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‘They were chasing me down the streets’: Austerity, resourcefulness, and the tenacity of migrant women’s care-full labour (2023)
Journal Article
Guma, T., Drinkwater, S., & Jones, R. D. (2023). ‘They were chasing me down the streets’: Austerity, resourcefulness, and the tenacity of migrant women’s care-full labour. Geoforum, 144, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103822

In this paper, we examine the role of migrant women in civil society in Wales in a triply-hostile environment created by UK government policy since 2010. Drawing on interviews carried out with EU migrants between 2016 and 2017, we outline the active... Read More about ‘They were chasing me down the streets’: Austerity, resourcefulness, and the tenacity of migrant women’s care-full labour.

Antimicrobial resistance of Neisseria Gonorrhoeae in Lesotho (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Maduna, L. D., Taole, M., Mothobi, I., Makuebu, M., Mosehle, T., Nyangu, I., Motanteli, K., & Peters, R. (2023, July). Antimicrobial resistance of Neisseria Gonorrhoeae in Lesotho. Poster presented at Asia-Pacific Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infection (APCCMI), Seoul, Korea

An Exploration of Integrated Reporting and Its Applicability: A Stakeholder Perspective (2023)
Thesis
Zhou, T. An Exploration of Integrated Reporting and Its Applicability: A Stakeholder Perspective. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

Integrated reporting (IR) is an emerging corporate practice shaped by market forces and regulations. The organisations (IIRC, 2021; IDSA, 2016) and scholars (Abeysekera, 2013; Branwijck, 2012; and Eccles & Krzus, 2010) developed the five IR approache... Read More about An Exploration of Integrated Reporting and Its Applicability: A Stakeholder Perspective.

Barriers and Enablers to a Circular Economy in Small Island Destinations: The Case of the Orkney Islands, Scotland (2023)
Thesis
Sciacca, A. Barriers and Enablers to a Circular Economy in Small Island Destinations: The Case of the Orkney Islands, Scotland. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

The tourism sector is often the main socio-economic activity for islands whilst representing a source of negative impacts. The circular economy (CE), in this sense, is increasingly considered a promising approach to tourism sustainability in such set... Read More about Barriers and Enablers to a Circular Economy in Small Island Destinations: The Case of the Orkney Islands, Scotland.

Beyond the Digital Foodscape: Scottish-based Foodies’ use of social media influencers to explore and choose food (2023)
Thesis
Marshall, K. N. Beyond the Digital Foodscape: Scottish-based Foodies’ use of social media influencers to explore and choose food. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of social media influencers (SMI) on Scottish-based consumers’ food choices and foodbased identity. Social media influencers (SMIs) are prominent opinion leaders of digital foodscape whose influen... Read More about Beyond the Digital Foodscape: Scottish-based Foodies’ use of social media influencers to explore and choose food.

Impact of Organisational Culture on the Financial and Non-Financial Performance and the Moderating role of the Environment (2023)
Thesis
Malik, S. Impact of Organisational Culture on the Financial and Non-Financial Performance and the Moderating role of the Environment. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

The academic literature signifies a relationship between corporate culture and performance, particularly for those firms that strive in gaining competitive advantage and long-term effectiveness. Employees with various cultural backgrounds, nationalit... Read More about Impact of Organisational Culture on the Financial and Non-Financial Performance and the Moderating role of the Environment.

The Lost Cohort: A Phenomenological Study of mainstream officer development within the Royal Air Force (2023)
Thesis
Macpherson, C. J. The Lost Cohort: A Phenomenological Study of mainstream officer development within the Royal Air Force. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

This thesis reports on a phenomenological study into the development of mainstream officers within the Royal Air Force (RAF) and explores what training and education opportunities are available to those not selected for executive streaming. The study... Read More about The Lost Cohort: A Phenomenological Study of mainstream officer development within the Royal Air Force.

The Awareness of Biases in our Intuition: Understanding Influences on Decision-Making in User-Centred Agile Requirements Engineering (2023)
Thesis
Krombholz, R. The Awareness of Biases in our Intuition: Understanding Influences on Decision-Making in User-Centred Agile Requirements Engineering. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

During recent decades, software development in all industries has experienced an impactful change from feature focused and sequentially planned to usercentred and agile approaches. Reasons are continuously evolving technologies and with it fast chang... Read More about The Awareness of Biases in our Intuition: Understanding Influences on Decision-Making in User-Centred Agile Requirements Engineering.

Risk Management of the “Belt and Road Initiative” Projects – An Empirical Study on Investments of the Chinese State- Owned-Banks in the Region (2023)
Thesis
Kong, L. Risk Management of the “Belt and Road Initiative” Projects – An Empirical Study on Investments of the Chinese State- Owned-Banks in the Region. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

This thesis attempts to examine the current risk issues of state-owned banks for their involvement in the ‘Belt and Road’ projects, and to develop a unique risk management framework. It is found in the literature that financial policies and intermedi... Read More about Risk Management of the “Belt and Road Initiative” Projects – An Empirical Study on Investments of the Chinese State- Owned-Banks in the Region.

Informational Value and Abnormal Stock Returns: An Event Study of EU-Wide Stress Tests from 2010 to 2018 (2023)
Thesis
Gauer, K. Informational Value and Abnormal Stock Returns: An Event Study of EU-Wide Stress Tests from 2010 to 2018. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

Since the global financial crisis (2007-2009), supervisory stress testing has become increasingly important. Previous studies of banks’ abnormal stock returns in response to EU-wide stress test results have produced inconsistent and contradictory res... Read More about Informational Value and Abnormal Stock Returns: An Event Study of EU-Wide Stress Tests from 2010 to 2018.

Digital Marketing in Small and Medium Enterprises: Evidence from the Industrial Supplies Sector in Singapore (2023)
Thesis
Chin, K. Y. Digital Marketing in Small and Medium Enterprises: Evidence from the Industrial Supplies Sector in Singapore. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

In this digital age, technology has affected many company businesses, including small and medium enterprises (SMEs). From the perspective of resource-based theory (RBT), SMEs inherently possess limited resources reducing the companies’ competitivenes... Read More about Digital Marketing in Small and Medium Enterprises: Evidence from the Industrial Supplies Sector in Singapore.

Talent Management in the Jamaican BPO Industry: A phenomenological study of relationship challenges and prospects (2023)
Thesis
Blackwood, J. A. Talent Management in the Jamaican BPO Industry: A phenomenological study of relationship challenges and prospects. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

Talent Management (TM) is viewed as a key driver of competitive advantage. Yet a continued focus on tangible TM outcomes serves to ignore its unintended consequences, specifically on employee relationships. This study aims to explore how TM contribut... Read More about Talent Management in the Jamaican BPO Industry: A phenomenological study of relationship challenges and prospects.

The Absent Voice: an examination of the experiences of women in Scottish civil courts in child contact cases involving domestic abuse (2023)
Thesis
Baker, G. C. The Absent Voice: an examination of the experiences of women in Scottish civil courts in child contact cases involving domestic abuse. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

The Absent Voice is a qualitative examination of the application of the law on domestic abuse and child contact in Scottish family courts. Findings drawn from its interpretivist methodological approach offer a new understanding of practices and proce... Read More about The Absent Voice: an examination of the experiences of women in Scottish civil courts in child contact cases involving domestic abuse.

Fired Up, Not Burnt Out: An Exploration of Resilience Behaviours in Third Sector Leadership (2023)
Thesis
Armstrong, P. A. Fired Up, Not Burnt Out: An Exploration of Resilience Behaviours in Third Sector Leadership. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

This thesis explores resilience behaviours in Third Sector leadership. It first considers what leaders identify as resilience, then explores which perceived behaviours impact on resilience. From the findings and analysis of this exploration, conclusi... Read More about Fired Up, Not Burnt Out: An Exploration of Resilience Behaviours in Third Sector Leadership.

A Fast Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Image Acquisition and Reconstruction Pipeline for Skin Application (2023)
Journal Article
Liao, J., Yang, S., Zhang, T., Li, C., & Huang, Z. (2023). A Fast Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Image Acquisition and Reconstruction Pipeline for Skin Application. Biomedical Optics Express, 14(8), 3899-3913. https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.486933

Traditional high-quality OCTA images require multi-repeated scans (e.g., 4-8 repeats) in the same position, which may cause the patient to be uncomfortable. We propose a deep-learning-based pipeline that can extract high-quality OCTA images from only... Read More about A Fast Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Image Acquisition and Reconstruction Pipeline for Skin Application.

The assessment of paraspinal muscle epimuscular fat in participants with and without low back pain: A case-control study. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rosenstein, B., Burdick, J., Roussac, A., Rye, M., Naghdi, N., Valentin, S., Licka, T., Sean, M., Tetreault, P., Elliott, J., & Fortin, M. (2023, July). The assessment of paraspinal muscle epimuscular fat in participants with and without low back pain: A case-control study. Presented at 4th International Workshop on Spine Loading and Deformation, Berlin, Germany

Evaluating the effects of air pollution derived toxic nanoparticles on astrocyte reactivity and neurodegeneration (2023)
Thesis
Villani, B. Evaluating the effects of air pollution derived toxic nanoparticles on astrocyte reactivity and neurodegeneration. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

Particulate Matter is a toxicologically relevant air pollution component that has been shown to damage the cardiopulmonary system. Emission of ultrafine particulate matter – the most toxic type – is not regulated around the globe. Recent evidence fro... Read More about Evaluating the effects of air pollution derived toxic nanoparticles on astrocyte reactivity and neurodegeneration.

Investigating the sex-specific legacy of excessive fetal androgen exposure on immune function and hepatic health (2023)
Thesis
Thomas, J. L. Investigating the sex-specific legacy of excessive fetal androgen exposure on immune function and hepatic health. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

Background: It is well established that there are sex-specific differences in immune competence, with females considered more immunologically robust that males; and androgens are considered a major factor in these differences. Insults during pregnanc... Read More about Investigating the sex-specific legacy of excessive fetal androgen exposure on immune function and hepatic health.

Effects of Anthropogenic Sound and Environmental Chemistry on Early Life Stage Aquatic Invertebrates in a Multiple Driver Context (2023)
Thesis
Stenton, C. A. Effects of Anthropogenic Sound and Environmental Chemistry on Early Life Stage Aquatic Invertebrates in a Multiple Driver Context. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University

Aquatic environments and the species therein are facing unprecedented pressures and challenges as a result of anthropogenic activities. These challenges often are considered and discussed individually, e.g. sound/noise, chemical pollution, nutrient a... Read More about Effects of Anthropogenic Sound and Environmental Chemistry on Early Life Stage Aquatic Invertebrates in a Multiple Driver Context.