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Welcome to Edinburgh Napier Research Repository

The ‘Research Repository’ is the open access institutional repository of Edinburgh Napier University. It contains examples of research outputs produced by staff and research students, as well as related information about the university's funded projects and staff research interests.

Whenever possible, refereed documents accepted for publication, or finished artistic compositions presented in public, will be made available here in full digital format, and hyperlinks to standard published versions will be provided. Any questions about submissions to the repository or problems with access to any of its content should be sent to the Repository Team at repository@napier.ac.uk



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The competence of a successful designer (2023)
Journal Article
Turtola, N., & Määttä, K. (2023). The competence of a successful designer. International Journal of Business and Management (Prague), 11(1), 32-49. https://doi.org/10.20472/BM.2023.11.1.003

The designer’s practice is subject to ever-increasing demands in the accelerating transformations and complexities of our time. A designer's competence requires continuous renewal and realignment, yet it contains several permanent qualities. The purp... Read More about The competence of a successful designer.

Injury Rates, Mechanisms, Risk Factors and Prevention Strategies in Youth Rugby Union: What’s All the Ruck-Us About? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (2023)
Journal Article
West, S. W., Shill, I. J., Bailey, S., Syrydiuk, R. A., Hayden, K. A., Palmer, D., …Emery, C. A. (in press). Injury Rates, Mechanisms, Risk Factors and Prevention Strategies in Youth Rugby Union: What’s All the Ruck-Us About? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Sports Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-023-01826-z

Background Rugby Union is a collision team sport played globally. Despite this, significant concerns have been raised regarding the sport’s safety, particularly in youth players. Given this, a review of injury rates, risk factors and prevention stra... Read More about Injury Rates, Mechanisms, Risk Factors and Prevention Strategies in Youth Rugby Union: What’s All the Ruck-Us About? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

On cloud nine? Maternal emotional wellbeing six weeks up to one year postpartum – A cross-sectional study (2023)
Journal Article
Van den Branden, L., Van de Craen, N., Van Leugenhaege, L., Bleijenbergh, R., Mestdagh, E., Timmermans, O., …Kuipers, Y. J. (2023). On cloud nine? Maternal emotional wellbeing six weeks up to one year postpartum – A cross-sectional study. Sexual and Reproductive HealthCare, 36, Article 100856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srhc.2023.100856

Background: Little is known about the full scope of emotional wellbeing of mothers up to one year postpartum, to adequately support women during transition to motherhood. Reduced emotional wellbeing (REW) affects women’s adaption to the changes and c... Read More about On cloud nine? Maternal emotional wellbeing six weeks up to one year postpartum – A cross-sectional study.

Panic bank runs, global market contagion and the financial consequences of social media (2023)
Journal Article
Dosumu, O. E., Sakariyahu, R., Oyekola, O., & Lawal, R. (2023). Panic bank runs, global market contagion and the financial consequences of social media. Economics Letters, 228, Article 111170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111170

This paper provides empirical analysis on how social media amplifies bank runs, using the recent bank turmoil in the US. Employing data for 94 countries, our findings show that social media provides a conduit through which an immediate negative and s... Read More about Panic bank runs, global market contagion and the financial consequences of social media.

Use of hydraulic radius to estimate the permeability of coarse-grained materials using a new geodatabase (2023)
Journal Article
Feng, S., Barreto, D., Imre, E., Ibraim, E., & Vardanega, P. J. (in press). Use of hydraulic radius to estimate the permeability of coarse-grained materials using a new geodatabase. Transportation Geotechnics, Article 101026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trgeo.2023.101026

This paper reviews commonly used parameters and prediction models for assessing permeability of granular soils. Following a review of published models for prediction of soil permeability, a dimensional homogenous transformation model for a-priori est... Read More about Use of hydraulic radius to estimate the permeability of coarse-grained materials using a new geodatabase.