Research Paper and Roundtable at British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (BSECS) Annual Conference
Jan 8, 2025
Location
Pembroke College, Oxford University, Oxford.
Description
"Bodies and Embodiment" BSECS annual International conference. I will be discussing the concepts of beauty and ownership in the eighteenth century (research paper) and organising a roundtable discussing the conceptualisation of skin and appearances in the period.
Applying the Right UX based on Users' Needs and Future Trends of UX
Oct 18, 2024
Location
BINUS Business School campus, Jakarta, Indonesia, and online.
Description
In this guest lecture, delivered to students online and at campuses across Indonesia, Dr Jackie Cameron provides a comprehensive overview of user experience (UX) principles and their application in digital marketing contexts. Covering key definitions, industry practices and current research, Dr Cameron explores the subjective and dynamic nature of UX, emphasising its impact on user satisfaction and brand loyalty. Through practical examples, an examination of findings from contemporary studies and exploring likely future trends, the lecture highlights strategies for aligning UX design with evolving user expectations. It encourages participants to incorporate a user-centred approach in their digital strategies.
This lecture was delivered during the 6th BINUS Business School International Lecture Week, October 18-23, 2024. Theme: "AI Integration in Business and Education: Practices, Research, and the Way Forward. A Collaboration of Academic Research & Industry Practices."
Reflections of a PhD mentor: Thesis Mentor Pilot Scheme 2024
Sep 5, 2024
Location
Online
Description
In this presentation, Dr Cameron shares the experience of a mentor on the 12-week pilot at Edinburgh Napier University that aims to improve the student experience and outcomes of PhD students at the writing-up stage. She shares details about the mentoring training workshop, challenges and rewards of serving as a mentor to a PhD student at another school with stakeholders from other UK universities who are exploring similar projects. The Edinburgh Napier University PhD mentor programme was run in collaboration with the University of Glasgow. This presentation was part of a workshop run by Dr Vani Naik of Edinburgh Napier University and Dr Elaine Gourlay of the University of Glasgow, entitled: Honey, We Shrunk a Thesis Mentoring Programme! - Vitae 2024
Guest Speaker - SoMa Summer School, Sofia Music Academy, Bulgaria
Jun 30, 2024
Location
Sofia Music Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria
Description
I am presenting a guest lecture on (self)-management in the music sector. The talk highlights the many and diverse skills at play in navigating a sustainable music career in increasingly challenging economic circumstances. In exploding myths around the industries of music, novel and dynamic approaches to creation and dissemination are proposed in which the individual is agent of their own destiny and empowered to engage ethically with the conditions of the sector.
Employability attributes: Meeting deadlines, time management
Jun 26, 2024
Location
Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University
Description
This talk aimed to excavate marketing practitioner insights on whether meeting deadlines and time management are important graduate attributes that should be carefully considered in an employability-focused curriculum. The presentation sets out the debates on the value and role of assessment deadline extensions in university education and shares progress on a quantitative study that aims to inform assessment policy.
Pedagogical paradox or tension? What our research on assessment deadlines is telling us about constructive alignment
Jun 18, 2024
Location
Craiglockhart Campus, Edinburgh Napier University
Description
We present the theoretical twists and turns of our research on deadline extensions at The Business School. We share preliminary findings of our quantitative data analysis on high-stakes assessments. We discuss whether leniency helps or hinders efforts to enhance inclusivity.
With the increasing societal and environmental challenges, stakeholders now demand a higher level of conduct and integrity from organizations and their brands (Salzer-Mörling and Strannegård 2007; Bhagwat et al., 2020; Hambrick and Wowak 2019; Sarkar and Kotler 2020). Merely acknowledging the world's problems is no longer enough; brands are now expected to actively contribute to addressing these issues and improving the quality of life while addressing environmental concerns (Ramaswamy & Ozcan, 2016). The idea of conscientious brands is gaining more interest as it suggests that brands can have moral agency and choose to act in ways that make a positive contribution to the world brands (Abratt & Kleyn, 2023; Beitelspacher & Getchell, 2023; Iglesias et al., 2023; Iglesias & Ind, 2020; Keränen et al., 2012). Conscientious brands embed conscience into their actions and have a broader focus on creating value, considering all stakeholders' perspectives to deliver transformative change (Ind & Iglesias, 2022). This approach integrates concepts such as sustainability, diversity, inclusion, and equality as deliberate acts.
To address the increasing interests in the arena of conscientious brands and contribute to the existing discussions on conscientious brands, the theme of the 17th Global Brand Conference is:
Conscientious Brands: Making Sustainability and Responsibility Work
Playing with Archives: The Past, Present and Future
Mar 6, 2024
Location
Cardiff University
Description
HAP is an annual gathering of historians and archivists to explore new projects, practices and collections. The conference is run jointly by the Royal Historical Society, Institute of Historical Research and The National Archives
Panel 2: Playing with Archives: The Past, Present and Future
Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, academics from the Applied Informatics group at Edinburgh Napier University consider the creative past, present and future of archives. With experience across information science, creative informatics, creative technology and game design they will discuss how their research considers creative interpretation and aesthetic experiences in public engagement with archives. Specifically, they will consider how design approaches can embed creative and playable components within archival-based practice to encourage future generations to connect with materials in new and engaging ways.
The panel will discuss how creative mediums utilise archival materials for world building and reflect on the growth of digitised materials to allow new ‘audiences’ to play with history. The panel will consider how physical heritage sites can be an aesthetic, multisensorial experiences that can provoke visceral responses (Claisse et al 2020) and how in designing for interaction with digital collections, our challenge is to engender equivalent reactions with new ‘audiences’. We will present a range of technological and gaming interventions to consider how archival materials are played with through technology (Darzentas 2020; Wagner 2023), in games like Valiant Hearts (Ubisoft 2014), how they can portray complex histories such as in The Darkest Files (Paintbucket Games 2024 forthcoming), and how digital biographical or documentary storytelling are then themselves becoming archival materials that create new challenges for archivists (Donald and Houghton 2018; Tarvet 2022). The aim of this panel is not to consider how we preserve this new digital content, but to discuss how we can make existing archive material more accessible for people to 'play' with material and in the process create new artefacts. We seek to address the question of "how can information scientists, creative technologists and game designers aid discovery, reading and interpretation of archive material?"
Organised this training event for the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities at the Moving Image Archive of the National Library of Scotland
Gender and Sexuality Research at Edinburgh Napier University
Mar 6, 2024
Location
Merchiston Campus, room: MER_H11
Description
Let’s get together and listen to colleagues working on gender and sexuality! And then let’s talk about their fascinating ideas, and how they relate to our own work and topics! This event is envisaged as informal and friendly gathering, following the success of similar gathering in 2023. We want to continue on this good tradition, and build new connections, learn about inspiring research we are doing across the university, feel inspired and nurtured.
Please send any queries to: Dr Roberto Kulpa (r.kulpa@napier.ac.uk)
SCHEDULE
14:00-14:10
Welcome (Roberto Kulpa)
14:10-15:00 TRANS LIVES
GUEST: Gina Gwenffrewi (University of Edinburgh) will start with an input about trans* people's cultural production online (i.e. YouTube, Twitter/X), framing the moral panic, and its impact on the trans* communities.
Rob Clucas (Law) will speak to the latest ‘gender critical’ challenge to the Gender Recognition Act 2004 in the appeal to the Supreme Court in the For Women Scotland case. He suggests that a solution to the current poisonous polemic around trans* rights can usefully be sought in the dialogic theory of Martin Buber (Buber 1958).
Toni Kania (Social Sciences) will introduce their PhD project about conceptualising bodily autonomy and sovereignty of trans* people – and from trans* peoples’ perspective – in Poland.
15:00-15:10 Coffee and pastries break
15:10-16:00 GENDERED VIOLENCE
Amy Beddows (Counselling) will speak about the potential of horror texts as tools for survivors processing the experiences of gendered violence.
Anne Schwan (English) will reflect on femicide, perpetrator narratives and the challenge of restorative justice, drawing from her analysis of Em Strang's novel “Quinn” (2023).
Fiona McQueen (Social Sciences) will conclude this section pondering on her project on Scottish young men’s attitudes towards prevention messages on violence against women, incl. queer & trans men’s accounts and insights.
16:00-16:10 Coffee and pastries break
16:10-17:00 REPRESENTATIONS
Yen Nee Wong (Social Sciences) will introduce us to queer cultures of ballroom dancing and the role of Strictly Come Dancing’s representations and mainstreaming.
David Bishop (Creative Writing) will speak about his creative writing PhD, instigation into the scarcity of queer sleuths in historical mystery fiction set before the Victorian era, and the politics of outing and authorship.
Phiona Stanley (Tourism) will talk about labels – ‘spinsters’, ‘crazy cat ladies’, ‘witches’. It is also, in theoretical terms, about queering queerness by negotiating the queer and deeply gendered queerness of spinsterhood.
17:00-17:10 Coffee and pastries break
17:10-17:45 POP!
Ashley Stein (Music) will introduce their PhD project on how hyperpop and other electronic music practices can be used to destabilise gender binaries.
Frederik Byrn Køhlert (English, Visual Cultures) will close this input section with a reflection on the representation of gender and sexuality in comics & graphic novels, incl. examples from work as editor of a Routledge series on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics.
17:45-onwards: Post-Event Drinks & Food at nearby The Golf Tavern
30-31 Wright's Houses, Bruntsfield, EH10 4HR
Event Organisation:
Dr Roberto Kulpa
School of Applied Sciences: Deputy Research Degrees Lead
Co-Director: MSc Applied Social Research
Co-Investigator: (2022-2026) ‘RESIST. Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics’ (EU Horizon Europe grant no. 101060749).
War Poets Collection lecture: Prof Alison Fell
Nov 13, 2023
Location
Craiglockhart campus
Description
Glorifying Women: Remembering Women’s Roles in the First World War
After the Armistice, the British nation in mourning was most often represented by a grieving widow or mother. War commemoration tended to set in stone a traditional understanding of women as the passive observers of war, crowning ‘distant ardours’ and mourning ‘laurelled memories’. Yet not only did thousands of women actively respond to and participate in the rites and rituals of commemoration, but they also instigated, planned, designed and sculpted memorials and ceremonies. Further, some women saw themselves as having been on ‘active service’, and therefore as members of a ‘war generation’ who had more in common with the bitter soldier persona of Sassoon’s poem than with other non-combatants. This talk will examine a broad range of war memorials and commemorative activities, arguing that while many adhered to a traditional gendered view of wartime sacrifice, others offered a very different interpretation of the war and its devastating losses.
Professor Alison Fell is Dean of the School of Histories, Languages and Cultures at the University of Liverpool. She has published widely on women and war, particularly the First World War, including edited books on the women’s movement and nurses, and two recent monographs published by Cambridge University Press: Women as Veterans in Britain and France after the First World War (2018) and Warrior Women: The Cultural Politics of Armed Women c.1850-1945 (2023).
Engaging £eithChooses - a community conversation
May 3, 2023
Location
Norton park Conference Centre
57 Albion Rd
Edinburgh
EH7 5QY
Description
An opportunity for in person networking around £eithChooses (http://www.leithchooses.net) & learning how to improve community-based participatory budgeting (PB) for future years.
Attendees will include representatives of organisations that have or may in future apply for funding from LeithChooses, which disburses funding from Edinburgh Council for the Leith 'neighbourhood network' area. Other attendees will be representatives of Edinburgh Council, COSLA, Scottish Government who have interests in participatory budgeting.
Royal Television Society Scotland Event 'The View from the Terrace - Turning Around topical television
Apr 27, 2023
Location
Merchiston Campus
Description
A free talk by the production team behind the BBC Scotland programme 'A View from the Terrace' organised by the Royal Television Society Scotland, open to students and the public.
Gender and Sexuality Research: Work-in-Progress Afternoon
Mar 8, 2023
Location
E17 Merchiston Campus
Description
Marking International Women's Day, this event is jointly hosted by the Centre for Arts, Media and Culture (CAMC) and the Centre for Creative Practice (CCP), with presentations from different disciplinary perspectives in the arts, humanities and social sciences. We will also be joined by an external collaborator (Dr Manuella Blackburn, Open University), with a short performance.
Research talk by Dr Adrian Wisnicki: ‘Collaboration Across Disciplines and Cultures with One More Voice’
Feb 8, 2023
Location
Merchiston Campus, 10 Colinton Road, Edinburgh, with online joining option via Teams.
Description
Hosted by the Centre for Arts, Media and Culture, guest speaker Dr Adrian Wisnicki (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) will be presenting on One More Voice, a digital humanities recovery project engaging with the voices of racialized creators in British imperial and colonial archives.
Catherine Walker Memorial Lecture: Dr Jane Potter
Nov 14, 2022
Location
Craiglockhart Campus.
Description
A lecture held at Craiglockhart in honour of the late Catherine Walker, formerly curator of the War Poets Collection.
Dr Jane Potter (Oxford Brookes University)
Strange Meeting(s): Wilfred Owen at Craiglockhart
The site of one of the most famous meetings in literary history, that of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Craiglockhart War Hospital is embedded in the cultural memory of the First World War. Crucial both in Owen's recovery from the trauma of his active service and his development as a poet, Craiglockhart also provided him with opportunities for many other significant meetings that were essential to his poetic and emotional maturity. This talk will highlight some of these 'strange meetings' and reflect on the lasting legacy of the place that Owen called 'this free-and-easy Oxford'.
