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Directed by Bill Forsyth 'Local Hero' (1983)

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Manderson, D., & Scott, A. J. (2010)
Directed by Bill Forsyth 'Local Hero' (1983). Association of Scottish Literary Studies
This is a study of the feature film 'Local Hero', written and directed by Bill Forsyth, and is one of a series of study guides for secondary school pupils and students in furt...

Introduction - Dickens and Sex

Journal Article
Furneaux, H., & Schwan, A. (2005)
Introduction - Dickens and Sex. Critical Survey, 17(2), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.3167/001115705781004523
This collection explores the still underrepresented topics of sex, erotics and desire in the work of Charles Dickens. Contributors draw upon and suggest new points of converge...

J. Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon and exploration

Journal Article
Lyall, S. (2012)
J. Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon and exploration. Scottish Literary Review, 4, 131-150
The article presents the literary works of James Leslie Mitchell using the pseudonym Lewis Grassic Gibbon. It discusses Mitchell's adventurous spirit as reflected in the trave...

Short Documentary Film Series - Artist Uncovered: George Donald

Digital Artefact
Bilgrami, S. (2015)
Short Documentary Film Series - Artist Uncovered: George Donald
A portrait of the celebrated Scottish artist George Donald who explains the philosophy behind his thought-provoking paintings. Link to video on Youtube - https://www.youtube....

The Impossibility of Science Fiction: Against Buckland's Possible Worlds

Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2000)
The Impossibility of Science Fiction: Against Buckland's Possible Worlds. Screen, 41(2), 203-216. doi:10.1093/screen/41.2.203
The Impossibility of Science Fiction: Against Buckland's Possible Worlds.

Improvisation: Practical approaches for composers.

Presentation / Conference
Moir, Z. (2015, February)
Improvisation: Practical approaches for composers. Presented at Invited Guest Workshop
1 day workshop.

Using pre-arrival shared reading to promote a sense of community: A case study across two institutions

Journal Article
Baverstock, A., Steinitz, J., Webster-Henderson, B., Bryars, L., Cairncross, S., Ennis, L., …McLuckie, C. (2018)
Using pre-arrival shared reading to promote a sense of community: A case study across two institutions. Logos, 29(4), https://doi.org/10.1163/18784712-02904005
Seeking to improve student enrolment, engagement, and retention, Kingston University began a pre-arrival shared reading scheme in 2014–2015, sending a free book to every stude...

Anthropometries Revisited - A Homage to Yves Klein

Presentation / Conference
Lambert, I., & Galama, F. (2017, December)
Anthropometries Revisited - A Homage to Yves Klein. Poster presented at Drawing Conversations 2: Body, Space, Object, Coventry University
This project is presented as a homage to Yves Klein’s Anthropometries series (1960), but with reference to Klein’s devotion to judo. Klein was a 4th dan black belt in judo, an...

Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap cycle

Book Chapter
Alder, E. (2011)
Ruined Skin: Gothic Genetics and Human Identity in Stephen Donaldson’s Gap cycle. In S. Wasson, & E. Alder (Eds.), Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010Liverpool University Press. https://doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781846317071.003.0008
This chapter offers a literary criticism of Stephen Donaldson's novel Gap. It discusses that transfiguration of the body, through the study of molecular biology and genetic en...

Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev: A Journey

Digital Artefact
Milne, L., & Martin, S. (2018)
Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev: A Journey. [Film]
30 mins A commission from Criterion film for a special release of Andrei Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev A poetic documentary about the making of Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev, with n...

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Scholarly Edition of Scottish Scene

2023 - 2024
RATIONALE Scottish Scene was first published by Jarrolds in 1934. Widely reviewed at the time, it quickly became one of the most controversial texts of the Scottish literary renaissance of the early d...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £3,102

Development of a Virtual Reality application for home haemodialysis training

2023 - 2025
Patients entering end-stage kidney disease often need dialysis prior to transplantation - this may be delivered as in-centre dialysis (haemodialysis), or peritoneal dialysis. Increasingly, patients ar...
Funder: Kidney Research UK | Value: £149,697

Dance of the Seasons

2023 - 2024
Dance of the Seasons is a collaborative, inter-disciplinary artistic research project that explores how two very different art forms – dance and film – could be engaged in a creative dialogue with eac...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £10,000

Visualisation of Metadata in 2D/3D Digital Cuneiform Artefacts

2022 - 2023
Cuneiform is an ancient writing system that was first used in around 3400 BC (Finkel & Taylor, 2015). Distinguished by its 3D imprinted, wedge-shaped reed marks on clay tablets, cuneiform script is o...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £4,909

Enhancing the authenticity and sustainability of the visitor heritage experiences through 3D printing technology

2014 - 2015
This project proposes to offer an alternative approach to the contemporary heritage souvenir experience through the utilization of 3D scanning and printing and online, remote interfaces between the mu...
Funder: Arts & Humanities Research Council | Value: £33,250

Representation of South Asian women in Scottish Cinema

2021 - 2024
I will investigate how South Asian women have been represented in Scottish films. And through a practice-based autoethnographic exploration of image and sound, I will offer possibilities for complex c...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £7,010

Mystical Nationalism: W. B. Yeats, Patrick Pearse and the Revival of Ireland

2016 - 2017
This research will explore the religious and spiritual ideas governing the Irish Revival, especially as these were manifested in the work, thought and life of Yeats and Pearse.
Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £1,843

Anniversary Events for Rabindranath Tagore

2011 - 2015
To run a series of events to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rabindranath Tagore.To heighten awareness of plans to set up a Scottish Centre of Tagore Studies at Edinburgh Napier.
Value: £2,250

12 Closes Community Co-design Project, Phase 1

2016 - 2022
12 Closes is a 4 year project partnership with Edinburgh World Heritage to re-invigorate and redesign a series of the Royal Mile's pedestrian closes. The projects will be developed through a process o...
Funder: Edinburgh World Heritage | Value: £57,600

“get leave to live”: Nan Shepherd and the canon of Scottish and International Modernism

2019 - 2020
The primary aims of this project are as follows: a) to research in the Nan Shepherd holdings, and archives related to Shepherd’s work, at the University of Aberdeen; b) to consult with several Shepher...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £3,547

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City narratives in music: creating musical works that reflect urban realities relating to Valletta

2013 - 2019
"The research explores elements of community, identity, and cultural realities. It explores the way of...
Alexander Vella Gregory | Director of Studies: Mr. Ken Dempster | Second Supervisor: Dr Katrina Burton

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

Film Bang: Communities of Practice, Cross Media Interconnections, and Sectoral Growth within Scotland's Film and Television Industries

2021 - date
This research project investigates the historical evolution of the...
Nelson Correia | Director of Studies: Dr Alistair Scott | Second Supervisor: Dr Kirsten MacLeod

English-language reading in the Netherlands and its consequences on Dutch-language publishing

2014 - 2020
"My research aims to assess the impact that growing proficiency in English has on the European book market....
Giulia Trentacosti | Director of Studies: Dr Nick Pilcher | Second Supervisor: Prof Alistair Mccleery

Integrating multistylistic influences in a portfolio of compositions

2008 - date
My research involves the integration of elements from a variety of musical styles, with special emphasis on jazz and classical style...
Fraser Burke | Director of Studies: Mr. Ken Dempster | Second Supervisor: Dr Katrina Burton

The influence of duality and Poe?s notion of the ?Bi-Part Soul? on the genesis of detective fiction in the nineteenth-century

2008 - 2010
This thesis examines the meaning, origin and influence of Edgar Allan Poe’s...
Dr Stephanie Craighill | Director of Studies: Prof Linda Dryden | Second Supervisor: Prof Anne Schwan

Writing War, Writing Internment - Interrogating the Creative Outputs of People Experiencing Life in Closed Settings

2022 - date
Lisa Aref | Director of Studies: Dr Andrew Frayn | Second Supervisor: Prof Anne Schwan

How can people explore a sense of space, place and narrative in music/songwriting workshops to benefit their personal growth and wellbeing?

2022 - date
Beth Karp | Director of Studies: Mr Bryden Stillie | Second Supervisor: Dr Katrina Burton

The theoretically embodied improvisor: integrated frameworks for creative practice and pedagogy

2024 - date
Tom Bancroft | Director of Studies: Prof Haftor Medboe | Second Supervisor: Dr Dimitris Papageorgiou

Revelling in policy: between cultural and administrative festival imaginaries

2001 - 2009
Dr Kirstie Jamieson | Director of Studies: Matthew Turner | Second Supervisor: Prof Chris Atton

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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.

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.

'MacDiarmid at 100'

30 August 2022
The Scottish Revival Network is organising a one-day conference on 31 August 2022 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Scottish poet and cultural provocateur Hugh MacDiarmid’s first appearance in...

Edinburgh Napier appoints Rosie Howie as Publisher in Residence

6 May 2021
The Bookseller, the leading publishing industry magazine, ran a feature on our ground-breaking Publisher in Residence appointment. Full page coverage of my initiative (two years in the making), firs...

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...

Social and community impact: award winner and runners-up

25 November 2020
Bleedin Saor Project (Bloody Big Project) runner-up in the Guardian University Awards

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...

Alistair Duff Interviewed: "Coronavirus, the Information Age & 1984!"

8 June 2020
The Asia Scotland Institute has released a vidcast with Professor Alistair Duff, Professor of Information Policy at Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh. Professor Duff addresses the extent to which...

University teams up with community researchers to help improve their neighbourhood

6 February 2020
A Team of community researchers will join forces with academics to help improve their neighbourhood. UK Research and Innovation today announced its backing for the Seven Kingdoms of Wester Hailes, on...

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