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Library catalogue’s search interface: Making the most of subject metadata (2024)
Journal Article
Gnoli, C., Golub, K., Haynes, D., Salaba, A., Shiri, A., & Slavic, A. (2024). Library catalogue’s search interface: Making the most of subject metadata. Knowledge Organization, 51, 169-186. https://doi.org/10.5771/0943-7444-2024-3-169

This article addresses the underutilization of knowledge organization systems (KOS) elements in online library catalogues, hindering effective subject-based search and discovery. It highlights the International Society for Knowledge Organization's in... Read More about Library catalogue’s search interface: Making the most of subject metadata.

Pedagogical paradox or tension? What our research on assessment deadlines is telling us about constructive alignment (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cameron, J., Gutu, M., & Kurtzke, S. (2024, June). Pedagogical paradox or tension? What our research on assessment deadlines is telling us about constructive alignment. Presented at The Gathering: Edinburgh Napier's Learning & Teaching Conference, Edinburgh, UK

In this 15-minute talk, we present the theoretical twists and turns of our research on deadline extensions at The Business School, Edinburgh Napier University. We share preliminary findings of our quantitative data analysis on high-stakes assessments... Read More about Pedagogical paradox or tension? What our research on assessment deadlines is telling us about constructive alignment.

From Music Higher Education to the Festival Stage: Questioning the Neoliberal Environments of Scottish Jazz (2024)
Book Chapter
Raine, S., & Medbøe, H. (2024). From Music Higher Education to the Festival Stage: Questioning the Neoliberal Environments of Scottish Jazz. In R. Prokop, & R. Reitsamer (Eds.), Higher Music Education and Employability in a Neoliberal World. Bloomsbury Publishing

As evidenced from the festival stage and behind the scenes (Raine, 2020), the UK jazz scene continues to be male-dominated and middle-class (Umney and Kretsos, 2015; Umney, 2016). Drawing upon interviews and focus groups with jazz musicians, educator... Read More about From Music Higher Education to the Festival Stage: Questioning the Neoliberal Environments of Scottish Jazz.

Being in two places at the same time: A future for hybrid learning based on student preferences (2024)
Journal Article
Fabian, K., Smith, S., & Taylor-Smith, E. (online). Being in two places at the same time: A future for hybrid learning based on student preferences. TechTrends, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-024-00974-x

The Covid-19 pandemic moved focus from face-to-face learning to hybrid in Higher Education; many educators did not have previous experience of this mode prior to this shift in learning locations. One form of hybrid learning is “synchronous hybrid lea... Read More about Being in two places at the same time: A future for hybrid learning based on student preferences.

UK perspectives & experiences of "Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers" (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May). UK perspectives & experiences of "Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers". Presented at Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, PL

In this invited contribution, Dr Kulpa will share reflections on how EDI (equality, diversity, and inclusion) and decolonialisation work in the UK academic contexts, embedded in the processes of neoliberalization of higher education in the anglophone... Read More about UK perspectives & experiences of "Queering the Academy - Policies, Practices, and Barriers".

Participatory Design with Domain Experts: A Delphi Study for a Career Support Chatbot (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, M., Brazier, D., Gkatzia, D., & Robertson, P. (2024, July). Participatory Design with Domain Experts: A Delphi Study for a Career Support Chatbot. Presented at ACM Conversational User Interfaces 2024 (CUI ’24), Luxembourg, Luxembourg

We present a study of collaboration with expert participants for the purpose of the responsible design of a conversational agent. The Delphi study was used to identify and develop design and evaluation criteria for an automated career support interve... Read More about Participatory Design with Domain Experts: A Delphi Study for a Career Support Chatbot.

Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May). Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities. Presented at UCU Equality Research Conference 2024, University of Manchester, UK

Anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ mobilisations have taken roots transnationally, denying individuals autonomy, rights to bodily integrity, and self-determination, and attacking selected groups of people (e.g. trans* people, people doing abortion) in or... Read More about Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media debates: lessons and recommendations in the future fight for LGBTIQ+ equalities..

Generating AI Alternatives: collaborating and creating intersections (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Drumm, L., Beetham, H., Cronin, C., & McIlwhan, R. (2024, May). Generating AI Alternatives: collaborating and creating intersections. Presented at Fourteenth International Conference on Networked Learning, University of Malta, Valetta, Malta

May 2024 finds us eighteen months on since the release into the wild of unregulated generative AI models and their chatbot front-ends. While Higher Education (HE) has been playing catch-up in terms of policy and regulation (e.g. Russell Group 2023, C... Read More about Generating AI Alternatives: collaborating and creating intersections.

The Lions’ Gate Permaculture Garden (2024)
Newspaper / Magazine
Egan, C. (2024). The Lions’ Gate Permaculture Garden. [Magazine Article]

Callum Egan explains how his academic community transformed The Lions’ Gate at Napier University, Edinburgh, into a series of permaculture gardens to create a healthier, nature-focused form of educational workplace

Career Development as Freedom (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robertson, P. (2023, December). Career Development as Freedom. Presented at iCEGS annual lecture 2023, University of Derby

This lecture explores the Capability Approach and its potential to provide a way of thinking about career development that links theory, practice, and policy. Considering theory first, the Capability Approach provides a broad-brush way of looking at... Read More about Career Development as Freedom.

Dangerous Liaisons: Neoliberal Tropes of the ‘Normal’ and ‘Middle-Class Respectability’ in the Post-socialist LG(BT) Activism (2022)
Book Chapter
Kulpa, R. (2022). Dangerous Liaisons: Neoliberal Tropes of the ‘Normal’ and ‘Middle-Class Respectability’ in the Post-socialist LG(BT) Activism. In M. Blidon, & S. D. Brunn (Eds.), Mapping LGBTQ Spaces and Places. A Changing World (279-291). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03792-4_17

This chapter explores the emerging, post-1989 logics of neoliberalisation of gender and sexuality activism in Central-Eastern Europe (CEE). By looking at a case study from the early 2000s LG(BT) activism in Poland (the impactful “Niech Nas Zobaczą” /... Read More about Dangerous Liaisons: Neoliberal Tropes of the ‘Normal’ and ‘Middle-Class Respectability’ in the Post-socialist LG(BT) Activism.

Queer Politics of post-Enlightenment: Beyond the Horizon of the Present (2021)
Journal Article
Kulpa, R. (2021). Queer Politics of post-Enlightenment: Beyond the Horizon of the Present. Hungarian Studies Review, 48(2), 199-208. https://doi.org/10.5325/hungarianstud.48.2.0199

This essay reflects on queer politics in Central and Eastern European (CEE) through the examples of Poland and Hungary using the Derridean concept of “supplement” to expose the inherently unstable and somewhat queer nature of populist nationalisms. I... Read More about Queer Politics of post-Enlightenment: Beyond the Horizon of the Present.

Employability attributes: Meeting deadlines, time management
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cameron, J., Gutu, M., & Kurtzke, S. (2024, June). Employability attributes: Meeting deadlines, time management. Presented at Marketing Professional Advisory Group Meeting, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

This talk aims to excavate marketing practitioner insights on whether meeting deadlines and time management are important graduate attributes that should be carefully considered in an employability-focused curriculum. The presentation sets out debat... Read More about Employability attributes: Meeting deadlines, time management.

Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antiracist, queer, and feminist activism in Poland
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2024, May). Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antiracist, queer, and feminist activism in Poland. Presented at Public Lectures of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

On the 08 May 2024, Dr Kulpa presented a Commentary: "Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antira... Read More about Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antiracist, queer, and feminist activism in Poland.

The humanities and Higher Education in the UK and beyond: lineages and legacies
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Frayn, A. (2024, February). The humanities and Higher Education in the UK and beyond: lineages and legacies. Presented at The Humanities Today: Global and Social Responsibilities, IIS University, Jaipur, India

I argue for the need to maintain democratic and egalitarian principles of access to higher education in the face of the many challenges of the present day. I think about this in terms of both the broadening of literary canons and the development of... Read More about The humanities and Higher Education in the UK and beyond: lineages and legacies.

RESISTing B/ORDERS: Navigating Meaningful Research Process in the Spirit of the Queer-Feminist Epistemologies within Neoliberal, Institutional B/Orders of Multi-National Funding Grant Systems
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kulpa, R. (2023, September). RESISTing B/ORDERS: Navigating Meaningful Research Process in the Spirit of the Queer-Feminist Epistemologies within Neoliberal, Institutional B/Orders of Multi-National Funding Grant Systems. Presented at Contesting 21st Century B/Orders, Frankfurt

In this presentation Roberto and the RESIST project team will reflect on the meanders of the contemporary higher education and research sectors across Europe from the perspectives of queer-feminist researchers located in diverse geopolitical contexts... Read More about RESISTing B/ORDERS: Navigating Meaningful Research Process in the Spirit of the Queer-Feminist Epistemologies within Neoliberal, Institutional B/Orders of Multi-National Funding Grant Systems.