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'Port of Call' painting by Louise Todd selected for the 197th Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) Annual Exhibition (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Todd, L. 'Port of Call' painting by Louise Todd selected for the 197th Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) Annual Exhibition. [Original artwork, oil paint on stretched linen canvas, 30cm x 30cm x 3cm.]. Exhibited at Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), Edinburgh. 6 May 2023 - 11 June 2023

The artist: "I am an artist and academic researcher based in Edinburgh. I am particularly interested in narratives of visual culture in tourism, and the tourist gaze, alongside the experience and performance of tourism. This painting, ’Port of call’,... Read More about 'Port of Call' painting by Louise Todd selected for the 197th Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) Annual Exhibition.

The Semiotic Paradigm for Deconstructing Event Design and Meaning (2023)
Journal Article
Viol, M., Todd, L., & Anastasiadou, C. (2023). The Semiotic Paradigm for Deconstructing Event Design and Meaning. Event Management, 27(7), 1063-1079. https://doi.org/10.3727/152599523X16847420514728

Festivals and events convey a range of historical, political, social and cultural signs and meanings, however, there remains limited methodological guidance for understanding these. This paper proposes semiotics as a valuable yet underappreciated and... Read More about The Semiotic Paradigm for Deconstructing Event Design and Meaning.

Authentic learning in higher education environments: Teacher insight into student experience – a reflection of process and purpose (Stage 1 – with focus on Edinburgh Case)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kitchen, E., Drake, C., Goh, E., Harkison, T., Losekoot, E., Robertson, M., Steriopolous, E., & Waterston, L. (2023, May). Authentic learning in higher education environments: Teacher insight into student experience – a reflection of process and purpose (Stage 1 – with focus on Edinburgh Case). Poster presented at Council for Hospitality Management Education 2023, Annual Conference, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

Authentic teaching and learning is a critical pedagogy and curriculum requirement in higher education to better prepare for the future workforce. As such, educators adopt a suite of authentic assessments such as work-integrated learning, industry rep... Read More about Authentic learning in higher education environments: Teacher insight into student experience – a reflection of process and purpose (Stage 1 – with focus on Edinburgh Case).

Tiempo de Lluvia (2018)
Digital Artefact
Jansen, I. (2018). Tiempo de Lluvia. [Digital Film]

The film is one of the first feature drama films in Mexico made in extensive collaboration with a Mixtec Indigenous community in Santiago Apoala, in Oaxaca,and in collaboration with key Indigenous creative staff (producer, scriptwriter, assistant dir... Read More about Tiempo de Lluvia.

Kii Nche Ndutsa (2020)
Digital Artefact
Jansen, I. (2020). Kii Nche Ndutsa. [Film]

Time and the Seashell (Kii Nche Ndutsa) is a digital practice-based research output consisting of a short experimental film and is the result of investigations conducted by the film director Itandehui Jansen and the screenwriter Armando Bautista Garc... Read More about Kii Nche Ndutsa.

Signs and Gestures (2021)
Digital Artefact
Jansen, I. (2021). Signs and Gestures. [Film]

Signs and Gestures is a digital practice-based output, consisting of a 10-minute short drama film. The short film is the result of research conducted by the film director at the Edinburgh College of Art between 2019 and 2020, supported by a Challenge... Read More about Signs and Gestures.

The Role of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Driving and Enabling a Circular Economy in the Hospitality Sector: Insights from the Orkney Islands (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sciacca, A., Anastasiadou, . C., & Urie, G. (2023, May). The Role of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Driving and Enabling a Circular Economy in the Hospitality Sector: Insights from the Orkney Islands. Paper presented at Council for Hospitality Management Education, NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated significant challenges for tourism destinations (UNWTO, 2022) and particularly for small island destinations (SIDs) (e.g., Farrell et al., 2020). While the pandemic has uncovered the low resilience of SIDs, it has... Read More about The Role of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Driving and Enabling a Circular Economy in the Hospitality Sector: Insights from the Orkney Islands.

"The Omnific Word": Hugh MacDiarmid’s Religious Poetry (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lyall, S. (2023, June). "The Omnific Word": Hugh MacDiarmid’s Religious Poetry. Presented at Hugh MacDiarmid, 1923−2023: Visions and Revisions, University of Western Brittany, Brest

This talk examines a range of Hugh MacDiarmid’s religious poetry. ‘Religious’ is defined here in the very broadest sense as poems that deal with questions of meaning from a wide spiritual or metaphysical perspective, rather than solely from the narro... Read More about "The Omnific Word": Hugh MacDiarmid’s Religious Poetry.

“Are we criminals?” – everyday racialisation in temporary asylum accommodation (2023)
Journal Article
Guma, T., Blake, Y., Maclean, G., MacLeod, K., Makutsa, R., & Sharapov, K. (2024). “Are we criminals?” – everyday racialisation in temporary asylum accommodation. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 47(4), 742-762. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.2238052

This paper critically examines the placement of people seeking asylum in temporary accommodation during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is based on a 14-month collaborative ethnography conducted between 2020 and 2022 with asylum seeking individuals in Glas... Read More about “Are we criminals?” – everyday racialisation in temporary asylum accommodation.

We Speak: On the Cinematic Representation of South Asian Women in Scotland (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bilgrami, S., & Thambar, N. (2022, September). We Speak: On the Cinematic Representation of South Asian Women in Scotland. Paper presented at MeCCSA 'Silenced Voices' September 2022, Aberdeen

We Speak (Documentary Film, 6 minutes, 2022) is an audio-visual conversation between filmmaker Sana Bilgrami, and composer and musician Niroshini Thambar, about the experience of claiming space in a post-colonial world. The film reflects on the possi... Read More about We Speak: On the Cinematic Representation of South Asian Women in Scotland.

Public value for whom? Winners and losers in Edinburgh's short-term let licensing scheme (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Anastasiadou, C., & McMillan, J. (2023, June). Public value for whom? Winners and losers in Edinburgh's short-term let licensing scheme. Paper presented at Regional Studies Association Annual Conference 2023 - Transforming Regions: Policies and Planning for People and Places, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Stemming from a project seeking to explore whether Public Administration’s public value framework may be a useful conceptual framework to inform tourism policy making, the authors studied the introduction of short-term let (STL) licensing regulation... Read More about Public value for whom? Winners and losers in Edinburgh's short-term let licensing scheme.

Employability perspectives from Scotland on content marketing capability building: How have journalism graduates been equipped for content marketing jobs? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cameron, J. . C. (2022, July). Employability perspectives from Scotland on content marketing capability building: How have journalism graduates been equipped for content marketing jobs?. Paper presented at 2022 Academy of Marketing Conference, Huddersfield

In 2012, content marketing luminary Jay Baer observed that every business is in the business of publishing (Baer, 2012). Echoing this point, Lieb (2012, p.xiii) stated: "Marketers are buying less and less media. They're becoming the media, and the be... Read More about Employability perspectives from Scotland on content marketing capability building: How have journalism graduates been equipped for content marketing jobs?.

Non-parametric lower confidence bounds for the fifth percentile - EN 14358 in comparison to a fully non-parametric approach (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Weidenhiller, A., Ridley-Ellis, D., & Neumüller, A. (2023, June). Non-parametric lower confidence bounds for the fifth percentile - EN 14358 in comparison to a fully non-parametric approach. Presented at World Conference on Timber Engineering WCTE 2023: Timber for a Livable Future, Oslo, Norway

In Europe, fifth percentile values are required for the calculation of characteristic values of strength and density. The European standard EN 14358:2016 defined three ways to calculate a 75% lower confidence bound (LCB) for such fifth percentile val... Read More about Non-parametric lower confidence bounds for the fifth percentile - EN 14358 in comparison to a fully non-parametric approach.

The assessment of the mechanical and physical properties of in situ timber (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bather, M., & Ridley-Ellis, D. (2022, September). The assessment of the mechanical and physical properties of in situ timber. Paper presented at Northern European Network for Wood Science and Engineering (WSE) 2022, Goettingen, Germany

The refurbishment of existing buildings is a more sustainable option than demolition and reconstruction, leading to significant reductions in CO2 emissions and many other benefits. Policy across Europe is leaning more towards retaining and upgrading... Read More about The assessment of the mechanical and physical properties of in situ timber.