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Information literacy and society: A report to present findings from a review of literature on the impact of information literacy on society

Report
Ryan, B., Cruickshank, P., & Milosheva, M. (2023)
Information literacy and society: A report to present findings from a review of literature on the impact of information literacy on society. Media and Information Literacy Alliance
This report presents findings from a review of literature reporting on the impact of information literacy (IL) on society. It is intended to deliver considerations on how acad...

Discursive constructions of student midwives’ professional identities: A discourse analysis

Journal Article
Mcluckie, C., & Kuipers, Y. (2024)
Discursive constructions of student midwives’ professional identities: A discourse analysis. Nurse Education in Practice, 74, Article 103847. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nepr.2023.103847
Background The construction and performance of professional identity is significant to broader socio-cultural understandings of who ‘professionals’ are and what they do. Impor...

Where I want to be now

Exhibition / Performance
Todd, L. (2023)
Where I want to be now. [Painting]. Exhibited at Society of Scottish Artists Website. 18 November 2023 - 14 January 2024. (Unpublished
Original painting titled: Where I want to be now, themed around Visual Culture of Tourism Research, Society of Scottish Artists, 30 x 30 online exhibition, 2023-2024

Social Harm at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa

Book
Soliman, F. (2023)
Social Harm at the Border: The Case of Lampedusa. London: Routledge
This book offers a zemiological approach for understanding border control practices, state power, and their social impact. Drawing on an ethnographic study on the borderisatio...

Early Marriage: any need for action?

Journal Article
Clucas, R. (2023)
Early Marriage: any need for action?. The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, 68(11),
Better information is needed on whether marriage of those aged under 18 is a cause of harm, before any moves to ban the practice in Scotland

Building a European University Consortium: The Case of the U!REKA-Network

Working Paper
Rosenbusch, C., Tarazona, M., Lammlein, B., Garden, C., Berekbulova, A., & Stevens, R. (2023)
Building a European University Consortium: The Case of the U!REKA-Network
European policy makers encourage close interorganizational collaboration of universities across national systems. The study at hand analyzes this development from the organiza...

Two original paintings titled Sunbathing and Other places

Exhibition / Performance
Todd, L. Two original paintings titled Sunbathing and Other places. [Fine Art Painting, Drawing]. Exhibited at Wester Hailes Open Exhibition, WHALE Arts, Edinburgh. 10 November 2023 - 29 November 2023. (Unpublished)

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Todd, L. Two original paintings titled Sunbathing and Other places. [Fine Art Painting, Drawing]. Exhibited at Wester Hailes Open Exhibition, WHALE Arts, Edinburgh. 10 November 2023 - 29 November 2023. (Unpublished
Two original paintings titled Sunbathing and Other places, and themed around visual culture of tourism research, Exhibited in Wester Hailes Open Exhibition, [Fine Art Painting...

Managing smart city governance: A playbook for local and regional governments

Report
Beckers, D., Gerli, P., Mora, L., Thabit, S., & Tonnarelli, F. (2023)
Managing smart city governance: A playbook for local and regional governments. Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat
This playbook and its recommendations are primarily aimed at municipal governments and their political leaders, local administrators, and public officials who are involved in ...

A horizon scan of issues affecting UK forest management within 50 years

Journal Article
Tew, E. R., Ambrose-Oji, B., Beatty, M., Büntgen, U., Butterworth, H., Clover, G., …Sutherland, W. J. (in press)
A horizon scan of issues affecting UK forest management within 50 years. Forestry, https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpad047
Forests are in the spotlight: they are expected to play a pivotal role in our response to society’s greatest challenges, such as the climate and biodiversity crises. Yet, the ...

Expanding Circles of Failure: The Rise of Bad Anti-Trafficking, and What to Do About It

Book Chapter
Mendel, J., & Sharapov, K. (2023)
Expanding Circles of Failure: The Rise of Bad Anti-Trafficking, and What to Do About It. In A. Vasilyeva (Ed.), Issues in Modern Slavery. Global Policy Journal

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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

The Library of Inspiration

2024 - 2025
The project's ultimate aim is to empower 12 and 13-year-olds from under-represented groups in engineering to become future leaders. This will be achieved through "The Library of Inspiration," physical...
Funder: Royal Academy of Engineering | Value: £99,711

SIPR Associate Director

2024 - 2027
This is a project for my role as Associate Director (Development) with the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR)
Funder: Scottish Institute for Policing Research

“Empowering Indonesian women in STEM: Building resilience through network, advisers and role models

2024 - 2024
Strengthening pathways into employment for women graduates: Affirming their major choices Championing female role models in STEM Facilitating networking of STEM career choices Providing support system...
Funder: British Council | Value: £24,828

The Hip-Hop Studies Listener

2023 - 2024
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

Evaluation of the impact of BRAVEHOUND on Veteran Mental Health

2023 - 2024
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

False webs: Network to address the misinformation pandemic

2023 - 2025
Fake news (inaccurate information) peaked during the pandemic with around 46 000 daily Twitter posts containing false information (Lupi, 2020). In Europe over 70% people regularly encounter fake news ...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £19,931

Mini-internships for the Centre for Family Law and Policy

2023 - 2024
Application to the Clark Foundation for Legal Education for funding for mini-internships in the area of child and family law and policy, for undergraduate students primarily in years 3 and 4 of their ...
Funder: The Clark Foundation for Legal Education | Value: £2,000

Domestic Abuse and Defending a Child Contact Action - Legal Aid and the Economic Impact of Child contact cases

2023 - 2024
A pilot project on the barriers to legal aid for victims of domestic abuse in contact cases
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £3,290

On the Margins - Collaborative Research Network

2023 - 2025
“On the Margins” is a Collaborative Research Network that will bring together academics, researchers and practitioners involved or interested in collaborative research, participatory methods and knowl...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £9,969

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Marginal perspectives: a diasporic body of cinematic works

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

User centred approaches to supporting digital literacies and online information systems use

2022 - date
Drew Feeney | Director of Studies: Dr David Brazier | Second Supervisor: Dr Gemma Webster

A Critical Evaluation of the Factors that Influence Visitor Engagement with UK Slavery Heritage Museums: A Blended Passive Symbolic Netnographic Study

2020 - 2023
There is a substantial body of literature in slave...
Dr Shemroy Roberts | Director of Studies: Dr Craig Wight | Second Supervisor: Prof Anna Leask

What is mindfulness – how does it feel and what can it do for interculturality? An ethnographic case study of migrants in Scotland.

2020 - date
Iweta Baran | Director of Studies: Dr Jane Wilkinson | Second Supervisor: Dr Phiona Stanley

Circular futures: an interdisciplinary approach based on Circular Economy principles and Futures Studies methods to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) transitioning to circularity and a futures-oriented organisation

2018 - date
Mr Ricardo Weigend | Director of Studies: Prof Francesco Pomponi | Second Supervisor: Dr Bernardino D'Amico

Connecting Scottish public buildings to low temperature heat

2018 - date
Antoine Reguis | Director of Studies: Prof John Currie

Circular refurbishment and adaptability for the British non-domestic stock

2018 - date
Non-domestic buildings are likely to change to domestic use as there is an evident surplus over time across the UK, and their ...
Miss Ana Hernandez Garcia | Director of Studies: Dr Suha Jaradat | Second Supervisor: Prof Francesco Pomponi

Shared ownership and use of vehicles in the Autonomous Vehicle era.

2017 - 2022
Shared ownership and ridership models to determine driverless car use in Edinburgh This research explores the shared ownership and ri...
Mr. Sayed Faruque | Director of Studies: Prof Achille Fonzone | Second Supervisor: Dr Grigorios Fountas

Application of evolutionary machine learning in metamorphic malware analysis and detection

2017 - 2021
Dr Kehinde Babaagba | Director of Studies: Dr Thomas Tan | Second Supervisor: Prof Emma Hart

Investigations into the application of engineered bamboo for future hybrid beams

2015 - 2020
Around half of all non-renewable resources mankind consumes are used in construction sector, making it one of the least ...
Niaz Gharavi | Director of Studies: Prof Johnson Zhang | Second Supervisor: Dr Kenneth Leitch

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

28 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

27 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.

The RESIST Project Press Release: Findings from the Work Package 1 Released

9 April 2024
Headline: Europe-wide research reveals how transgender rights, feminism, and LGBTIQ+ advocacy are systematically attacked in politics and media. Lead: A project researching so-called ‘anti-gender’ po...

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.

Napier academic guest edits Special Issue on East-West divisions in Europe

20 February 2024
Dr Cristian Surubaru has guest edited a Special Issue (SI) of the Journal of European Public Policy (JEPP) on the topic of the East-West divide within the European Union (2024, Volume 31, Issue 3). H...

Napier libraries project targets the STEM gender gap

23 January 2024
Edinburgh Napier University is launching a new project geared towards opening pathways into engineering education for girls and other groups that are underrepresented in the industry. ENU is launchin...

Presentation to Jazz Congress 2024 - Lincoln Center, New York

11 January 2024
Presentation of findings from the AHRC/NEA funded project JazzDAP - New directions in digital jazz studies. Together with colleagues, Haftor Medbøe will be disseminating our work on novel methods for ...

BBC Scottish Young Jazz Musician 2023

26 November 2023
Professor Haftor Medbøe has been invited to chair the panel of judges for BBC Young Jazz Musician 2023 awards.

Dr Cristian Surubaru in Romania as an expert for a second European Commission consultancy project

2 October 2023
Last week, Dr Neculai-Cristian Surubaru (The Business School at Edinburgh Napier) was is in Romania, conducting fieldwork as part of a second consultancy project on behalf of the European Commission. ...

Dr Kulpa invited to speak at European University Viadrina, Germany

7 September 2023
The talk reflected on the epistemic b/orders in collaborative knowledge creation in queer studies, as critical discipline pursued within the neoliberal higher education system.

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