Projects (20)

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... Read More about How machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can enhance Labour Market Intelligence (LMI).

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... Read More about Productivity and Sustainability Management in the Responsive Factory.

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... Read More about In Our Hands II.

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... Read More about Augmented Virtual Reality Enhanced Building Information Modelling Technology for Bamboo-Timber Grid-shells.

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 - Mar 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... Read More about Development of an innovative grid-scale energy storage to push UK and China renewables.

Development of net-zero homes using a digital twinned building performance analysis Mar 1, 2021 - Feb 28, 2025
Edinburgh Napier University is developing together with other consortium members the Edinburgh Home Programme that will demonstrate a new business model based on collaborative procurement, whole-life costings, development pipeline and greater standar... Read More about Development of net-zero homes using a digital twinned building performance analysis.

Building From England's Woodlands Jul 1, 2022 - Jun 30, 2025
The focus of the project is to develop 5 building system concepts through innovative digital design, adapted to the characteristics of 5 underutilised home-grown English timber species. Each project should be developed to create 1:1 physical prototyp... Read More about Building From England's Woodlands.

Integration and re-engineering of architectural heritage in Guangxi, Inner Mongolia minority regions in China with UK modern bio-based construction technology Jan 16, 2022 - Dec 31, 2024
Architecture is frozen music. Architectural heritage is a crystallization of arts, engineering, culture and history, carrying the ancient wisdom of different nations, an indelible mark of human-nature interactions, and undoubtedly, a national treasur... Read More about Integration and re-engineering of architectural heritage in Guangxi, Inner Mongolia minority regions in China with UK modern bio-based construction technology.

Fixing the Future: The Right to Repair and Equal-IoT Oct 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2025
Our 2-year interdisciplinary project will investigate how the lack of repairability in the consumer Internet of Things (IoT) will adversely impact equity, inclusion, and sustainability in the digital economy.

IoT products are becoming the default,... Read More about Fixing the Future: The Right to Repair and Equal-IoT.

Optimizing Citizen-Science Tools for Mangrove Crab Fisheries Management in Brazil Jul 1, 2021 - Nov 30, 2021
NERC funded 'Research Experience Placement' / SUPER DTP

Ikerbs Phase 4 Trials for Inclusive Suitability of kerbs in a number of key city environments Apr 1, 2023 - Jun 30, 2024
Phase 4 will build apon Phases 2 and 3 with trials and experimentation: User engagement and Trials. Phase 3 findings will be consolidated with Phase 2 and final report development under Phase 4. In addition, A series of experimental trials will see p... Read More about Ikerbs Phase 4 Trials for Inclusive Suitability of kerbs in a number of key city environments.

The Library of Inspiration Feb 1, 2024 - Jul 31, 2025
The project's ultimate aim is to empower 12 and 13-year-olds from under-represented groups in engineering to become future leaders. This will be achieved through "The Library of Inspiration," physically located in local high schools, using co-creatio... Read More about The Library of Inspiration.

Information literacy and society: a comprehensive review Feb 1, 2023 - Sep 30, 2023
This project sought to bring out how people learn to understand why and how they need information, and how they gather, process and use information, by reviewing research from 2005 to the present. The word ‘information’ was taken to mean not only wri... Read More about Information literacy and society: a comprehensive review.

Research Impact and Value in Library and Information Science (RIVAL) Network Feb 1, 2019 - Mar 31, 2021
This project developed a formal Scotland-wide network of LIS researchers and practitioners, to help spread expertise into a connected practitioner community across all LIS sectors through high quality training and opportunities for knowledge exchange... Read More about Research Impact and Value in Library and Information Science (RIVAL) Network.

Effects and mechanisms of school traffic schemes in Great Britain: a natural experimental study Aug 1, 2023 - Aug 31, 2025
Promoting active travel, or walking and cycling, can have numerous health and environmental benefits. It can improve population levels of physical and mental health, result in health gains, and reduced healthcare cost while emitting less air pollutio... Read More about Effects and mechanisms of school traffic schemes in Great Britain: a natural experimental study.

Tackling misinformation and disinformation for Scottish school librarians Feb 1, 2025 - Jan 31, 2026
It is claimed that ‘Libraries have always had a role as trusted institutions’ (Royal Society, 2022). However, librarians’ solutions to misinformation may be untested (Sullivan, 2019). Further, school librarians may be seen as ‘book-pushers’, not invo... Read More about Tackling misinformation and disinformation for Scottish school librarians.

Investigating and improving induction training for CS work-based learning workplace mentors, especially to ensure inclusion Aug 1, 2023 - Jul 31, 2024
This study investigates and induction training for Computing work-based learning workplace mentors, especially to ensure inclusion. Through the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC) the study will gather information from computing depar... Read More about Investigating and improving induction training for CS work-based learning workplace mentors, especially to ensure inclusion.

SIRT 2021-2022 (WP1&2) Sep 1, 2021 - Jul 31, 2024
Our research activities are focused on understanding the physical and mechanical properties of wood and how these affect its performance in different applications. Our main aim is to better understand how the management site, and climate, of forests... Read More about SIRT 2021-2022 (WP1&2).

SHELTERs: Sustainable Homes Enabling the Long Term Empowerment of Refugees Mar 1, 2020 - Jan 31, 2025
This project addresses this major moral, humanitarian, and knowledge gap by following on from a highly successful seed-funded project, which developed—through participatory design and interdisciplinary research—a shelter prototype called Makazi (winn... Read More about SHELTERs: Sustainable Homes Enabling the Long Term Empowerment of Refugees.