Projects (111)

Dubai Police Authority consultancy Jun 10, 2024 - Dec 16, 2024

Responding to the "Great Resignation": Can Corporate Social Responsibility improve the tourism and hospitality employees' experience? Aug 1, 2024 - Jul 31, 2025
With many choosing not to return to tourism and hospitality employment following the pandemic, the industry
faces acute labour shortages with more than 400,000 vacancies. This is due in part to challenges of compensation, career progression,... Read More about Responding to the "Great Resignation": Can Corporate Social Responsibility improve the tourism and hospitality employees' experience?.

Staycations, localisation, community and place-making: Edinburgh as a destination in tourism recovery Jun 15, 2023 - Jul 31, 2024
The Covid-19 pandemic devastated Edinburgh’s tourism sector. This research project examines how the city can reimagine the long-term sustainable role of tourism in post-pandemic times. It considers how Edinburgh’s tourism sector can sustainably adapt... Read More about Staycations, localisation, community and place-making: Edinburgh as a destination in tourism recovery.

Hu Villya: An Offering of flowers Sep 9, 2024 - Aug 29, 2026

Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland Supported Decision-Making Guidance Update Mar 1, 2024 - Feb 28, 2025
Updating the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland Supported Decision-Making Guidance which I previously wrote

Climate Engagement Fund Jun 1, 2024 - May 31, 2025

'White Thinking' and the failed promise of diversity in Scottish heritage Oct 1, 2023 - Sep 30, 2024
'White Thinking' and the failed promise of diversity in Scottish heritage
This project responds to a key challenge in the Scottish heritage sector: what is the next step in transitioning small-scale
diversity projects in Scottish herita... Read More about 'White Thinking' and the failed promise of diversity in Scottish heritage.

Jazz in Scotland from 1970 to the present day: situated creative identities Sep 1, 2025 - Aug 31, 2028
My proposed research aims to interrogate and illuminate individual and collective creative identities of Scottish musicians past and present in their shaping of jazz in Scotland and in their intersections with concurrent histories.

Ja... Read More about Jazz in Scotland from 1970 to the present day: situated creative identities.

Scholarly Edition of Scottish Scene Jun 1, 2023 - Aug 31, 2024
RATIONALE
Scottish Scene was first published by Jarrolds in 1934. Widely reviewed at the time, it quickly became one of the most controversial texts of the Scottish literary renaissance of the early decades of the twentieth century. J. M. Bull... Read More about Scholarly Edition of Scottish Scene.

akin Nov 30, 2013 - Nov 30, 2025
akin is a long-term, large scale, participatory, public artwork in which oak trees are being planted across the region of Fife, in Scotland, to create a ‘future forest’.

Two hundred oak trees, grown and nurtured, by the artist, Colin A... Read More about akin.

akin Nov 30, 2013 - Nov 3, 2025
akin is a long-term, large scale, participatory, public artwork in which oak trees are being planted across the region of Fife, in Scotland, to create a ‘future forest’.

Two hundred oak trees, grown and nurtured, by the artist, Colin A... Read More about akin.

Medite SmartPly Animation Aug 2, 2021 - May 7, 2024
Create a 3D animation of house that utilised SmartPly Medite products

Investigating New Types of Engagement, Response and Contact Technologies in Policing Sep 1, 2021 - Nov 30, 2024
INTERACT (Investigating New Types of Engagement, Response and Contact Technologies in Policing) is a wide-ranging study of the use of technology in interactions between the police and public. It explores recent shifts towards technologically-mediated... Read More about Investigating New Types of Engagement, Response and Contact Technologies in Policing.

Historical Games Network: AHRC Curiosity May 1, 2025 - Oct 31, 2026
AHRC Curiousity funding application for the Historical Games Network withe Cardiff University and Birmingham City University

EventIMPACTS Jan 15, 2023 - Apr 30, 2023
eVENTimpacts.com is managed and delivered by a consortium of project partners consisting of EventScotland, Welsh Government, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport, UK Sport and Tourism Northern Ireland (Project Partners).

Even... Read More about EventIMPACTS.

Integrating sustainability into governance course review May 1, 2024 - Apr 30, 2025
reviewing some course material as an ad hoc exercise

Professional Learning for Chemistry Teachers 1 (24/25) Jul 1, 2024 - Oct 31, 2025
NCB CPD short course for secondary chemistry teachers

BSc Developing Athletes through Professional Practice May 1, 2024 - May 31, 2026
This is a new version of the existing BSc DAPP programme previously run with Scottish Gymnastics and Scottish Rugby primarily. This version is being offered for football coaches as CPD working with Scottish FA in the promotion of the programme, but i... Read More about BSc Developing Athletes through Professional Practice.

Mentoring - Ecologies of Diversity: Plants, Art, Film May 1, 2024 - Apr 30, 2025
This hybrid residency will support an emerging Pakistani artist seeking to develop their practice with poetic and experimental documentary film. A collaboration between Koel Gallery, Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), and Edinburgh Napier Unive... Read More about Mentoring - Ecologies of Diversity: Plants, Art, Film.

Understanding the everyday ethics of foraging (revised) Jan 1, 2025 - Dec 31, 2025
This research project investigates the everyday ethics of foraging. Foraging represents a cultural practice interconnected to wider discourses of sustainability, more-than-human ethics and local food sourcing within the context of ecological crisis.... Read More about Understanding the everyday ethics of foraging (revised).