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Studies in Scottish Literature - Special Issue: Hugh MacDiarmid at 100: Essays on the anniversary of his first publication

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(2024)
Studies in Scottish Literature - Special Issue: Hugh MacDiarmid at 100: Essays on the anniversary of his first publication. [Web and Print]
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Designing out Barriers - Student Partnership for Student Voice Research

Presentation / Conference
Garden, C., Skelton, F., & Calabrese, P. (2024, September)
Designing out Barriers - Student Partnership for Student Voice Research. Presented at RAISE Annual Conference 2024, Leicester
We are committed to creating a culture of inclusion at Edinburgh Napier University. Listening to and respecting the student voice are part of the culture – to be an inclusive ...

Unregulated Futures: Scenario Planning for the Unknown

Presentation / Conference
Crawford, M., Roubelat, F., & Marchais-Roubelat, A. (2024, September)
Unregulated Futures: Scenario Planning for the Unknown. Presented at Anticipation 2024, Lancaster, UK
Building from years of piloting novel methods for future visioning through group engagement, this curated session will take attendees through a fast-tracked, yet fully- immers...

Femicide, Perpetrator Narratives and the Challenge of Restorative Justice: Em Strang's Quinn (2023)

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2024, August)
Femicide, Perpetrator Narratives and the Challenge of Restorative Justice: Em Strang's Quinn (2023). Paper presented at European Society of the Study of English (ESSE) Conference, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Communitarian Narratives in the Films of Nicolas Rojas Sánchez and Ángeles Cruz

Book Chapter
Jansen, I. (in press)
Communitarian Narratives in the Films of Nicolas Rojas Sánchez and Ángeles Cruz. In The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Film. Routledge
This chapter discusses different films by Mixtec filmmakers Ángeles Cruz and Nicolas Rojas Sánchez. Both filmmakers have received several national and international awards for...

Sex Sounds: On Aural Explicitness in Call Me by Your Name

Book Chapter
Artt, S. (in press)
Sex Sounds: On Aural Explicitness in Call Me by Your Name. In E. Lamberti, & M. Williams (Eds.), Call Me By Your Name: Perspectives on the Film. Bristol: Intellect

The Future for Industry - Relevant Life Science Skills Teaching for Graduate Employability

Presentation / Conference
Garden, C. (2024, July)
The Future for Industry - Relevant Life Science Skills Teaching for Graduate Employability. Presented at Society for Experimental Biology Annual Conference 2024, Prague, Czechia

Biased Foresight: A Facilitator’s Playbook

Presentation / Conference
Crawford, M. (2024, June)
Biased Foresight: A Facilitator’s Playbook. Paper presented at 33rd European Conference on Operational Research, Copenhagen, Denmark
A series of lab and field studies were conducted with managers, executives, and postgraduates to test the hypothesis that priming effects exist within any given scenario plann...

The sustainable festival city and local communities: Engaging secondary stakeholders through placemaking

Presentation / Conference
We will present initial findings from our research which considers how Edinburgh’s (UK) festivals and tourism sectors can deliver sustainable community engagement. Our study a...

Conan Doyle and Mormonism: Global Contexts for A Study in Scarlet

Presentation / Conference
Schwan, A. (2024, April)
Conan Doyle and Mormonism: Global Contexts for A Study in Scarlet. Paper presented at Global Conan Doyle Symposium, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland

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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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Dr. Zhiyuan Tan Won The National Research Award 2017 from The Research Council of the Sultanate of Oman

12 November 2017
Dr. Zhiyuan Tan's research work entitled "Building an intrusion detection system using a filter-based feature selection algorithm" has been awarded by the The Research Council of the Sultanate of Oman...

Cyclists risk nerve damage from potholes and rough roads, study finds

16 October 2017
Cyclists are at risk of permanent nerve damage because of poor road surfaces, research using an innovative measuring bike has revealed.

Cyclists risk permanent nerve damage from bumpy roads

15 October 2017
Bike riding on cobbled, poorly maintained or potholed streets could give you permanent nerve damage, that’s the conclusion of a new study from researchers at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland wh...

Cobbles, potholes, and rough roads can cause nerve damage for cyclists, study finds

13 October 2017
Cyclists who regularly ride on poor road surfaces or cobbles could be at risk of suffering nerve damage in their hands and arms, a new study has found.

Cobbles, potholes, and rough roads can cause nerve damage for cyclists, study finds

9 October 2017
Cyclists who regularly ride on poor road surfaces or cobbles could be at risk of suffering nerve damage in their hands and arms, a new study has found. The study by Edinburgh Napier University found ...

Is your commute causing you permanent nerve damage?

8 October 2017
Potholes are not just a danger to your bike - but could also cause permanent nerve damage to you, according to new research. A study by Edinburgh Napier University discovered that Hand Arm Vibration ...

Cyclists risk nerve damage from uneven street surfaces

8 October 2017
Cyclists are at risk of permanent nerve damage because of poor road surfaces in Scottish cities, research using a innovative measuring bike has revealed.

Risk of poorly-maintained roads to cyclists' health highlighted

8 October 2017
Cyclists are risking permanent nerve damage due to poor road surfaces, research by Edinburgh Napier University reported in The Scotsman suggests.

Dr. Simon Powers is invited as the keynote speaker at the Second International Workshop of Social Learning and Cultural Evolution

27 August 2017
Simon Powers will give the keynote talk at the Second International Workshop of Social Learning and Cultural Evolution, part of the European Conference on Artificial Life held in Lyon, France, 4th Sep...

Financing the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative

24 August 2017
A research project was launched to explore financing issues in relation to BRI. In collaboration with international researchers, this research is led by Dr Marizah Minhat, the Assistant Director of th...

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