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...
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Projects (53)
'White Thinking' and the failed promise of diversity in Scottish heritage Oct 1, 2023 - Nov 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 heritage organisat...
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Scholarly Edition of Scottish Scene Jun 1, 2023 - Oct 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. Bulloch in...
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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...
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Crime and Criminal Justice as Social Determinants of Health in Scotland. Apr 1, 2024 - Mar 31, 2029
Working Title – Crime and Criminal Justice as Social Determinants of Health in Scotland.
How machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can enhance Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) Oct 1, 2021 - Apr 16, 2025
The success of Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) for forecasting is predicated on accurate, reliable, robust, and accessible data that underpins the decision-making process. Developing, processing and maintaining vast quantities of often unstructured...
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Productivity and Sustainability Management in the Responsive Factory Oct 18, 2021 - Apr 17, 2025
The ambition of this project is to use a mix of factory activity data to optimise industrial operations, and to identify opportunities and deliver improvements in efficiency, productivity and sustainability.
The rapid advance of digital sensing tech...
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In Our Hands II Aug 4, 2023 - Apr 30, 2024
Since 2020, British Council has worked with partners from academic and creative sectors (private) to develop the necessary spaces where youth can reinterpret Nepal’s natural and cultural heritage to develop a stronger understanding of their contribut...
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A Giant on the Bridge Apr 1, 2024 - Mar 31, 2025
‘A Giant on the Bridge’: live narrative gig, writing, rehearsals and performance.
Creative practice-led research project.
Great Expectations! The Reality of Police Officers' Psychological Contracts Feb 1, 2023 - Apr 30, 2025
The project will explore the 'psychological contract' of police officers. It would incorporate a mixed methods approach - initial online survey to new recruits at the Police College about their pre-work expectations an d motivations, together with a...
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Augmented Virtual Reality Enhanced Building Information Modelling Technology for Bamboo-Timber Grid-shells Jul 1, 2022 - Dec 31, 2024
This project aims to develop the state-of-the-art building information modelling technology enhanced by augmented virtual reality function for design, manufacturing and building of the bamboo-timber grid-shell structures. The new technology will be d...
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SIPR Associate Director Jan 8, 2024 - Dec 31, 2027
This is a project for my role as Associate Director (Development) with the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR)
Homework: Music Collaboration in Domestic Spaces Sep 2, 2024 - Oct 31, 2025
MUSCIDS is an interdisciplinary research project that investigates collaborative music making in the digital age. Our aim is to better understand changing ecologies of music production in the domestic and digital spaces of musicians in four European...
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Mental health and substance use care pathways and outcomes for people released from prison Jun 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2025
Lay summary: It is important that people released from prison get help for mental health and substance use. This will protect their health and help them live life away from crime. People released from prison in Scotland are more likely to die from su...
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Exploring the views of children's nurses and the public to the routine use of physical restraint in the care of hospitalised children Oct 1, 2024 - Oct 30, 2025
Restraint involves using direct force to limit or restrict movement (Restraint Reduction Network 2019). Physical restraint in the care of vulnerable adults is seen as abuse, a breach of human rights e.g., DoH. (2012). Physical restraint has long been...
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Investigating the Experiences of ChatGPT and AI by Students in UK Universities May 20, 2024 - May 19, 2026
The proposed research project aims to study the usage of ChatGPT and other such tools by students in UK universities. The objective is to understand how these technologies are being utilised in their academic studies, and to identify any challenges o...
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Work Package 1, Retrofit AI Paper Aug 1, 2023 - Jul 31, 2024
Work Package 1 Retrofit AI
Paper. ENU will liase with and
manage the consortium as
outlined in the Retrofit AI proposal
from BRS.
Development of an innovative grid-scale energy storage to push UK and China renewables Sep 1, 2018 - Jan 31, 2025
Wind and solar energy holds a lot of promise when it comes to replace the conventional energy sources such as fossil fuels and coal. However, there is one problem: How do we store solar and wind energy for times where wind doesn’t blow or sun doesn’t...
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Exploring Barriers Faced By Social Enterprises in Scotland Sep 1, 2024 - May 31, 2025
This project is a follow up activity from the initial research conducted by the Social Value Lab (2023), commissioned by the Social Enterprise Scotland. This research project seeks to identify and analyses the primary barriers that impede the growth...
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Mountain Biking in South of Scotland - Helping to deliver the European Capital of Mountain Biking May 13, 2022 - Oct 28, 2023
Mountain Biking in South of Scotland - Helping to deliver the European Capital of Mountain Biking