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Police Adaptation and Innovation in Emerging Technological Infrastructures (2025)
Book Chapter
Horgan, S., & Collier, B. Police Adaptation and Innovation in Emerging Technological Infrastructures. In Research Handbook of Policing and Society

In this chapter, we discuss a selection of ways public police attempt to react to, co-opt, innovate or simply survive the emergence or popularisation of technologies and their criminal or harmful manifestations. We take two thematic case study exampl... Read More about Police Adaptation and Innovation in Emerging Technological Infrastructures.

Impacts of mammals on trees and tree protection methods pertinent to English treescapes - a systematic literature review for Forestry Commission (2025)
Report
Mackinnon, J., Turner, R. S., & White, P. J. C. (2025). Impacts of mammals on trees and tree protection methods pertinent to English treescapes - a systematic literature review for Forestry Commission. Forestry Commission

We conducted a systematic literature review as part of a Forestry Commission (FC) contract to provide good practice technical guidance to manage impacts of mammals on trees, woods, establishing woodlands and treescapes. The review examined both the p... Read More about Impacts of mammals on trees and tree protection methods pertinent to English treescapes - a systematic literature review for Forestry Commission.

Sound Dramaturgy (2025)
Book Chapter
Stutterheim, K. (2025). Sound Dramaturgy. In M. Kowalski, L. Cláudio Ribeiro, S. Larson Guerra, E. Rusinova, & J. H. Whalley (Eds.), Teaching Sound: Aesthetics & Praxis. CILECT

Sound dramaturgy as part of the aesthetic design of either a film or a Virtual Reality (VR) experience is invisible, but most relevant, although often overlooked. As a sound person and academic, I have long been interested in the dramaturgical releva... Read More about Sound Dramaturgy.

“Waked, and unquiet”: William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (2025)
Book Chapter
Alder, E. (2025). “Waked, and unquiet”: William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land. In C. H. Sederholm, & K. Woofter (Eds.), The Weird: A Companion. Peter Lang. https://doi.org/10.3726/b20688

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1917) is a central but sometimes overlooked figure in the development of weird fiction in the early twentieth century. Hodgson’s work flourished at the intersection of what we now call science fiction, Gothic, fantasy, and... Read More about “Waked, and unquiet”: William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land.

James and Percival Everett's Dialogue with US Storytelling (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Keeble, A. (2025, December). James and Percival Everett's Dialogue with US Storytelling. Paper presented at PERCIVAL - an international conference on the literature and art of Percival Everett, London

This paper considers James within Everett’s famously diverse oeuvre – to date including twenty-four novels, four collections of short fiction, three collections of poetry and a children’s book – a distinctive body of work commonly described as “uncat... Read More about James and Percival Everett's Dialogue with US Storytelling.

The intersection of datafication and data justice in higher education (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fabian, K. (2025, October). The intersection of datafication and data justice in higher education. Presented at Connecting Space, Data and Society: Interdisciplinary Pathways, London

There has been an increasing uptake of technology in the classroom, either for teaching or for classroom management purposes. Along with this uptake is the increasing datafication of education. Datafication is the process of rendering social and natu... Read More about The intersection of datafication and data justice in higher education.

Using the new Scottish Longitudinal Outcomes database (LEO) to understand transitions from university to practice amongst nursing students (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pearsons, A., Mitchell, E., Shields, E., & Atherton, I. (2025, September). Using the new Scottish Longitudinal Outcomes database (LEO) to understand transitions from university to practice amongst nursing students. Paper presented at Administrative Data Research UK Annual Conference 2025, Cardiff

Objectives
Nursing is facing substantial workforce challenges. Applications to study nursing have declined by 25% in Scotland, while 900 vacancies remain unfilled. The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan aims to grow the UK nursing workforce from 350,000... Read More about Using the new Scottish Longitudinal Outcomes database (LEO) to understand transitions from university to practice amongst nursing students.

Bridging the Skills Gap through Postgraduate Study: Identifying the Barriers with the Admissions Process for Postgraduate TEM Applicants at a Modern University in Scotland (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tungli, T., Meharg, D., & Sobolewska, E. (2025, September). Bridging the Skills Gap through Postgraduate Study: Identifying the Barriers with the Admissions Process for Postgraduate TEM Applicants at a Modern University in Scotland. Paper presented at BERA Conference 2025, University of Sussex, UK

This work-in-progress research paper explores barriers encountered during the admissions to studying Technology, Engineering, and Maths (TEM) in Scottish higher education and expands the limited body of knowledge regarding postgraduate admissions by... Read More about Bridging the Skills Gap through Postgraduate Study: Identifying the Barriers with the Admissions Process for Postgraduate TEM Applicants at a Modern University in Scotland.

Leadership in Project Environments: Work-related outcomes for Project Professionals across sectors (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Huzooree, A., & Doargajudhur, M. (2025, September). Leadership in Project Environments: Work-related outcomes for Project Professionals across sectors. Paper presented at BAM 2025, Kent, England

This proposed study aims to investigate the impact of project managers' leadership styles on work-related outcomes within the dynamic context of project management. Grounded in the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, this research will explore ho... Read More about Leadership in Project Environments: Work-related outcomes for Project Professionals across sectors.

Building the Project Talent Pipeline: Professional Competence for Aspiring Project Managers (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Doargajudhur, M., & Huzooree, A. (2025, September). Building the Project Talent Pipeline: Professional Competence for Aspiring Project Managers. Paper presented at BAM 2025, Kent, England

This proposed study aims to explore the professional preparedness of aspiring project managers as they transition into formal project management positions. Grounded in Social Cognitive Career Theory, this research examines how aspiring project manage... Read More about Building the Project Talent Pipeline: Professional Competence for Aspiring Project Managers.

Walking “alone”? Critical autoethnography, assemblage, and the paradoxical co-production of solo-hiker subjectivity (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P. (2025, August). Walking “alone”? Critical autoethnography, assemblage, and the paradoxical co-production of solo-hiker subjectivity. Presented at Royal Geographical Society International Conference, University of Birmingham

This autoethnographic performance text examines the paradoxical co-production of “aloneness” in nature spaces charged with a politics of memory. The context is hiking “alone” as a fat, middle-aged, queer woman, to Highland Clearances ruins and bothie... Read More about Walking “alone”? Critical autoethnography, assemblage, and the paradoxical co-production of solo-hiker subjectivity.

Theorising Deep and Shallow Diversity: Critiquing The North Face’s Allyship in the Outdoors program (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Witte, A., & Stanley, P. (2025, August). Theorising Deep and Shallow Diversity: Critiquing The North Face’s Allyship in the Outdoors program. Paper presented at Royal Geographical Society International Conference, Birmingham, UK

Recreational access to the outdoors is good for human bodyminds (Natural England, 2016a, 2016b). But for many reasons —conceptually divisible into tangible and intangible constraints (Urry, 2007)— some people do not regularly access outdoors spaces.... Read More about Theorising Deep and Shallow Diversity: Critiquing The North Face’s Allyship in the Outdoors program.

Hiking on Uneven Ground: Women’s Negotiations of Access and Inclusion in Scotland (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Witte, A. (2025, August). Hiking on Uneven Ground: Women’s Negotiations of Access and Inclusion in Scotland. Paper presented at Royal Geographical Society International Conference, Birmingham

Although the Scottish Outdoor Access Code promises to empower everyone to enjoy nature, access is influenced by complex socio-cultural and structural factors. Neither access nor benefits of participation in outdoor leisure are consistently realised f... Read More about Hiking on Uneven Ground: Women’s Negotiations of Access and Inclusion in Scotland.

The Provocateurs: Gender Fears / Haunted Mouths Show (2025)
Exhibition / Performance
Kulpa, R., & Zabrzewska, A. The Provocateurs: Gender Fears / Haunted Mouths Show. [Live Show]. 1 August 2025

This Fringe 2025 show will feature Dr Roberto Kulpa & Dr Adrianna Zabrzewska (Edinburgh Napier University), who discuss why people who reject gender equalities turn to homophobic, transphobic, and anti-feminist fearmongers. The show also features Dr... Read More about The Provocateurs: Gender Fears / Haunted Mouths Show.

Millimeter-Wave MIMO Array with Low Interactions Between its Antenna Elements for Fifth Generation Wireless Communication Networks (2025)
Journal Article
Alibakhshikenari, M., Mousa Ali, E., ud din, I., Virdee, B. S., Ullah, S., Khan, S., Hwang See, C., Saber, T., & Limiti, E. (2025). Millimeter-Wave MIMO Array with Low Interactions Between its Antenna Elements for Fifth Generation Wireless Communication Networks. Journal of Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves, 46(7), Article 46. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10762-025-01062-8

This paper presents a novel, compact eight-port circular MIMO antenna system designed for millimeter-wave (mmWave) 5G communication, offering a wide impedance bandwidth and high isolation. The proposed antenna array operates over a broad measured fre... Read More about Millimeter-Wave MIMO Array with Low Interactions Between its Antenna Elements for Fifth Generation Wireless Communication Networks.

Regime-Based Framework for Phase-Aware Healthcare Management (2025)
Journal Article
Fascia, M., & Tarazona, J. (2025). Regime-Based Framework for Phase-Aware Healthcare Management. Journal of Strategy, Operations & Economics, 9(1), 10

Healthcare systems, particularly those operating under centralised universal-access frameworks such as the NHS, are frequently mischaracterised as static, mechanistically predictable institutions. In reality, they exhibit turbulent adaptive behaviour... Read More about Regime-Based Framework for Phase-Aware Healthcare Management.