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There Is No Such Thing As Unbiased Scenario Planning (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crawford, M. (2023, July). There Is No Such Thing As Unbiased Scenario Planning. Paper presented at Scenario Planning and Foresight 2023, University of Warwick

A series of lab and field studies were conducted with managers, executives, and postgraduate students to test the hypothesis that an emotional priming effect exists within any given scenario planning workshop (Crawford, 2021). The studies show that p... Read More about There Is No Such Thing As Unbiased Scenario Planning.

FestForward: Participatory Design Futuring and World-Building for Equitable Digital Futures in Performing Arts Festivals (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Elsden, C., Jones, V., Helgason, I., Abernethy, L., & Brown, W. (2023, July). FestForward: Participatory Design Futuring and World-Building for Equitable Digital Futures in Performing Arts Festivals. Presented at DIS '23: Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

FestForward is a fictional, local, cultural magazine, set in 2030, designed to stimulate conversations about equitable and sustainable digital futures in performing arts festivals. This extensive design fiction was developed through a series of parti... Read More about FestForward: Participatory Design Futuring and World-Building for Equitable Digital Futures in Performing Arts Festivals.

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

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

The Impossible Dream? Achieving Public Value in Tourism (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Anastasiadou, C., & McMillan, J. (2023, July). The Impossible Dream? Achieving Public Value in Tourism. Paper presented at Surrey 2023 Conference: Bringing hospitality, tourism, transport and events back for good, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

Exploring what Student Engagement means for Biology Educators: What can Gamification Research tell us? (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Garden, C. L. P. (2023, July). Exploring what Student Engagement means for Biology Educators: What can Gamification Research tell us?. Presented at Society for Experimental Biology Centenary Conference, Edinburgh

The way we teach experimental biology continues to change as we recover, and learn lessons, from the COVID-19 pandemic. We often discuss student engagement as part of this process, but what does this mean in practice? How can we tell if students are... Read More about Exploring what Student Engagement means for Biology Educators: What can Gamification Research tell us?.

Playing position effects on biomarkers in male futsal players (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kaliarntas, K., Souglis, A., Andronikos, G., & Bogdanis, G. (2023, July). Playing position effects on biomarkers in male futsal players. Poster presented at ECSS Paris 2023, Paris

INTRODUCTION: Futsal or five-a-side indoor soccer is an ever-increasing in popularity team sport. Currently, studies focusing on the effects of playing position in futsal are limited let alone combining different playing position and measurement of... Read More about Playing position effects on biomarkers in male futsal players.

‘Keeping the Machines Alive’: Repairing and Maintaining the Fairlight CMI. (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Harkins, P. (2023, June). ‘Keeping the Machines Alive’: Repairing and Maintaining the Fairlight CMI. Paper presented at Innovation In Music Conference 2023, Edinburgh, UK

The story of the Fairlight CMI is a story of misuse. Designed primarily as a digital synthesizer for the imitation of acoustic instruments, it was used in the worlds of popular music to sample the sounds of everyday life and pre-existing recordings.... Read More about ‘Keeping the Machines Alive’: Repairing and Maintaining the Fairlight CMI..

Extending AGADE Traffic To Simulate Auctions In Shared Mobility Services (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nguyen, J., Powers, S., Urquhart, N., Eckerle, D., Farrenkopf, T., & Guckert, M. (2023, June). Extending AGADE Traffic To Simulate Auctions In Shared Mobility Services. Presented at 37th ECMS International Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Florence, Italy

With the number of individual vehicles meeting the capacity limit of urban road infrastructure, the deployment of new mobility services may help to achieve more efficient use of available resources and prevent critical overload. It may be observed th... Read More about Extending AGADE Traffic To Simulate Auctions In Shared Mobility Services.

The Emotional Intelligence Competence: A Perception of Project Managers Construction Industry (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Opuruiche Echeonwu, P., & Dan-Jumbo, N. (2023, August). The Emotional Intelligence Competence: A Perception of Project Managers Construction Industry. Paper presented at The International Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society Conference (SEEDS) 2023, Ipswich, UK

This study aims to highlight the importance of emotional intelligence competence of project managers and their influence on Project success in the Scottish construction industry. Goleman (1998) defined EI as the capacity to recognise, analyse, and be... Read More about The Emotional Intelligence Competence: A Perception of Project Managers Construction Industry.

Mapping community engagement with the festival city through creative and participative methods (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Todd, L. (2023, June). Mapping community engagement with the festival city through creative and participative methods. Presented at Festival Sustainability Symposium: Facing the Sector's Headwinds, Edinburgh

I will present details of two interdisciplinary and collaborative research studies that used creative and participative methods within a public engagement methodology. Both aimed to gain an understanding of community stakeholders’ engagement with Edi... Read More about Mapping community engagement with the festival city through creative and participative methods.

Gendered information landscapes and their impact on routes into and through apprenticeships (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cecil, M. (2023, June). Gendered information landscapes and their impact on routes into and through apprenticeships. Poster presented at Horizons in STEM Higher Education Conference, Swansea

This poster outlines a recent research study which examined the information landscapes of young people (age 15 – 24) in Scotland in the context of gender, vocational choice, and career development. The research context is Skills Development Scotland... Read More about Gendered information landscapes and their impact on routes into and through apprenticeships.

Women into Tech: understanding barriers, making connections (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taylor-Smith, E., Smith, S., Shankland, C., & Kolberg, M. (2023, June). Women into Tech: understanding barriers, making connections. Paper presented at 2023 Horizons in STEM, Swansea, UK

Computing and technology need a better gender balance. BCS report that, in 2021, only 22% of all IT specialists in the UK were women and their median hourly pay was 13% less than male employees. Further, according to HESA data, only 21% of students i... Read More about Women into Tech: understanding barriers, making connections.

‘I can’t really say as my course is 90% male’: students perceptions of gender impact on computing and engineering degrees (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Taylor-Smith, E., Smith, S., & Fabian, K. (2023, June). ‘I can’t really say as my course is 90% male’: students perceptions of gender impact on computing and engineering degrees. Paper presented at 2023 Horizons in STEM, Swansea, UK

In UK higher education, the majority of computing and engineering students are men. HESA (2023) records the proportion of women studying ‘Computing’ and ‘Engineering and technology’ as 22.78% and 20.47% respectively. Lack of women is a problem for bo... Read More about ‘I can’t really say as my course is 90% male’: students perceptions of gender impact on computing and engineering degrees.

A DEM study on the effect of inherent variability of assemblies of spherical particles (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Leak, J., & Barreto, D. (2023, June). A DEM study on the effect of inherent variability of assemblies of spherical particles. Presented at NUMGE 2023: 10th European Conference on Numerical Methods in Geotechnical Engineering, London

This study presents DEM simulations of assemblies of spheres using periodic boundaries to assess the effect of inherent sample variability. DEM specimens with different particle size distributions (PSDs) were randomly generated, and then isotropicall... Read More about A DEM study on the effect of inherent variability of assemblies of spherical particles.

Looking to Livestock: Gauging the Evolution of the EU's Agri-Climate Law and Policy (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Williams, R. (2023, June). Looking to Livestock: Gauging the Evolution of the EU's Agri-Climate Law and Policy. Paper presented at Society of Legal Scholars 2023 Conference, Oxford

Increasingly, awareness of climate impacts from the agricultural sector is growing. In the EU, it is reported that 11.3% of the total greenhouse gas emissions and over 80% of ammonia atmospheric and nitrogen emissions stem from its agricultural secto... Read More about Looking to Livestock: Gauging the Evolution of the EU's Agri-Climate Law and Policy.

Ethical questions of longitudinal research with students: Using duoethnography to critically reflect on the interview process (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ratz, S., & Janssen, L. (2023, June). Ethical questions of longitudinal research with students: Using duoethnography to critically reflect on the interview process. Paper presented at The Gathering, 2023: Learning & Teaching Conference, Edinburgh

From 2016-2020 Sibylle conducted a longitudinal study on the trajectory of undergraduate language students at ENU. In their current project, Sibylle and Lisa (a participant of the original study) revisited this research by reflecting on six interview... Read More about Ethical questions of longitudinal research with students: Using duoethnography to critically reflect on the interview process.

Understanding international students' experiences with assessments through rich pictures (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Victoria, M., & Ratz, S. (2023, June). Understanding international students' experiences with assessments through rich pictures. Paper presented at The Gathering 2023: Learning & Teaching conference, Edinburgh

Higher education institutions continue to see an increasing number of international students who bring with them diverse forms of assessment ‘literacies’ acquired from previous sociocultural and educational contexts. This presentation explores the ex... Read More about Understanding international students' experiences with assessments through rich pictures.