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Police Adaptation and Innovation in Emerging Technological Infrastructures (2025)
Book Chapter
Horgan, S., & Collier, B. Police Adaptation and Innovation in Emerging Technological Infrastructures. In 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.

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. Forestry Commission

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.

Sound Dramaturgy (2025)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (2025). Sound Dramaturgy. In M. Kowalski, L. Cláudio Ribeiro, S. Larson Guerra, E. Rusinova, & J. H. Whalley (Eds.), Teaching Sound: Aesthetics & Praxis. CILECT

Sound dramaturgy as part of the aesthetic design of either a film or a Virtual Reality (VR) experience is invisible, but most relevant, although often overlooked. As a sound person and academic, I have long been interested in the dramaturgical releva... Read More about Sound Dramaturgy.

“Waked, and unquiet”: William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (2025)
Book Chapter
Alder, E. (2025). “Waked, and unquiet”: William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land. In C. H. Sederholm, & K. Woofter (Eds.), The Weird: A Companion. Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b20688

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1917) is a central but sometimes overlooked figure in the development of weird fiction in the early twentieth century. Hodgson’s work flourished at the intersection of what we now call science fiction, Gothic, fantasy, and... Read More about “Waked, and unquiet”: William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land.

James and Percival Everett's Dialogue with US Storytelling (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keeble, A. (2025, December). James and Percival Everett's Dialogue with US Storytelling. Paper presented at PERCIVAL - an international conference on the literature and art of Percival Everett, London

This paper considers James within Everett’s famously diverse oeuvre – to date including twenty-four novels, four collections of short fiction, three collections of poetry and a children’s book – a distinctive body of work commonly described as “uncat... Read More about James and Percival Everett's Dialogue with US Storytelling.

The intersection of datafication and data justice in higher education (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fabian, K. (2025, October). The intersection of datafication and data justice in higher education. Presented at Connecting Space, Data and Society: Interdisciplinary Pathways, London

There has been an increasing uptake of technology in the classroom, either for teaching or for classroom management purposes. Along with this uptake is the increasing datafication of education. Datafication is the process of rendering social and natu... Read More about The intersection of datafication and data justice in higher education.

Walking “alone”? Critical autoethnography, assemblage, and the paradoxical co-production of solo-hiker subjectivity (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2025, August). Walking “alone”? Critical autoethnography, assemblage, and the paradoxical co-production of solo-hiker subjectivity. Presented at Royal Geographical Society International Conference, University of Birmingham

This autoethnographic performance text examines the paradoxical co-production of “aloneness” in nature spaces charged with a politics of memory. The context is hiking “alone” as a fat, middle-aged, queer woman, to Highland Clearances ruins and bothie... Read More about Walking “alone”? Critical autoethnography, assemblage, and the paradoxical co-production of solo-hiker subjectivity.

The Provocateurs: Gender Fears / Haunted Mouths Show (2025)
Exhibition / Performance
Kulpa, R., & Zabrzewska, A. The Provocateurs: Gender Fears / Haunted Mouths Show. [Live Show]. 1 August 2025

This Fringe 2025 show will feature Dr Roberto Kulpa & Dr Adrianna Zabrzewska (Edinburgh Napier University), who discuss why people who reject gender equalities turn to homophobic, transphobic, and anti-feminist fearmongers. The show also features Dr... Read More about The Provocateurs: Gender Fears / Haunted Mouths Show.

Millimeter-Wave MIMO Array with Low Interactions Between its Antenna Elements for Fifth Generation Wireless Communication Networks (2025)
Journal Article
Alibakhshikenari, M., Mousa Ali, E., ud din, I., Virdee, B. S., Ullah, S., Khan, S., Hwang See, C., Saber, T., & Limiti, E. (2025). Millimeter-Wave MIMO Array with Low Interactions Between its Antenna Elements for Fifth Generation Wireless Communication Networks. Journal of Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves, 46(7), Article 46. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10762-025-01062-8

This paper presents a novel, compact eight-port circular MIMO antenna system designed for millimeter-wave (mmWave) 5G communication, offering a wide impedance bandwidth and high isolation. The proposed antenna array operates over a broad measured fre... Read More about Millimeter-Wave MIMO Array with Low Interactions Between its Antenna Elements for Fifth Generation Wireless Communication Networks.

The Provocateurs! Fringe Preview (2025)
Exhibition / Performance
Varghese, R., Rae, A., & Uegaki, W. The Provocateurs! Fringe Preview. 16 July 2025 - 16 July 2025

Take top academics, some thought-provoking ideas, add one comedian…

New for 2025, The Provocateurs promise to blend humour with ground breaking research. Join us for a spirited debate with some of Scotland’s sharpest intellects.

With host comed... Read More about The Provocateurs! Fringe Preview.

Digital tax administration, investor risk perception, and stock return volatility (2025)
Journal Article
Tu, W., Du, A. M., & Borthwick Saddler, S. (2025). Digital tax administration, investor risk perception, and stock return volatility. International Review of Economics and Finance, 103, Article 104434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2025.104434

This study investigates the impact of digital tax administration on stock return volatility amid heightened market uncertainty. Leveraging the staggered rollout of China's Golden Tax Phase III from 2013 to 2016 as a quasi-natural experiment, we emplo... Read More about Digital tax administration, investor risk perception, and stock return volatility.

Climate Governance, CSR Strategy, and Corporate Environmental Decoupling (2025)
Journal Article
Mushtaq, R., Du, A. M., & Bahoo, S. (2025). Climate Governance, CSR Strategy, and Corporate Environmental Decoupling. Finance Research Letters, 85(Part A), Article 107925. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2025.107925

This study, utilizing a global dataset of 32,382 firm-year observations from 2004 to 2023, reveals a positive and statistically significant relationship between climate governance and corporate environmental decoupling. We find that climate governanc... Read More about Climate Governance, CSR Strategy, and Corporate Environmental Decoupling.

Improving Novelty Search with a Surrogate Model and Accuracy Objectives to Build High-Performing Ensembles of Classifiers (2025)
Journal Article
Cardoso, R. P., Hart, E., & Pitt, J. V. (2025). Improving Novelty Search with a Surrogate Model and Accuracy Objectives to Build High-Performing Ensembles of Classifiers. SN Computer Science, 6(6), Article 631. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-025-04056-4

Neuroevolution combined with Novelty Search to promote behavioural diversity is capable of constructing high-performing ensembles for classification. However, using gradient descent to train evolved architectures during the search can be computationa... Read More about Improving Novelty Search with a Surrogate Model and Accuracy Objectives to Build High-Performing Ensembles of Classifiers.

Systematic Review Historical Building Energy Retrofit Focusing on the Whole Life Cycle Assessment-A Systematic Literature Review (2025)
Journal Article
Obead, R., Khaddour, L., & D'Amico, B. (2025). Systematic Review Historical Building Energy Retrofit Focusing on the Whole Life Cycle Assessment-A Systematic Literature Review. Architecture, 5(3), Article 49. https://doi.org/10.3390/architecture5030049

Climate change is becoming one of humanity's major concerns. Remarkable steps are being implemented to reduce global emissions in all economic sectors, including the built environment. Historical buildings use a considerable amount of energy and prod... Read More about Systematic Review Historical Building Energy Retrofit Focusing on the Whole Life Cycle Assessment-A Systematic Literature Review.

Smart sensing and anomaly detection for microalgae culture based on LoRaWAN sensors and LSTM autoencoder (2025)
Journal Article
Soon, C. F., Jamia’an, M., Mohamed Sunar, N., Arifin, S. N. H., Tay, K. G., Heng, C., See, C. H., Mat Nayan, N. H., & Tee, K. S. (2025). Smart sensing and anomaly detection for microalgae culture based on LoRaWAN sensors and LSTM autoencoder. Aquaculture International, 33(6), Article 438. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10499-025-02104-7

The increasing demand for sustainable aquaculture solutions has accelerated interest in microalgae as an alternative fish feed source. This study presents a novel integration of Long-Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) sensors and a Long Short-Term Mem... Read More about Smart sensing and anomaly detection for microalgae culture based on LoRaWAN sensors and LSTM autoencoder.