Projects (58)

How machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can enhance Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) Oct 1, 2021 - Dec 16, 2025
The success of Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) for forecasting is predicated on accurate, reliable, robust, and accessible data that underpins the decision-making process. Developing, processing and maintaining vast quantities of often unstructured... Read More about How machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can enhance Labour Market Intelligence (LMI).

Fixing the Future: The Right to Repair and Equal-IoT Oct 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2025
Our 2-year interdisciplinary project will investigate how the lack of repairability in the consumer Internet of Things (IoT) will adversely impact equity, inclusion, and sustainability in the digital economy.

IoT products are becoming the default,... Read More about Fixing the Future: The Right to Repair and Equal-IoT.

Career information literacy and decision-making Oct 1, 2019 - Dec 31, 2023
The main aim of this doctoral study is to generate new knowledge on career development learning with reference to decision-making amongst young people in S2-S6 preparing for their lives beyond school education. As well as developing theoretical insig... Read More about Career information literacy and decision-making.

PhD Studentship 2019: Work Based Learning and Firm Performance Oct 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2025
The PhD studentship project will analyse the benefits and challenges of work-based learning (WBL) in organisations and develop a maturity model for benchmarking and a toolkit for maximising value and performance

The Library of Inspiration Feb 1, 2024 - Oct 1, 2025
The project's ultimate aim is to empower 12 and 13-year-olds from under-represented groups in engineering to become future leaders. This will be achieved through "The Library of Inspiration," physically located in local high schools, using co-creatio... Read More about The Library of Inspiration.

Information literacy and society: a comprehensive review Feb 1, 2023 - Sep 30, 2023
This project sought to bring out how people learn to understand why and how they need information, and how they gather, process and use information, by reviewing research from 2005 to the present. The word ‘information’ was taken to mean not only wri... Read More about Information literacy and society: a comprehensive review.

Research Impact and Value in Library and Information Science (RIVAL) Network Feb 1, 2019 - Mar 31, 2021
This project developed a formal Scotland-wide network of LIS researchers and practitioners, to help spread expertise into a connected practitioner community across all LIS sectors through high quality training and opportunities for knowledge exchange... Read More about Research Impact and Value in Library and Information Science (RIVAL) Network.

Platform to platform: an investigation into audience engagement with digitised archives and its transformative impact across different online formats Feb 2, 2022 - Jul 31, 2022
This project was closely tied to two goals of the AHRC/Creative Informatics call: unlocking value from digitised heritage content, and online performance.
In respect of ‘unlocking value from digitised heritage’, the practical aspect of the research... Read More about Platform to platform: an investigation into audience engagement with digitised archives and its transformative impact across different online formats.

VR Home Haemodlaysis Training Application - VR Equipment Future-proofing and Evaluation Dec 1, 2024 - Mar 31, 2025
This proposal seeks funding to acquire the latest generation virtual reality (VR) headsets to evaluate and enhance VR applications designed for haemodialysis training. Haemodialysis is a life-sustaining therapy for patients with end-stage kidney dise... Read More about VR Home Haemodlaysis Training Application - VR Equipment Future-proofing and Evaluation.

Gendered information landscapes and their impact on routes into and through apprenticeships Oct 1, 2022 - Oct 31, 2025
The aim is to understand the myriad sources of gender stereotyping that impact on young people’s choices around apprenticeships and work-based learning (WBL). First, by a policy and literature review around occupational segregation in apprenticeships... Read More about Gendered information landscapes and their impact on routes into and through apprenticeships.

Subjective orientation in VR audio Jun 1, 2022 - Aug 28, 2023
This project will involve establishing a method for capturing listeners' experiences of spatial audio in VR. Whilst wearing a Head Mounted Display (HMD), sounds will be presented to listeners who will be asked to indicate the relative position in bo... Read More about Subjective orientation in VR audio.

Exploring the relationship between listener receptivity and the source of music recommendation Jun 1, 2022 - Feb 26, 2023
Music streaming platforms (MSPs) employ recommender systems to assist listeners with navigating extensive libraries (Petridis et al., 2022), discovery of new content and establishing new audiences (Mehrotra et al., 2020). There are concerns that algo... Read More about Exploring the relationship between listener receptivity and the source of music recommendation.

ESRC PhD studentship - L Middleton - Enhancing the capacity for workplace learning and innovation in Scotland Oct 1, 2015 - Nov 16, 2018
This research studentship will investigate innovation and best practice in skills development in the workplace in Scotland, drawing comparisons with the rest of the UK and other countries. It will explore how employee-led workforce learning can be en... Read More about ESRC PhD studentship - L Middleton - Enhancing the capacity for workplace learning and innovation in Scotland.

Sentinel: Security alert level automation Nov 1, 2021 - Jan 31, 2022
Prototype a SaaS platform for automation of risk assessment, management and associated security alerts as a service in high risk areas of the world. The core will be implementation of a prototype machine learning platform, together with development... Read More about Sentinel: Security alert level automation.

Social media by proxy: Managing online information for adults with dementia Jan 1, 2019 - Sep 30, 2019
As social media use by older people increases, along with an increased rate of dementia diagnoses, the management or oversight of social networking sites by carers is likely to increase. This research aims to investigate the “lived experiences” of pe... Read More about Social media by proxy: Managing online information for adults with dementia.

SDS-SGSSS PhD: Meta-skills maturity for future workplaces Oct 1, 2018 - Mar 31, 2023
Workplaces seek creative, innovative, information literate employees with high-order, transferable skills to positively disrupt enterprises and communities, and to deliver exiting new products and services for the future. Known as ‘meta-skills’, thes... Read More about SDS-SGSSS PhD: Meta-skills maturity for future workplaces.

dot.rural Portrait KE Oct 7, 2015 - Feb 29, 2016
Portrait is a software tool developed to help care staff get to know personal and social information about clients that live in residential care facilities. The Portrait system consists of a biography for individuals with dementia who live in a care... Read More about dot.rural Portrait KE.

Design Strategies for Non-Place Dec 1, 2008 - Dec 1, 2008
Design Strategies for Non-Place

ODPM's National E-Democracy Project Aug 1, 2004 - Jul 30, 2005

Training Records System for NHSGG&C Jun 1, 2008 - Sep 1, 2008