All Projects (86)

Creating a sustainable, desirable solid and soft product utilising used, previously non �upcycle-able� textiles Feb 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2020
We?re looking to develop a pet bedding design from re-used bedding material (Sheets, Duvets, Mattresses & Pillows). The idea is to make a product that is highly functional in nature and also well designed to be in line with the premium positioning of... Read More about Creating a sustainable, desirable solid and soft product utilising used, previously non �upcycle-able� textiles.

Uncovering the Secrets of the Fairlight: The Device that Revolutionised Pop in the 1980s Jun 1, 2019 - May 31, 2020
This event is a rare opportunity to find out more about a musical instrument that was worth ?100,000 in the 1980s when it was used in the making of records by Afrika Bambaataa, Kate Bush, and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Researcher Paul Harkins, curato... Read More about Uncovering the Secrets of the Fairlight: The Device that Revolutionised Pop in the 1980s.

Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Research Project Oct 1, 2019 - Dec 31, 2022
This research project explores the interdependencies between stakeholders within the Scottish jazz and blues scenes through the gathering and processing of data from musicians, promoters, audiences and public funders towards an understanding of a com... Read More about Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival Research Project.

A War Books Boom in Scotland? 1928-1932 Apr 1, 2020 - Aug 31, 2021
It is a critical commonplace that there was a decade?s literary silence following the First World War in writing about the conflict before a ?War Books Boom? from 1928?1932. This boom was predicated on
the international successes of Erich Maria Rema... Read More about A War Books Boom in Scotland? 1928-1932.

Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium for Gender and Public Engagement Feb 1, 2020 - Jul 31, 2021
Gender inequality in the Pacific is a serious challenge and a sensitive issue - requiring a culturally appropriate and joined up development approach to support and drive the necessary social changes. The prevalence of violence against women in the P... Read More about Pacific Community Filmmaking Consortium for Gender and Public Engagement.

Film Bang 1976-2020 – resilience and sustainability for freelance careers in the screen industries Mar 1, 2020 - Jan 29, 2021
This project will identify ways to support progression, resilience and sustainability for freelance careers in the screen industries. The project will investigate the data contained in the Film Bang directory of freelancers working in the Scottish fi... Read More about Film Bang 1976-2020 – resilience and sustainability for freelance careers in the screen industries.

21st Century Tapestry: an investigation of smart materials, technology interplay and heritage craftmanship Mar 1, 2021 - Aug 31, 2024
A collaborative partnership between Dovecot Studios (Edinburgh), Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh Napier University. Supervision has been discussed and agreed in principal as follows:

• Sarah Taylor, Senior Research Fellow, ADRC, Edinburgh... Read More about 21st Century Tapestry: an investigation of smart materials, technology interplay and heritage craftmanship.

The Literature House in the Digital Age: New Directions for Literary Heritage Mar 1, 2021 - Dec 31, 2024
This interdisciplinary project will situate the Edinburgh Literature House within the history of such institutions, to establish a context for an investigation of how the Literature House can now meet the needs of communities and stakeholders in an e... Read More about The Literature House in the Digital Age: New Directions for Literary Heritage.

Blended space exchange with Farmingdale State College Dec 1, 2021 - Dec 31, 2022
The aims of this exchange are to expand on an existing collaboration between myself from The School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University and Dr Brian O’ Keefe of the Visual Communications Department at Farmingdale State College, State Universi... Read More about Blended space exchange with Farmingdale State College.

The Scottish Revival Network Mar 1, 2021 - Feb 28, 2023
The Scottish Revival Network will initiate conversations and debates on the aims, scope, influences and international connections of the Scottish Revival in literature and culture from the 1880s to the 1950s. It will seek to make explicit the cultura... Read More about The Scottish Revival Network.

New directions in digital jazz studies: music information retrieval and AI support for jazz scholarship in digital archives Feb 14, 2021 - Aug 13, 2023
The key research questions that motivate this project may be framed this way: How can we increase the value of jazz archives by applying technology and developing methods for digital musicology and humanities more generally that enable better discove... Read More about New directions in digital jazz studies: music information retrieval and AI support for jazz scholarship in digital archives.

Investigating the use of temporary accommodation for housing asylum seekers and refugees during the COVID-19 outbreak Nov 20, 2020 - Feb 28, 2022
This project will explore the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak on asylum seekers and refugees living in the UK, one of the most marginalised and most at-risk groups during the current pandemic. The project will focus on those individuals placed in tem... Read More about Investigating the use of temporary accommodation for housing asylum seekers and refugees during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Let's Play Wester Hailes: Community Produced Video Games of Edinburgh May 1, 2021 - Jul 31, 2022
This project aims to engage children and young people with the computer games industry. Working with WHALE Arts we will build games and upload them onto bespoke arcade machines. The games created will be displayed at numerous events that aim to bri... Read More about Let's Play Wester Hailes: Community Produced Video Games of Edinburgh.

Representation of South Asian women in Scottish Cinema Jan 1, 2021 - Nov 29, 2024
I will investigate how South Asian women have been represented in Scottish films. And through a practice-based autoethnographic exploration of image and sound, I will offer possibilities for complex cinematic representation that challenges stereotypi... Read More about Representation of South Asian women in Scottish Cinema.

Festival UK 2022 Nov 16, 2020 - Mar 31, 2021
This is an application for a funded R&D process to develop a bid for Festival 2022. Festival UK* 2022 will be ten open, original, optimistic, large-scale and extraordinary acts of public engagement that will showcase the UK's creativity and innovati... Read More about Festival UK 2022.

Development of 3D printing techniques, utilising sustainable polymers towards towards bespoke millinery outcomes Jan 25, 2021 - May 24, 2021
To design and innovate hat designs for rapid prototyping using biodegradable material options in 3D printing.

Film Bang community of practice Sep 1, 2021 - Feb 28, 2025
This project will investigate how the Scottish screen sector first coalesced, and then operated, as a‘community of practice’. It will develop new knowledge about interconnections between Scottish professional film makers, informing historical underst... Read More about Film Bang community of practice.

Scottish Shores RSE Workshop Mar 7, 2022 - Jul 31, 2023
The Scottish Shores Workshop forges new connections between Gothic studies and the Environmental and Blue Humanities. It emphasises Scottish coasts and littoral environments, which, like others around the globe, are fleeting spaces very vulnerable to... Read More about Scottish Shores RSE Workshop.

Forgotten Women of Craiglockhart May 31, 2021 - Aug 19, 2021
Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
Vacation Scholarship
Rosamund Latto

Creative Coin Aug 1, 2021 - Jul 21, 2022
This project uses data and technology to design a “Creative Coin”, an alternative currency as a method for exploring the contributory value of the Creative Industries to a Circular Economy.