Projects (46)

Linking microbial genes to methane emissions from peatlands under water-table changes Jun 1, 2024 - Dec 31, 2027
• Explore methane producing methanogens and methane consuming methanotrophs diversity
and functional genes across multiple peatland sites under water table changes and
quantitatively link it to methane fluxes.
• Study populations of methanogens an... Read More about Linking microbial genes to methane emissions from peatlands under water-table changes.

BlueFish Jun 1, 2024 - Mar 31, 2025
Establishing the movements, space use and critical habitats of mobile marine species is a significant challenge in mitigating the impacts of anthropogenic activity on them. This limits the sustainable use of ocean resources while preserving marine ec... Read More about BlueFish.

Engaging with Sustainable Materials and Approaches in Film Aug 1, 2024 - Jan 31, 2025
The project follows on the AHRC Scoping Project Sustainable Materials in the Creative Industries, where Ita Jansen was a CO-I. It disseminates the findings and outcomes of this project to different stakeholders and audiences. The project consists o... Read More about Engaging with Sustainable Materials and Approaches in Film.

Assessing and Protecting Spawning Herring and Associated Biodiversity: WOSHH-eDNA-Sound Apr 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2025
Assessing and Protecting Spawning Herring and Associated Biodiversity: WOSHH-eDNA-Sound
Herring helped to generate local income, identity, and societal change for centuries in Scotland, but their numbers on the west coast have been in decline since... Read More about Assessing and Protecting Spawning Herring and Associated Biodiversity: WOSHH-eDNA-Sound.

Exploring the Relationship between Habitat Biodiversity and Donkey Welfare: A Case Study in Scotland and the North of England May 6, 2024 - Jul 31, 2024
The application was written by Edinburgh Napier 4th year student Skye Kenny, in collaboration with Dr Gavin Ballantyne and partners at the University of the West of England and The Donkey Sanctuary.

The project will start before Skye graduates in... Read More about Exploring the Relationship between Habitat Biodiversity and Donkey Welfare: A Case Study in Scotland and the North of England.

New funding for biodiversity conservation Jan 1, 2024 - Dec 31, 2025
The project will result in a sustainable finance stream for the community for the protection and restoration of coastal ecosystems through a certified credit-generating framework that is highly replicable. The innovation of this project will be disse... Read More about New funding for biodiversity conservation.

Transforming Agriculture Residues to Bio-Composite Solutions for Sustainable Growth and Energy Efficiency in Brazil and Bangladesh Dec 13, 2024 - Dec 12, 2027
Many countries, like Brazil and Bangladesh, struggle with inefficient energy use and limited access to clean energy sources (Bangladesh) leading to high electricity bills, unreliable power grids, and unhealthy cooking practices. Brazil and Bangladesh... Read More about Transforming Agriculture Residues to Bio-Composite Solutions for Sustainable Growth and Energy Efficiency in Brazil and Bangladesh.

Dance of the Seasons Feb 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2024
Dance of the Seasons is a collaborative, inter-disciplinary artistic research project that explores how two very different art forms – dance and film – could be engaged in a creative dialogue with each other in order to address one of the most pressi... Read More about Dance of the Seasons.

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.

Prudence Risk Culture: Does it Drive Robust Sustainability Strategies? Sep 2, 2024 - Aug 31, 2025
This project will evaluate the hypothesis that organisations with a strong prudence risk culture demonstrate more robust sustainability strategies. Specifically, it investigates if prudence drives proactive climate risk management and influences sust... Read More about Prudence Risk Culture: Does it Drive Robust Sustainability Strategies?.

Tiree Tope Aug 1, 2024 - Jul 31, 2025
To install acoustic receivers off the Isle of Tiree to detect tope

DIRTT 2.0 consultancy Oct 2, 2023 - Dec 2, 2024
ENU to conduct a further survey to follow-on from our work on the first project. we were a partner on the original EU funded DIRTT project but post-Brexit were not able to participate in this follow-on project, although we are named as an associate p... Read More about DIRTT 2.0 consultancy.

Animal Health as a Climate Solution: Phase I Oct 1, 2024 - Sep 30, 2025
EDF requests a 12-month grant of $946,022 to support scoping and coordination to set the stage for global action on animal health as a climate solution. This Phase I effort will begin to develop a robust body of evidence demonstrating the relationshi... Read More about Animal Health as a Climate Solution: Phase I.

Methane-derived carbon in urban drainage ponds: characteristics and links to riparian ecosystems Jul 1, 2024 - Jun 30, 2025
Urban drainage ponds commonly have high methane production,
leading to local emissions. Dissolved methane may also act as a
carbon source for local food webs, through bacterial methane
oxidation, as has been found in other freshwaters, notably dee... Read More about Methane-derived carbon in urban drainage ponds: characteristics and links to riparian ecosystems.

Attitudes and behaviours towards 20mph speed limit 3 years post intervention Oct 23, 2023 - Oct 18, 2024
1) Augment the previous research undertaken by the Transport Research Institute, Edinburgh Napier University, to assess the impacts of the implementation of 20mph default speed limits across all Scottish Borders (SB) settlements
2) New fieldwork to... Read More about Attitudes and behaviours towards 20mph speed limit 3 years post intervention.

Characterising spatial freshwater soundscapes on an urban-rural gradient Apr 3, 2023 - Sep 29, 2023
The project aims to compare existing methods with a new methodology based on sensor arrays and utilising spatial audio algorithms, which can identify which direction a particular sound comes from and attenuate sounds from other directions. It will al... Read More about Characterising spatial freshwater soundscapes on an urban-rural gradient.

Bundling seagrass carbon with mangroves Jan 1, 2023 - Dec 31, 2023
The high costs of measuring carbon stocks and increments in subtidal seagrass beds mean that fully accredited seagrass carbon projects, using current standards and protocols, are not usually financially viable. The required precision means that any m... Read More about Bundling seagrass carbon with mangroves.

Scottish Borders – European Capital of MTB Dec 1, 2023 - Dec 1, 2025
Evaluation and project support for the ‘Creating a European Capital of Mountain Biking – Scottish Borders’

UK Trails project Oct 1, 2023 - Sep 30, 2025

Spring into Methods 2024 Mar 1, 2024 - Feb 28, 2025
The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) and the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS) are collaborating on Spring into Methods to commission interactive, interdisciplinary and innovative research methods training for t... Read More about Spring into Methods 2024.