Projects (407)

PhD Studentship (Homomorphic Encryption) Oct 1, 2023 - Sep 30, 2026
This PhD studentship will be funded at £10k per year for a period of three years, and focus on homomorphic encryption in 5G / 6G network slices and strategies to foster and enhance federated structures in the medtech and health domains. SCEBE will pr... Read More about PhD Studentship (Homomorphic Encryption).

Let's Play Wester Hailes: Community Produced Video Games of Edinburgh May 1, 2021 - Jul 31, 2022
This project aims to engage children and young people with the computer games industry. Working with WHALE Arts we will build games and upload them onto bespoke arcade machines. The games created will be displayed at numerous events that aim to bri... Read More about Let's Play Wester Hailes: Community Produced Video Games of Edinburgh.

The Policy Cards project - CAPE funded Apr 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2024
The purpose of the project is to continue and finish the development of the Policy Cards. The Policy Cards are a card-based ideation tool that facilitates the analysis and development of policy campaigns. Using card-based ideation allows for the deve... Read More about The Policy Cards project - CAPE funded.

Cloud based distribution system to tackle food poverty Mar 14, 2022 - Dec 15, 2023
Local food sectors, e.g. Foodbanks, still rely on paper-based referral systems whilst continuing to see increasing demand. In addition, the model of direct hand-outs of food parcels and electricity vouchers is unsustainable, lacks dignity for clients... Read More about Cloud based distribution system to tackle food poverty.

Smart City Transitions in South East Scotland: Accelerating Digital Twin Technology Deployment in Urban Transformation Processes Mar 1, 2021 - Feb 28, 2025
Smart city development exposes the coevolutionary nature of technology and society, as well as the systemic character of innovation. Bringing new technologies into society is not sufficient to improve the sustainability of urban functions. For this g... Read More about Smart City Transitions in South East Scotland: Accelerating Digital Twin Technology Deployment in Urban Transformation Processes.

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.

Policing a Crisis: A narrative account of pandemic policing, technological opportunities and ethical challenges Oct 1, 2020 - Sep 30, 2025
This PhD Studentship will employ narrative inquiry to map the technological opportunities and ethical challenges faced by Police Scotland when responding to the Pandemic. By inviting frontline officers, managers, and police staff to tell their story... Read More about Policing a Crisis: A narrative account of pandemic policing, technological opportunities and ethical challenges.

Cyber Hunt May 1, 2022 - Apr 30, 2025
Automated Cyberthreat Hunting and Cyber-relevant Incident Response for Critical Infrastructures. CyberHunt will develop highly innovative cybersecurity technologies that can sense, detect, analyse, disrupt and outmaneuver adversarial attacks in cybe... Read More about Cyber Hunt.

Creative Informatics: Data Driven Innovation for the Creative Industries Oct 1, 2018 - Mar 31, 2024
Data Driven Innovation (DDI) is transforming society and the economy. DDI is defined as the challenge to make effective use of data to shape, develop and deliver innovative products and services to consumers and citizens. The Creative Industries are... Read More about Creative Informatics: Data Driven Innovation for the Creative Industries.

Development of a Virtual Reality application for home haemodialysis training Apr 1, 2023 - Oct 31, 2025
Patients entering end-stage kidney disease often need dialysis prior to transplantation - this may be delivered as in-centre dialysis (haemodialysis), or peritoneal dialysis. Increasingly, patients are offered home haemodialysis, with proven benefits... Read More about Development of a Virtual Reality application for home haemodialysis training.

Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation Sep 9, 2019 - Sep 8, 2023
Language generation (LG) is a crucial technology if machines are to communicate with humans seamlessly using human natural language. A great number of different tasks within Natural Language Processing (NLP) are language generation tasks, and being a... Read More about Multi-task, Multilingual, Multi-modal Language Generation.

TrustShare: Privacy-Preserving And Trusted Threat Intelligence Sharing Using Distributed Ledgers May 9, 2023 - Sep 8, 2024
Organisations are facing an increasing number of cyber threats, which is making it evident that relying solely on security tools and technologies may fail to identify emerging threats, malware, and other indicators of compromise. As a result, organis... Read More about TrustShare: Privacy-Preserving And Trusted Threat Intelligence Sharing Using Distributed Ledgers.

TrueDeploy - CyberASAP 2023-2024 - Phase 1 May 9, 2023 - Sep 8, 2023
The way in which we develop, supply, and secure software is often weak and lacks digital trust. The dominance of open-source software and the interconnectedness of software between organisations has raised cybersecurity risks in the software supply c... Read More about TrueDeploy - CyberASAP 2023-2024 - Phase 1.

False webs: Network to address the misinformation pandemic Sep 1, 2023 - Aug 31, 2025
Fake news (inaccurate information) peaked during the pandemic with around 46 000 daily Twitter posts containing false information (Lupi, 2020). In Europe over 70% people regularly encounter fake news (UNESCO, 2021). The Scottish government has recent... Read More about False webs: Network to address the misinformation pandemic.

London Mathematical Society Research in Pairs application Aug 1, 2023 - Dec 31, 2023
From the LMS:

Objectives: To support a visit for collaborative research either by the grant holder to another institution within the UK, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands or abroad, or by a named mathematician from within the UK, the Isle o... Read More about London Mathematical Society Research in Pairs application.

Modular Energy Islands for Sustainability and Resilience Jan 1, 2023 - Oct 11, 2025
The MODENERLANDS Action aims to merge and systematise the efforts of the European Research and Development (R&D) groups working on Sustainable Energy and the related technologies, in particular wind and wave energy sources, by proposing pathways for... Read More about Modular Energy Islands for Sustainability and Resilience.

SICSA AI Small Grant Jan 1, 2023 - May 31, 2023
We are working on a computer vision project to make construction sites and, more general, workshops operations safer. In particular, we are interested on analysing videos of personnel performing certain manual tasks (using a screwdriver, snapping to... Read More about SICSA AI Small Grant.

Placements for tech start-ups and scalars Jan 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2023
The aim of this proposal is to prepare the groundwork for a sustainable pipeline for placement students wanting to work in tech Scale-ups and Start-ups in Scotland. Employers and students will be provided with information to make reasoned decisions.... Read More about Placements for tech start-ups and scalars.

On the executability and malicious retention of adversarial malware samples generated using adversarial learning. Jan 27, 2023 - Jan 27, 2023
A SICSA Sponsored Research Theme Event
Machine Learning (ML) models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial examples designed to fool ML models to classify them as benign rather than malicious. This has led to several research efforts geared... Read More about On the executability and malicious retention of adversarial malware samples generated using adversarial learning..

Audio Mostly 2023 Nov 1, 2022 - Oct 31, 2023
This project's aim is to host the Audio Mostly conference 2023 here at Edinburgh Napier University (https://audiomostly.com/).

Conference Theme:
Embodied Sound in the Virtual

Conference Abstract:
Sound design can play a crucial role in suppo... Read More about Audio Mostly 2023.