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New Horizons in Peer Advice Systems: Developing the Freelance Advisor

Presentation / Conference
Patrick-Thomson, H., Lawson, A., & Lapok, P. (2024, April)
New Horizons in Peer Advice Systems: Developing the Freelance Advisor. Paper presented at Digital Business and Society Consortium, Royal Holloway, University of London
Work in the creative and cultural industries is often seen as “good” because it offers people a chance to earn money while engaged in their passion (McRobbie, 2018), to have a...

Law, Rights and Childhood: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Its Implementation in Bhutan

Book Chapter
Whitecross, R. W. (2024)
Law, Rights and Childhood: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Its Implementation in Bhutan. In S. Kumagai, M. Álvarez Ortega, F. Pommaret, & A. Balikci Denjongpa (Eds.), Traditional Neighbours, Different Modernities (461-481). Kyoto, Japan: Trans Pacific Press

Curated Collection: The Festival City in Event Management Research

Journal Article
Todd, L., & Quinn, B. (in press)
Curated Collection: The Festival City in Event Management Research. Event Management, https://doi.org/10.3727/152599524X17114977927355
This curated collection considers the topic of the Festival City and examines how research on this theme published in the Event Management journal has contributed to extant th...

STEAM for generating collaborative, creative, inclusive approaches to immunisation awareness

Presentation / Conference
Healy, C., Macdonald, I., Firth, R., Gray-Brunton, C., Wimbish, D., & Malone, E. (2024, April)
STEAM for generating collaborative, creative, inclusive approaches to immunisation awareness. Presented at ESAI Conference 2024, Maynooth University, Ireland

Physical, mental, and behavioral health after adverse and benevolent childhood experiences: a comparison of two adversity conceptualizations

Journal Article
Ho, G. W., Ling Chan, K., Ho Wong, K., Fong Leung, S., & Karatzias, T. (in press)
Physical, mental, and behavioral health after adverse and benevolent childhood experiences: a comparison of two adversity conceptualizations. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy,
Objective: Adverse and benevolent childhood experiences (ACEs, BCEs) impact health across the lifespan. No known study has investigated these associations across different hea...

From “dirty” oil and gas to green energy: Workers’ views on skills transition

Presentation / Conference
Heidl, B., O'Neil, J., & Bratton, A. (2024, April)
From “dirty” oil and gas to green energy: Workers’ views on skills transition. Presented at 42nd International Labour Process Conference 2024 (ILPC 2024), Göttingen
As the environmental agenda progresses worldwide, it is clear that the move to sustainable forms of energy is both crucial and inevitable. For UK workers currently employed in...

Career transitions to paid employment: At what point does training placement provision move between up-skilling to exploitation?

Presentation / Conference
O'Neil, J., & Ivancheva, M. (2024, April)
Career transitions to paid employment: At what point does training placement provision move between up-skilling to exploitation?. Paper presented at 42nd International Labour Process Conference 2024 (ILPC 2024), Göttingen
Precarious work that becomes a ‘stepping stone’ to decent work (McGuiness and Wooden 2009, Nunley et al 2017; Munoz-Comet and Steinmetz 2020) is the bargain struck for many le...

From Film Bang to Filming Boom: Fifty Years of Career Development Strategies in the Scottish Screen Production Sector

Presentation / Conference
Correia, N. (2024, April)
From Film Bang to Filming Boom: Fifty Years of Career Development Strategies in the Scottish Screen Production Sector. Paper presented at 12th BAFTSS Conference (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies) 2024, University of Sussex, Brighton
This paper demonstrates how the Scottish film and television production sector has evolved during the last half-century and discusses the strategies of Scottish-based freelanc...

The Tip of the Iceberg: Exploring the Landscape of Policing in a Digitalized World

Journal Article
Easton, M., de Paepe, J., Aston, L., & Clayton, E. (2024)
The Tip of the Iceberg: Exploring the Landscape of Policing in a Digitalized World. European Journal of Policing Studies, 7(1-2), 3-13. https://doi.org/10.5553/ejps.000018
In the ever-evolving landscape of law enforcement, the advent of the digital age has ushered in transformative shifts in police practices. These shifts have sparked scholarly ...

Enhancing graduate employability – exploring the influence of experiential simulation learning on life skill development

Journal Article
Scheuring, F., & Thompson, J. (in press)
Enhancing graduate employability – exploring the influence of experiential simulation learning on life skill development. Studies in Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2024.2334837
Skills and knowledge which increase the likelihood of university graduates finding employment is an increasingly important factor for higher education institutions. Even thoug...

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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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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

An approach to dynamic and elastic cloud service specification, recommendation and provision

2011 - 2015
Along with the rapid development of expansion of the cloud computing market, not only the number of cloud ap...
Daren Fang | Director of Studies: Prof Xiaodong Liu | Second Supervisor: Dr Imed Romdhani

CEO stock-option compensation, the credit default swap use, and the risk of European banks

2011 - 2015
This thesis investigates two main aspects related to the use of credit default swaps (CDS) by European banks. ...
Bassam Al-Own | Director of Studies: Dr Marizah Minhat | Second Supervisor: Prof Simon Gao

Critical factors in the implementation of public sector transactional shared services

2011 - 2016
Murdoch Macleod | Director of Studies: Prof Richard Whitecross | Second Supervisor: Dr Miles Weaver

The analysis of natural gemstones and their synthetic counterparts using analytical spectroscopy methods

2011 - 2013
Prompted by the increasing number, sophistication and quality of laboratory-grown gemstones; gem...
Raabell Shah | Director of Studies: Nicole Payton | Second Supervisor: Kevin Smith

The manufacture of gas turbine compressor components by Metal Injection Moulding

2011 - 2015
Andrew Russell | Director of Studies: Mike Barker | Second Supervisor: Alan Davidson

Development of a fatique analysis tool to predict cable flex life

2011 - 2014
Chris Mccorquodale | Director of Studies: John Sharp | Second Supervisor: Dr Neil Shearer

Reduced credibility of non-native speakers

2011 - 2016
Anna Tajsiak | Director of Studies: Dr Alex Willis | Second Supervisor: Phyllis Laybourn

Optimisation of timber frame closed panel systems for low energy buildings

2011 - date
Jesus Menendez Amigo | Director of Studies: Prof Robert Hairstans | Second Supervisor: Prof John Currie

Mapping belowground carbon and developing new tools to estimate carbon stores in Kenyan and Tanzanian mangroves

2011 - 2016
Selena Gress | Director of Studies: Prof Robert Briers | Second Supervisor: Prof Mark Huxham

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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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