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PULRAS: A Novel PUF-Based Lightweight Robust Authentication Scheme

Conference Proceeding
Yaqub, Z., Yigit, Y., Maglaras, L., Tan, Z., & Wooderson, P. (in press)
PULRAS: A Novel PUF-Based Lightweight Robust Authentication Scheme.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) play a critical role in enhancing road safety and traffic flo...

DIBNN: A Dual-Improved-BNN Based Algorithm for Multi-Robot Cooperative Area Search in Complex Obstacle Environments

Journal Article
Chen, B., Zhang, H., Zhang, F., Jiang, Y., Miao, Z., Yu, H., & Wang, Y. (in press)
DIBNN: A Dual-Improved-BNN Based Algorithm for Multi-Robot Cooperative Area Search in Complex Obstacle Environments. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1109/tase.2024.3379166
Aiming at the area search task of a multi-robot system in an unknown complex obstacle environment, we propose a cooperative area search algorithm based on a dual improved bio-...

Evolving Staff Training Schedules using an Extensible Fitness Function and a Domain Specific Language

Conference Proceeding
Urquhart, N., & Hunter, K. (2024)
Evolving Staff Training Schedules using an Extensible Fitness Function and a Domain Specific Language. In S. Smith, J. Correia, & C. Cintrano (Eds.), Applications of Evolutionary Computation (83–97). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56852-7_6
When using a meta-heuristic based optimiser in some industrial scenarios, there may be a need to amend the objective function as time progresses to encompass constraints that ...

Temporal True and Surrogate Fitness Landscape Analysis for Expensive Bi-Objective Optimisation Expensive Bi-Objective

Conference Proceeding
Rodriguez, C. J., Thomson, S. L., Alderliesten, T., & Bosman, P. A. N. (in press)
Temporal True and Surrogate Fitness Landscape Analysis for Expensive Bi-Objective Optimisation Expensive Bi-Objective. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3638529.3654125
Many real-world problems have expensive-to-compute fitness functions and are multi-objective in nature. Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms are often used to tackle suc...

Understanding fitness landscapes in morpho-evolution via local optima networks

Conference Proceeding
Thomson, S. L., Le Goff, L., Hart, E., & Buchanan, E. (in press)
Understanding fitness landscapes in morpho-evolution via local optima networks. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3638529.3654059
Morpho-Evolution (ME) refers to the simultaneous optimisation of a robot's design and controller to maximise performance given a task and environment. Many genetic encodings h...

Generalized Early Stopping in Evolutionary Direct Policy Search

Journal Article
Arza, E., Le Goff, L. K., & Hart, E. (in press)
Generalized Early Stopping in Evolutionary Direct Policy Search. ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization, https://doi.org/10.1145/3653024
Lengthy evaluation times are common in many optimization problems such as direct policy search tasks, especially when they involve conducting evaluations in the physical world...

Friends or enemies? Unraveling niche-regime interactions in grassroots digital innovations

Journal Article
Gerli, P., Mora, L., Zhang, J., & Sancino, A. (2024)
Friends or enemies? Unraveling niche-regime interactions in grassroots digital innovations. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 202, Article 123342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123342
During the COVID-19 pandemic, grassroots digital innovations (GDIs) have gained traction as innovation niches, providing an alternative to the prevailing mainstream regime dom...

Police custody in rural Scotland: Negotiating boundaries, risk and organisational change

Journal Article
Wooff, A. (in press)
Police custody in rural Scotland: Negotiating boundaries, risk and organisational change. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, https://doi.org/10.1108/pijpsm-01-2024-0007
Design/ Methodology This paper draws on data from a study funded by the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (2016-2018), entitled ‘Measuring Risk and Efficiency in Polic...

The problem with shaming people for Auschwitz selfies

Digital Artefact
Wight, C., & Stanley, P. (2024)
The problem with shaming people for Auschwitz selfies. [Online newspaper]
Selfies have become the modern day equivalent of postcards, a way to share our travel experiences with family and friends on social media. It’s one thing to strike a goofy pos...

RAISE Student Belonging Good Practice Guide: Unpacking the Guide

Presentation / Conference
Garden, C. (2024, March)
RAISE Student Belonging Good Practice Guide: Unpacking the Guide
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The Curious Teacher CPD Event

2025 - 2025
A 1 day CPD to enhance the knowledge, skills and wellbeing of school teachers.
Funder: Fees (CPD courses and Conference Delegate)

SWRI PhD Studentship - M Gordon

2025 - 2029
Scottish Whisky Research Institute are funding one of their employees to undertake PhD
Funder: The Scotch Whisky Research Institute | Value: £8,667

Tackling misinformation and disinformation for Scottish school librarians

2025 - 2026
It is claimed that ‘Libraries have always had a role as trusted institutions’ (Royal Society, 2022). However, librarians’ solutions to misinformation may be untested (Sullivan, 2019). Further, school ...
Value: £7,000

Fleming Fund mentorship

2025 - 2026
Fleming Fund mentorship
Funder: The University of Edinburgh | Value: £3,532

Fleming Fund mentorship

2025 - 2026
Mentorship of Fleming fund fellows from Malawi and Kenya
Funder: The University of Edinburgh | Value: £2,400

CPD Introduction to Sedge Identification 2025

2025 - 2025
Open CPD course delivered online , involving up to 20 student learning hours over up to 8 weeks, introduces ecological consultants and land managers to identification of common sedges using botanical ...
Funder: Fees (CPD courses and Conference Delegate)

A Mixed-Method National Survey of Occupational Therapy Practice in Substance Use Services in the UK

2025 - 2027
This study aims to conduct the first comprehensive national survey of occupational therapy practices in substance use disorder (SUD) services across the UK. Using a mixed-methods approach, the resear...
Funder: The Constance Owen Trust | Value: £14,987

EIT Urban Mobility - Driver Fatigue

2025 - 2025
A collaborative EIT UM bid partnering with Edinburgh Trams, IHF Ltd and Tallinn Bus
Funder: EIT Urban Mobility | Value: £90,453

SmartSprout: Electrospun carriers for controlled release in horticulture

2025 - 2026
Sustainable intensification refers to optimisation of land management without increasing land usage. In horticulture, a significant difficulty exists in delivering agrochemicals such as fertilisers, p...
Funder: Innovate UK | Value: £155,974

Sustainable wild seaweed

2025 - 2025
Investigating the options for the use of seaweed as an alternative source for nanocellulose production for the medical industry.
Funder: Innovate UK | Value: £26,020

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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

Assessing the early impact of data skills training initiatives

2024 - date
Fredrick Mbuya | Director of Studies: Dr Khristin Fabian | Second Supervisor: Prof Sally Smith

Investigation and development wearable sensors for remoting health monitoring

2024 - date
Zifeng He | Director of Studies: Dr Hongnian Yu | Second Supervisor: Dr Chan Hwang See

Development of a PREM for patients having cardiac imaging

2024 - date
Lee Burgum | Director of Studies: Prof Lis Neubeck | Second Supervisor: Dr Bruce Forrest

Digital Forensic Triage Methods for Prioritization, based on Computer System and User Classification

2024 - date
Mark McLeod | Director of Studies: Dr Sean McKeown | Second Supervisor: Rich Macfarlane

The impact of digital marketing on hospitality and emerging tourism in Saudi Arabia

2024 - date
Essa Al Khudaysh | Director of Studies: Dr Jackie Cameron | Second Supervisor: Dr Louise Todd

Enhanced deep learning and semantic-based predictive analytics for reactive IoT streaming data and applications

2024 - date
Talatu Adamu | Director of Studies: Dr Oluwaseun Bamgboye | Second Supervisor: Prof Xiaodong Liu

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

Murder: Is There A Problem?

2024 - date
Peter Mullin | Director of Studies: Prof Richard Whitecross | Second Supervisor: Dr Rob Clucas

Innovative energy harvesting solutions for green buildings

2024 - date
Moein Jalali | Director of Studies: Prof Islam Shyha | Second Supervisor: Dr Suha Jaradat

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Gary Kerr interviewed by BBC Radio Gloucestershire

7 June 2022
Interview by Jo Durrant, BBC Radio Gloucestershire, about "The Arcade" a new interactive zone curated by Dr Gary Kerr, at Cheltenham Science Festival

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

1 June 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 Dimitra Gkatzia invited to join panel on "Explainable AI" at the Scottish AI Summit

30 March 2022
Panel title: Why is explainable AI still a challenge? Trustworthiness and explainability are increasingly recognised as key to the widespread adoption of AI systems. But can, and should, all AI model...

Double funding success for School of Computing

21 March 2022
Two projects from Edinburgh Napier’s acclaimed School of Computing have won funding from a programme which develops innovative cyber security ideas for the commercial market. TrueDeploy and Trustd ar...

Dr Chris Guiver awarded one-year Royal Society of Edinburgh personal research fellowship

9 March 2022
Dr Chris Guiver, of Edinburgh Napier University's School of Engineering and the Built Environment, has been awarded a one-year personal Research Fellowship by the Royal Society of Edinburgh in their a...

Article in The Scotsman: Digital social events worked well for people living with dementia - Dr Gary Kerr

3 March 2022
Article in the Scotsman by Gary Kerr on dementia research

CAn the bad boys of brewing be tamed?

14 February 2022
An opinion piece on the controversy surrounding Brewdog's management practices in the wake of a BBC Disclosure expose and a campaign launched by a group of ex-employees.

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.

Richard Llewellyn appointed as professional institution trustee and strategic board chair

19 November 2021
Richard Llewellyn has been appointed a Trustee of the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) and Chair of the charity's Education and Professional Development Strategic Board.

Your best brand strategy idea is hiding in plain sight: Expert insights on marketing

15 November 2021
Excellent insights on marketing strategy development behind some of the big UK, global advertising campaigns of our time.

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