All Outputs (13)

Enterprise Education and Employability Skills: adapting the DOTS Model to enhance career development – evidence from a Scottish International MBA Programme (2024)
Book Chapter
Harte, P., Fonseca, A. P., Hill, E., & Hosanoo, Z. A. (2024). Enterprise Education and Employability Skills: adapting the DOTS Model to enhance career development – evidence from a Scottish International MBA Programme. In R. J. Crammond, & D. Hyams-Ssekasi (Eds.), Entrepreneurship Education and Internationalisation: Cases, Collaborations, and Contexts (65-85). New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003378570-7

This chapter uses theory and application to discuss the importance of enterprise education and employability skills in the MBA curriculum. Edinburgh Napier Business School academics and career development consultants collaborate to develop a theory/p... Read More about Enterprise Education and Employability Skills: adapting the DOTS Model to enhance career development – evidence from a Scottish International MBA Programme.

How Do Partnerships Between Academia, Communities and Organisations Foster “Real World” Learning? (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Harte, P., Hosanoo, Z., Borthwick Saddler, S., Hill, E., & Fonseca, A. P. (2024). How Do Partnerships Between Academia, Communities and Organisations Foster “Real World” Learning?. In Applying Education in a Complex World: Teaching and Learning (167-178)

Education takes place within dynamic and multifaceted complex systems. Recognising the volatile-uncertain-complex-ambiguous (VUCA) environment, the digital transformation of the higher education sector calls for a novel approach to curriculum and emp... Read More about How Do Partnerships Between Academia, Communities and Organisations Foster “Real World” Learning?.

Integrating nature-based solutions with traditional smallholder farming systems to build climatic resilience in the Caribbean (2023)
Book Chapter
Roop, R., Weaver, M., Fonseca, A. P., & Matouq, M. (in press). Integrating nature-based solutions with traditional smallholder farming systems to build climatic resilience in the Caribbean. . Springer

Despite the current technological advancement in agriculture to improve the production capacity and livelihood of the estimated 570 million smallholder family farmers, the uptake of these technologies remains limited due to their socio-economic, gove... Read More about Integrating nature-based solutions with traditional smallholder farming systems to build climatic resilience in the Caribbean.

Innovative Approaches in Smallholder Farming Systems to Implement the Sustainable Development Goals (2023)
Book Chapter
Roop, R., Weaver, M., Fonseca, A. P., & Matouq, M. (2023). Innovative Approaches in Smallholder Farming Systems to Implement the Sustainable Development Goals. In W. Leal Filho, N. Aguilar-Rivera, B. Borsari, P. R. de Brito, & B. Andrade Guerra (Eds.), SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region (971-998). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16017-2_70

The identified 169 targets in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) refer to agriculture and smallholder farmers’ contributions toward eliminating human hunger globally between 2015 and 2030. Notwithstanding the potential of smallholder farming, t... Read More about Innovative Approaches in Smallholder Farming Systems to Implement the Sustainable Development Goals.

Innovative Approaches in Smallholder Farming Systems to Implement the Sustainable Development Goals (2023)
Book Chapter
Roop, R., Weaver, M., Fonseca, A. P., & Matouq, M. (2023). Innovative Approaches in Smallholder Farming Systems to Implement the Sustainable Development Goals. In W. L. Filho, N. Aguilar-Rivera, B. Borsari, P. R. de Brito, & B. Andrade Guerra (Eds.), SDGs in the Americas and Caribbean Region (1-28). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91188-1_70-1

The identified 169 targets in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) refer to agriculture and smallholder farmers’ contributions toward eliminating human hunger globally between 2015 and 2030. Notwithstanding the potential of smallholder farming, t... Read More about Innovative Approaches in Smallholder Farming Systems to Implement the Sustainable Development Goals.

Empowering Organisations To Embrace UN Sustainable Development Goals: Post-Covid-19 Scotland (2023)
Book Chapter
Fonseca, A., Crossan, K., Weaver, M., Tan, H., Bratton, A., & Pershina, E. (2023). Empowering Organisations To Embrace UN Sustainable Development Goals: Post-Covid-19 Scotland. In W. Leal Filho, M. A. Pimenta Dinis, S. Moggi, E. Price, & A. Hope (Eds.), SDGs in the European Region. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91261-1_38-1

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) argues that the global coronavirus pandemic has caused unimaginable consequences to the global community's economy, social structure, and ecosystem. Overcoming this situation is only possible when envir... Read More about Empowering Organisations To Embrace UN Sustainable Development Goals: Post-Covid-19 Scotland.

The Build for Purpose Canvas (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Weaver, M., Fonseca, A., & Tan, H. (2022, September). The Build for Purpose Canvas. Paper presented at OR64 The Annual Operational Research Conference, University of Warwick

The paper proposes the “Build for Purpose Canvas” (B4PC) to help organisations to put purpose at the heart of their business, build meaningful relationships with communities and amplify impact by co-creating solutions to common issue(s) of concern wh... Read More about The Build for Purpose Canvas.

Picturing a Programme: The Business School Graduate Apprenticeship Journey (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Yorkstone, S., Fonseca, D. A. P., & Harte, P. (2022, June). Picturing a Programme: The Business School Graduate Apprenticeship Journey. Poster presented at DLTE, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh

Can we explain our Business School’s Graduate Apprenticeship Programme visually? This poster shows our work to that end. Ana Paula Fonseca (Programme Leader), Patrick Harte (SAL Student Experience) and Steve Yorkstone (Business Improvement Consultant... Read More about Picturing a Programme: The Business School Graduate Apprenticeship Journey.

Empowering SMEs to embrace the SDGs in a Post-Covid Scotland (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Fonseca, A. P., Crossan, K., Hock, T., Bratton, A., & Weaver, M. (2021). Empowering SMEs to embrace the SDGs in a Post-Covid Scotland. In ISBE Conference Papers

The United Nations Environment Programme - UNEP argues that the global coronavirus pandemic has caused unimaginable consequences to the global community's economy, social structure, and ecosystem. Overcoming this situation is only possible when envir... Read More about Empowering SMEs to embrace the SDGs in a Post-Covid Scotland.

Integrating agroecology to catalyze smallholder farming systems as nature-based solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change in the Caribbean (2021)
Book Chapter
Roop, R., Weaver, M., & Fonseca, A. P. (in press). Integrating agroecology to catalyze smallholder farming systems as nature-based solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change in the Caribbean. In W. L. Filho, G. J. Nagy, & D. Ayal (Eds.), Handbook of Nature-Based Solutions to Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change. Cham: Springer

Agriculture and food production systems are responsible for up to 29% of greenhouse gas emissions. A significant contributor to this phenomenon is the dominance of industrial large-scale monoculture cropping on approximately 80% of the 1.5 billion he... Read More about Integrating agroecology to catalyze smallholder farming systems as nature-based solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change in the Caribbean.

The implementation of the Employability Skills Programme in a global pandemic: delights and pitfalls (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Borthwick Saddler, S., Rezai, K., Paula Fonseca, A., Fannin, N., & Richardson, S. (2021, July). The implementation of the Employability Skills Programme in a global pandemic: delights and pitfalls. Poster presented at Advance HE's Teaching and Learning Conference 2021 'Teaching in the Spotlight: What is the Future for HE Curricula?', Online

This poster will visualise the creation, launch and delivery of the new online Employability Skills Programme (ESP) during a pandemic for more than 2,000 students. The aims of this programme are to develop the Four Cs of employability skills (Curiosi... Read More about The implementation of the Employability Skills Programme in a global pandemic: delights and pitfalls.

Developing ethically conscious work-ready graduates: the story of the ESP (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Borthwick Saddler, S., Fannin, N., Fonseca, A. P., Rezai, K., & Richardson, S. (2021, June). Developing ethically conscious work-ready graduates: the story of the ESP. Poster presented at Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) Learning, Teaching and Student Experience Conference 2021, Online

The poster showcases the development and delivery of the online Employability Skills Programme (ESP), designed for all on-campus Business School undergraduate students. ESP provides students with a lifelong skills audit, building their Four C’s of wo... Read More about Developing ethically conscious work-ready graduates: the story of the ESP.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability in a Hospitality Family Business (2021)
Journal Article
Fonseca, A. P., & Carnicelli, S. (2021). Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability in a Hospitality Family Business. Sustainability, 13(13), Article 7091. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137091

The triple bottom line of sustainability has been the foundation to assess the overall performance of organizations in the hospitality sector. Family businesses are operating in a very competitive environment, and their practices are heavily scrutini... Read More about Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability in a Hospitality Family Business.