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Humanities & Social Sciences

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Alison Koslowski: Surveys and society

College of Humanities & Social Science – SOCIAL & POLITICAL SCIENCE

Surveys help us understand the impact of social policies. If they use appropriate sampling techniques, surveys of just a few thousand people can tell us what is happening across a whole population.

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Neil Pollock: IT Markets

College of Humanities & Social Science – BUSINESS SCHOOL

Neil’s research on the Social Study of the IT Marketplace studies how powerful new actors – consultancy and IT research firms like ‘Gartner’ – are shaping technology selection choices and technology vendors design strategies.

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Jo Danbolt: Mergers & Acquisitions

College of Humanities & Social Science – BUSINESS SCHOOL

In this video Jo provides a brief introduction to his research on the impact of cross-border mergers and acquisitions on the target and bidding companies involved.

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Yvonne Laird: Physical Activity and Health

College of Humanities & Social Science – MORAY HOUSE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

My research looks at whether significant others (e.g friends/family) can influence how much physical activity adolescent girls participate in with a view to increasing the physical activity levels of adolescent girls.

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Jens Hagendorff: Banking and Risk

College of Humanities & Social Science – BUSINESS SCHOOL

Jens Hagendorff is the Martin Currie Professor in Finance & Investment at The University of Edinburgh. Jens previously worked at the Financial Stability Department of The Bank of Spain and as a lecturer at The University of Leeds. Recently, Jens was also a visiting fellow at The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

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Paul Norris: Crime and Public Policy

College of Humanities & Social Science – SOCIAL & POLITICAL SCIENCE

My research interests focus on the relationship between social context, political economy and crime and justice.??My work typically involves quantitative analysis of social surveys and cross-national data on economic and social conditions. ?

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Akwugo Emejulu: Minority women in tough times

College of Humanities & Social Science – MORAY HOUSE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

I briefly discuss the cross-national comparative research project I co-direct which explores minority women’s activism against austerity in France and the UK.?

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Roger Jeffery: Public health in India

College of Humanities & Social Science – SOCIAL & POLITICAL SCIENCE

Social aspects of public health in South Asia, especially clinical and public health experiments, and access to pharmaceuticals.

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Miles Glendinning: Critical conservation

College of Humanities & Social Science – EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART

In many cities across the world, particularly in Europe, old buildings form a prominent part of the built environment, and we often take it for granted that their contribution is intrinsically positive. How has that widely-shared belief come about – and is its continued general acceptance inevitable?

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Ailsa Niven: Getting more active

College of Humanities & Social Science – MORAY HOUSE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

As psychologists, we are interested in how we think, feel and act influences whether we are physically active or not, and also how being physically active influences how we think, feel and act.

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Mal Burkinshaw: Beauty by design

College of Humanities & Social Science – EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART

Mal’s research explores and challenges the relationship between fashion design and body image. Recognising the unhealthy representations of beauty, size and youth endorsed by the fashion industry, Mal seeks to develop innovative methods of design and research celebrating the end context of design as part of the research and design process.

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Samantha Fawkner: Adolescent girls walking for health

College of Humanities & Social Science – MORAY HOUSE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

The majority of adolescent girls are not active enough for good health. Walking at a reasonable pace is a sufficient level of activity to be health enhancing, and should be promoted as a free, easy and accessible form of activity for this at risk population.

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Steven Sturdy: The genomic revolution in medicine

College of Humanities & Social Science – SOCIAL & POLITICAL SCIENCE

Advances in genetics and genomics are having a profound impact on medicine. Steve Sturdy’s research examines the social implications of this scientific and medical revolution.

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Brad MacKay: Strategic Management

College of Humanities & Social Science – BUSINESS SCHOOL

Dr. MacKay’s area of research interest is in strategy process. By strategy process it is meant the practices and processes by which strategies are formed, implemented and change over time, which impact on the overall strategic direction of the enterprise.

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Simon Harris: Growing firms abroad

College of Humanities & Social Science – BUSINESS SCHOOL

Successful growth firms need to form relationships with people internationally, but where, how, and how much should they do it? This research taps the experience of firms to find out.

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Peter Higgins: Outdoor Sustainability Education

College of Humanities & Social Science – MORAY HOUSE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Our teaching and research is in?Outdoor Environmental and Sustainability Education and this video explains the rationale for this field of study and outlines our current research projects.

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Gian Marco Campagnolo: Ethnographic studies of technology

College of Humanities & Social Science – SOCIAL & POLITICAL SCIENCE

One of the most popular claims in the field of social studies of technology nowadays is that of “being specific about technology”. My work takes this aphorism seriously.

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Pauline Padfield: Travellers & education

College of Humanities & Social Science – MORAY HOUSE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

STEP is located at Moray House in The School of Education. Its work reflects Moray House’s long interest in pursuing equality of opportunity in learning for Scotland’s Travelling families.

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Charlotte Clarke: Dementia & risk

College of Humanities & Social Science – HEALTH IN SOCIAL SCIENCE

My research focusses on dementia care and in particular on risk management. It highlights how, sometimes, our efforts to maintain physical safety can compromise other aspects of wellbeing, causing ‘silent harms’ for people living with dementia.

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Gavin Kelly: Translating Ammianus

College of Humanities & Social Science – HISTORY, CLASSICS & ARCHAEOLOGY

Work on a translation and ultimately a new edition of the late Roman historian Ammianus.

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Graham Baker: Active commuting

College of Humanities & Social Science – MORAY HOUSE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

My name is Graham Baker, I’m a Research Fellow and my main research focus is as coordinator for iConnect; an EPSRC funded project that is examining active travel modes such as walking and cycling.

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Gbenga Ibikunle: Market Microstructure

College of Humanities & Social Science – BUSINESS SCHOOL

Gbenga Ibikunle describes his application of financial market microstructure theory to his study of price formation in the world’s largest emissions trading scheme, the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS).

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Soledad Garcia Ferrari: Architecture and urban development

College of Humanities & Social Science – EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART

The main focus of my research is on recent processes of urban development and regeneration. I have been exploring examples in European cities and have particular interest in Latin American cities.

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Martin Parker: GruntCount

College of Humanities & Social Science – EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART

GruntCount?is a configurable composition for improvising musician and computer influenced by some ideas from computer game audio.

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Scott Wortley: The ranking problem

College of Humanities & Social Science – LAW

Legislation relating to floating charges in Scotland can sometimes create circles of priority. This video gives one example.

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Kenneth Fordyce: Formulaic language

College of Humanities & Social Science – MORAY HOUSE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION

Control over formulaic language and connected speech represents one of the greatest challenges in second language learning; my research focuses on investigating this relatively neglected area in relation to the ability of international students (whose first language is not English) to function effectively in an English-speaking academic environment.

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Susan McVie: Youth offending study

College of Humanities & Social Science – LAW

Professor Susan McVie describes key findings from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime which warn against the dangers of labelling young people who get involved in offending.? ?

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Suzanne Ewing: Architecture and city

College of Humanities & Social Science – EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART

The Saltcities Project explores fragilities, resiliences and limits of contemporary metropolitan areas, focusing on how the invention of architectural sites and projects inflects the idea and experience of city.

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Stuart Haszeldine: Geological CO2 storage

College of Science & Engineering – GEOSCIENCES

Industrial society burns fossil carbon for energy and transport. Excess CO2 emissions damage climate and ocean. Geologists inject liquid CO2 through boreholes into porous reservoirs 1-3km below ground, managing this safely for millennia.

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Chris Breward: Fashion, Design and Culture

College of Humanities & Social Science – EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART

The culture of design has had a significant impact on the social, economic, visual and political landscape of Britain over the past sixty years. Through curation and object-centered research Christopher Breward has traced its relationship to themes of tradition, modernity, subversion and innovation, and continues to explore similar issues in the development of modern fashion.

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