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The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts

Journal Article
Coleman, S., Terras, M., Thornton, P., Smyth, M., Schafer, B., Drost, S., …Speed, C. (2021)
The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts. Big Data and Society, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211006165
How can digitised assets of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums be reused to unlock new value? What are the implications of viewing large-scale cultural heritage data a...

Creative Assessment

Presentation / Conference
Cochrane, R. (2020, November)
Creative Assessment. Presented at Edinburgh College Research, Innovation & Improvement Project Forum, Online
This paper focuses on students’ use of a novel programme-focused feedback tool we have developed and utilised across Product Design at Edinburgh Napier University. In the cont...

'Landscape of Memory' International Online Art Exhibition

Exhibition / Performance
Bilgrami, S., & Peracha, M. (2020)
'Landscape of Memory' International Online Art Exhibition. [Curation of artworks]. Exhibited at Koel Gallery [Online - https://koelgallery.com/exhibitions/landscape-of-memory/]. 17 November 2020 - 29 December 2020. (Unpublished
Sana Bilgrami and Maliha Peracha brought together artists from Scotland and Pakistan to discover in their work refractions of a shared and evocative vision of the elemental po...

Monsters, movies, and biomechanics: celebrating Ray Harryhausen

Other
Gilchrist, J. (2020)
Monsters, movies, and biomechanics: celebrating Ray Harryhausen. [Blog post]. https://theconversation.com/monsters-movies-and-biomechanics-celebrating-ray-harryhausen-149297

Daydream Believers and a Qualification in Creative Thinking

Presentation / Conference
Cochrane, R. (2020, October)
Daydream Believers and a Qualification in Creative Thinking. Presented at Fusion Cities 2 (Virtual) City of London Corporation, London [Online]
What if there was a Higher/A Level in Creative Thinking?

Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of South East Asia

Journal Article
Supartono, A., & Moschovi, A. (2020)
Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of South East Asia. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 51(3), 343-371. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463420000508
This article seeks to explore the impact of digital technologies upon the material, conceptual and ideological premises of the colonial archive in the digital era. This analys...

Creative Informatics Guide for Online Events

Working Paper
Elsden, C., Chan, K., Erskine, P., Helgason, I., Lechelt, S., Osborne, N., …Speed, C. (2020)
Creative Informatics Guide for Online Events
Creative Informatics is a research and development programme based in Edinburgh, which aims to bring the city’s world-class creative industries and tech sector together. We ar...

Stamp IT - Simple solutions to assessment in Design Education

Presentation / Conference
Cochrane, R. (2020, June)
Stamp IT - Simple solutions to assessment in Design Education. Presented at Fusion Cities of the Future, London
Cochrane, R. (2020, June). Stamp IT - Simple solutions to assessment in Design Education. Presented at Fusion Cities of the Future, London.

Supporting people with intellectual disabilities to discuss death and bereavement

Journal Article
Willis, D., Winton, E., Jamieson, K., Muir, N., & Sandison, M. (2020)
Supporting people with intellectual disabilities to discuss death and bereavement. Learning Disability Practice, 23(2), 17-22. https://doi.org/10.7748/ldp.2020.e2045
This article describes a public engagement project on bereavement involving people with intellectual disabilities. The project was a practical application of research findings...

The Bloody Big Project - Tackling Period Poverty with Design

Presentation / Conference
Cochrane, R. (2020, March)
The Bloody Big Project - Tackling Period Poverty with Design. Presented at Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference 2020, Edinburgh
The Bloody Big Project used Design Thinking to tackle Period Poverty. In collaboration with Industry Partners, Hey Girls and Wire Media, Edinburgh Napier University created a ...

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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

Creating a Voluntary Garment Manufacturing Hub using experimental and recycled materials towards Sleeping Jackets which will be distributed free of charge to Homeless individuals.

2023 - 2024
It is proposed that the academics work with their contacts who are a group of ‘volunteers’ working in connection with the Edinburgh Tool Library’s ‘Volunteers Assembly’, to create a series of prototyp...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000

Audio Mostly 2023

2022 - 2023
This project's aim is to host the Audio Mostly conference 2023 here at Edinburgh Napier University (https://audiomostly.com/). Conference Theme: Embodied Sound in the Virtual Conference Abstract: S...
Funder: Fees (CPD courses and Conference Delegate)

Visualisation of Metadata in 2D/3D Digital Cuneiform Artefacts

2022 - 2023
Cuneiform is an ancient writing system that was first used in around 3400 BC (Finkel & Taylor, 2015). Distinguished by its 3D imprinted, wedge-shaped reed marks on clay tablets, cuneiform script is o...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £4,909

Measuring the capabilities of new, sustainable materials in digital and traditional craft practices towards repeatability and a widening of their usage.

2022 - 2022
This project offers a novel way of engaging with data about creative practice: getting data on the possibilities and best practices for using particular materials out of the heads of individual creati...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £5,000

Subjective orientation in VR audio

2022 - 2023
This project will involve establishing a method for capturing listeners' experiences of spatial audio in VR. Whilst wearing a Head Mounted Display (HMD), sounds will be presented to listeners who wil...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £4,957

Platform to platform: an investigation into audience engagement with digitised archives and its transformative impact across different online formats

2022 - 2022
This project is closely tied to two goals of the call: unlocking value from digitised heritage content, and online performance. In respect of ‘unlocking value from digitised heritage’, the practical...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £4,994

21st Century Tapestry: an investigation of smart materials, technology interplay and heritage craftmanship

2021 - 2024
A collaborative partnership between Dovecot Studios (Edinburgh), Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh Napier University. Supervision has been discussed and agreed in principal as follows: • Sarah ...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £54,004

Development of 3D printing techniques, utilising sustainable polymers towards towards bespoke millinery outcomes

2021 - 2021
To design and innovate hat designs for rapid prototyping using biodegradable material options in 3D printing.
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000

Creating a sustainable, desirable solid and soft product utilising used, previously non ‘upcycle-able’ textiles

2019 - 2020
We’re looking to develop a pet bedding design from re-used bedding material (Sheets, Duvets, Mattresses & Pillows). The idea is to make a product that is highly functional in nature and also well desi...
Funder: Scottish Funding Council | Value: £5,000

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Marginal perspectives: a diasporic body of cinematic works

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

Digital twins and virtual reality: Assessing environmental impact on cognitive flexibility and creativity

2023 - date
Iyad Sawaftah | Director of Studies: Dr Marina Wimmer | Second Supervisor: Dr Suha Jaradat

Adaptive video game sound based on inherent skill level utilising selective attention

2022 - 2025
In video games, selective attention can be utilised to increase a player’s engagement by adapting the sound design ...
Mr. Ethan Robson | Director of Studies: Dr Iain McGregor | Second Supervisor: Dr Balandino Di Donato

Improving presence through selective attention and psycho-acoustic led auditory feedback for multi-user virtual reality application

2022 - date
Steven McSeveney | Director of Studies: Dr Babis Koniaris | Second Supervisor: Dr Iain McGregor

Work on the move: mobilities of creativity and design ideation

2018 - 2021
Dr Richard Firth | Director of Studies: Prof Chris Atton | Second Supervisor: Dr Paul Thompson

The potentiality of play: The shifting design language of play-based learning

2015 - 2021
Ms Pankhuri Jain | Director of Studies: Dr Kirstie Jamieson | Second Supervisor: Mr Euan Winton

Real-time 3D graphic augmentation of music therapy sessions for people on the autism spectrum

2015 - 2019
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a lifelong neurodevelopmental disorder that can affect people in a number...
Dr John McGowan | Director of Studies: Dr Gregory Leplatre | Second Supervisor: Dr Iain McGregor

Getting stuck and getting help: How children access support when using technology

2015 - date
Ms Fiona Stewart | Director of Studies: Dr Tom Flint | Second Supervisor: Dr Gemma Webster

Digital gardens with real toads: in what ways have heritage and digital practices fused to form hybrid methods in moving image design?

2011 - 2013
This thesis is a critical examination of my own creative practice ...
Dr Iain Macdonald | Director of Studies: Prof Chris Atton

Appropriating interaction

2009 - 2016
This investigation examines various methods for evaluating interactivity and engagement with technology. By using a static model, namely the interactive gallery at The Public...
Dr Tom Flint | Director of Studies: Dr Phil Turner | Second Supervisor: Dr Gregory Leplatre
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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.

Arion’s Summer Get-Together at The Life Room Gallery, Edinburgh. August 2021. Artmag. Visual art review featuring the work of Louise Todd and four other artists: 'Louise Todd teaches a postgraduate course, Tourism, Society and Visual Culture at Edinburgh Napier University and she creatively explores her academic knowledge in her artwork... These charismatic paintings are so original and imaginative studying the hidden art of tourism and travel. These are not selfies but taken on a camera at a distance by a father, sister, friend – quick Kodak moments to preserve the relaxing, romantic reminiscences captured with nostalgic, dreamlike vision.'

28 August 2021
Arion’s Summer Get-Together at The Life Room Gallery, Edinburgh. August 2021. ArtMag. Visual art review featuring the work of Louise Todd and four other artists: 'Louise Todd teaches a postgraduate c...

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

Brutal or Beautiful: Edinburgh Napier team encourages different view of modernist buildings

6 July 2018
A team from Edinburgh Napier is encouraging members of the public to view brutalist architecture in a different light – through the use of music and design.

'A Night at Stobs': AHRC-funded Performances about WWI Internment

17 June 2018
A series of AHRC-funded performances will take place at venues in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Hawick in June. Produced by a multi-disciplinary team at Edinburgh Napier, and featuring Music and Acting stud...

Music and Design Staff Showcase their Work at the Architecture Fringe

11 June 2018
The SituLab Research Group (Dr Katrina Burton, Dr Samantha Vettese, Dr Kathy Vones) and invited musician, Joanna Stark presented their ongoing project into how the public respond to modern architectur...

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