All Outputs (92)

Pagan Modernism: First World War and Spiritual Revival in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song and Neil M. Gunn’s Highland River (2020)
Book Chapter
Lyall, S. (2020). Pagan Modernism: First World War and Spiritual Revival in Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song and Neil M. Gunn’s Highland River. In D. A. Rennie (Ed.), Scottish Literature and World War I (180-199). Edinburgh University Press

Abstract not available.

Interview with Bella Caledonia (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hook, D. (2020, November). Interview with Bella Caledonia. Presented at Bella Chats

https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2020/11/26/bella-chats-solareye/

Creative Assessment (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cochrane, R. (2020, November). Creative Assessment. Presented at Edinburgh College Research, Innovation & Improvement Project Forum, Online

This paper focuses on students’ use of a novel programme-focused feedback tool we have developed and utilised across Product Design at Edinburgh Napier University. In the context of the creative industries feedback needs to become a shared responsibi... Read More about Creative Assessment.

'Landscape of Memory' International Online Art Exhibition (2020)
Exhibition / Performance
Bilgrami, S., & Peracha, M. (2020). 'Landscape of Memory' International Online Art Exhibition. [Curation of artworks]. Exhibited at Koel Gallery [Online - https://koelgallery.com/exhibitions/landscape-of-memory/]. 17 November 2020 - 29 December 2020

Sana Bilgrami and Maliha Peracha brought together artists from Scotland and Pakistan to discover in their work refractions of a shared and evocative vision of the elemental power, rhythm and continuity of natural forces. This exhibition reveals how b... Read More about 'Landscape of Memory' International Online Art Exhibition.

DETAILS: Women and Social Realism (2020)
Digital Artefact
Macinnes, C., Lamb, B., Haillay, S., & Coatman, A. (2020). DETAILS: Women and Social Realism. [Documentary film]

AHRC nominated for best early career research film. Three women filmmakers discuss their own contribution to social realism on screen and their inspirations.

Performing with Drum Kit Technologies (Advanced) (2020)
Book Chapter
Stillie, B. (2020). Performing with Drum Kit Technologies (Advanced). In A. P. bell (Ed.), The Music Technology Cookbook. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP)

This chapter describes an approach that introduces students to the features and musical affordances of drum kit technologies. Students learn how to use percussion controllers and electronic drum triggers, in conjunction with music software they have... Read More about Performing with Drum Kit Technologies (Advanced).

Found Sounds: Music from The Mundane (2020)
Book Chapter
Moir, Z. (2020). Found Sounds: Music from The Mundane. In A. P. bell (Ed.), The Music Production Cookbook: Ready-made Recipes for the Classroom. New York: Oxford University Press

This recipe encourages learners to develop their critical and analytic listening skills by seeking and recording sounds in their environment as a basis for music composition. The use of unorthodox (i.e. not inherently musical) sounds in a composition... Read More about Found Sounds: Music from The Mundane.

Improving Emergency Vehicles’ Response Times with the Use of Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bram-Larbi, K. F., Charissis, V., Khan, S., Harrison, D. K., & Drikakis, D. (2020, July). Improving Emergency Vehicles’ Response Times with the Use of Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence. Presented at 22nd HCI International Conference (HCII 2020), Copenhagen, Denmark

The rapid mobilization of Emergency Services (ES) could be particularly challenging for ES drivers and staff that have to navigate and manoeuvre through various traffic and weather conditions. Driving, in high speeds through dense traffic is a partic... Read More about Improving Emergency Vehicles’ Response Times with the Use of Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence.

‘The thought of it haunts you all your life’: Arthur Conan Doyle’s Arctic Ghosts (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alder, E. (2020, October). ‘The thought of it haunts you all your life’: Arthur Conan Doyle’s Arctic Ghosts. Paper presented at Gothic Nature III, Online

German Military Internees Writing the First World War: Gender, Irony and Humour in the Camp Newspaper Stobsiade (2020)
Book Chapter
Schwan, A. (2020). German Military Internees Writing the First World War: Gender, Irony and Humour in the Camp Newspaper Stobsiade. In M. Kelly, & C. Westall (Eds.), Prison Writing and the Literary World: Imprisonment, Institutionality and Questions of Literary Practice (41-57). Routledge

No abstract available.

Too Much Drama Defining Film in UK Copyright Law (2020)
Journal Article
Sellors, C. P. (2020). Too Much Drama Defining Film in UK Copyright Law. Journal of Media Law, 12(2), Article 6. https://doi.org/10.1080/17577632.2020.1831141

In Norowzian v Arks Ltd. (No.2) the Court of Appeal determined that the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 protects films as dramatic works. What, conceptually and in practice, this means is not clear. This article examines and compares the hist... Read More about Too Much Drama Defining Film in UK Copyright Law.

Scotland's Surging Hip-Hop And Grime Scene (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hook, D. (2020, October). Scotland's Surging Hip-Hop And Grime Scene. Presented at Dumfries Music Conference, Dumfries [Online]

An artist-led panel looking at current sounds, and trends emerging in Scotland and how the scene is attracting national recognition.

Daydream Believers and a Qualification in Creative Thinking (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cochrane, R. (2020, October). Daydream Believers and a Qualification in Creative Thinking. Presented at Fusion Cities 2 (Virtual) City of London Corporation, London [Online]

What if there was a Higher/A Level in Creative Thinking?

3D printing education as a means of building confidence and preparing children for skills considered necessary for the 21st century: A grounded theory study verified by empirical research (2020)
Thesis
Milne, D. E. 3D printing education as a means of building confidence and preparing children for skills considered necessary for the 21st century: A grounded theory study verified by empirical research. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2709292

This thesis aims to demonstrate children’s engagement with 3D printing technologies in 3D printing workshops through a large study of children. This will provide qualitative and empirical evidence which supports the benefits of making for children an... Read More about 3D printing education as a means of building confidence and preparing children for skills considered necessary for the 21st century: A grounded theory study verified by empirical research.

Exploring the history and cultural representation of capital punishment in Scotland (2020)
Thesis
McFadden, S. Exploring the history and cultural representation of capital punishment in Scotland. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2709266

Scotland’s historic and contemporary representation of capital punishment remains relatively unexplored in existing scholarship. This study aims to determine how capital punishment was presented to Scots in eighteenth and nineteenth century press pub... Read More about Exploring the history and cultural representation of capital punishment in Scotland.

Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of South East Asia (2020)
Journal Article
Supartono, A., & Moschovi, A. (2020). Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of South East Asia. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 51(3), 343-371. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463420000508

This article seeks to explore the impact of digital technologies upon the material, conceptual and ideological premises of the colonial archive in the digital era. This analysis is pursued though a discussion of creative work produced during an inter... Read More about Contesting colonial (hi)stories: (Post)colonial imaginings of South East Asia.

Negotiating privileged networks and exclusive mobilities: the case for a Deaf festival in Scotland’s festival city (2020)
Journal Article
Jamieson, K., & Todd, L. (2022). Negotiating privileged networks and exclusive mobilities: the case for a Deaf festival in Scotland’s festival city. Annals of Leisure Research, 25(1), 5-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2020.1809478

We explore the case for a Deaf festival in Edinburgh, the self-proclaimed 'world leading Festival City'. The formal recognition of British Sign Language in the BSL (Scotland) Act 2015 is paramount to the cultural and political context. Joining Englis... Read More about Negotiating privileged networks and exclusive mobilities: the case for a Deaf festival in Scotland’s festival city.

Self Portrait in the Form of a Geometric Net by Paul Holmes (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Holmes, P. (2020, September). Self Portrait in the Form of a Geometric Net by Paul Holmes. Presented at Progressive Connexions: Storytelling and the Body, Lisbon, Portugal

Development of Global Film Industry: Industrial Competition and Cooperation in the Context of Globalization (2020)
Book
Li, J. Q., Guan, Y., & Lu, H. (Eds.). (2020). Development of Global Film Industry: Industrial Competition and Cooperation in the Context of Globalization. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003051503

The global film industry has witnessed significant transformations in the past few years. Regions outside the USA have begun to prosper while non-traditional production companies such as Netflix have assumed a larger market share and online movies ad... Read More about Development of Global Film Industry: Industrial Competition and Cooperation in the Context of Globalization.

Invoking Deaf Heritage: A case for the future-making capacity of critical design (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jamieson, K., & Discepoli, M. (2020, August). Invoking Deaf Heritage: A case for the future-making capacity of critical design. Paper presented at Association of Critical Heritage Studies 2020, Online

Design is inseparable from heritage in its capacity to invoke the material presence of the past, but as this pa- per argues, it is critical design’s future-making capacity that offers critical heritage a much-needed speculative representational frame... Read More about Invoking Deaf Heritage: A case for the future-making capacity of critical design.