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Third sector internships Scotland: final report (2015)
Report
Caddell, M., Boyle, F., Jones, H., & Mcilwhan, R. (2015). Third sector internships Scotland: final report. Scotland: Scottish Funding Council

Third Sector Internships Scotland helped students gain paid work experience in the Third Sector. This five-year programme, part of the Scottish Funding Council’s Learning to Work 2 initiative, was open to students from all Scottish universities.

Aquaculture (2015)
Book Chapter
Briers, R. (2015). Aquaculture. In C. Cater, B. Garrod, & T. Low (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Sustainable Tourism (58). CAB International Publishing

No abstract available.

"We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the "Outsider" in Polish Migration Research (2015)
Journal Article
Botterill, K. (2015). "We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the "Outsider" in Polish Migration Research. Forum: Qualitative Social Research / Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 16(2),

This article offers a reflexive account of conducting research on Polish migration to Scotland from the perspective of the "outsider." The contribution argues for a revision to the insider/outsider dichotomy viewing it as inadequately nuanced in rela... Read More about "We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the "Outsider" in Polish Migration Research.

Digital Symbiosis: The Aesthetics and Creation of Stimulus-Reactive Jewellery with Smart Materials and Microelectronics (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vones, K. (2015). Digital Symbiosis: The Aesthetics and Creation of Stimulus-Reactive Jewellery with Smart Materials and Microelectronics. In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics and X

This article explores how smart materials, and in particular thermochromic silicone, can be integrated into a wearable object in combination with microelectronics to create aesthetically coherent stimulus-reactive jewellery. The different types and p... Read More about Digital Symbiosis: The Aesthetics and Creation of Stimulus-Reactive Jewellery with Smart Materials and Microelectronics.

Feederism (2015)
Book
Charles, K., & Palkowski, M. (2015). Feederism. Springer Nature. doi:10.1057/9781137470461

Sexualised weight gain, also known as feederism, has become the subject of documentaries, films, and media coverage over the last 15 years. A growing internet community and online presence has brought this fetish to mainstream attention and it has be... Read More about Feederism.

Social constructions of value: marketing considerations for the context of event and festival visitation. (2015)
Book Chapter
Rihova, I., Buhalis, D., Moital, M., & Gouthro, M. B. (2015). Social constructions of value: marketing considerations for the context of event and festival visitation. In O. Moufakkir, & T. Pernecky (Eds.), Ideological, social and cultural aspects of events (74-85). CABI Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781780643526.0074

This chapter argues for a shift from the traditional value perspectives to a more holistic representation of socially constructed value in practice. This chapter is organized in three parts. In the first part, an overview is offered of how value has... Read More about Social constructions of value: marketing considerations for the context of event and festival visitation..

Patterns of place: an integrated approach for the design and evaluation of real and virtual environments. (2015)
Book Chapter
Smyth, M., Benyon, D., McCall, R., O’Neill, S., & Carroll, F. (2015). Patterns of place: an integrated approach for the design and evaluation of real and virtual environments. In M. Lombard, F. Biocca, J. Freeman, W. IJsselsteijn, & R. J. Schaevitz (Eds.), Immersed in Media (237-260). Springer Science + Business Media. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10190-3_10

This chapter describes an approach to the development of virtual representations of real places. The work was funded under the European Union’s €20 m Future and Emerging Technologies theme of the 5th Framework Programme, “Presence”. The aim of the pr... Read More about Patterns of place: an integrated approach for the design and evaluation of real and virtual environments..

The Keilidh (2015)
Exhibition / Performance
The Keilidh. Performed at Edinburgh Hogmanay. 31 December 2015 - 31 December 2015. (Unpublished)

The Engineering Peer Tutors. (2015)
Journal Article
Durkacz, K., Balfour, A., Spittal, D., Rogoz, M., & Csek, L. (2015). The Engineering Peer Tutors. Edinburgh Napier University Teaching Fellows Journal, Spring, 21

A preliminary study of barriers to bank financing of ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs in the UK. (2015)
Journal Article
Zhang, J. (2015). A preliminary study of barriers to bank financing of ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs in the UK. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 3, 105-110. https://doi.org/10.4236/jss.2015.37018

Ethnic minority entrepreneurship has been a growing research interest, however, little has been
known about financial barriers to start up and run a business venture from the perspectives of UK
ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs. The aim of this study is... Read More about A preliminary study of barriers to bank financing of ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs in the UK..

Designing digital urban interactions industry landscape and market analysis. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zaffiro, G., Melissa, B., Brynskov, M., & Smyth, M. (2015). Designing digital urban interactions industry landscape and market analysis. In 13th International Conference on e-Society 2015 (249-254)

Urban Interaction Design addresses the question of how we, as physical beings, will interact with the technologically augmented, data-rich urban environments that increasingly characterize cities. As an emergent field very little analysis has been co... Read More about Designing digital urban interactions industry landscape and market analysis..

Reconceptualization of Acculturation from the Non-Essentialist Cultural View (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Xu, H. (. (2015). Reconceptualization of Acculturation from the Non-Essentialist Cultural View

In this paper, I start with the three building blocks concluded from the diverse acculturation definitions across disciplines and then discuss the main focuses in acculturation studies. Through the review, I realise that a critical thinking of accult... Read More about Reconceptualization of Acculturation from the Non-Essentialist Cultural View.

CURIOS: connecting community heritage through Linked Data. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Webster, G., Nguyen, H., Beel, D. E., Mellish, C., Wallace, C. D., & Pan, J. (2015, March). CURIOS: connecting community heritage through Linked Data. Presented at 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing

The CURIOS project explores how digital archives for rural community heritage groups can be made more sustainable so that volunteer members can maintain a lasting digital presence. It is developing software tools to help remote rural communities to c... Read More about CURIOS: connecting community heritage through Linked Data..

Peerwise: online assessment for learning. (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Waugh, A. (2015, December). Peerwise: online assessment for learning. Paper presented at Innovations in teaching and supporting learning: Edinburgh Napier University Teaching Fellows Conference

Presentation delivered at the Edinburgh Napier University Teaching Fellows Conference 2015.

Using reading diaries in independent learning. (2015)
Book Chapter
Wasson, S. (2015). Using reading diaries in independent learning. In L. Thomson (Ed.), Compedium of effective practice in directed independent learning (130-132). QAA HIgher Education Academy

Reading diaries (and optional ‘reading question’ diary prompts) are used to encourage year three English, and English and Film BA (Hons), students to develop their self-directed learning. Since critical theory can be daunting, the independent study –... Read More about Using reading diaries in independent learning..

Recalcitrant Tissue: Organ Transfer and the Struggle for Narrative Control. (2015)
Book Chapter
Wasson, S. (2015). Recalcitrant Tissue: Organ Transfer and the Struggle for Narrative Control. In J. Edwards (Ed.), Technologies of the Gothic in Literature and Culture: Technogothics (99-112). Routledge

The Gothic has long been interested in failed communities, the snapping or violating of ties between kin or neighbours. As the Gothic mutates into new forms today, it is increasingly characterising texts which depict whole societies as wounded in the... Read More about Recalcitrant Tissue: Organ Transfer and the Struggle for Narrative Control..

An approach to synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds. (2015)
Journal Article
Wang, Z., & Cheng, G. (2015). An approach to synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds. International Journal of Cloud Computing, 4, 177. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCC.2015.069275

The proposed research will focus on developing a novel approach on software service evolution in computing clouds. The approach will support dynamic evolution of the software service in clouds via a set of discovered evolution patterns. An initial su... Read More about An approach to synergistic and dynamic service evolution in clouds..