in relation to the...

Strategic Talent Management In The Hospitality Industry

Book Chapter
Garavan, T., Matthews-Smith, G., Marie Gill, A., & O’Brien, F. (2021)
Strategic Talent Management In The Hospitality Industry. In S. Jooss, R. Burbach, & H. Ruël (Eds.), Talent Management Innovations in the International Hospitality Industry (9-29). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80071-306-220211002
Purpose: Talent management and in particular strategic talent management (STM) has emerged as an important issue for hospitality organisations worldwide. In this chapter, we a...

Type A/B personality, work–family, and family–work conflict: The moderating effects of emotional intelligence

Journal Article
Garavan, T., Srivastava, S., Madan, P., O’Brien, F., & Matthews-Smith, G. (2022)
Type A/B personality, work–family, and family–work conflict: The moderating effects of emotional intelligence. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 33(3), 223-247. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21454
Many employees experience work-family conflict (WFC) and family-work conflict (FWC), multidimensional states of resource depletion. In this paper, we conceptualize Type A and ...

Beating the virus: an examination of the crisis communication approach taken by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during the Covid-19 pandemic

Journal Article
McGuire, D., Cunningham, J. E. A., Reynolds, K., & Matthews-Smith, G. (2020)
Beating the virus: an examination of the crisis communication approach taken by New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during the Covid-19 pandemic. Human Resource Development International, 23(4), 361-379. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2020.1779543
The Covid-19 pandemic has severely tested the leadership and communication abilities of political leaders globally. Guiding an effective response to the global pandemic has re...

Advancing national human resource development research: suggestions for multilevel investigations

Journal Article
Garavan, T., Wang, J., Matthews-Smith, G., Nagarathnam, B., & Lai, Y. (2018)
Advancing national human resource development research: suggestions for multilevel investigations. Human Resource Development International, 21(4), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2018.1429171
National human resource development (NHRD) is now an important area of investigation within human resource development with significant growth in publications over 49 years. S...

Theoretical and organisational background.

Book Chapter
Matthews-Smith, G., Afseth, J., & Huotari, P. (2016)
Theoretical and organisational background. In Z. Havrdová, G. Matthews-Smith, & P. Huotari (Eds.), Developing Cross-Cultural Competencies in Health and Social Care Management, 9-14. Lahti University of Applied Sciences
Abstract not available.
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The Armed Forces Covenant Fund Trust - Thrive Together

2024 - 2027
In this stage we will create a platform for people’s voices to be heard through a comprehensive collaborative cross-Scotland consultation process dividing it into north, central and borders so that an...
Funder: The Armed Forces Covenant Trust | Value: £764,999

'Military Children' Promote, Protect, Prevent

2024 - 2025
This project will seek to understand the Social Determinants of Health (SDH) (Health Care Access, Social Community, Neighbourhood and Environment, Education and Economic Stability) of Military Connect...
Funder: The Armed Forces Covenant Trust | Value: £10,000

AFFIRM - Planning for the Unplanned

2024 - 2027
The project will improve understanding, evaluate intervention, enhance partnership working, promote training about the Covenant and the support and care available to veterans to Acute Public Sector Se...
Funder: The Armed Forces Covenant Trust | Value: £299,674

Evaluation of the impact of BRAVEHOUND on Veteran Mental Health

2023 - 2025
The grant will be used to fund an evaluation, led by Napier University (Centre for Military Research) which will provide an evidence base report for Bravehound.
Funder: The Veterans Foundation | Value: £11,928

Wilfred Owen Scholarship Award

2023 - 2026
Edinburgh Napier University respectfully request that the Trustees consider this proposal to support the launch of the Wilfred Owen Scholarship Fund as a dedicated scholarship for the spouses and part...
Funder: The Officers Association Scotland | Value: £30,000

Suicide in Veterans - ALERT – act together to prevent suicide

2023 - 2026
One is Too Many project: ALERT – act together to prevent suicide: Working across the Scottish public and 3rd sector and informed by veterans, ALERT will deliver, research, innovate, teach, and dissemi...
Funder: The Armed Forces Covenant Trust | Value: £235,450

Armed forces communities support project

2023 - 2025
This project is to support ex military personel in societal challenge, as follows:- Develop a clear pathway to benefit serving and veteran parents and their children with additional support needs, whe...
Funder: The Armed Forces Covenant Trust | Value: £91,792

Veterans foundation - research hub

2023 - 2025
We will use the grant to launch a Scottish Armed Forces and Military Research Network platform from which HEI’s, the NHS and key military personnel and stakeholders could identify and develop potentia...
Funder: The Veterans Foundation | Value: £29,292

Link Forty2

2022 - 2022
The aim of the project is to design a recruitment service for jobseekers and employers in the form of a software system, e.g., a web service or mobile app. The system is intended to re-define and spee...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000

TRANSITION

2020 - 2023
This project is a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh Napier University to improve significantly the understanding of transition to civilian life within Scotland. By provid...
Funder: Forces in Mind Trust | Value: £226,260

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Constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing: Exploring the impact of intra-organisational transitions, relationships and social validation on identity formation and wellbeing in military partners

2023 - date
Emma Gall | Director of Studies: Dr Gerardine Matthews-Smith | Second Supervisor: Dr Janice McMillan

Changing Uniforms, Changing Identities: Exploring the Role of Social Identity Complexity in Veterans Transitioning to Civilian Work Within the Prison Services

2023 - date
Lucy Williams | Director of Studies: Dr Gerardine Matthews-Smith | Second Supervisor: Dr Jennifer O'Neil

Exploring How Current Serving Armed Forces Personnel are Perceived by the Wider Public, and How Military Leadership Might Get a Good Exchange Rate in Subsequent Civilian Careers

2023 - date
Mr James Glen | Director of Studies: Dr Gerardine Matthews-Smith | Second Supervisor: Dr Janice McMillan

Mission, people, values: Use of a sequential mixed methods approach to understand the role of charity CEO

2019 - date
Martin Crewe | Director of Studies: Dr Martin Robertson | Second Supervisor: Dr Xavier Pierron

Fired Up, Not Burnt Out: An Exploration of Resilience Behaviours in Third Sector Leadership

2019 - 2023
Dr Patricia Armstrong | Director of Studies: Dr Janice McMillan | Second Supervisor: Prof Luca Mora

Factors Influencing Students’ Choice to Enter Private Education Institute Undergraduate Full-Time Programmes in Singapore

2018 - date
Dinesh Singh Dhaliwal | Director of Studies: Dr Gerardine Matthews-Smith | Second Supervisor: Dr Nyayapati Swami

How eLearning drives organisational product adoption: an exploratory multi-case approach

2018 - 2022
Alexander Ziegler | Director of Studies: Dr Patrick Harte | Second Supervisor: Prof Thomas Peisl

Harnessing the silver tsunami: An investigation into the benefits and challenges of senior entrepreneurship in Singapore

2018 - 2023
Herbert Chee | Director of Studies: Dr Jacqueline Brodie | Second Supervisor: Helena Lee

Exploring a social selling framework to support the acquisition process of customers and partners within a multilevel marketing environment

2017 - 2022
Florian Kaufmann | Director of Studies: Dr Christine Band | Second Supervisor: Dr Gerardine Matthews-Smith

Resistance to change: Exploring Singapore blue-collar worker’s perceptions of organizational change management approaches in the semiconductor industry

2017 - 2021
Chee Lum | Director of Studies: Dr Gerardine Matthews-Smith | Second Supervisor: Helena Lee

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