Category: Case study

Professor Jenni Barclay is a world leader in the emerging field of social volcanology – working with communities to help them become more resilient to volcanic activity, especially in times of crisis.

Professor Sharon Ashbrook – a world leader in the emerging field of nuclear magnetic resonance crystallography – speaks about the importance of asking why in a career in science.

A team of academics, honoured by the Royal Society of Edinburgh with the Mary Somerville Medal, developed the EAVE II health monitoring platform, which played a crucial role in tracking and analysing the Covid-19 pandemic.

Dr Micaela Mazzei, Small Research Grant awardee investigates how the implementation of community wealth building is being approached in Scotland.

Using arts-based methods, RSE awardee, Dr Johanne Miller, has carried out a study to generate new ways of understanding experiences of boredom in young people’s lives.

Marine mammal ecologist Dr Denise Risch uses her RSE Small Research Grant to study the unique acoustic repertoire of Atlantic white-sided dolphins for the first time.

RSE Research Workshops awardee Dr Andrew Jennings discusses his project: The Scottish Island Futures – 2050 and Beyond.

RSE Small Research Grant awardee Dr Luis Novo examines metal and particulate matter accumulation in the urban hedges of Edinburgh.

RSE Personal Research Fellowship awardee Professor Tanja Bueltmann investigates Scotland’s European diaspora post-Brexit.

Professor Bruce Peter celebrates the interiors Clyde-built ships’ interiors created between the 1860s – 1960s.

Dr Martin Zeilinger examines the cultural and socio-economic impacts and ethical implications of ‘gamification’ and ‘financialisation’ in today’s digital culture.

Amplified by the Covid-19 pandemic, the increased use of electronic tools by journalists has enhanced their work, but also left them vulnerable when it comes to cyber security.

Worldwide, one in three women has experienced physical or sexual violence, primarily by an intimate partner, according to data gathered in 2021 by the World Health Organisation. The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns increased incidences of gender-based violence (GBV), creating a “double pandemic” (Bettinger-Lopez & Bro, 2020). Atop these unsettling figures, research has found that […]

RSE Small Research Grant awardee Dr Lori Watson discusses the ways that traditional musicians are experimenting with new traditional music composition in Scotland. 

Dr John Nugent, RSE SAPHIRE Fund awardee discusses his project ‘Neutrino Cross-section Measurements with the Novel WAGASCI Near-detector at T2K’

Dr Melanie Ramdarshan Bold, RIA/RSE Ireland-Scotland Bilateral Network Grant awardee, examines the impact of COVID-19 on Children’s and Young Adult Literature Creative, Cultural, and Reading Communities in Scotland and Ireland.

Dr Şebnem Susam-Saraeva was awarded an RSE Research Workshop Grant in 2021 to take forward the project ‘Translating informed consent in Scottish maternity services’.

Dr Joanne Ingram, RSE SAPHIRE awardee, examines the effects of different approaches to lockdown restrictions in Scotland and Japan.