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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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Assessing the Confidence of Graduating Pre-Registration Nurses to Use and Embed Respiratory Clinical Skills in Practice: A Mixed Methods Analysis (2025)
Journal Article
Roberts, N. J., A Kelly, C., A Lippiett, K., E Barker, R., & Welch, L. (2025). Assessing the Confidence of Graduating Pre-Registration Nurses to Use and Embed Respiratory Clinical Skills in Practice: A Mixed Methods Analysis. EC Pulmonology and Respiratory Medicine, 14(6), 1-14

Background: The incidence of respiratory disease is increasing; all nurses will care for respiratory patients during their career.
There is disparity in the teaching of pre-registration respiratory nursing education. In the UK, revised Nursing and M... Read More about Assessing the Confidence of Graduating Pre-Registration Nurses to Use and Embed Respiratory Clinical Skills in Practice: A Mixed Methods Analysis.

Learning for future challenges: tourism futures and deep learning applied to teaching the UN SDGs (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M. (2024, November). Learning for future challenges: tourism futures and deep learning applied to teaching the UN SDGs. Presented at 2nd Tourism Futures Convention 2024 (TFC), Heilbron, Germany

This research presentation discussed the importance of future and foresight thinking (visioning) and the utility of scenario building as part of active design thinking as pedagogy. A real case study research project was used to consider the role of U... Read More about Learning for future challenges: tourism futures and deep learning applied to teaching the UN SDGs.

Sustainable Events, Net Zero, UN SDGs and "stickiness” (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M. (2024, August). Sustainable Events, Net Zero, UN SDGs and "stickiness”. Presented at 5th International Conference on Tourism and Business (ICTB) (Rethinking Tourism Sustainability: The Role of Destinations), Bangkok, Thailand

Through case study research, this conference paper consider the work of events as destination dynamics (Robertson, Mair, Lockstone-Binney & Duignan, 2022) and the significance of university commitment to SDGs as ‘bond’ and ‘bridge’ – sticky agents –... Read More about Sustainable Events, Net Zero, UN SDGs and "stickiness”.

Business Events and the Efficacy of UN SDGS for the Knowledge City (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M. (2025, February). Business Events and the Efficacy of UN SDGS for the Knowledge City. Paper presented at Tourism Research Seminar, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Models of knowledge cities, the learning city, the incubation city, the smart city, and knowledge region are well established. With the evolution of the innovation paradigm, the understanding of regional innovation is being expanded. Business events... Read More about Business Events and the Efficacy of UN SDGS for the Knowledge City.

Fear of goal failure and unethical behavior – the mediating role of ego depletion and moderating role of moral attentiveness (2025)
Journal Article
Murtaza, G., Khan, R., Neveu, J.-P., & Newman, A. (online). Fear of goal failure and unethical behavior – the mediating role of ego depletion and moderating role of moral attentiveness. Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance, https://doi.org/10.1108/joepp-02-2024-0065

Purpose
This article examines how fear of goal failure leads to unethical behavior at work. The study further explores whether ego depletion mediates the positive link between employees’ fear of failure in meeting their goals and their unethical beh... Read More about Fear of goal failure and unethical behavior – the mediating role of ego depletion and moderating role of moral attentiveness.