All Outputs (177)

Lean as a Framework for Humanisation in Higher Education (2020)
Book Chapter
Yorkstone, S., Clarke, S., & Mann, J. (2020). Lean as a Framework for Humanisation in Higher Education. In C. Devis-Rozental, & S. Clarke (Eds.), Humanising Higher Education: A positive approach to enhancing wellbeing (221-241). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57430-7_13

Lean management is a compelling concept, with a significant history, and although not always described as lean in name, is having an impact in Universities worldwide. Central to lean is the idea of beginning from true purpose, and the authors seek to... Read More about Lean as a Framework for Humanisation in Higher Education.

The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge (2020)
Book Chapter
Lawson, S. (2020). The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge. In M. P. Eve, & J. Gray (Eds.), Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (161-172). MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11885.001.0001

To complement contemporary discussions on open access, this chapter considers public libraries as one element of the longer history of access to scholarly knowledge. A historical perspective reveals that access to knowledge has undergone a long, slow... Read More about The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge.

Transition to Postgraduate Study at Master’s Level: Lessons Learned from Students’ Evaluations of an Online Induction Resource (2020)
Journal Article
Robb, L., & Moffat, S. (2020). Transition to Postgraduate Study at Master’s Level: Lessons Learned from Students’ Evaluations of an Online Induction Resource. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 8(1), 41-51. https://doi.org/10.14297/jpaap.v8i1.402

Evidence from UK universities’ Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) concluded that whilst confident and experienced in their area of practice, some find the prospect of returning to study in an on-line environment and making the transition to... Read More about Transition to Postgraduate Study at Master’s Level: Lessons Learned from Students’ Evaluations of an Online Induction Resource.

Jisc OA Annual Report 2019-20 for Edinburgh Napier University (2020)
Data
Ramage, L. (2021). Jisc OA Annual Report 2019-20 for Edinburgh Napier University. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.17869/enu.2021.2830303

This dataset contains details of article processing charges (APCs) paid by Edinburgh Napier University to make publications open access during the academic year 2019-20. It has been completed using the Jisc APC template.

Lean and green in a Scottish university (2020)
Digital Artefact
Pearson, J., & Yorkstone, S. (2020). Lean and green in a Scottish university. [https://planet-lean.com/lean-green-university/]

Why do lean and green go hand in hand? In the experience of this university in Edinburgh, they are both about respecting people and thinking holistically.

Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2010-2019 (2020)
Data
Lawson, S. (2020). Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2010-2019. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3657775

This dataset contains payments made by UK higher education institutions for access to academic journals from ten publishers from 2010-2019. The data was obtained by sending Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to institutions through the website Wha... Read More about Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2010-2019.

Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2017-2019 (2020)
Data
Lawson, S. (2020). Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2017-2019. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3659970

This dataset contains payments made by UK higher education institutions for access to academic journals from ten publishers from 2017-2019. The data was obtained by sending Freedom of Information requests to institutions through the website https://w... Read More about Journal subscription expenditure in the UK 2017-2019.

Transitioning points of view: Participating in a Faculty Learning Community at Edinburgh Napier University (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ennis, L. (2019, July). Transitioning points of view: Participating in a Faculty Learning Community at Edinburgh Napier University. Presented at Improving University Teaching, Mülheim an der Rhur, Germany

Faculty Learning Communities (FLC) are formal, time-bound and selective communities that encourage collaborative enhancement of teaching and learning. Based on the model developed by Milton D. Cox (2004), the first FLC at Edinburgh Napier University... Read More about Transitioning points of view: Participating in a Faculty Learning Community at Edinburgh Napier University.

Hyperprogression after immunotherapy: A comprehensive review (2019)
Journal Article
Cakir, M. O., Kirca, O., Gunduz, S., & Ozdogan, M. (2019). Hyperprogression after immunotherapy: A comprehensive review. JBUON, 24(6), 2232-2241

Immune checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized cancer treatment with patient improved survival, quality of life, and a longer response. However, up to 30% of patients experience paradoxical accelerated tumor progression early after immune-checkpoin... Read More about Hyperprogression after immunotherapy: A comprehensive review.

A GRU-Based Prediction Framework for Intelligent Resource Management at Cloud Data Centres in the Age of 5G (2019)
Journal Article
Lu, L., Liu, L., Panneerselvam, J., Yuan, B., Gu, J., & Antonopoulos, N. (2020). A GRU-Based Prediction Framework for Intelligent Resource Management at Cloud Data Centres in the Age of 5G. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 6(2), 486-498. https://doi.org/10.1109/tccn.2019.2954388

The increasing deployments of 5G mobile communication system is expected to bring more processing power and storage supplements to Internet of Things (IoT) and mobile devices. It is foreseeable the billions of devices will be connected and it is extr... Read More about A GRU-Based Prediction Framework for Intelligent Resource Management at Cloud Data Centres in the Age of 5G.

Invitert føredrag: Wikipedia and Open Access (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lawson, S. (2015, April). Invitert føredrag: Wikipedia and Open Access. Presented at Wikipedia-akademiet 2015 (Norwegian Wikipedia Academy), Tromsø, Norway

The Wikipedia community has been involved in open access for a long time so it is fitting that the Wikimedia Foundation has now implemented an open access policy. This talk will discuss the links between open access and Wikipedia, and discuss the his... Read More about Invitert føredrag: Wikipedia and Open Access.

Jisc OA Annual Report 2018-19 for Edinburgh Napier University (2019)
Data
Ramage, L. (2021). Jisc OA Annual Report 2018-19 for Edinburgh Napier University. [Data]. https://doi.org/10.17869/enu.2021.2830297

This dataset contains details of article processing charges (APCs) paid by Edinburgh Napier University to make publications open access during the academic year 2018-19. It has been completed using the Jisc APC template.

Using Lego to Construct Active Learning Experiences (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ennis, L., & Garden, C. (2019, July). Using Lego to Construct Active Learning Experiences. Presented at Enhancing Student Learning Through Innovative Scholarship, Edinburgh

This workshop will explore some of the different ways to use Lego construction toys as a mechanism for encouraging Active Learning. As a learning tool Lego has many uses and offers a low barrier for understanding. From building literal models to cons... Read More about Using Lego to Construct Active Learning Experiences.

Growing a Lean Approach in a Changing University (2019)
Book Chapter
Hurley, B., & Yorkstone, S. (2019). Growing a Lean Approach in a Changing University. In Global Lean for Higher Education: A Themed Anthology of Case Studies, Approaches, and Tools. Productivity Press

Edinburgh Napier University was a relatively early adopter of lean-type improvement in the United Kingdom Higher Education sector. The avoidance of the term “lean” was intended to allow for flexibility in approach, and was also to distance the activi... Read More about Growing a Lean Approach in a Changing University.

Global Lean for Higher Education: A Themed Anthology of Case Studies, Approaches, and Tools (2019)
Book
Yorkstone, S. (2019). Global Lean for Higher Education: A Themed Anthology of Case Studies, Approaches, and Tools. (1). CRC Press

This book collects a series of investigations that reflect the state-of-the-art in the global practical application of Lean for Higher Education (HE). The contributions introduce and describe the practical application of Lean in HE so that other prac... Read More about Global Lean for Higher Education: A Themed Anthology of Case Studies, Approaches, and Tools.

Evaluating UK offset agreements (2015–17) (2019)
Report
Lawson, S. (2019). Evaluating UK offset agreements (2015–17). Jisc

This report is the final summary of a three-year evaluation of Jisc Collections offset agreements. The work has been sponsored by Jisc as part of the Jisc Collections Studentship Award at Birkbeck, University of London.

LEGO Café: Let’s Build a Learning Community (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ennis, L., & Yorkstone, S. (2019, June). LEGO Café: Let’s Build a Learning Community. Presented at Learning and Teaching Conference, Edinburgh

Trying something new can be scary. Often it helps to float ideas with friendly colleagues before taking the leap and branching out. We created our monthly LEGO Café as a space where academic and professional staff could come together to experiment wi... Read More about LEGO Café: Let’s Build a Learning Community.

Latency-Based Analytic Approach to Forecast Cloud Workload Trend for Sustainable Datacenters (2019)
Journal Article
Lu, Y., Liu, L., Panneerselvam, J., Zhai, X., Sun, X., & Antonopoulos, N. (2020). Latency-Based Analytic Approach to Forecast Cloud Workload Trend for Sustainable Datacenters. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, 5(3), 308-318. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2019.2905728

Cloud datacenters are turning out to be massive energy consumers and environment polluters, which necessitate the need for promoting sustainable computing approaches for achieving environment-friendly datacentre execution. Direct causes of excess ene... Read More about Latency-Based Analytic Approach to Forecast Cloud Workload Trend for Sustainable Datacenters.

An Inductive Content-Augmented Network Embedding Model for Edge Artificial Intelligence (2019)
Journal Article
Yuan, B., Panneerselvam, J., Liu, L., Antonopoulos, N., & Lu, Y. (2019). An Inductive Content-Augmented Network Embedding Model for Edge Artificial Intelligence. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 15(7), 4295-4305. https://doi.org/10.1109/tii.2019.2902877

Real-time data processing applications demand dynamic resource provisioning and efficient service discovery, which is particularly challenging in resource-constraint edge computing environments. Network embedding techniques can potentially aid effect... Read More about An Inductive Content-Augmented Network Embedding Model for Edge Artificial Intelligence.

Helping learned societies explore Plan S-compliant business models - A proposal (2019)
Other
Fyfe, A., Lawson, S., Moore, S., Neylon, C., & Eve, M. P. (2019). Helping learned societies explore Plan S-compliant business models - A proposal. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2551448

This proposal was submitted to the funding call 'Helping learned societies explore Plan S-compliant business models', from the Wellcome Trust in partnership with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Association of Learned & Professional Society... Read More about Helping learned societies explore Plan S-compliant business models - A proposal.