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 contexts.
Professor Imed Romdhani working with Scot Aid to acquire licences for different learning platforms
Jun 20, 2024
Summary
An Edinburgh Napier academic is spearheading an international initiative to provide free online courses to students in Gaza.
Professor Imed Romdhani has linked-up with Scottish charity Scot Aid, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and online learning platform edX and is aiming to initially provide 5,000 free licences to students in Gaza.Professor Imed Romdhani
The initiative – which aims to support around 20,000 students in total – will give students access to unlimited courses from three online learning platforms; edX, Coursera and DataCamp.
Meet the jewel in the crown of Edinburgh Napier University’s health training: its Simulation and Clinical Skills Centre where the latest technologies are used to help train nursing and midwifery students.
Mar 21, 2024
Source
Edinburgh Evening News
Summary
Recruitment
Study in a high-tech environment
If you’re thinking about a career in nursing or midwifery, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Social Work, Edinburgh Napier University has the latest technology to provide the best possible clinical training support and experience for students.
Apply today for an undergraduate degree in adult health, child health, mental health, or learning disabilities nursing, as well as midwifery, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Social Work.
Or there is an extensive list of postgraduate opportunities, including Master of Public Health, an MSc in Healthcare Management, Master of Clinical HealthcareTechnology or a PGCert in Epilepsy Studies; several other postgraduate courses in nursing, midwifery or neonatal care are also available.
Visit www.napier.ac.uk to start your journey today.
Dr Kulpa presents findings from the EU-funded RESIST project at a international European Geographies of Sexualities Conference
Sep 2, 2024
Summary
Roberto Kulpa talked about: Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media spaces across the ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ geopolitical imaginations of ‘Europe’ at the 7th European Geographies of Sexualities Conference (EGSC) 2024, held at University of Brighton, Sept 2024. https://2024.egsconference.com
Dr Kulpa's talk addressed findings from the RESIST project:
theresistproject.eu/
Abstract:
Anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ mobilisations have taken roots transnationally, denying individuals autonomy, rights to bodily integrity or self-determination, and attacking selected groups of people (e.g. trans* people, people doing abortion) in order to pursue dehumanising and exclusionary agendas. In the ongoing battle against them, national and international queer-feminist insurgencies have been developing spaces of resistances and fightback. ‘Identity politics’, one way or another, is thus a space of tensions and dis-comforts of politics, where actors, issues, and strategies constantly manoeuvre and reposition themselves to aggregate or ease the arising frictions. Symbolic and real geo-temporalities of political loci have been a significant contributing factor in these processes.
This presentation will empirically draw on the research findings from the RESIST Project (https://theresistproject.eu) on the parliamentary and media ‘anti-gender’ debates in the UK, PL, HU, CH, and the European Parliament to engage with the following issues:
•how ‘dis-comfort’ features as an element of the ‘anti-gender’ politics in Polish and transnational contexts;
•porous and un-comfortable thresholds across media and parliaments as places of (trans)national politics;
•syncretic benefits and obstacles emerging from those ‘threshold of dis-comforts’ that re-create imaginary geopolitics of ‘the ‘east’ and ‘west’ in the ‘anti-gender’ (scholarly, political, activist) debates;
•thinking forward about recommendations and next steps needed in our fight against inequalities and for the better, queer-feminist futures.
Keywords:
‘anti-gender’, LGBTIQ+ equalities, parliamentary and media discourses, queer-feminist resistances, threshold politics.
The RESIST Project: Press Release. FINDINGS FROM THE 2nd STAGE OF THE PROJECT RELEASED
Headline: RESIST reveals the ‘heartbreaking’ impact of so-called ‘anti-gender’ politics across Europe
Lead: The RESIST project, which is investigating so-called ‘anti-gender’ politics across Europe, has discovered several negative consequences, including ‘systemic, institutional discrimination’.
Linked Funders
EC European Commission
UKRI UK Research and Innovation
University Academic Publishes New Edited Volume on Popular Music Education
Apr 4, 2019
Summary
Dr Zack Moir, lecturer in music, has just published his new edited volume ’The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education: Perspectives and Practices’, which features chapters from three other members of the music team, Bryden Stillie, Renée Stefanie, and John Hails. This book draws together current thinking and practice on popular music education through a series of unique chapters from authors working at the forefront of music education, and explores the ways in which an international group of music educators each approach popular music education.
Music students take on trans-atlantic music composition project with students in New Jersey
Jan 28, 2019
Summary
Zack Moir and Bryden Stillie from music have, in collaboration with Andy Krikun from Bergen Community College in New Jersey, USA, launched an international songwriting/composition project. Each of the first years on the BA Popular Music programme here at Edinburgh Napier University, will team up with students from the Songwriting programme at Bergen Community College to compose and produce music using the web-based production software 'Soundtrap'. This allows students to collaborate in the composition and production of new music, and to produce professional recordings with people on either side of the Atlantic, without having to leave their respective locations. This means that students from both institutions have the opportunity to expand their professional network and work with people who they would be unlikely to meet, otherwise. Working in this way also reduces the need for travel and this
Moir, Stillie, and Krikun will use this creative project as the basis for a pedagogical research project that will explore issues surrounding creativity, collaboration, inclusion and international partnerships. This work will be presented at the Association of Popular Music Educators conference at New York University in June of this year.
Soundtrap have supported the project by providing free licences for all of our students, and they have asked us to provide a report on the outcomes of the project.
Student nurses stage play on woman in mental health crisis
Nov 3, 2017
Summary
Student nurses at Edinburgh Napier University are staging a play based on the traumatic experiences of a young woman in mental health crisis to highlight the importance of bringing health and social care together.
New project for 2025: 'Tackling misinformation and disinformation for Scottish school librarians'
Dec 9, 2024
Source
CILIPS Research Fund Recipients 2024-25 Announced
Summary
CILIPS (https://www.cilips.org.uk) has awarded funding to Dr Bruce Ryan, a senior research fellow in the Applied Informatics Subject Group. The project seeks to expand on CILIPS’ current work on the spread of mis- and dis-information. It will deliver a foundation for advocacy on this topic, and how Scotland’s school librarians can work to support pupils to better understand the implications of mis and disinformation.
Linked Funders
CILIPS Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland
Educational Visit to a Retrofit Project and Offsite Manufacturing Facility
Feb 18, 2025
Summary
Students from Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) have been learning first hand from the deep retrofit of Built Environment – Smarter Transformation (BE-ST)’s National Retrofit Centre.
The agenda included the following:
-1hr tour of ‘A-Lab’ (the building being retrofit) including a chat with the contractors carrying out the works.
-40 min tour of ‘Z-Lab’ (working offsite manufacturing facility + various demonstrator builds and products)
-20 min group discussion/ summary / reflections on what’s been learned – One of our former AT students will be hosting the visit. He kindly offered to answer any questions students might have about life after graduation as an AT In general.
