CESEA - coastal ecosystem services in east Africa Oct 1, 2013 - Jul 31, 2017
The CESEA project is a collaboration between scientists and researchers in Tanzania, Kenya and the UK. By bringing together experts in ecololgy and development it will find new ways to help local people maintain their coastal resources whilst beating... Read More about CESEA - coastal ecosystem services in east Africa.

Mountain Bike Centre of Excellence Mar 1, 2014 - Feb 28, 2016
To re-establish Scotland?s status as Global Centre of Excellence for all aspects of mountain biking. Enable a sustainable industry led approach to mountain bike sector development using the knowledge base assets and resources. Increased internationa... Read More about Mountain Bike Centre of Excellence.

Identifying and Strengthening Career Capabilities in Unemployed Youth Jul 1, 2014 - Jan 31, 2016
This project proposes to explore the impact of career guidance interventions on the well-being of workless adults. The research designs will use a combination of qualitative data generated by semi-structured interviews, and quantitative data derived... Read More about Identifying and Strengthening Career Capabilities in Unemployed Youth.

Effects of artifical noise on marine invertebrates Oct 29, 2014 - Nov 30, 2016
To address this lack of knowledge investigating whether underwater noise, such as arising from installation and running of marine renewables, has any effects on a range of behavioural, physiological, and genetic processes, evaluating how the increasi... Read More about Effects of artifical noise on marine invertebrates.

Honey Hibernation Project Feb 16, 2015 - Dec 31, 2015
The aim of the project is to investigate whether pre-sleep ingestion of honey can improve parameters of sleep and subsequent mood and cognitive performance

Phd studentship (Earthwatch), Determinants Of Habitat Use By Fish In Mangroves In Kenya Apr 1, 2016 - Dec 31, 2019
Mangrove for fish: understanding and enhancing the nursery function

Mountain Bike Suspension Optimisation Mar 2, 2015 - Jan 31, 2016
The project aim is to test, develop and and refine the suspension hardware of an innovative bike design that has been designed and prototyped by the company- Forge Bikes.

Effects of Anthropogenic Noise Playbacks on Marine Invertebrates Dec 1, 2015 - Dec 31, 2016
The project aims to address this lack of knowledge investigating whether underwater noise, such as arising from installation and running of marine renewables, has any effects on a range of behavioural, physiological, and genetic processes, evaluating... Read More about Effects of Anthropogenic Noise Playbacks on Marine Invertebrates.

Understanding the drivers of, and threats to, carbon sequestration in Scottish seagrass Nov 1, 2016 - Apr 30, 2020
Understanding the drivers of, and threats to, carbon sequestration in Scottish seagrass

Mountain Bike Innovation project at Glentress Jun 1, 2016 - Jul 31, 2019
To re-establish Scotland?s status as Global Centre of Excellence for all aspects of mountain biking. Enable a sustainable industry led approach to mountain bike sector development using the knowledge base assets and resources. Increased internationa... Read More about Mountain Bike Innovation project at Glentress.

Building and evaluating recorders for seabird vocalisations at nesting sites with differing degrees of human disturbance Apr 1, 2016 - Aug 31, 2017
Long-duration recorders are commercially available for week-scale terrestrial sound monitoring, but expensive and large, thus difficult to disguise in colonies. We have an active collaboration with the Soundtags group at St Andrews who have co-develo... Read More about Building and evaluating recorders for seabird vocalisations at nesting sites with differing degrees of human disturbance.

Governance for ecosystem services and poverty alleviation Dec 1, 2016 - Nov 30, 2017
This research will draw on the extensive research undertaken by ESPA projects in a range of ecosystem contexts through
two main areas of work.
The first, supply-driven phase of the research will provide a comprehensive review of all ESPA research f... Read More about Governance for ecosystem services and poverty alleviation.

Ageing Workforce and Employers in Fife Aug 1, 2016 - Dec 31, 2016
The World Health Organisation (WHO) identified the workplace as an important setting to support the promotion of health and wellbeing in 1981 with the introduction of the Health for All strategy, and this was further recognised in the Ottawa Charter... Read More about Ageing Workforce and Employers in Fife.

The juvenile fish fauna of a Kenyan mangrove forest: exploring new tools to understand growth and condition. Aug 1, 2016 - Dec 31, 2019
The project will work with a new PhD student who is collecting regular samples of juvenile fish from the Vanga mangrove forest in southern Kenya. The work will focus on two areas:
1) Describing the metazoan parasite fauna of the mangrove fish commun... Read More about The juvenile fish fauna of a Kenyan mangrove forest: exploring new tools to understand growth and condition..

IBioIC CORE- Fermentation of waste derived sugars to produce butanol, ethanol, succinic acid and protein Mar 27, 2017 - Apr 26, 2018
This project aims to investigate the first phase to manufacture chemicals from starch waste, namely acetone, butanol, ethanol, succinic acid and/or D-amino acid oxidase. Edinburgh Napier University (ENU) will test the use of waste derived glucose fee... Read More about IBioIC CORE- Fermentation of waste derived sugars to produce butanol, ethanol, succinic acid and protein.

Measuring risk & efficiency in Police Scotland Nov 1, 2015 - Jan 31, 2017
The project seeks to establish baseline criteria that could be used to appraise the custody dimension of Police Scotland?s activities. It comes at a time when Police Scotland are considering an internal reorganisation merging the hitherto separate ma... Read More about Measuring risk & efficiency in Police Scotland.

Efficacy testing of a revolutionary new foot exercise & strengthening device Aug 1, 2014 - Jul 31, 2015
The aim of this project is to evaluate and assess the efficacy of a revolutionary (patent pending) foot exercising device. The company want to demonstrate that this device works better than anything currently available for in the market for exercisi... Read More about Efficacy testing of a revolutionary new foot exercise & strengthening device.

Rates of desimentation in seagrass meadows Oct 1, 2013 - Dec 31, 2014
Radiometric dating of seagrass sediments using short-lived isotopes

Artisan Cheese making Feb 1, 2016 - Sep 30, 2016
The project objectives and scope are (i) to establish a knowledge base of current practice in starter culture use and possible bacteriophage-related issues in the artisanal cheese-making sector in Scotland, (ii) to enhance the cheese-makers technical... Read More about Artisan Cheese making.

PUNGUZA HEWA KAA : PARTNERS IN CARBON Apr 1, 2017 - Sep 30, 2018
Gazi Bay in southern Kenya has the potential to become a world-leading centre of excellence in the integration of ecosystem science and community development. Work there, led by scientists from Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute and Edinbu... Read More about PUNGUZA HEWA KAA : PARTNERS IN CARBON.