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

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.

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.

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.

How machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can enhance Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) Oct 1, 2021 - Apr 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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.