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What might make nurses stay? A protocol for discrete choice experiments to understand NHS nurses’ preferences at early-career and late-career stages

Journal Article
Ejebu, O., Turnbull, J., Atherton, I., Rafferty, A. M., Palmer, B., Philippou, J., …Ball, J. (2024)
What might make nurses stay? A protocol for discrete choice experiments to understand NHS nurses’ preferences at early-career and late-career stages. BMJ Open, 14, Article e075066. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-075066
Introduction: Like many countries, England has a national shortage of registered nurses. Employers strive to retain existing staff, to ease supply pressures. Disproportionate ...

Do Workplace Fish Tanks Influence Employee Wellbeing and Cognitive Performance? An Embedded Mixed-Methods Study

Journal Article
Clements, H., Valentin, S., Jenkins, N., Rankin, J., Gee, N. R., Snellgrove, D., & Sloman, K. A. (in press)
Do Workplace Fish Tanks Influence Employee Wellbeing and Cognitive Performance? An Embedded Mixed-Methods Study. Anthrozoös, https://doi.org/10.1080/08927936.2024.2303227
Evidence from “pet-friendly” workplaces highlights potential benefits associated with taking companion animals to work, including reduced stress among employees. Ornamental fi...

A Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Review of a Blockchain-Based Chain of Custody for Digital Evidence

Conference Proceeding
Onyeashie, B. I., Leimich, P., McKeown, S., & Russell, G. (2024)
A Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Review of a Blockchain-Based Chain of Custody for Digital Evidence. In Big Data Technologies and Applications. BDTA 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52265-9_8
The effective management of digital evidence is critical to modern forensic investigations. However, traditional evidence management approaches are often prone to security and...

Better trees: an empirical study on hyperparameter tuning of classification decision tree induction algorithms

Journal Article
Machine learning algorithms often contain many hyperparameters whose values affect the predictive performance of the induced models in intricate ways. Due to the high number o...

An Auditable Framework for Evidence Sharing and Management using Smart Lockers and Distributed Technologies: Law Enforcement Use Case

Conference Proceeding
Onyeashie, B., Leimich, P., McKeown, S., & Russell, G. (2024)
An Auditable Framework for Evidence Sharing and Management using Smart Lockers and Distributed Technologies: Law Enforcement Use Case. In Big Data Technologies and Applications (156-167). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52265-9_11
This paper presents a decentralised framework for sharing and managing evidence that uses smart lockers, blockchain technology, and the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS). The ...

Design Of A Serious Game For Safety In Manufacturing Industry Using Hybrid Simulation Modelling: Towards Eliciting Risk Preferences

Conference Proceeding
El Raoui, H., Quigley, J., Aslan, A., Vasantha, G., Hanson, J., Corney, J., & Sherlock, A. (2024)
Design Of A Serious Game For Safety In Manufacturing Industry Using Hybrid Simulation Modelling: Towards Eliciting Risk Preferences. In 2023 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) (1304-1315). https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC60868.2023.10407667
Conventional methods used to elicit risk-taking preferences have demonstrated significant disparities with real-world behaviours, compromising the validity of the data collect...

Cumulative risk exposure is associated with increased risk for PTSD but not depression or anxiety. Results from a UK clinical sample of children and adolescents

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Turgoose, D., Wilkinson, S., Shevlin, M., & Karatzias, T. (in press)
Cumulative risk exposure is associated with increased risk for PTSD but not depression or anxiety. Results from a UK clinical sample of children and adolescents. Developmental Child Welfare, https://doi.org/10.1177/25161032241230980
Background Childhood adversity can include traumatic experiences and exposure to other risk factors; consistently predicting poorer psychosocial outcomes in adulthood. Relativ...

Image Forgery Detection using Cryptography and Deep Learning

Conference Proceeding
Oke, A., & Babaagba, K. O. (2024)
Image Forgery Detection using Cryptography and Deep Learning. In Big Data Technologies and Applications. BDTA 2023 (62-78). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52265-9_5
The advancement of technology has undoubtedly exposed everyone to a remarkable array of visual imagery. Nowadays, digital technology is eating away the trust and historical co...

Active Cellulose-Based Food Packaging and Its Use on Foodstuff

Journal Article
Irimia, A., Grigoraș, V. C., & Popescu, C. (2024)
Active Cellulose-Based Food Packaging and Its Use on Foodstuff. Polymers, 16(3), Article 389. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym16030389
The essential role of active packaging is food quality improvement, which results in an extension of shelf life. Active packaging can also further enhance distribution from th...

The Lions’ Gate Permaculture Garden

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Egan, C. (2024)
The Lions’ Gate Permaculture Garden. [Magazine Article]
Callum Egan explains how his academic community transformed The Lions’ Gate at Napier University, Edinburgh, into a series of permaculture gardens to create a healthier, natur...

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BE-ST UK Mass Timber Handbook

2024 - 2027
The purpose of this project is to draw upon track record of research carried out by Edinburgh Napier University on home grown mass timber systems and expand upon this via each of the six topics: 1. Se...
Funder: Built Environment - Smarter Transformation (formerly CSIC) | Value: £10,000

Exploring AI-Enabled Opportunities for Wellbeing Tourism

2024 - 2024
Bilateral Exchange Programme
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £1,850

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

“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

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

ExtraCECI: A cluster randomised controlled trial of community-based person-centred enhanced care for people with HIV/AIDS in Ghana

2024 - 2028
This study focuses on people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) who continue to experience distressing symptoms and concerns, so that even while taking their HIV medications, they still have physical pain a...
Funder: Medical Research Council | Value: £1,463,809

Co-creation of a Continuing Professional Development Toolkit to enable pre-registration nursing students acquire the skills and knowledge to enable individuals with learning disabilities to self man...

2024 - 2025
Co-Design of a Continuing Professional Development Toolkit to enable pre-registration nursing students acquire the skills and knowledge to enable individuals with learning disabilities to self mana...
Funder: Burdett Trust for Nursing | Value: £68,270

Developing remote exercise support and rehabilitation for patients after spontaneous coronary artery dissection - a feasibility study

2024 - 2026
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is increasingly recognised as an important cause of myocardial infarction (MI), particularly among younger women and has been linked participating in stre...
Value: £176,214

Researcher in Residence -- Multi-Scale Energy Systems Modelling

2024 - 2026
This project is funded by the Innovation Launchpad Network+ for £50K research collaboration project with one of the catapults. This project will be a collaboration with the Energy systems catapult on ...
Funder: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council | Value: £49,531

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Addressing barriers and inequalities in hearing technology use and hearing health care uptake

2023 - date
Millie Kirkwood | Director of Studies: Dr Adele Goman | Second Supervisor: Dr Alison Porter-Armstrong

Methods for Early Ransomware Attack Detection and Prevention

2023 - date
Alexander Young | Director of Studies: Rich Macfarlane | Second Supervisor: Dr Gordon Russell

Design and implementation of a robust energy management strategy for a hybrid renewable energy system supplying electrical and thermal energies

2023 - date
Taimoor Khan | Director of Studies: Dr Fadi Kahwash | Second Supervisor: Dr Jubaer Ahmed

An Investigation into the Structural Performance of Engineered Wood I-Joists with Web Openings

2023 - date
Sini Lu | Director of Studies: Dr Aamir Khokhar | Second Supervisor: Dr Daniel Barreto Gonzalez

Using Deep Reinforcement Learning for Internet of Things Security

2023 - date
Soad Almabdy | Director of Studies: Dr Amjad Ullah | Second Supervisor: Dr Imed Romdhani

Algebraic and Computational Modelling of Biological Cells

2023 - date
Director of Studies: Prof Peter Andras | Second Supervisor: Dr Chris Guiver

Improving healthcare AI-support systems for visually detectable diseases: a mixed learning approach on the edge

2023 - date
Director of Studies: Dr Christos Chrysoulas | Second Supervisor: Dr Dimitra Gkatzia

Development and Optimisation of the Dolphin Wave Energy Converter

2023 - date
Simon Szatkowski | Director of Studies: Dr Pablo Jaen Sola

Is there a space of performativity which is neither and/or both masculine or feminine?

2023 - date
Mx Ashley Stein | Director of Studies: Dr Paul Harkins | Second Supervisor: Dr Sarah Artt

Exploring the experience of military veterans involved in the Scottish criminal justice system

2023 - date
Lucy Williams | Director of Studies: Dr Gerardine Matthews-Smith | Second Supervisor: Dr Jennifer O'Neil

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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/...

Films by Napier academics Paul Gray and Ita Jansen screen at Cameo

28 April 2024
Films by Edinburgh Napier academics are screening at Cameo as part of the Folk Film Gathering.

Film by Napier academic wins the Grand Prize at the Arizona International Film Festival

27 April 2024
The film Itu Ninu by Itandehui Jansen, Programme Lead for the MA Film at Edinburgh Napier University, has just received the Grand Prize at the Arizona International Film Festival.

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...

Invited to participate in the launch of the innovative green room in Kuwait

26 March 2024
As the PI of the externally funded project, Islam has participated in the launch of the innovative green room at Kuwait College for Science and Technology with the British and Australian Ambassadors.

Meet the jewel in the crown of Edinburgh Napier University’s health training: its Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre where the latest technologies are used to help train nursing and midwifery students.

21 March 2024
Recruitment Study in a high-tech environment If you’re thinking about a career in nursing or midwifery, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Social Work, Edinburgh Napier University has the latest...

Call for papers: Special issue of Research in International Business and Finance (CABS 2, SSCI Q1, ABDC B, Impact Factor 6.5). “Integrating Inclusive Finance and Sustainability: Pathways to Carbon Neutrality and Nature-Positive Futures"

15 March 2024
Special issue in Research in International Business and Finance (CABS 2, JCR Q1, ABDC B, Impact factor: 6.5, 6th out of 111 finance journals based on impact factor): Integrating Inclusive Finance and ...

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...

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...

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