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Privacy in Pervasive Systems: Legal Framework and Regulatory Challenges

Book Chapter
Liotta, A., & Liotta, A. (2011)
Privacy in Pervasive Systems: Legal Framework and Regulatory Challenges. In Pervasive Computing and Communications Design and Deployment: Technologies, Trends and Applications, 263-277. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-611-4.ch012
Data protection legislation has developed in a digital communication context that is changing dramatically. Infrastructure-based, networked systems are increasingly interconne...

Adjustment and coping in spousal caregivers following a traumatic spinal cord injury: an interpretative phenomenological analysis

Journal Article
Dickson, A., O'Brien, G., Ward, R., Flowers, P., Allan, D., & O'Carroll, R. E. (2011)
Adjustment and coping in spousal caregivers following a traumatic spinal cord injury: an interpretative phenomenological analysis. Journal of Health Psychology, 17, 247-257. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105311411115
Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 11 spousal caregivers to people with a traumatic spinal cord injury and were subjected to interpretative phenomenological analys...

The role of contestable processes in advancing sustainability in transport and planning

Journal Article
Wigan, M. (2011)
The role of contestable processes in advancing sustainability in transport and planning. Road and Transport Research Journal, 20, 32-40
Sustainable transport requires not only solid evidence to support policy and practice, but also to allow this to be examined with a high degree of transparency. Not all techni...

Tony Blair's television political interviews in the aftermath of the Iraq war

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Ferguson, A. J. D. Tony Blair's television political interviews in the aftermath of the Iraq war. (Thesis)
Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6692
This thesis studies the political television interview with a particular focus on three interviews undertaken by Tony Blair. The answers the Prime Minister gave about the inva...

A novel dual band tunable balanced handset antenna for WLAN application

Conference Proceeding
Elfergani, I., Abd-Alhameed, R., Ali, N., Alhaddad, A., See, C., & Cabongomuqueba, E. (2011)
A novel dual band tunable balanced handset antenna for WLAN application. In 2011 18th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems, 516-519. https://doi.org/10.1109/icecs.2011.6122326
This paper presents a tunable balanced antenna covering WLAN frequency bands near 2.4 GHz (2.4-2.4835 GHz) and 5 GHz (5.15-5.35 GHz & 5.650-5.925 GHz), for mobile application....

The complexities of trust in the delivery of childhood vaccines in Scotland: A qualitative study

Journal Article
Kennedy, C., & Gray Brunton, C. (2011)
The complexities of trust in the delivery of childhood vaccines in Scotland: A qualitative study. Psychology and Health, 26, https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2011.617182
Background: The objective was to explore the challenges for health professionals in delivering controversial vaccines, the Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine, and newly ...

Catching more offenders with EvoFIT facial composites: Lab research and Police field trials.

Journal Article
Frowd, C. D., Hancock, P. J. B., Bruce, V., Skelton, F. C., Atherton, C., Nelson, L., …Sendrea, G. (2011)
Catching more offenders with EvoFIT facial composites: Lab research and Police field trials. Global Journal of Human Social Science, 11(3), 34-46
Often, the only evidence of an offender’s identity comes from the memory of an eyewitness. For over 12 years, we have been developing software called EvoFIT to help eyewitness...

Tourism mobility in regional integration schemes: a case of political deregulation?

Journal Article
Anastasiadou, C. (2011)
Tourism mobility in regional integration schemes: a case of political deregulation?. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 3, 237-255. https://doi.org/10.1080/19407963.2011.576867
Tourism mobility has been discussed in certain contexts in the relevant literature but has received limited treatment in the context of regional integration schemes. The purpo...

The Opportunities and Challenges of the Changing Public Services Landscape for the Third Sector in Scotland: A Longitudinal Study Year One Report: Baseline Findings

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Osborne, S. P., Honore, E., Bond, S., & Dutton, M. (2011)
The Opportunities and Challenges of the Changing Public Services Landscape for the Third Sector in Scotland: A Longitudinal Study Year One Report: Baseline Findings
This research report outlines the findings from the first year of a three year longitudinal study examining the opportunities and challenges facing third sector organisations ...

Compassion in the nursing curriculum: making it more explicit

Journal Article
Adamson, E., & Dewar, B. (2011)
Compassion in the nursing curriculum: making it more explicit. Journal of Holistic Healthcare, 8, 42-45
Working with student nurses has taught me that the majority join the profession because they genuinely want to care compassionately but this does not mean that they know what ...

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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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Social Robots for Well-Being

2023 - date
Franziska Heck | Director of Studies: Dr Frauke Zeller | Second Supervisor: Dr Debbie Meharg

Race and diversity in the Scottish Legal Profession

2023 - date
Silence Chihuri | Director of Studies: Prof Richard Whitecross | Second Supervisor: James McDougall

Design of a smart system for pathogen detection in bathing water using deep learning

2023 - date
Hemza Abdel Fettah Berkani | Director of Studies: Dr Abdelfateh Kerrouche | Second Supervisor: Alistair Lawson

Design of novel candidate PDK-X selective inhibitors as new drugs for the treatment of endometrial cancer, endometriosis and related conditions

2023 - date
Amy Dillon | Director of Studies: Dr David Mincher | Second Supervisor: Dr Craig Stevens

Age of Marriage and Civil Partnership in Scotland

2023 - date
Ego Chidinma Ezeokoli | Director of Studies: Dr Rob Clucas | Second Supervisor: Prof Richard Whitecross

Music For Life: Improving Access to Music Tuition for Mature Students; The Community Instrumental Music Service for Rural Scotland

2023 - date
Director of Studies: Dr Zack Moir | Second Supervisor: Mr Bryden Stillie

Real-Time Data Management and Communication for Internet of Twins

2023 - date
Lal Cakir | Director of Studies: Prof Berk Canberk | Second Supervisor: Dr Craig Thomson

The effect of multimodal prehabilitation on patients with colorectal cancer

2023 - date
Talitha De Klerk | Director of Studies: Dr Konstantinos Kaliarntas | Second Supervisor: Prof Anna Campbell

MIMO and Phased Array Antenna Systems for 5G/6G Wireless Communications

2023 - date
Haleh Jahanbakhsh Basherlou | Director of Studies: Dr Naser Ojaroudi Parchin | Second Supervisor: Dr Libu Manjakkal

Perovskite based CsSnBr1.5I1.5 quantum dots for solar cell

2023 - date
Prasutha Markapudi | Director of Studies: Dr Libu Manjakkal | Second Supervisor: Dr Chan Hwang See

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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.

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...

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...

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