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The Lions’ Gate Permaculture Garden (2024)
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Egan, C. (2024). The Lions’ Gate Permaculture Garden. [Magazine Article]

Callum Egan explains how his academic community transformed The Lions’ Gate at Napier University, Edinburgh, into a series of permaculture gardens to create a healthier, nature-focused form of educational workplace

Solar panels and other renewables on people's homes, better insulation and a 'smart' electricity grid provide solutions to climate and energy crises (2023)
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Ryan, D. (2023). Solar panels and other renewables on people's homes, better insulation and a 'smart' electricity grid provide solutions to climate and energy crises. [Newspaper article]

Recent events have highlighted the folly of over-reliance on imported oil and gas. However, it’s important that we don’t lose sight of this knowledge so that it disappears once priorities change, like a passing fad. A long-term commitment to a transi... Read More about Solar panels and other renewables on people's homes, better insulation and a 'smart' electricity grid provide solutions to climate and energy crises.

France’s plan for solar panels on all car parks is just the start of an urban renewable revolution (2022)
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Ryan, D. (2022). France’s plan for solar panels on all car parks is just the start of an urban renewable revolution. [Blog post]

France has approved legislation that will require all car parks with more than 80 spaces to be covered over by solar panels. This is part of a wider programme that will see solar panels occupy derelict lots, vacant land alongside roads and railways,... Read More about France’s plan for solar panels on all car parks is just the start of an urban renewable revolution.

Research instrument and data for, 'Exploring the concept of PID literacy : user perceptions and understanding of persistent identifiers in support of open scholarly infrastructure' (2022)
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Macgregor, G., Lancho-Barrantes, B. S., & Rasmussen Pennington, D. (2022). Research instrument and data for, 'Exploring the concept of PID literacy : user perceptions and understanding of persistent identifiers in support of open scholarly infrastructure'. [Survey results]

The research instrument and accompanying data for the paper, "Exploring the concept of PID literacy: user perceptions and understanding of persistent identifiers in support of open scholarly infrastructure". Deposit includes: 1) The research instrume... Read More about Research instrument and data for, 'Exploring the concept of PID literacy : user perceptions and understanding of persistent identifiers in support of open scholarly infrastructure'.

Wood Information Sheet WIS 2/3-67 Specifying British-grown timbers (2022)
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Ridley-Ellis, D. (2022). Wood Information Sheet WIS 2/3-67 Specifying British-grown timbers. [pdf]

The purpose of this Wood Information Sheet (WIS) is to summarise the characteristics, and the current and potential uses, of timber grown in the UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland), which we also refer to in this WIS as ‘British-grown... Read More about Wood Information Sheet WIS 2/3-67 Specifying British-grown timbers.

Plugging the Data Gap: Freelance Workers in the Creative Industries (2021)
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Panneels, I., Terras, M., Jones, C., Helgason, I., & Komorowski, M. (2021). Plugging the Data Gap: Freelance Workers in the Creative Industries. https://www.pec.ac.uk/blog/plugging-the-data-gap-freelance-and-self-employed-workers-in-the-creative-industries

The lack of data on the self-employed and freelance workforce is a particularly severe problem for the creative industries, which are disproportionately made up of freelancers.

Shanshui (2020)
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Cheng, L. (2020). Shanshui. Hong Kong

Shanshui is a work for flute and interactive media. Through the reception of sonic artefacts from the flutist during the performance, the software programme dedicatedly developed for this piece transforms the flute voice into visual artefacts that de... Read More about Shanshui.