Measuring the organizational impact of training: The need for greater methodological rigor (2019)
Journal Article
Garavan, T., McCarthy, A., Sheehan, M., Lai, Y., Saunders, M. N. K., Clarke, N., …Shanahan, V. (2019). Measuring the organizational impact of training: The need for greater methodological rigor. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 30(3), 291-309. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrdq.21345

We review the methodological rigor of empirical quantitative studies that have investigated the training and organisational performance relationship. Through a content analysis of 219 studies published in quality journals, we reveal significant vali... Read More about Measuring the organizational impact of training: The need for greater methodological rigor.

News night - Interview (2017)
Digital Artefact
Alistair, D. (2017). News night - Interview. [MOV clip]

No abstract available.

Skills in Sight: How Social Media Affordances Increase Network Awareness (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Buunk, I., Hall, H., & Smith, C. (2017). Skills in Sight: How Social Media Affordances Increase Network Awareness. In Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Knowledge Management ECKM 2017

The discussion in this paper derives from an analysis of data from twenty interviews conducted with members of an online knowledge sharing platform between October 2016 and February 2017. The empirical work is part of a larger doctoral study that inv... Read More about Skills in Sight: How Social Media Affordances Increase Network Awareness.

Using social media to engage nurses in health policy development (2017)
Journal Article
O'Connor, S. (2017). Using social media to engage nurses in health policy development. Journal of Nursing Management, 25(8), 632-639. https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.12501

Aims: To explore nurses' views on future priorities for the profession and to examine social media as an engagement tool to aid policy discussion and development. Background: Nurses are often not directly involved in policy creation and some feel it... Read More about Using social media to engage nurses in health policy development.

Contra Bentham: ethical information policy in the PanopticEon (2017)
Journal Article
Duff, A. S., & Bentham, C. (2017). Contra Bentham: ethical information policy in the PanopticEon. Journal of Information Ethics, 26(1), 93-111

The article addresses the problem of surveillance within the framework of ethical information policy. Jeremy Bentham’s plan for a panoptic penitentiary is subjected to forensic analysis, using primary as well as published sources. The panopticon, it... Read More about Contra Bentham: ethical information policy in the PanopticEon.

Ethical ePunditry? The role of expertise in online opinion-making (2017)
Journal Article
Forrest, E., & Duff, A. S. (2017). Ethical ePunditry? The role of expertise in online opinion-making. Journal of Information Ethics, 26(1),

The use of blogs to communicate ideas, opinions and knowledge has grown over the past two decades. Social media platforms have facilitated the rise of hybridised forms of written, verbal and visual communication and opinion-making, output which we de... Read More about Ethical ePunditry? The role of expertise in online opinion-making.

Practice led Research Methodologies (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Macleod, K. (2017, March). Practice led Research Methodologies. Paper presented at School of Arts & Creative industries Research Seminar, Edinburgh Napier University

The research question and methodology that I will talk about today sit around a project I’m currently developing, known as Asylum Armada Documentary & Research project, based around local knowledge of the events of the Spanish Armada’s escape from En... Read More about Practice led Research Methodologies.

The role of networking and social media tools during job search: an information behaviour perspective (2017)
Journal Article
Mowbray, J., Hall, H., Raeside, R., & Robertson, P. (2017). The role of networking and social media tools during job search: an information behaviour perspective. Information Research, 22(1),

Introduction. The paper presents a critical analysis of the extant literature pertaining to the networking behaviour of young jobseekers in both offline and online environments. A framework derived from information behaviour theory is proposed as a b... Read More about The role of networking and social media tools during job search: an information behaviour perspective.

Social networking sites and employment status: an investigation based on Understanding Society data (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Mowbray, J., Raeside, R., Hall, H., & Robertson, P. (2016). Social networking sites and employment status: an investigation based on Understanding Society data. In IDIMC 2016: Exploring our digital shadow - from data to intelligence (75-85)

An analysis is made of secondary data derived from Understanding Society: The UK household longitudinal study (2012) as related to the use of social networking sites (SNSs) amongst 16-21 year olds. This explores the relationship between employment st... Read More about Social networking sites and employment status: an investigation based on Understanding Society data.

The Accidental Podcaster (2016)
Book Chapter
Robertson, S., & Sholl, S. (2016). The Accidental Podcaster. In C. Penman, & M. Foster (Eds.), Innovations in Learning and Teaching. Merchiston Publishing

The aim of this chapter is to explore student use of podcasts, employing longitudinal data from large cohorts to demonstrate to other teachers their potential as a relevant pedagogical tool. The study is novel insofar as it uses quantitative data fro... Read More about The Accidental Podcaster.

Every picture tells a story: using selfie-inspired activities to enhance social relations and encourage self-reflexivity. (2016)
Book Chapter
Victoria, M. (2016). Every picture tells a story: using selfie-inspired activities to enhance social relations and encourage self-reflexivity. In C. Penman, & M. Foster (Eds.), Innovations in learning and teaching. Merchiston Publishing

This chapter explores the results of a study in Thailand that capitalised on the popularity of the selfie, providing second-year English language students with an opportunity to practise their oral presentation and speaking skills. The selfie was use... Read More about Every picture tells a story: using selfie-inspired activities to enhance social relations and encourage self-reflexivity..

Securing Disunion: young people’s nationalism, identities and (in)securities in the campaign for an independent Scotland (2016)
Journal Article
Botterill, K., Hopkins, P., Sanghera, G., & Arshad, R. (2016). Securing Disunion: young people’s nationalism, identities and (in)securities in the campaign for an independent Scotland. Political Geography, 55, 124-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.09.002

This paper explores ethnic and religious minority youth perspectives of security and nationalism in Scotland during the independence campaign in 2014. We discuss how young people co-construct narratives of Scottish nationalism alongside minority eth... Read More about Securing Disunion: young people’s nationalism, identities and (in)securities in the campaign for an independent Scotland.

Influences and benefits of role models on social media (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Jenkins, L., Lin, R., & Jeske, D. (2016). Influences and benefits of role models on social media. In E. L. Slade, N. P. Rana, S. Al-Sharhan, A. C. Simintiras, Y. K. Dwivedi, M. Mäntymäki, …M. Clement (Eds.), Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Proceedings 15th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2016 (673-684). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45234-0_60

The current paper examined three research questions. First, what are the perceived benefits for social network users who have role models online? Second, to what extent does having role models online influence one’s self-presentation on social media?... Read More about Influences and benefits of role models on social media.

Non-public eParticipation in Social Media Spaces (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Taylor-Smith, E., & Smith, C. (2016). Non-public eParticipation in Social Media Spaces. In SMSociety '16 Proceedings of the 7th 2016 International Conference on Social Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1145/2930971.2930974

This paper focuses on the importance of non-public social media spaces in contemporary democratic participation at the grassroots level, based on case studies of citizen-led, community and activist groups. The research pilots the concept of participa... Read More about Non-public eParticipation in Social Media Spaces.

Gender, authentic leadership, and identity: an analysis of women leaders' autobiographies. (2016)
Journal Article
Sang, K. J., Kapasi, I., Sang, K., & Sitko, R. (2016). Gender, authentic leadership, and identity: an analysis of women leaders' autobiographies. Gender in Management: An International Journal, 31(5/6), 339-358. https://doi.org/10.1108/GM-06-2015-0058

Purpose: Leadership theories have moved from viewing leadership as a personality trait, towards models that recognise leadership as a social construction. Alongside this theorisation, gender and leadership remains of considerable interest, particular... Read More about Gender, authentic leadership, and identity: an analysis of women leaders' autobiographies..

Participation Space Studies: a socio-technical exploration of activist and community groups’ use of online and offline spaces to support their work (2016)
Thesis
Taylor-Smith, E. Participation Space Studies: a socio-technical exploration of activist and community groups’ use of online and offline spaces to support their work. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/368298

Participation Space Studies explore eParticipation in the day-to-day activities of local, citizen-led groups, working to improve their communities. The focus is the relationship between activities and contexts. The concept of a participation space is... Read More about Participation Space Studies: a socio-technical exploration of activist and community groups’ use of online and offline spaces to support their work.

The importance of context : understanding the nature of anti-social behaviour in rural Scotland. (2016)
Book Chapter
Wooff, A. (2016). The importance of context : understanding the nature of anti-social behaviour in rural Scotland. In J. F. Donnermeyer (Ed.), The Routledge international handbook of rural criminologyTaylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter seeks to provide a starting point for understanding anti-social behaviour (herein ASB) within a rural context, and how this provides important illumination of the broader social processes affecting rural communities. Based on analysis of... Read More about The importance of context : understanding the nature of anti-social behaviour in rural Scotland..

Policing the countryside in a devolving United Kingdom. (2016)
Book Chapter
Yarwood, R., & Wooff, A. (2016). Policing the countryside in a devolving United Kingdom. In J. F. Donnemeyer (Ed.), The Routledge international handbook of rural criminology, (375-386). Taylor & Francis

No abstract available.

Parents' perspectives of a universal early attachment programme in Scotland (2016)
Journal Article
Stone, K., & Burgess, C. (2016). Parents' perspectives of a universal early attachment programme in Scotland. Health Promotion International, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daw026

The ‘A Good Start’ programme is a universal early attachment programme for parents and babies aged 8 weeks and over, run by a charitable organization in one Scottish local authority. The programme offers non-stigmatizing support and parents are encou... Read More about Parents' perspectives of a universal early attachment programme in Scotland.

Easier, faster, better? How social media facilitate tacit knowledge sharing practices betweeen employees within governmental bodies. (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Buunk, I. (2016, January). Easier, faster, better? How social media facilitate tacit knowledge sharing practices betweeen employees within governmental bodies. Poster presented at 2nd International Data and Information Management Conference (IDIMC)

This poster concerns the role, use and value of social media and tacit knowledge sharing practices. Its particular focus is the support of tacit knowledge exchange between employees in public sector organisations. This research investigates to what e... Read More about Easier, faster, better? How social media facilitate tacit knowledge sharing practices betweeen employees within governmental bodies..