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The RESIST Project Press Release: Findings from the Work Package 1 Released

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 ‘ant...

10 April 2024
Dr Kulpa invited to speak at European University Viadrina, Germany

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.

8 September 2023
Dr Kulpa invited at the "Go West!" Die Idee des "Westens" in bildungshistorischer Perspektive, University of Münster

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...

15 December 2022
Dr Kulpa lunches project: ‘RESIST. Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics’

Dr Roberto Kulpa with colleagues form 9 European organisations launches “Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics (RESIST)” research consortium ai...

1 October 2022
Dr Kulpa invited to Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa (GWZO), Leipzig, Germany.

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...

1 June 2022
Dr Kulpa invited to speak on "Queer Politics of Post-Enlightenment" at Lund University

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

1 December 2021
Science in the City 'Bites' Napier's first public science quiz

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...

17 June 2021
West Highland Free Press news article

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...

2 April 2021
Dr Tom Campbell was interviewed about the Mountain Bike Innovation Centre on ITV Borders news.

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.

18 March 2021
Blog: Researching treatments for Covid-19

It has been just over a year since the first cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the UK, with over 2.5 million deaths worldwide at the time of writing. The turmoil, disruption, havoc and devastation t...

9 March 2021
MTB Trail Building sector is ready for further professionalisation

Research undertaken by Edinburgh Napier university, as part of an Erasmus+ project, has identified the skill gaps that exist within the mountain bike trail building sector and the prioritisation of tr...

11 September 2020
Hearts and Hibs youngsters sign up for Edinburgh Napier University course

Hearts and Hibs have teamed up with Edinburgh Napier University to give development squad players a chance to combine traditional studying with their football commitments.

10 September 2020
Lesley Ingram-Sills was interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland Brain Waves

Dr Lesley Ingram-Sills was interviewed on the program : In search of the competitive edge. During this interview Lesley discussed the impact of technology on performance improvement in sport, what th...

26 February 2020
Edinburgh Napier research into sustainable intensification makes font page of national newspaper

A research project lead by Dr Patrick White in the School of Applied Sciences, in collaboration with colleagues at Scotland's Rural College and the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew made the front page of ...

18 March 2019
Mark Beaumont to deliver chancellors talk

Mark has cycled around the world twice, smashing the circumnavigation World Record on both occasions. His most recent attempt captured the imagination of a global audience by targeting Jules Verne’s A...

24 October 2018
Breakthrough Series comes to Edinburgh Napier

On October 6th, 2018 The Podyum hosted an American Football camp at Edinburgh Napier University. Athletes got the opportunity to learn and compete in front of coaches who came from different parts of ...

29 September 2018
Dr Lesley Ingram to take on her own bike challenge

On the 22nd of September Lesley will join 79 others riders to raise money for the STV children's charity appeal.

11 September 2018
Dr Lesley Ingram ready to get back in the saddle

Dr Lesley Ingram will cycle 240 miles for STV children's appeal

11 September 2018
ENU Associate Professor co-hosts conference to launch new, ground-breaking book

Dr Calum Neill will co-host an international conference at Ghent University on the 21st and 22nd of September to launch his new co-edited book, Reading Lacan's Ecrits: From 'Signification of the Phall...

5 September 2018
Dr Clare Taylor takes part in expert panel for Evidence Week at UK Parliament

Dr Clare Taylor, Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Sciences, was an invited panel member for the event 'Too much evidence or not enough?' organised by Society for Applied Microbiology and Sense...

27 June 2018
Dr Peter Barlow gives media comments on Common Cold study

A new study from Imperial College London has been published in the journal Nature Chemistry investigating the anti-rhinovirus activity of a novel compound. The paper, entitled ’Fragment-derived inhib...

15 May 2018
World Olympians Association launches new health study

The largest global study into the long-term health issues of Olympians has been launched by the World Olympians Association.

More than 10,000 athletes, who no longer compete at Olympic le...

19 April 2018
Calum Neill's The Palgrave Lacan Series listed as Social Science Series of the Year

The Palgrave Lacan Series, the monograph series edited by Dr Calum Neill of the School of Applied Sciences, has been listed as one of the social science series of the year.

18 December 2017
Prof Ian Singleton has been appointed as a member of the BBSRC Follow-on Fund Committee

The BBSRC Follow-on funding programme (worth £5 million annually) supports the translation of fundamental BBSRC funded research into practical application, including commercialisation. This is a prest...

28 November 2017
Dr Peter Barlow appointed to Editorial Board of the Journal of Medical Microbiology

In July 2017, Dr Peter Barlow was appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Medical Microbiology. The journal, published by the Microbiology Society, covers the full breadth of Clinical Micr...

7 July 2017

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