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Psychological factors and future performance of football players: a systematic review with meta-analysis

Journal Article
Ivarsson, A., Kilhage-Persson, A., Martindale, R., Priestley, D., Huijgen, B., Ardern, C., & McCall, A. (2020)
Psychological factors and future performance of football players: a systematic review with meta-analysis. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 3(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsams.2019.10.021
Objectives: This systematic review had 3 key objectives: (1) to investigate whether psychological factors were associated with future football performance ( e.g., progression ...

Form of delivery as a key ‘active ingredient’ in behaviour change interventions

Journal Article
Dombrowski, S. U., O'Carroll, R. E., & Williams, B. (2016)
Form of delivery as a key ‘active ingredient’ in behaviour change interventions. British Journal of Health Psychology, 21(4), 733-740. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12203
First paragraph:The form of delivery (FoD) is a vital part of any behaviour change intervention and not merely a by-product of operationalising theory and behaviour change tec...

A global multinational survey of cefotaxime-resistant coliforms in urban wastewater treatment plants

Journal Article
Marano, R. B., Fernandes, T., Manaia, C. M., Nunes, O., Morrison, D., Berendonk, T. U., …Cytryn, E. (2020)
A global multinational survey of cefotaxime-resistant coliforms in urban wastewater treatment plants. Environment International, 144, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.106035
The World Health Organization Global Action Plan recommends integrated surveillance programs as crucial strategies for monitoring antibiotic resistance. Although several natio...

Case Study: moving towards an e-health platform to store NHS patient Information in the cloud.

Presentation / Conference
Buchanan, W. J., Fan, L., Ekonomou, E., Lo, O., & Thuemmler, C. (2012, February)
Case Study: moving towards an e-health platform to store NHS patient Information in the cloud. Paper presented at Cloud Computing in the Public Sector: The Way Forward, London
Case Study: Moving Towards an e-health Platform to Store NHS Patient Information in the Cloud The NHS pilot scheme to store patient information in the Cloud How can the health...

Developing a Theory-Informed Interactive Animation to Increase Physical Activity among Young People with Asthma

Conference Proceeding
Murray, J., Williams, B., Hoskins, G., McGhee, J., Gauld, D., & Brown, G. (2013)
Developing a Theory-Informed Interactive Animation to Increase Physical Activity among Young People with Asthma. In Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Systems and Applications; Lecture Notes in Computer Science. , (60-65). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39420-1_7
The current paper describes the development of a theory-informed interactive animation and which aims to increase levels of physical activity in young people with asthma. The...

Physiological characteristics and performance in elite enduro mountain biking

Journal Article
Kirkwood, L., Ingram, L., Cunningham, J., Malone, E., & Florida-James, G. (2017)
Physiological characteristics and performance in elite enduro mountain biking. Journal of Science and Cycling, 6(2), 13-21. https://doi.org/10.28985/171231.jsc.09
Enduro mountain bike racing is composed of several timed predominantly downhill race stages linked by time restricted, non-competitive transition stages. This study aimed to ...

Conducting Performance Evaluation of an e-Health Platform

Book
Lo, O., Fan, L., Buchanan, W. J., & Thuemmler, C. (2012)
Conducting Performance Evaluation of an e-Health Platform. In T. Issa, P. Isaías, & P. Kommers (Eds.), Advances in Business Information Systems and Analytics; Information Systems and Technology for Organizations in a Networked Society, 295-315. IGI Global Publishing. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-4062-7.ch016
For increased awareness and adoption of e-Health implementations, results from evaluation must be catered towards three primary perspectives: organizational, end-user and tech...

Lead me to train better: Transformational leadership moderates the negative relationship between athlete personality and training behaviours.

Journal Article
Zhang, S., Beatie, S., Pitkethly, A., & Dempsey, C. (2019)
Lead me to train better: Transformational leadership moderates the negative relationship between athlete personality and training behaviours. Sport Psychologist, 33(2), 119-128. https://doi.org/10.1123/tsp.2018-0055
High-quality training environments are essential for athletic peak performance. However, recent research highlighted that athletes' personality characteristics could undermine...

Training and Organizational Performance: A Meta-Analysis of Temporal, Institutional and Organizational Context Moderators

Journal Article
Garavan, T., McCarthy, A., Lai, Y., Murphy, K., Sheehan, M., & Carbery, R. (2021)
Training and Organizational Performance: A Meta-Analysis of Temporal, Institutional and Organizational Context Moderators. Human Resource Management Journal, 31(1), 93-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12284
Drawing on systems theory, we conducted a moderated meta-analysis of the training and organizational performance relationship using 119 primary studies. We examined the moder...

'It doesn’t make you a better officer giving out tickets': performance management and discretion in community policing

Presentation / Conference
Aston, E. (2014, September)
'It doesn’t make you a better officer giving out tickets': performance management and discretion in community policing. Paper presented at 14th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Prague, Czech Republic
Aston, E. (2014, September). 'It doesn’t make you a better officer giving out tickets': performance management and discretion in community policing. Paper presented at 14th An...

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The impact of welfare reform in Scotland

2013 - 2016
The Impacts of Welfare Reform in Scotland Funding: Scottish Government Duration: 2013-2016 Research Team: Dr Helen Graham, Dr Valerie Egdell, Professor Robert Raeside and Professor Ronald McQuaid...
Funder: Scottish Government | Value: £120,800

The Future of Mental Health Law: a comparative analysis of law reform debates in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, England and Wales

2023 - 2023
Mental Health Law and its relationship to human rights has become increasingly contested following the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Human rights argume...
Funder: British Academy | Value: £18,959

Capturing the insights of parents of athletes in performance pathways

2019 - 2021
The Project sportscotland is looking to contract a researcher to deliver an online survey and 6 focus groups with parents of performance pathway athletes from 4-6 sports, representing team, individual...
Funder: Sportscotland | Value: £22,768

Formal evaluation of evolutionary facial composite systems

2019 - 2022
Formal evaluation of Evolutionary facial comoposite systems for SPA and police Scotland. Project will evaluate the efficacy of two systems for specialist operator use. Evaluation will determine pot...
Funder: Scottish Institute for Policing Research | Value: £11,945

Care Home Data Platform

2019 - 2021
Care home research to develope a data and innovation platform to support inclusive, person-centred research in care homes in Lothian
Funder: NHS Lothian | Value: £28,882

Translating informed consent in Scottish maternity services

2022 - 2022
This project examines informed consent during pregnancy, labour and birth in the case of parents with limited English-proficiency (LEP) in Scotland (e.g. refugees and asylum seekers who have recently ...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £500

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered dashboard for COVID-19 related public sentiment and opinion mining in social media platforms

2020 - 2020
: The project will aid in understanding and mitigating the direct and indirect impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, by creating an AI-driven dashboard for policymakers, public health and clinical practit...
Funder: Chief Scientists Office | Value: £135,104

Scoping exercise to inform the development of an education strategy for the Children’s Hospice Across Scotland (CHAS)

2017 - 2019
The aim of the scoping exercise is to inform the development of an education strategy for CHAS relating to the delivery of palliative care for babies, children and young people (BCYP) and their famili...
Funder: Children's Hospice Association Scotland | Value: £23,203

Talking Technology Enabled Care - A personalised, visual digital platform to transform service delivery between health, social care and housing services

2018 - 2019
Technology has been heralded as a potential enabler of communication between individuals and those in their informal or professional care network. Enabling people to effectively talk about their needs...
Funder: Innovate UK | Value: £11,598

Using record linkage analysis to inform the development of an improved care pathway(s) for psychiatric and self-harm emergencies currently transferred by ambulance to Emergency Departments

2016 - 2016
Psychiatric emergencies, and episodes of self-harm, accounted for over 30,000 Scottish ambulance call-outs in 2011. The overwhelming majority of these people were taken directly to Emergency Departmen...
Funder: Chief Scientists Office

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Investigating the performance and underlying mechanisms of a novel screening measure for developmental dyslexia: implications for early identification

2013 - 2018
This PhD focuses on the sensorimotor theory of dev...
Dr Barbara Piotrowska | Director of Studies: Dr Jennifer Murray | Second Supervisor: Dr Rory MacLean

Sustainable festivals and events - an enquiry of leadership and futures

2015 - 2017
As a societal phenomenon, festivals and planned events are discussed in a wide policy context. They have entered a broader discus...
Dr Martin Robertson | Director of Studies: Prof Anna Leask | Second Supervisor: Prof Jane Ali-Knight

An exploration of the dynamics of culture formation and personal acculturation in a culturally complex situation: learning from university students' experiences of group work

2012 - 2018
Dr Frank Xu | Director of Studies: Prof Mary Fischer | Second Supervisor: Dr Vivien Xiaowei Zhou

Psychological distress in Polish immigrants in Scotland: a mixed methods study

2011 - 2015
Background: The available research on economic migration suggested that immigrants may be less happy than the indigenous p...
Dr Anna Bak-Klimek | Director of Studies: Prof Thanos Karatzias | Second Supervisor: Lawrence Elliott

Test-bed and evaluation of a home-based adverse event prediction infrastructure

2013 - 2021
The "Frailty Framework" is the development of a next generation health assessment and predictive analysis system. It will...
Adrian Smales | Director of Studies: Prof Bill Buchanan | Second Supervisor: Alistair Lawson

Investigation of Maintaining Nasogastric Feeding for Stroke Patients: A Mixed Methods Design

2004 - 2009
Explored the opinions of staff, patients and relatives concerning the ‘acceptability’ and ‘effectiveness’ of...
Dr Catherine Mahoney | Director of Studies: Dr Maureen Macmillan | Second Supervisor: Beth Alder

Recontextualising the lived experience of hepatitis C and its treatment

2014 - 2017
Recent years have witnessed a rapid evolution in the treatment available for hepatitis C in Scotland. Unprecedented pharmacologi...
Dr David Whiteley | Director of Studies: Dr Anne Whittaker | Second Supervisor: Lawrence Elliott

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

Healthcare Professional's Experiences of Applying Presumed Consent Legislation in Organ Donation in Three European Countries: A Mixed Methods Study

2001 - 2007
The crisis in the numbers of donated organs has featu...
Dr Barbara Neades | Director of Studies: Dr Maureen Macmillan

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ExtraCECI Project Awarded over £1.4 million by the Medical Research Council

30 April 2024
RESEARCH QUESTION: Is the Extra community-based enhanced care intervention (ExtraCECI) effective and cost-effective in improving quality of life and person-centred outcomes for people living with HIV/...

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.

Universities join forces to accelerate health technology innovation

20 February 2024
A first-of-its-kind research collaboration between Edinburgh Napier University and Heriot-Watt University is bringing together engineering and nursing students to develop cutting-edge health technolog...

ENU Attends Health and Care Professions Research Conference

7 November 2023
Professor Alison Porter-Armstrong presented “Capacity building in the allied health professions: the outcome of a health intervention research study”. 3 Key Messages There is value in diffusing t...

Domestic abuse information ‘not adequately captured’ in child contact cases

6 February 2023
tudy: Scottish Legal News 6 Feb

Dr Kulpa lunches project: ‘RESIST. Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics’

30 September 2022
Dr Roberto Kulpa with colleagues form 9 European organisations launches “Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (RESIST)” research consortium ai...

Lesley Ingram-Sills was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland Brain Waves

26 February 2020
Dr Lesley Ingram-Sills was interviewed on the program : In search of the competitive edge. During this interview Lesley discussed the impact of technology on performance improvement in sport, what th...

How working together delivered the key to unlocking the value of health data to European citizens

2 December 2019
Symphonic integrated into the EU Shield project, and which aims to share health care information across Europe, in a trusted way. Symphonic integrated a consent module which allows patient consent dat...

Invited Keynote Speach by Professor Davis at National Active Travel Conference

11 June 2019
Keynote speech to Scotland's premier annual active travel conference. Summarised Evidence Review findings from recent studies of most effective interventions to increase active travel and increase phy...

Academics moot making GLC execs’ pay public by law

31 October 2018
The assistant director of the International Centre for Management & Governance Research (ICMGR), Dr Marizah Minhat, and Associate Professor Nazam Dzolkarnaini are undertaking a research collaboration ...

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Performing for Real

Attend in person at The Kings Fund, Cavendish Square, Marylebone, London W1G 0AN or Online via live stream (address will be sent upon Eventbrite registration)
20 November 2020

Gender and Sexuality Research at Edinburgh Napier University

Merchiston Campus, room: MER_H11
6 March 2024

Visiting researcher - Dr Ryan Duffy (University Of Florida) to present on the importance of gratitude at work

Edinburgh Napier University (Sighthill Campus)
24 September 2019

3rd BiVi: Biological Visualisation Conference and Training Workshop

Craiglockhart Campus 219 Colinton Road Edinburgh EH14 1DJ
19 April 2017 - 20 April 2017

Dr Kulpa talks about friendship, social policy, and social resilience at the Centre for Child & Family Law & Policy

7 December 2022

Working in Healthcare

Edinburgh Napier University's Sighthill Campus
7 May 2018

The Belt and Road Initiative: Challenges and Opportunities

The Confucius Institute for Scotland, The University of Edinburgh
4 October 2018

Future of Work in Scotland

The Lighthouse, Mitchell Lane, Glasgow
2 September 2018

Call for Papers: Management, Governance and Ethical Finance Conference 2019

Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University.
9 April 2019 - 10 April 2019

There is a Light:BrightLight

The Traverse, Edinburgh 0131 228 1404. This performance is part of Chrysalis festival 2017 ytas.org.uk /@YTArtsScot / #ChrysalisFest contactmcr.com / @ContactMcr Dates & times Fri 17 (7pm), Sat 18 (2pm) & Sun 19 Nov (7.30pm)
17 November 2017 - 19 November 2017