The Lions’ Gate Permaculture Garden
Callum Egan explains how his academic community transformed The Lions’ Gate at Napier University, Edinburgh, into a series of permaculture gardens to create a healthier, nature-focused form of educational workplace.
Commentary title: "Are We Post-Enlightenment? Queer Questions for Epistemic (In)Justices. A Commentary to Dr Polynczuk-Alenius': ‘Reality’, ‘truth’, and the democratic imagination in journalistic reporting on antiracist, queer, and feminist activism in Poland"
In this invited contribution, Dr Kulpa will share reflections on how EDI (equality, diversity, and inclusion) and decolonialisation work in the UK academic contexts, embedded in the processes of neoliberalization of higher education in the anglophone contexts.
Professor Imed Romdhani working with Scot Aid to acquire licences for different learning platforms
Jun 20, 2024
Summary
An Edinburgh Napier academic is spearheading an international initiative to provide free online courses to students in Gaza.
Professor Imed Romdhani has linked-up with Scottish charity Scot Aid, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and online learning platform edX and is aiming to initially provide 5,000 free licences to students in Gaza.Professor Imed Romdhani
The initiative – which aims to support around 20,000 students in total – will give students access to unlimited courses from three online learning platforms; edX, Coursera and DataCamp.
Cristian Surubaru working with the European Commission on Administrative Capacity Building (ACB) Roadmaps
Jul 8, 2024
Summary
Dr Neculai Cristian Surubaru has been contracted as a senior and lead expert by the Directorate-General Regional and Urban Policy (DG Regio) at the European Commission to work on the issue of capacity-building for the management of European funds by national and regional authorities across Europe.
Dr Kulpa presents findings from the EU-funded RESIST project at a international European Geographies of Sexualities Conference
Sep 2, 2024
Summary
Roberto Kulpa talked about: Mapping so-called ‘anti-gender’ discourses in parliamentary and media spaces across the ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ geopolitical imaginations of ‘Europe’ at the 7th European Geographies of Sexualities Conference (EGSC) 2024, held at University of Brighton, Sept 2024. https://2024.egsconference.com
Dr Kulpa's talk addressed findings from the RESIST project:
theresistproject.eu/
Abstract:
Anti-feminist and anti-LGBTIQ+ mobilisations have taken roots transnationally, denying individuals autonomy, rights to bodily integrity or self-determination, and attacking selected groups of people (e.g. trans* people, people doing abortion) in order to pursue dehumanising and exclusionary agendas. In the ongoing battle against them, national and international queer-feminist insurgencies have been developing spaces of resistances and fightback. ‘Identity politics’, one way or another, is thus a space of tensions and dis-comforts of politics, where actors, issues, and strategies constantly manoeuvre and reposition themselves to aggregate or ease the arising frictions. Symbolic and real geo-temporalities of political loci have been a significant contributing factor in these processes.
This presentation will empirically draw on the research findings from the RESIST Project (https://theresistproject.eu) on the parliamentary and media ‘anti-gender’ debates in the UK, PL, HU, CH, and the European Parliament to engage with the following issues:
•how ‘dis-comfort’ features as an element of the ‘anti-gender’ politics in Polish and transnational contexts;
•porous and un-comfortable thresholds across media and parliaments as places of (trans)national politics;
•syncretic benefits and obstacles emerging from those ‘threshold of dis-comforts’ that re-create imaginary geopolitics of ‘the ‘east’ and ‘west’ in the ‘anti-gender’ (scholarly, political, activist) debates;
•thinking forward about recommendations and next steps needed in our fight against inequalities and for the better, queer-feminist futures.
Keywords:
‘anti-gender’, LGBTIQ+ equalities, parliamentary and media discourses, queer-feminist resistances, threshold politics.
Films by Napier Academics screening in Londo
Nov 7, 2024
Summary
The short documentary film Leonel & Lesli by Paul Gray and the feature drama film Itu Ninu by Ita Jansen are both screening at the Garden Cinema in London in November as part of an event on New eco-narratives in Latin American film.
Film by Napier academic will be screening at UCLA
Oct 21, 2024
Summary
The film Itu Ninu by Napier academic Ita Jansen will be screening at UCLA. The event is organised by the Latin American Institute at UCLA.
The film is a Science fiction drama and tells the story of two climate migrants.
The RESIST Project: Press Release. FINDINGS FROM THE 2nd STAGE OF THE PROJECT RELEASED
Headline: RESIST reveals the ‘heartbreaking’ impact of so-called ‘anti-gender’ politics across Europe
Lead: The RESIST project, which is investigating so-called ‘anti-gender’ politics across Europe, has discovered several negative consequences, including ‘systemic, institutional discrimination’.
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Dr Achille Fonzone appointed Associate Editor of Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems
Feb 13, 2017
Summary
Dr Achille Fonzone of Transport Research Institute has been appointed Associate Editor of the Journal of International Transportation Systems (JITS).
Intelligent transportation systems are innovative solutions that address contemporary transportation problems. They are characterized by information, dynamic feedback and automation that allow people and goods to move efficiently. Autonomous and connected vehicles, real-time information for car drivers and public transport passengers, traffic lights reacting to current traffic conditions: these are just a few examples of intelligent systems which are revolutionising they way in which we move now and we will move in the future.
JITS is especially interested in research that leads to improved planning and operation of the transportation system through the application of new technologies. The Journal aims to contribute to the scientific understanding of the impacts that intelligent transportation systems can have on accessibility, congestion, pollution, safety, security, noise, and energy and resource consumption.
A full description of the scope of JITS can be found at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=gits20.
Achille is happy to advice on submissions to the journal. You can contact him at a.fonzone@napier.ac.uk.
Invited Keynote Speach by Professor Davis at National Active Travel Conference
Jun 12, 2019
Summary
Keynote speech to Scotland's premier annual active travel conference. Summarised Evidence Review findings from recent studies of most effective interventions to increase active travel and increase physical activity participation.
Chief Medical Officer's highlights Chair of Transport & Health
Dec 13, 2018
Source
Chief Medical Officer article
Summary
The Scotsman article by the Chief Medical Officer for her annual summary of the year included identification of my post of Professor of Transport & Health.
Co-presenter 'Engaging your future workforce' webinar for ASVA
Aug 16, 2022
Summary
Co-presented webinar on 'Engaging with your future workforce' with City of Glasgow College and Robert Gordon University for Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions.
Winner of the RISE award for Design, Innovation and Creativity
Oct 1, 2019
Summary
The RISE Awards are the highlight of the annual Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) Conference – and this year’s ceremony saw Edinburgh Napier’s Bernardino D'Amico and Francesco Pomponi take home the Design, Innovation & Creativity award!
The RISE awards celebrate talented companies, groups and individuals who are changing the nature of the built environment industry through extensive research, development and innovation.
School of Engineering and the Built Environment colleagues Bernardino and Francesco were recognised for their RAEng-funded research on a holistic approach to post-disaster, post-conflict emergency sheltering. This led to follow-on research, funded through an Industry Academia Partnership Programme, focusing on sustainable materials.
