3MT Competition is Opent Sighthill Campus is running!
Jun 26, 2025
Location
School of Applied Sciences & School of Health and Social Care, Sighthill Campus
Description
You are cordially invited to participate in the first edition of the 3MT Competition, organised jointly by School of Applied Sciences & School of Health and Social Care
Annual European Rheology Conference (AERC 2025) in Lyon,
Apr 14, 2025
Location
Lyon, France
Description
I attended the Annual European Rheology Conference (AERC 2025), held in Lyon from April 14 to 17, 2025. I presented my research entitled "Enhanced Rheological Stability of Poly(Butylene Adipate-co-Terephthalate) through Joncryl Modification: A Path Towards Sustainable Recycling." The conference offered a valuable platform to share insights, engage with fellow researchers in the field of rheology, and explore innovative approaches toward advancing sustainable polymer processing.
Wardlaw Museum
7 The Scores, KY16 9AR, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
Description
Our panel will explore how creative, craft-based practices and processes can subvert expectation, amplify marginalised and underrepresented voices, and drive meaningful societal change.
The panel for this discussion is made up of:
Dr Anna Brown, Senior Lecturer, University of St Andrews Business School
Vanessa Marr, Principal Lecturer, School of Art and Media, University of Brighton
Hannah Ayre, Participatory Artist, Educator and Producer, Edinburgh
Dr Sam Vettese, Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Creative Industries, Edinburgh Napier University
In conversation: can craft change the world? will also be live streamed. Please click Join Online Event at the top of the page to register for online attendance.
Still on the theme of craft changing the world, there will be an exhibition of Vanessa Marr's Domestic Dusters project displayed throughout the Wardlaw Museum throughout March 2025. Vanessa will be lecturing in St Andrews on Thursday 20 March 2025 at The Gateway, sharing insights into her stitch-based approach to research, work that resists gendered expectations of domesticity and positions embroidery and commonplace household cloths as the catalyst for feminist and change-making conversations.
Subject: CEDAR - Centre for Mind, Creativity, and Environment Research – Meeting https://www.napier.ac.uk/about-us/our-schools/school-of-applied-sciences/research/cedar
When: Dec 4th 2024 14:30-16:00 (UTC+00:00) Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London.
Where: Merchiston MER_E17 ( MER_Level E) and online
Additional information:
-Refreshments are provided!
-Distinguished speakers including external guest (chartered architect) and PhD researcher
-A visit to the structures lab
Agenda items:
-15-20 minutes talks from speakers in Design Practice, Sustainability, Creativity and Built Environment.
oJanice Lau, Architype: Leading Sustainable Architects
THE ROLE OF THE ARCHITECT IN CREATING SUSTAINABLE SPACES AND COMFORTABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR PEOPLE
oDaniel Kumah, PhD researcher at the School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE OF TIMBER-CONCRETE COMPOSITES USING RECYCLED AGGREGATES
-A demonstration in the structures lab about timber-concrete composites
-CEDAR Updates
Knowledge Sharing Event: Effective BIM Collaboration: Strategies for Smaller Projects
Nov 15, 2024
Location
Edinburgh Napier University
Rivers suite -Craiglockhart Campus
Description
We hosted an inspiring knowledge sharing event at Edinburgh Napier University in partnership with CSY Architects. This event builds on discussions we started in a previous industry and Government engagement event we organised in June 2024 about Information Management and Collaboration strategies in Design and Construction Practices.
Event Schedule
Lunch on Arrival / Registration
Welcome and Introductions
David Philip (Cohesive)
James King (CSY Architects): Effective BIM Collaboration: Strategies
for Smaller Projects
Discussion Groups
Plenary
Break
Neil Benzies (Narro)
Andrew Waring (Digital Guerrilla)
Q+A Panel
Closing Remarks
The Transdisiplinary Workplace Research Conference TWR2024
Sep 4, 2024
Location
Edinburgh Napier University
Craiglockhart Campus
Description
The Transdisciplinary Workplace Research (TWR) network is an eclectic group of scholars and practitioners who share one goal: to contribute to the design and management of workplaces where people work to their full potential and experience high levels of mental and physical wellbeing.
Social, physical, technological and management issues merge to make this field of research truly transdisciplinary.
Edinburgh Napier University is delighted to be hosting the TWR Conference, from 4-7 September 2024, at our beautifully located Craiglockhart Campus in Edinburgh, Scotland. All academics, researchers, students and professionals interested in workplace matters are welcome.
Knowledge Sharing Event: Building Information Management BIM in SMEs
Jun 14, 2024
Location
Edinburgh Napier University
The Glass Room, Merchiston Campus
Description
CSY Architects has been working in partnership with Edinburgh Napier University to explore the application of BIM by SMEs on smaller projects and on existing buildings. We're looking forward to sharing our findings so far, along with guest speakers from David Miller Architects, Narro Engineers, and Historic Environment Scotland.
Event Schedule
Lunch/Registration
Welcome and Introductions
James King (CSY Architects)
Discussion Groups
Plenary
Break
Eamon Gilson (Historic Environment Scotland)
Andrew De Silva (David Miller Architects London)
Q + A Panel
Closing Remarks
International Conference of the Polymer Processing Society (PPS-39)
May 19, 2024
Location
Cartagena, Colombia
Description
I attended the 39th International Conference of the Polymer Processing Society (PPS-39), held at the Hilton Cartagena Hotel in Cartagena de Indias from May 19 to May 23, 2024. During the conference, I delivered a presentation entitled "Enhancing Toughness and Interfacial Compatibility in PLA/PBAT/Joncryl Blends through Two-Step Blending." This event provided an excellent opportunity to engage with leading polymer experts from around the world and to participate in meaningful knowledge exchange and discussions on the latest advancements in polymer processing.
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).
Visiting academic at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster Pennsylvania
Oct 30, 2023
Location
Lancaster Pennsylvania, USA
Description
Invited to deliver a session summarising my reserach into genocide heritage to a cohort studying current topics in consumer psychology. This visit arose out of the 2022 Dark Tourism symposium at ENU.
Lions' Gate Garden free event as part of the Climate Fringe and the Great Big Green Week, supported by the Permaculture Association.
At 3.30pm influential, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at Aberdeen University Tim Ingold, presented his latest work ‘Generation Now‘ from our Storytelling Chair.
Tim has made a huge impact on design philosophy, and was a favourite of Edinburgh Napier’s late, great Prof. David Benyon, whose own design work on Blended Spaces has fundamentally informed The Lions’ Gate.
Other wholesome and life-affirming activities of the day included:
Holistic Therapies by Emma J @ Blue Butterfly Therapies
Student exhibits from the School of Arts and Creative Industries
Campus-grown food
Cocktails and drinks
Music, including DJ Someone’s Dad and Blue Heron
Garden tours
