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Text and Context in the Discourses of the Third Way in Germany and the United Kingdom A Comparative Study of the Language of ‘New Labour’ and ‘Die Neue Mitte’

Thesis
Kranert, M. Text and Context in the Discourses of the Third Way in Germany and the United Kingdom A Comparative Study of the Language of ‘New Labour’ and ‘Die Neue Mitte’. (Thesis)
University College London. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/402527
This thesis undertakes a comparison of the discursive strategies of New Labour and the German SPD at the turn of the twenty-first century, when both parties engaged in a disco...

The political economy of a divided Ireland

Journal Article
Michie, J., & Sheehan, M. (1998)
The political economy of a divided Ireland. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 22(2), 243-259. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a013715
For a peace process in Ireland to succeed it will require an active transition away from the underlying causes of conflict—not just the partition of the country, but the inequ...

You don't know what you've got till it's gone: Recontextualising the origins, development and impact of the call centre

Presentation / Conference
Ellis, V., & Taylor, P. (2005, March)
You don't know what you've got till it's gone: Recontextualising the origins, development and impact of the call centre. Paper presented at 21st International Labour Process Conference, Glasgow
This paper locates the emergence of call centres within the broader political economy. We demonstrate how British Gas responded to privatisation, restrictive regulation and th...

Editorial: Local Government and the New Political Management

Journal Article
Elcock, H., Fenwick, J., & McMillan, J. (2003)
Editorial: Local Government and the New Political Management. Public Policy and Administration, 18(1), 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1177/095207670301800101

Financial transparency and the political influence of commercial publishing

Presentation / Conference
Lawson, S. (2015, June)
Financial transparency and the political influence of commercial publishing. Paper presented at Radical Open Access Conference, Coventry, UK
This talk was given at the Radical Open Access Conference at Coventry University on 15 June 2015.

Western Theories, Queer Possibilities, Polish Reality. Or, Do We Need Queer Political Theory?

Journal Article
Kulpa, R. (2008)
Western Theories, Queer Possibilities, Polish Reality. Or, Do We Need Queer Political Theory?. Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, 6(2-3), 9-36. https://doi.org/10.51151/identities.v6i2-3

From avoidance to acceptance: Mental health and the role of human rights in Europe.

Journal Article
Stavert, J. (2007)
From avoidance to acceptance: Mental health and the role of human rights in Europe. SCOLAG : Scottish Legal Action Group bulletin, 356, 119-125
Jill Stavert, Lecturer in law at Napier University, reviews the treatment of mental health as a social and political issue and identified challenges still to be met.

LGBT Issues and the Queer Approach

Book Chapter
Kulpa, R. (2011)
LGBT Issues and the Queer Approach. In M. Breuning, & J. T. Ishiyama (Eds.), 21st Century Political Science: A Reference Handbook (856-864). Thousand Oaks, CA.: SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781412979351.n99
The primary focus of this chapter is to introduce the reader to the contemporary debates surrounding LGBT issues in U.S. politics. It is done by looking at LGBT movements and ...

Evaluating the impact of innovative cycling measures in EU cycling cities.

Presentation / Conference
Stewart, K., O'Dolan, C., & Carreno, M. (2015, April)
Evaluating the impact of innovative cycling measures in EU cycling cities. Paper presented at 7th International Travel Demand Management Symposium, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona USA
The impact of “softer” measures to improve cycling mode share are often difficult to quantify and assess. The CHAMP project is an Intelligent Energy Europe funded project whic...

Education - who does it serve? A political and policy analysis.

Presentation / Conference
Webster, B. (2014, June)
Education - who does it serve? A political and policy analysis. Presented at NHS Lothian Annual Staff Conference, Edinburgh
No abstract available.
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e-Petitioner for English Local Authorities

2004 - 2005
The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister’s Local eDemocracy National Project (March 2004 to March 2005) investigated new channels of participation and piloted various approaches to encourage citizen pa...
Funder: Bristol City Council | Value: £42,000

“Everything depends on us”: narratives of celebration and survival at Dounreay Experimental Research Establishment, c.1955-c.2005

2024 - 2025
This project builds on a TBS funded project from 2023 that resulted in a paper entitled "“Welcome to Dounreay”: ideological narratives of hospitality at the Dounreay fast breeder reactor visitor centr...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £2,715

RESIST - Fostering Queer-Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics

2022 - 2026
Anti-gender politics pose a grave threat to modern democratic formations because they challenge people's everyday survival, bodily integrity, and self-determination. Anti-gender spans the political sp...
Funder: European Commission | Value: £443,089

World/Water Futures

2020 - 2021
Blue Humanities is an underdeveloped subfield within the Environmental Humanities. It focuses on the cultural meanings of water, and incorporates multiple disciplinary strands, including ecology, mari...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £10,000

The Scottish Revival Network

2021 - 2023
The Scottish Revival Network will initiate conversations and debates on the aims, scope, influences and international connections of the Scottish Revival in literature and culture from the 1880s to th...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £19,975

Governance for ecosystem services and poverty alleviation

2016 - 2017
This research will draw on the extensive research undertaken by ESPA projects in a range of ecosystem contexts through two main areas of work. The first, supply-driven phase of the research will provi...
Funder: Natural Environment Research Council | Value: £8,552

EDEN: Electronic Democracy European Network

2001 - 2004
The EDEN project grew out of the rationale that online information on decision-making leads to greater transparency in governance, as a pre-requisite for online consultation and participation. EDEN ...
Funder: EU Framework Programme 7 and FP6 and earlier programmes | Value: £67,000

PROGRESS: Pricing road use for greater responsibility, efficiency and sustainability in cities

2000 - 2004
The overall objective of PROGRESS is 'to demonstrate and evaluate the effectiveness and acceptance of integrated urban transport pricing schemes to achieve transport goals and raise revenue.' The obj...
Funder: European Commission | Value: £419,282

WorkAble - Making Capabilities Work

2009 - 2013
Funding: European Commission Duration: October 2009 - October 2012 Participating Countries: UK, Germany, Poland, Italy, France, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium  Participating Inst...
Funder: European Commission | Value: £207,608

Sustainable Urban Regeneration (SURegen)

2007 - 2012
The overall aim of the SURegen consortium is to undertake research to develop a prototype Regeneration Simulator Workbench (RSW) that meets the decision-making challenges that Sustainable Urban Regene...
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | Value: £250,547

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Risk-Modelling at the Pre-Proposal Stages of eGovernment Services

2002 - 2007
eGovernment is a relatively new, but rapidly expanding, domain; mainly due to the perceived outcomes that it may bring to the public ad...
Adrianos Evangelidis | Director of Studies: Ann Macintosh | Second Supervisor: Prof Lissie Davenport

Scotland's regional print economy in the nineteenth century

2014 - 2018
The Scottish publishing and printing industries in the nineteenth century left many documentary traces, but most research on the publishing a...
Dr Helen Williams | Director of Studies: Prof Alistair Mccleery | Second Supervisor: Prof David Finkelstein

The 21st century public library in England and Scotland: epistemic, community and political roles in the public sphere

2013 - 2020
Leo Appleton's PhD research explores the impact of libraries on citizenship. He is...
Leo Appleton | Director of Studies: Prof Hazel Hall | Second Supervisor: Prof Robert Raeside

Publishing and the industrial dynamics of biblio-cultural identity in Catalan and Scottish literary fields

2009 - 2014
This thesis provides a comparative analysis of the way contemporary processes of global change...
Daniel Boswell | Director of Studies: Prof Alistair Mccleery | Second Supervisor: Dr Linda Gunn

The limitations of legislation in the field of business law: a study of developments in company law, bankruptcy and diligence

2012 - 2015
This critical appraisal demonstrates three particular themes that are domin...
Nicholas Grier | Director of Studies: Prof Jill Stavert | Second Supervisor: Prof Anne Munro

Tony Blair?s television political interviews in the aftermath of the Iraq war

2008 - 2011
Aonghus Ferguson | Director of Studies: Prof Chris Atton | Second Supervisor: Prof Alistair Duff

Anglophone Sub-Sahara African video industry: a new paradigmatic practice of movie--making

2006 - 2013
The subject of this study is Sub-Sahara Africa Anglophone Video-moviemaking and the research process is an emp...
Kofi Boateng | Director of Studies: Roberta McGrath | Second Supervisor: Dr C. Paul Sellors

Experiences of highly skilled Bangladeshi immigrants to Edinburgh and London

2010 - 2012
Migration is a spatial phenomenon and is the movement of the people one of state/country administrative unit to another, alo...
Md Mohsin | Director of Studies: Prof Robert Raeside | Second Supervisor: Dr Kay Penny

Embedding compassionate care in local NHS practice: a realistic evaluation of the Leadership in Compassionate Care Programme

2007 - 2014
This thesis offers an original contribution to knowledge through providing a...
Juliet Macarthur | Director of Studies: Dr Gerardine Matthews-Smith

A study of Shanghai and Hong Kong as international financial centres - a review of their developments and attributable factors

2003 - 2012
The development of an international financial centre has long been an inte...
Yui Wong | Director of Studies: Malcolm Pettigrew | Second Supervisor: Linda Juleff
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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...

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...

Call for papers: Special issue of Utilities Policy (CABS 1, Impact Factor 3.247, SSCI). “Impact of Geopolitical Climate on Energy Security of Utilities–International Challenges and Local Solutions”

5 December 2022
Impact of Geopolitical Climate on Energy Security of Utilities–International Challenges and Local Solutions The endowment with energy resources is an essential factor that has configured and reconfig...

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 Scott Lyall awarded RSE Network Grant

15 December 2020
Dr Scott Lyall (PI) has been awarded a Network Grant from the Royal Society of Edinburgh to found and facilitate a Scottish Revival Network. He will collaborate with Dr Michael Shaw (CI) of the Univer...

Dr Scott Lyall is a guest speaker on Times Radio

10 August 2020
Dr Scott Lyall was an invited guest speaker on Times Radio Breakfast Show, interviewed by Stig Abell, to discuss the Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid on the anniversary of his birth. Born in Langholm on...

University Spin-out - Cyan Forensics - Wins at GovTech Summit 2019

18 November 2019
The third Cybersecurity spin-out from The Cyber Academy at Edinburgh Napier University was the winner at PitchGovTech as part of the GovTech Summit 2019.

Alistair Duff Quoted on 'Punk Energy" of ePundits

24 March 2019
School of Arts and Creative Industries professor interviewed by Scotland on Sunday on rising power of new media. Political bloggers, referred to as ePundits, have brought punk energy to politics, alth...

Augusto was invited by Prsma to join Lisbon's Web Summit'16

7 November 2016
Augusto joined 53,056 tech CEOs, founders, startups, investors and political leaders driving change across the world in Lisbon for the Web Summit. Over 2,000 of the world’s leading media attended. Tog...