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Influence Government, Platform Power And The Patchwork Profile: Exploring The Appropriation Of Targeted Advertising Infrastructures For Government Behaviour Change Campaigns

Journal Article
Collier, B., Stewart, J., Horgan, S., Thomas, D. R., & Wilson, L. (2024)
Influence Government, Platform Power And The Patchwork Profile: Exploring The Appropriation Of Targeted Advertising Infrastructures For Government Behaviour Change Campaigns. First Monday, 29(1), https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v29i2.13579
The targeted digital advertising infrastructures on which the business models of the social media platform economy rest have been the subject of significant academic and polit...

The impacts of host traits on parasite infection of montane birds in southwestern China

Journal Article
Zhan, X., Huang, X., Pagani-Núñez, E., Tang, Q., Ho, H., Zhou, W., …Liang, D. (2024)
The impacts of host traits on parasite infection of montane birds in southwestern China. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 12, Article 1305305. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2024.1305305
Parasitic infections have the potential to impact the hosts’ body condition, elevate physiological responses, and ultimately lead to increased mortality. Host-parasite interac...

Rethinking ‘traditional masculinity’

Other
Yusupova, M. (2024)
Rethinking ‘traditional masculinity’. [Magazine]. London
Does the concept of ‘traditional masculinity’ risk marginalising migrant men and those living in ‘non-Western’ parts of the world?

Student Belonging Good Practice Guide

Report
Garden, C., Watchman Smith, N., Naughton, C., Skelton, F., Calabrese, P., Hunter, L., …Azam, F. (2024)
Student Belonging Good Practice Guide. RAISE Network (Researching, Advancing & Inspiring Student Engagement
This Good Practice Guide offers a toolkit and a conversation starter for anyone working in higher education (HE) who is thinking about embarking on a student belonging project...

Into the toxicity potential of an array of parabens by biomimetic liquid chromatography, cell viability assessments and in silico predictions

Journal Article
Neri, I., MacCallum, J., Di Lorenzo, R., Russo, G., Lynen, F., & Grumetto, L. (2024)
Into the toxicity potential of an array of parabens by biomimetic liquid chromatography, cell viability assessments and in silico predictions. Science of the Total Environment, 917, Article 170461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170461
Five parabens (PBs) i.e., Methylparaben (MP), Ethylparaben (EP), Isopropylparaben (iPrP), Isobutylparaben (iBuP), Benzylparaben (BzP), and their parent compound i.e., para–hyd...

The impacts of forestry on breeding curlew distribution – a report to the Forestry Commission

Report
McGrory, R., Briers, R., Findlay, M., & White, P. (2024)
The impacts of forestry on breeding curlew distribution – a report to the Forestry Commission. Forestry Commission
We were commissioned by Forestry Commission (FC) to utilise the large-scale Breeding Waders of English Upland Farmland (BWEUF) data and the wider literature to provide evidenc...

Optimisation of Open-habitat Bird Surveys – a report to the Forestry Commission

Report
Borthwick, M., Findlay, M., Briers, R., & White, P. (2024)
Optimisation of Open-habitat Bird Surveys – a report to the Forestry Commission. Forestry Commission
In the process of offering financial grants to landowners seeking to create new areas of woodland in England, the Forestry Commission (FC) requires surveying of proposed woodl...

Play on! Towards an understanding of sports officials’ entry to officiating and talent development

Journal Article
Cunningham, I., Kittel, A., & Larkin, P. (in press)
Play on! Towards an understanding of sports officials’ entry to officiating and talent development. Managing Sport and Leisure, https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2024.2305893
This commentary paper discusses key considerations for researchers and practitioners to build our understanding of effective sport officials’ recruitment practices. The identi...

“It’s That Kind of Place Here”: Solidarity, place-making and civil society response to the 2015 refugee crisis in different localities in Wales, UK

Conference Proceeding
Guma, T. (in press)
“It’s That Kind of Place Here”: Solidarity, place-making and civil society response to the 2015 refugee crisis in different localities in Wales, UK.

“Are we criminals?” – everyday racialisation in temporary asylum accommodation

Conference Proceeding
Guma, T. (in press)
“Are we criminals?” – everyday racialisation in temporary asylum accommodation.

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Development of new sustainable approach in drug discovery: One-pot parallel synthetic strategy to minimise the environmental footprint

2024 - 2025
Over thousands of Medicinal Chemistry research groups around the world across academia, research-based institutions are involved in synthesizing libraries of compounds in the early drug discovery phas...
Funder: Royal Society of Chemistry | Value: £9,240

Living in a complex world: statistical learning of complex visual information

2024 - 2025
A fundamental aspect of any intelligent system is its ability to learn from experience. However, understanding how the brain develops statistical models of the world seamlessly and automatically remai...
Funder: British Academy | Value: £8,653

Blue Carbon and Green Seagrass in Kenya

2023 - 2026
developing biodiversity credits to support seagrass conservation in Kenya
Funder: Ledunfly Philanthropy | Value: £307,361

Restoring Gambian riverine mangrove wetlands

2023 - 2024
community based mangrove restoration in the Gambia, using new techniques to restore salinised flats and working towards carbon accreditation for long term income
Funder: Ledunfly Philanthropy | Value: £95,609

Performance Analysis in Football: Understanding the set piece

2023 - 2025
This study aims to explore and the interaction between player, environment, and task within set plays in football through the framework of Dynamic Systems Theory. The objective is to assist coaches in...
Funder: Scottish Football Association Ltd | Value: £4,850

Pollination ecosystem service support by sustainable urban drainage systems

2023 - 2026
Pollination ecosystem service support by sustainable urban drainage systems
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council | Value: £49,277

Tool development for the assessment of European flat oyster restoration success using eDNA, acoustics and visual surveys

2023 - 2024
Project dedicated to eDNA analysis, which is possible with the awarded funding from SMEEF (Scottish Marine Environmental Enhancement Fund). The eDNA have been taken from European Flat Oyster Beds and...
Funder: Scottish Natural Heritage | Value: £14,700

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

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

Raptor Persecution in Scotland

2023 - 2024
Drs Soliman and Wooff are designing a project examining raptor persecution in Scotland. One of the six UK wildlife crime priority areas, the illegal killing of birds of prey is primarily associated wi...
Funder: Scottish Institute for Policing Research | Value: £2,000

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Assessment of microbial community and antimicrobial resistance associated with microplastics in organic-waste and development of smart monitoring technologies for microplastics

2024 - date
Alessandro Rimmaudo | Director of Studies: Dr Aimeric Blaud | Second Supervisor: Dr Abdelfateh Kerrouche

An evidence-based approach to understanding the injury landscape within Scottish women’s football

2024 - date
Lauren Falconer | Director of Studies: Dr James Dugdale | Second Supervisor: Dr Gordon Dunlop

An evidence-based approach to understanding the injury landscape within Scottish women’s football

2024 - date
Megan Mccready | Director of Studies: Dr Gordon Dunlop | Second Supervisor: Dr James Dugdale

PhD Quantifying antibiotic resistance and antibiotic resistance selective chemicals in the River Almond Catchment Area - a baseline for risk assessment and intervention

2023 - date
Fern Fairgrieve | Director of Studies: Dr Donald Morrison

The effect of multimodal prehabilitation on patients with colorectal cancer

2023 - date
Talitha De Klerk | Director of Studies: Dr Konstantinos Kaliarntas | Second Supervisor: Prof Anna Campbell

A Spotlight On Creativity: Dark Personality And The Performing Arts

2023 - date
Melissa Mcmullan | Director of Studies: Dr Rory MacLean | Second Supervisor: Dr Lindsey Carruthers

The evaluation of set plays using dynamic systems theory in international male football

2023 - date
Steven Rattray | Director of Studies: Dr Cedric English | Second Supervisor: Dr James Dugdale

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

Antibiotic Resistant Faecal Indicator Bacteria and Antibiotic Resistant Genes in Scottish Source Waters and Resistant Heterotrophic Bacteria in Treated Drinking Water Detected with Culture Dependent and Independent Methods

2022 - date
Muriel Chaudhri | Director of Studies: Dr Donald Morrison | Second Supervisor: Dr Fiona Stainsby

The design, implementation, and evaluation of a hybrid sport nutrition platform to support the development of Scottish youth football players

2022 - date
Saumya Khullar | Director of Studies: Dr James Dugdale | Second Supervisor: Dr Lesley Ingram-Sills

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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.

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.

Dr Kulpa invited at the "Go West!" Die Idee des "Westens" in bildungshistorischer Perspektive, University of Münster

15 December 2022
Dr Kulpa spoke about "Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies?" as part of the "Go West! Conceptual Explorations of “The West” in History of...

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...

Dr Kulpa invited to Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO), Leipzig, Germany.

31 May 2022
Dr Kulpa spoke about "Thinking About the Geo-politics of Knowledge Production: Non-anglophone Epistemologies in/of Queer Studies" at Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GW...

Dr Kulpa invited to speak on "Queer Politics of Post-Enlightenment" at Lund University

1 December 2021
The talk reflected on the contemporary queer studies and the geo-temporal ‘unsettlement’ of Central and Eastern Europe in the occidental (and occidentalist) imaginary.

Science in the City 'Bites' Napier's first public science quiz

16 June 2021
Three-minute videos were pre-recorded by up to 6 voluntary researchers within the School of Applied Sciences (this will include PhD students, lecturers, researchers with priority given to COVID-19 bas...

West Highland Free Press news article

1 April 2021
Dr Donnellan was contacted and interviewed by a journalist about her work in COVID-19 drug discovery. The journalist was particularly interested in how to get girls and women more involved in science...

Dr Tom Campbell was interviewed about the Mountain Bike Innovation Centre on ITV Borders news.

18 March 2021
Dr Tom Campbell was interviewed on ITV borders news to talk about the signing of the borderlands deal and the Mountain Bike Innovation Centre to be located in Innerleithen.

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Gender and Sexuality Research at Edinburgh Napier University

Merchiston Campus, room: MER_H11
6 March 2024

Dr Roberto Kulpa speaks about "RESIST - Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics" research consortium at the special seminar of the Centre for Arts, Media, & Culture, Edinburgh Napier University.

Centre for Arts, Media, & Culture, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
8 March 2023

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

7 December 2022

Knowledge exchange workshops organised as part of the "Friendship for LGBTIQ+ (post-)pandemic social resilience" grant.

1 February 2022 - 30 July 2022

Exploring the Future of School-based Physical Activity and Health Research in the COVID-19 era

Strathclyde University
5 May 2021

Seminar with Dr Sonja Rueckert (Associate Professor at Edinburgh Napier University) and Matthew Dicker (MRes Student at Edinburgh Napier University) on parasites

Edinburgh Napier University (Sighthill Campus)
4 December 2019

Policing Justice and Society Seminar Series - Associate Prof. Sarah Soppitt, Northumbria University

Edinburgh Napier University, Sighthill Campus
2 December 2019

Seminar with Professor Mark Huxham (Edinburgh Napier University) on understanding the meaning of catastrophe in southern Kenya

Edinburgh Napier University (Sighthill Campus)
27 November 2019

Visiting researcher - Dr Jim Gilmour (University of Sheffield) to present on microalgal biofuels - fact or fantasy?

Edinburgh Napier University (Sighthill Campus)
13 November 2019

Visiting Professor - Professor Simon Forrest (Durham University) to present on searching, finding, making and remaking young sexual identities

Edinburgh Napier University (Sighthill Campus)
6 November 2019