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Questioning women’s empowerment through tourism entrepreneurship opportunities: The case of Omani women

Thesis
Salim Al Mazro'ei, L. B. Questioning women’s empowerment through tourism entrepreneurship opportunities: The case of Omani women. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/995563
This thesis adopts critical feminist theory, which is a combination of both critical theory and feminist theory, to explore the nature and experiences of Omani women involved ...

Women Bishops: Equality, Rights and Disarray

Journal Article
Clucas, R., & Sharpe, K. (2013)
Women Bishops: Equality, Rights and Disarray. Ecclesiastical Law Journal, 15(2), 158-174. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0956618x13000185
In this article we discuss the recent history of the failed draft Bishops and Priests (Consecration and Ordination of Women) Measure, situating this within the broader context...

Institutional Perspectives: Trust Relationships Among Women Entrepreneurs

Conference Proceeding
Omeihe, K. O., Saud Khan, M., Dakhan, S. A., & Amoako, I. O. (2018)
Institutional Perspectives: Trust Relationships Among Women Entrepreneurs. In Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research. , (194-196
There is a growing concern that entrepreneurial behaviour has to be understood in the context in which it occurs. This includes the institutional context in which the entrepre...

Government supported women’s leadership development programmes: a case study of Dubai

Thesis
Al Suwaidi, A. K. S. Government supported women’s leadership development programmes: a case study of Dubai. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6006
Since its inception in 1971, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) government has undertaken to develop the capabilities of its citizens (nationals), in order to satisfy the country...

Market research on factors influencing women's preferences in investment decision making

Journal Article
Sharma, A., Douglas, T., & Jaworski, P. (2017)
Market research on factors influencing women's preferences in investment decision making. International Journal of Management and Applied Science, 3(8), 79-86
This study aims to gain knowledge on the factors that influence the investment decision making of women in Singapore. The research explores the fact that investment decision i...

Rising to the top: exploring the role of political skill, career self-efficacy and perceived organisational support in the career success of women in Germany

Thesis
Weissenrieder, C. O. Rising to the top: exploring the role of political skill, career self-efficacy and perceived organisational support in the career success of women in Germany. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2704133
Interest in the careers of women is still highly relevant and remains an often-discussed topic amongst both scholars and practitioners. Despite several decades of legislative ...

Riding the Wave: Understanding the Context of Female Entrepreneurship in Pakistan

Book Chapter
Omeihe, K. O., Dakhan, S. A., Khan, M. S., Gustafsson, V., & Amoako, I. O. (2019)
Riding the Wave: Understanding the Context of Female Entrepreneurship in Pakistan. In Women Entrepreneurs and Strategic Decision Making in the Global Economy, 20-39. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7479-8.ch002
To date, most of the literature on female entrepreneurship reveals a paucity of research on developing market contexts. The authors build on this to establish the constraining...

The impact of gender perceptions and professional values on women’s careers in nursing

Journal Article
McIntosh, B., McQuaid, R., & Munro, A. (2015)
The impact of gender perceptions and professional values on women’s careers in nursing. Gender in management an international journal, 30(1), 26-43. https://doi.org/10.1108/gm-12-2013-0135
Purpose – This purpose of this paper is to engage two enduring sets of assumptions within nursing: firstly, that woman with children should prioritise the care of children; an...

Modelling the Influence of Communication on Fertility Behaviour of Women in Rural Bangladesh.

Thesis
Gayen, K. Fertility Behaviour of Women in Rural Bangladesh. (Thesis)
Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2783
The total fertility rate in Bangladesh declined from 6.3 children per women in 1975 to 3.3 in 1997-1999. This decline of 48 per cent over a 25-year period occurred without a s...

Giving women a voice: Using netnography to analyse consumer reactions towards Instagram branded content.

Presentation / Conference
Rezai Namaghi, K., Thomson, E., & Logan-MacFarlane, A. (2017, July)
Giving women a voice: Using netnography to analyse consumer reactions towards Instagram branded content. Paper presented at Academy of Marketing Conference, Hull
Social media is a relatively new form of interaction and communication. As such, methodologies for its analysis – netnographic methodologies – are still evolving, with approa...
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“Empowering Indonesian women in STEM: Building resilience through network, advisers and role models

2024 - 2024
Strengthening pathways into employment for women graduates: Affirming their major choices Championing female role models in STEM Facilitating networking of STEM career choices Providing support system...
Funder: British Council | Value: £24,828

Women Onto Work - Stating Our Case

2013 - 2015
To deliver a longitudinal analysis of Women Onto Work employment programmes and identify cases of good practice for knowledge transfer which will be developed into case studies.
Funder: Scottish Government | Value: £10,000

Women in ICT in Scotland

2015 - 2016
Investigation into the Numbers of Women working in ICT in Scotland and the nature and conditions of that work
Funder: Skills Development Scotland | Value: £26,650

Work-life Balance in the UK and Japan

2004 - 2005
Pressures for economic growth coupled with sociological changes in the workforce have led many industrialized countries to adopt measures to facilitate balance between work and domestic responsibiliti...
Value: £1,000

FIRRS: Forest Industry Recruitment and Retention Strategy

2006 - 2007
The Centre for Timber Engineering and Employment Research Institute, Napier University has recently embarked on a new project part-funded by the European Social Fund. The aim is to address the shortag...
Value: £1,000

Exploring the resilience of Palestinian SMEs: a collaboration with Oxfam Palestine

2022 - 2026
The collaboration will proceed in two stages. 1. Developing methods for measuring the resilience of women-led SMEs in Palestine, testing hypothesised sliding scale: discontinuous/failed; survived; r...

Scotland's Witches Voices - a follow up in depth study of two cases of significant interest in early nursing history - Christian Saidler (1597) and Bartie Patersoune (1607)

2022 - 2022
Background: the Witches Voices Study (Jan - Aug 2021) investigated healers/midwives accused of witchcraft in Scotland between 1563-1736. That study revealed some healers with unexpected healing pract...
Funder: Royal College of Nursing Foundation | Value: £995

The role of gender in virtual influencer prosocial marketing

2023 - 2024
Shared demographic characteristics between influencers and followers such as gender can lead to favourable outcomes (Leung et al., 2022). Indeed, research suggests women perceive themselves to be more...
Funder: Academy of Marketing | Value: £4,893

Gender Mainstreaming in Logistics and Supply Chain Management - ‘Seed-Corn’ Research Fund 2023/2024

2023 - 2024
The project is about gender mainstreaming in Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LSCM). The European Council defines Gender Mainstreaming as “a strategy to improve the quality of public policies, p...
Funder: The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport | Value: £7,471

Employment in Rural Areas: Demographic and Employment Trends and Typologies of Rural Areas in the European Union

2005 - 2006
This project was in response to calls for a "Study on Employment in Rural Areas (demographic and employment trends - in particular for young people and women - and typologies of rural areas)...
Value: £1,000
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Women, festival leadership and social transformations: The case of Edinburgh, the world's leading festival city

2019 - date
This research looks at the situation of women working in arts festivals in Edinburgh, try...
Bene Piccio | Director of Studies: Dr Louise Todd | Second Supervisor: Dr Martin Robertson

An analysis of nudging as a social marketing technique using Front of Pack nutrition labels: A study of women's perceptions of food labels

2014 - 2019
Dr Clidna Soraghan | Director of Studies: Dr Elaine Mercer-Jones | Second Supervisor: Prof John Ensor

Botched decisions? How young women use social media to make decisions about cosmetic surgery

2020 - date
Jasmiina Milne | Director of Studies: Dr Elaine Mercer-Jones | Second Supervisor: Dr Agata Krowinska

The absent voice: an examination of the experiences of women in Scottish civil courts in child contact cases involving domestic abuse

2019 - date
Gillian Baker | Director of Studies: Prof Richard Whitecross | Second Supervisor: Dr Rob Clucas

Questioning women's empowerment through tourism entrepreneurship opportunities: The case of Omani women

2014 - 2017
Lubna Badar Salim Al Mazro'ei | Director of Studies: Prof Paul Lynch | Second Supervisor: Dr Elaine Mercer-Jones

The lived experiences of ethnic minority Indian women entrepreneurs in Singapore: Motivation, barriers, challenges and support system

2018 - date
Prema Subramaniam | Director of Studies: Dr Renata Osowska | Second Supervisor: Melissa Liow

A case of the insta-self: exploring the relationship between Instagram branded content and millennial women's self-image

2015 - 2020
Kathryn Rezai | Director of Studies: Dr Elaine Mercer-Jones | Second Supervisor: Prof John Ensor

Rising to the top: Exploring the role of political skill, career self-efficacy and perceived organisational support in the career success of women in Germany

2014 - 2020
Caprice Oona Weissenrieder | Director of Studies: Prof Jane Ali-Knight | Second Supervisor: Dr Kenny Crossan