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Berlinale 75: Fiabe e pastiche (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine
Cicchetti, P. (2025). Berlinale 75: Fiabe e pastiche

In the second half of my long-form report from the 2025 edition of the Berlinale, I discuss the merits and limitations of a maximalist tendency displayed by several films included in the programme. I then contrast these titles with others that rely m... Read More about Berlinale 75: Fiabe e pastiche.

Berlinale 75: A posteriori (2025)
Newspaper / Magazine
Cicchetti, P. (2025). Berlinale 75: A posteriori

The first half of a long-form report I wrote after attending the 75° of the Berlinale. I discuss the ongoing currency of some of the representational strategies I had identified in 2024, and offer critical remarks on a few notable films in the progra... Read More about Berlinale 75: A posteriori.

Generative Adversarial Networks-enabled Anomaly Detection Systems: A Survey (2025)
Journal Article
Saeed, U., Jan, S. U., Ahmad, J., Shah, S. A., Alshehri, M. S., Ghadi, Y. Y., Pitropakis, N., & Buchanan, W. J. (online). Generative Adversarial Networks-enabled Anomaly Detection Systems: A Survey. Expert Systems with Applications, 296(B), Article 128978. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.128978

Anomaly Detection (AD) is an important area of research because it helps identify outliers in data, enabling early detection of errors, fraud, and potential security breaches. Machine Learning (ML) can be utilized for distinct AD systems, and Generat... Read More about Generative Adversarial Networks-enabled Anomaly Detection Systems: A Survey.

Understanding the role of community voices in developing new arts and cultural venues as drivers of social sustainability in festival cities of the future: The case of Edinburgh’s Dunard Centre (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Snell, S., & Rihova, I. (2025, July). Understanding the role of community voices in developing new arts and cultural venues as drivers of social sustainability in festival cities of the future: The case of Edinburgh’s Dunard Centre. Presented at Leisure Studies Association Conference 2024, University of West of Scotland, Paisley, UK

Cities are under growing pressure to address the challenge of supporting more inclusive and sustainable communities. Festivals and events, increasingly used as urban development tools, can assist in the creation of sustainable cities with prosperous,... Read More about Understanding the role of community voices in developing new arts and cultural venues as drivers of social sustainability in festival cities of the future: The case of Edinburgh’s Dunard Centre.

Kerb heights - Phase 4 (2025)
Report
Langdon, P., & Olowosegun, A. (2025). Kerb heights - Phase 4. Transport Scotland

The Inclusive Kerbs Phase 4 research project gathered data using a representative example of standard kerbs within a controlled laboratory environment to understand how people with various impairments interacted with them. The study was conducted by... Read More about Kerb heights - Phase 4.

Inclusive Kerbs Study Phase 3 (2025)
Report
Langdon, P., & Olowosegun, A. (2025). Inclusive Kerbs Study Phase 3. Transport Scotland

The Inclusive Kerbs Phase 3 research project gathered data from a representative example of kerbs within The City of Edinburgh to understand what kerbs are present in the city and how people with various impairments use them. The study was conducted... Read More about Inclusive Kerbs Study Phase 3.

Rethinking Dark Tourism: Practitioner Perspectives, and Future Research Directions (2025)
Journal Article
Wight, C., Podoshen, J., Wyatt, B., & Lennon, J. (online). Rethinking Dark Tourism: Practitioner Perspectives, and Future Research Directions. Tourism Recreation Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/02508281.2025.2521277

This study invited dark tourism practitioners to comment on the salient academic discourses concerning dark tourism and propose new ways forward for research. Through a genre analysis of dark tourism literature and semi-structured interviews with an... Read More about Rethinking Dark Tourism: Practitioner Perspectives, and Future Research Directions.

Clothbummums: Unpacking Consumers’ Green Engagement with Cloth Nappies (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McFarlane, A., & Kawaf, F. (2025, July). Clothbummums: Unpacking Consumers’ Green Engagement with Cloth Nappies. Paper presented at Academy of Marketing, Cork, Ireland

This research investigates consumers’ green engagement with cloth nappies amid the challenges of early parenthood. This qualitative study utilised visual diaries and online focus groups with 27 users within the Instagram community #clothbummums. Find... Read More about Clothbummums: Unpacking Consumers’ Green Engagement with Cloth Nappies.

Shifts in dietary composition are linked to increased clutch size, but not brood size, in a UK urban Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus population (2025)
Journal Article
Thornton, M., Wilson, D., Leitch, A., Roos, S., & White, P. (online). Shifts in dietary composition are linked to increased clutch size, but not brood size, in a UK urban Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus population. Bird Study, https://doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2025.2513542

Capsule: Over three decades, the garden bird community composition in Edinburgh has changed, probably in response to increased garden bird feeding, and this has increased prey biomass for Eurasian Sparrowhawks Accipiter nisus, coinciding with a signi... Read More about Shifts in dietary composition are linked to increased clutch size, but not brood size, in a UK urban Eurasian Sparrowhawk Accipiter nisus population.

Transactional scaffolding improves learning engagement within blended learning environments in Scottish Higher Education (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Smith, D. (2025, July). Transactional scaffolding improves learning engagement within blended learning environments in Scottish Higher Education. Presented at SEB Annual Conference Antwerp 2025, Antwerp

Effects of environmental conditions on mate fidelity in a socially monogamous seabird (2025)
Journal Article
Lewis, S., Butler, A., Wanless, S., Newell, M. A., Harris, M. P., Burthe, S. J., Gunn, C. M., Howells, R. J., & Daunt, F. (in press). Effects of environmental conditions on mate fidelity in a socially monogamous seabird. Animal Behaviour,

In iteroparous, socially monogamous species, individuals vary in the extent of mate fidelity across breeding attempts, often with important fitness consequences. Numerous studies have demonstrated intrinsic drivers of mate fidelity, notably previous... Read More about Effects of environmental conditions on mate fidelity in a socially monogamous seabird.

Discovery of potential RAF selective back pocket as a promising biological site for BRAF inhibitors targeting resistant melanoma opens the door for a new generation of kinase inhibitors: Design, synthesis, biological evaluation, and in silico molecular simulation (2025)
Journal Article
Ammar, U., El-Din, M. G., Abdel-Maksoud, M., Ali, E., El-Gamal, M., Mahmoud, Z., Ahn, S., Nguyen, N. H., Kim, E., Jun, P. S., Deug, K. Y., Choi, H. S., Lee, K. H., Choi, G., & Oh, C.-H. (2025). Discovery of potential RAF selective back pocket as a promising biological site for BRAF inhibitors targeting resistant melanoma opens the door for a new generation of kinase inhibitors: Design, synthesis, biological evaluation, and in silico molecular simulation. International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 320(Part 2), Article 145699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2025.145699

Despite the approved combination of BRAFV600E and MEK inhibitors to treat drug-resistant melanoma, serious side effects associated with this combination have been reported, particularly referring to MEK inhibitors. In the current study, an isosteric... Read More about Discovery of potential RAF selective back pocket as a promising biological site for BRAF inhibitors targeting resistant melanoma opens the door for a new generation of kinase inhibitors: Design, synthesis, biological evaluation, and in silico molecular simulation.

Using our nursing superpower: Improving cancer care for older people and their care partners by addressing what matters most: Age-Friendly Cancer Nursing Collective (AFCNC) (2025)
Journal Article
Campbell, K., Dunham, M., He, E. S., Kagan, S. H., Kinnane, N. A., Krishnasamy, M., Lynch, M. P., Staats, K., & Torstveit, A.-H. (online). Using our nursing superpower: Improving cancer care for older people and their care partners by addressing what matters most: Age-Friendly Cancer Nursing Collective (AFCNC). Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apjon.2025.100752

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Who are you? Examining the multifaceted innovation roles of municipal governments in AI governance (2025)
Journal Article
Elbehairy, F., Mora, L., & Soe, R.-M. (2025). Who are you? Examining the multifaceted innovation roles of municipal governments in AI governance. Technovation, 147, Article 103303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.technovation.2025.103303

Our study advances theoretical understanding of the diverse roles municipal governments play in governing the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies within their administrative boundaries. While existing literature ty... Read More about Who are you? Examining the multifaceted innovation roles of municipal governments in AI governance.

Illuminating Humanity: Narrative Medicine Practices for Crisis Negotiators (2025)
Journal Article
Thompson, J., & Launer, J. (online). Illuminating Humanity: Narrative Medicine Practices for Crisis Negotiators. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11896-025-09756-4

This exploratory paper examines how the practical application of narrative medicine (NM) has the capability to support police hostage/crisis negotiators. Narrative medicine ensures that the humanity and dignity of both medical professional and patien... Read More about Illuminating Humanity: Narrative Medicine Practices for Crisis Negotiators.

Nutritional risk, frailty and functional status in elderly heart failure patients (2025)
Journal Article
Lisiak, M., Jędrzejczyk, M., Wleklik, M., Lomper, K., Czapla, M., & Uchmanowicz, I. (online). Nutritional risk, frailty and functional status in elderly heart failure patients. ESC Heart Failure, https://doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.15351

Aims: Heart failure (HF) in elderly patients is frequently associated with frailty, malnutrition and reduced functional status. This study assessed the associations between nutritional risk, functional capacity, frailty and length of hospital stay (L... Read More about Nutritional risk, frailty and functional status in elderly heart failure patients.

Anamorphic Cryptography using Baby-Step Giant-Step Recovery (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J., & Gilchrist, J. (2025, September). Anamorphic Cryptography using Baby-Step Giant-Step Recovery. Presented at 14th International Conference on Cryptography and Information Security, Copenhagen, Denmark

In 2022, Persianom, Phan and Yung outlined the creation of Anamor-phic Cryptography. With this, we can create a public key to encrypt data, and then have two secret keys. These secret keys are used to decrypt the cipher into different messages. So, o... Read More about Anamorphic Cryptography using Baby-Step Giant-Step Recovery.

Privacy-aware White and Black List Searching for Fraud Analysis (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Buchanan, W. J., Gilchrist, J., Jaroucheh, Z., Timosenko, D., Ramchandani, N., & Ali, H. (2025, September). Privacy-aware White and Black List Searching for Fraud Analysis. Presented at 14th International Conference on Cryptography and Information Security, Copenhagen, Denmark

In many areas of cybersecurity, we require access to Personally Identifiable Information (PII), such as names, postal addresses and email addresses. Unfortunately, this can lead to data breaches, especially in relation to data compliance regulations... Read More about Privacy-aware White and Black List Searching for Fraud Analysis.

Understanding work and study demands of degree apprentices using Conservation of Resources Theory (2025)
Journal Article
Smith, S., Taylor-Smith, E., Bratton, A., & Dutton, M. (2025). Understanding work and study demands of degree apprentices using Conservation of Resources Theory. Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 17(1), Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40461-025-00189-1

Degree apprenticeships are a recent innovation in the UK. The overarching goal of the apprenticeship is to achieve a degree, while working and advancing careers. This involves apprentices and employing organisations investing in resources including w... Read More about Understanding work and study demands of degree apprentices using Conservation of Resources Theory.

Student experiences of academic transition: Undergraduate STEM to postgraduate social science (2025)
Journal Article
Jones, N., & Earnshaw, H. (2025). Student experiences of academic transition: Undergraduate STEM to postgraduate social science. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 13(2), 109-126. https://doi.org/10.56433/my9hrj96

This research contributes to developing a deeper understanding of student lived experience of navigating the transition from undergraduate to taught postgraduate study. As reported in the literature, this is generally an under-studied phenomenon. In... Read More about Student experiences of academic transition: Undergraduate STEM to postgraduate social science.