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Ñuuyii (2026)
Digital Artefact
Jansen, I. (2026, August 1). Ñuuyii [Film].

The project explores Indigenous Futurisms from a practice-based film perspective, focusing on Indigenous ideas (Mixtec) about our relation to earth. The short film is a sci-fi about a Mixtec space-traveller in the future who listens to recordings of... Read More about Ñuuyii.

Bot's Eye View (2026)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Holmes, P. (2026, June 28-30). Bot's Eye View [Paper presentation]. 10th CICA New Media Art Conference, Gimpo, Seoul, South Korea. https://cicamuseum.com/cica-new-media-art-conference-2025/

Capacity-building for the Twin Transitions: What do local public servants need and how are they being prepared for digital and green transitions? Preliminary insights from Scotland (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Surubaru, N. C. (2025, August 26-29). Capacity-building for the Twin Transitions: What do local public servants need and how are they being prepared for digital and green transitions? Preliminary insights from Scotland [Presentation / Talk]. European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) 2025, Glasgow, UK. https://www.conftool.org/egpa2025conference/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=1019#paperID380

The disrupting effects of digital transformations and the climate change crisis on public administrations worldwide cannot be underestimated. In recent years, local public servants have had to deal with multiple natural emergencies, political uncerta... Read More about Capacity-building for the Twin Transitions: What do local public servants need and how are they being prepared for digital and green transitions? Preliminary insights from Scotland.

Post-graduate tourism students and the art of making their own future a sustainable one (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, M., & Ferdinand, N. (2025, October 22-24). Post-graduate tourism students and the art of making their own future a sustainable one [Paper presentation]. 44th International Society of Travel and Tourism Educators Annual Conference, Edinburgh, UK. https://istte.org/conference/pastconferenceproceedings/

'Jean' (2025)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (n.d.). 'Jean'. Ayont the Thistle: Reflections on and responses to Hugh MacDiarmid’s A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle in the centenary of its publication. Tippermuir Books. https://tippermuirbooks.co.uk/

This short story in Scots entitled 'Jean' envisages the Drunk Man, the protagonist of Hugh MacDiarmid 1926 poem A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle, in a care home approaching his centenary. He has Alzheimer's but clearly still has a vibrant inner spiri... Read More about 'Jean'.

Composted: A Festival of Biodegradable Ideas (2025)
Other
Chaloner, S. (2025). Composted: A Festival of Biodegradable Ideas. Festival at Cambo Gardens Fife. https://www.cambogardens.org.uk/

Collaboration with Cambo Garden in May 2025 funded by Napier University & Fife Climate Action Network.

Witnessing visitors arriving in their droves to Cambo Garden’s Snowdrop Festival, inspired head Gardener Cal Halstead and myself to pitch to Cam... Read More about Composted: A Festival of Biodegradable Ideas.

Does Simulation Software Foster Inclusion in Higher Education? An Observational Study (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Arvanitis, P. (2025, October 3-5). Does Simulation Software Foster Inclusion in Higher Education? An Observational Study [Conference Abstract]. 7th International Conference on Management of Educational Units - ICOMEU 2025, Thessaloniki, Greece & Online. https://www.education-master.gr/ICOMEU2025_BOA.pdf

The integration of digital technologies into education has transformed how learning environments address diversity, accessibility, and equity. Inclusive education, grounded in the principles of social justice, aims to ensure that all learners—regardl... Read More about Does Simulation Software Foster Inclusion in Higher Education? An Observational Study.

Sustainable, nearly zero emissions retrofit for a pre-1919 house in Scotland (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Obead, R., Khaddour, L., & D'Amico, B. (2025, September 15-17). Sustainable, nearly zero emissions retrofit for a pre-1919 house in Scotland [Paper presentation]. 11th International Conference on Energy and Sustainability, Ancona, Italy. https://www.witpress.com/elibrary/wit-transactions-on-ecology-and-the-environment

To mitigate the adverse effects of climate change, several measures must be implemented to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Reducing carbon emissions in the construction sector for both new and existing buildings plays a significant role in achieving... Read More about Sustainable, nearly zero emissions retrofit for a pre-1919 house in Scotland.

Lost for Words (2025)
Digital Artefact
(2025). Lost for Words [Film]. https://www.lostforwords.fr/

My contribution to this feature documentary (dir. Hanah Papacek Harper), investigates how film sound can articulate silence, disfluency, and ecological presence as affective rather than purely communicative phenomena. The research question was: how c... Read More about Lost for Words.

BiGCAT: A Graph-Based Representation Learning Model with LLM Embeddings for Named Entity Recognition (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hossain, M. A., Aziz, A., Azim, M. A., Chy, A. N., Ullah, M. Z., & Islam, M. K. (2025). BiGCAT: A Graph-Based Representation Learning Model with LLM Embeddings for Named Entity Recognition. Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (pp. 433-440). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.26615/978-954-452-098-4-052

Named entity recognition from financial text is challenging because of word ambiguity, huge quantity of unknown corporation names, and word abbreviation compared to nonfinancial text. However, models often treat named entities in a linear sequence fa... Read More about BiGCAT: A Graph-Based Representation Learning Model with LLM Embeddings for Named Entity Recognition.

Police Adaptation and Innovation in Emerging Technological Infrastructures (2025)
Book Chapter
Horgan, S., & Collier, B. (n.d.). Police Adaptation and Innovation in Emerging Technological Infrastructures. Research Handbook of Policing and Society.

In this chapter, we discuss a selection of ways public police attempt to react to, co-opt, innovate or simply survive the emergence or popularisation of technologies and their criminal or harmful manifestations. We take two thematic case study exampl... Read More about Police Adaptation and Innovation in Emerging Technological Infrastructures.

Participatory Design for Positive Impact: Behind the Scenes of Three NLP Projects (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, M., Howcroft, D. M., Konstas, I., Gkatzia, D., & Abercrombie, G. (2025). Participatory Design for Positive Impact: Behind the Scenes of Three NLP Projects. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact (NLP4PI) (pp. 252–263). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.nlp4pi-1.21

Researchers in Natural Language Processing (NLP) are increasingly adopting participatory design (PD) principles to better achieve positive outcomes for stakeholders. This paper evaluates two PD perspectives proposed by Delgado et al. (2023) and Casel... Read More about Participatory Design for Positive Impact: Behind the Scenes of Three NLP Projects.

Impacts of mammals on trees and tree protection methods pertinent to English treescapes - a systematic literature review for Forestry Commission (2025)
Report
Mackinnon, J., Turner, R. S., & White, P. J. C. (2025). Impacts of mammals on trees and tree protection methods pertinent to English treescapes - a systematic literature review for Forestry Commission. Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/4055895

We conducted a systematic literature review as part of a Forestry Commission (FC) contract to provide good practice technical guidance to manage impacts of mammals on trees, woods, establishing woodlands and treescapes. The review examined both the p... Read More about Impacts of mammals on trees and tree protection methods pertinent to English treescapes - a systematic literature review for Forestry Commission.