All Projects (1771)

Pollination ecosystem service support by sustainable urban drainage systems Oct 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2026
Pollination ecosystem service support by sustainable urban drainage systems

International Partnership for Multi-dimensional Integration of Circularity in Architectural Education in Turkey and UK Oct 19, 2022 - Oct 19, 2024
This project aims to enhance the newly established partnership with Istanbul Technical University(ITU) and to extern the partnership with the other higher education institutes and organisation in Turkey, to develop an innovative education programme t... Read More about International Partnership for Multi-dimensional Integration of Circularity in Architectural Education in Turkey and UK.

Contributing to a circular economy of clothes– repurposing offcuts into accessories fibre for fashion accessories. Jan 16, 2023 - Jun 30, 2023
Ghillied has an ambition to minimise waste in the fashion industry – both in terms of front-end over production, and back-end waste. This encompasses manufacturing too many products that are likely to go to waste, the subsequent offcuts from this pro... Read More about Contributing to a circular economy of clothes– repurposing offcuts into accessories fibre for fashion accessories..

Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre May 1, 2022 - Apr 30, 2027
The police have always dealt with vulnerable people but over the past decade, the nature and extent of this involvement has changed dramatically. Increasingly, the police have been drawn into policing modern slavery, County Lines drug networks, menta... Read More about Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre.

Training on transport & public health for transport practitioners and Essential Evidence 4 Scotland Nov 1, 2022 - Jan 31, 2024
Part 1: The aim is to provide regular training sessions for both public authority transport /highways practitioners, and a similar but 'reverse' training for public health practitioners on the relationships between transport and health.
A key aim is... Read More about Training on transport & public health for transport practitioners and Essential Evidence 4 Scotland.

Higher-Order Shell Finite Elements for Morphoelastic Shells Mar 31, 2023 - Mar 30, 2025
The aim of this project is to develop state-of-the-art shell finite element models for computational morphoelasticity for modelling the deformation behaviour and pattern formation due to growth (or atrophy) as well as for shape programming of soft in... Read More about Higher-Order Shell Finite Elements for Morphoelastic Shells.

Scholarly Edition of Scottish Scene Jun 1, 2023 - Oct 31, 2024
RATIONALE
Scottish Scene was first published by Jarrolds in 1934. Widely reviewed at the time, it quickly became one of the most controversial texts of the Scottish literary renaissance of the early decades of the twentieth century. J. M. Bulloch in... Read More about Scholarly Edition of Scottish Scene.

TruElect Dec 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2023
Democracy Counts is a market-leading organization that address the needs of global elections. With a deep understanding of international electoral systems, the company already provides international clients with unique technology-based electoral solu... Read More about TruElect.

An Investigation into the Structural Performance of Engineered Wood I-Joists with Web Openings Mar 1, 2023 - Feb 28, 2026
This research will be conducted in collaboration with James Jones and Sons. The aim is to conduct a research investigation to evaluate the influence of geometrical and numerical configurations of web openings on the strength and stiffness of I-joists... Read More about An Investigation into the Structural Performance of Engineered Wood I-Joists with Web Openings.

TruElect Oct 9, 2023 - Oct 8, 2025
This KTP project aims to building a trustworthy infrastructure for the voting process, including using trusted methods of citizen identity, voting sustation, and privacy preserving methods.

Exploring the resilience of Palestinian SMEs: a collaboration with Oxfam Palestine Oct 1, 2022 - Sep 30, 2026
The collaboration will proceed in two stages.

1. Developing methods for measuring the resilience of women-led SMEs in Palestine, testing hypothesised sliding scale: discontinuous/failed; survived; resilient; & sustainable. This will involve 50 ca... Read More about Exploring the resilience of Palestinian SMEs: a collaboration with Oxfam Palestine.

Sounding the chapel: performances of a new site-specific composition for Le Corbusier's Chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut Nov 1, 2022 - Oct 31, 2023
Le Corbusier's Chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the most significant buildings of the 20th century. Invited to present my work in the space, a privilege granted few, this research will see the... Read More about Sounding the chapel: performances of a new site-specific composition for Le Corbusier's Chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut.

Creating a Voluntary Garment Manufacturing Hub using experimental and recycled materials towards Sleeping Jackets which will be distributed free of charge to Homeless individuals. Jan 16, 2023 - Mar 31, 2024
It is proposed that the academics work with their contacts who are a group of ‘volunteers’ working in connection with the Edinburgh Tool Library’s ‘Volunteers Assembly’, to create a series of prototype bag shapes and fastenings (for the bottom of the... Read More about Creating a Voluntary Garment Manufacturing Hub using experimental and recycled materials towards Sleeping Jackets which will be distributed free of charge to Homeless individuals..

On the Margins - Collaborative Research Network Aug 31, 2023 - Aug 30, 2025
“On the Margins” is a Collaborative Research Network that will bring together academics, researchers and practitioners involved or interested in collaborative research, participatory methods and knowledge co-production, with specific focus on margina... Read More about On the Margins - Collaborative Research Network.

Characterising spatial freshwater soundscapes on an urban-rural gradient Apr 3, 2023 - Sep 29, 2023
The project aims to compare existing methods with a new methodology based on sensor arrays and utilising spatial audio algorithms, which can identify which direction a particular sound comes from and attenuate sounds from other directions. It will al... Read More about Characterising spatial freshwater soundscapes on an urban-rural gradient.

Staycations, localisation, community and place-making: Edinburgh as a destination in tourism recovery Jun 15, 2023 - Jul 31, 2024
The Covid-19 pandemic devastated Edinburgh’s tourism sector. This research project examines how the city can reimagine the long-term sustainable role of tourism in post-pandemic times. It considers how Edinburgh’s tourism sector can sustainably adapt... Read More about Staycations, localisation, community and place-making: Edinburgh as a destination in tourism recovery.

Audio Mostly 2023 Nov 1, 2022 - Oct 31, 2023
This project's aim is to host the Audio Mostly conference 2023 here at Edinburgh Napier University (https://audiomostly.com/).

Conference Theme:
Embodied Sound in the Virtual

Conference Abstract:
Sound design can play a crucial role in suppo... Read More about Audio Mostly 2023.

Phase 2: Digital Transformation Of The Building Standards System Apr 1, 2023 - Oct 1, 2025
This research will support the Scottish Government’s commitments to the digital transformation of the building standards system through its Building Standards Futures Board. The evidence provided by the research will inform the development of intero... Read More about Phase 2: Digital Transformation Of The Building Standards System.

Cross-lingual Audio-visual Speech Enhancement based on Deep Multimodal Learning Jun 1, 2023 - May 31, 2025
Speech enhancement and separation techniques are often used to improve the quality and intelligibility of speech degraded by background distractions, including speech and non-speech noises. We aim to change the current landscape of research and innov... Read More about Cross-lingual Audio-visual Speech Enhancement based on Deep Multimodal Learning.

Dance of the Seasons Feb 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2024
Dance of the Seasons is a collaborative, inter-disciplinary artistic research project that explores how two very different art forms – dance and film – could be engaged in a creative dialogue with each other in order to address one of the most pressi... Read More about Dance of the Seasons.