ISSUE 48 AUTUMN 2015

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The RSE hosts an Awards Reception every year, at which the achievements of all of its awardees are announced and celebrated. The event took place this year on Monday 7 September. Pictured are eight of the awardees, recipients of various awards, all from the University of Aberdeen. A full list of all the awardees is on pages 12–15 and further details of the evening can be found on the back page.

Also featured in this issue: Options for Scotland’s Gas Future Interview with Professor Sue Black Full list of RSE Awardees 2015 resource AUTUMN 2015 The RSE Comments Entrepreneurial Education in Scotland

The Scottish Government has • Skills for growth for practitioners to oversee a declared its ambition for Scotland entrepreneurs and business comprehensive programme for to become a world-leading leaders who are ready to the delivery of entrepreneurial entrepreneurial nation. The scale up an existing venture. education in Scotland, with the Business Innovation Forum (BIF) strong endorsement and support From the outset, it was clear that of the Royal Society of Edinburgh of the Scottish Government and a joined-up approach is crucial to welcomes this vision but Scottish Funding Council. ensuring the consistency and quality recognises also that achieving In addition, the report calls on it will require a fundamental universities to consider how shift in the mind set, skills and they can best support all confidence of Scotland’s academic staff to understand current, and future, workforce. the relevance and importance Scottish universities have a of enterprise education across pivotal role to play in shaping the full curriculum, and to an innovative and dynamic develop their capacity to workforce. Research funding introduce enterprise skills into bodies, public and private courses. Increased engagement business support agencies with non-academic lecturers, and industry are also crucial particularly those who have actors. The BIF, therefore, experienced both success established a Working Group and failure in entrepreneurial to discuss the question of ventures, would have a particular entrepreneurial education impact on developing ambitious, with stakeholders from confident students who will be across the ecosystem, more willing to take risks and starting a discussion on seize opportunities in the future. how to effectively deliver Universities have powerful the key skills and experiences potential to ensure that that will support Scotland’s world-class leadership capacity students of today to be and the ambitions for growth, confident, entrepreneurially- which are crucial to achieving minded leaders in the future. a step change in Scotland’s The report of the Working Group, innovation economy, are of entrepreneurial skills and published in June 2015, set out a embedded at the earliest stages support across Scotland. The number of emerging recommendations of learning. Through their business report therefore recommends that aim to ensure Scotland-wide schools, and in partnership with the creation of an access to three levels of Scotland’s key support agencies Entrepreneurship Education entrepreneurial skills training: and industry, universities should Forum, bringing together consider how to deliver such skills • Enterprise education for everyone, high-level representatives of to emerging entrepreneurial to encourage basic business academic institutions, public leaders, both within the formal awareness, employability skills and private business support higher education sector and and a creative mind-set that will organisations and industry across Scotland more widely. benefit students in all future career paths; • Entrepreneurship education for The full discussion paper, Entrepreneurial Education in Scotland those interested in applying these (Advice Paper 15-09 June 2015) can be found on the RSE website at: skills specifically to the creation of www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/advice-papers/2015/AP15_09.pdf a new venture; and 2 resource AUTUMN 2015 Options for Scotland’s Gas Future

In light of the significant recent public and political debate that has surrounded unconventional gas, and the process of hydraulic fracturing in particular, a working group of RSE , Young Academy members and other experts was convened to proactively produce an Advice Paper examining Scotland’s future options for sourcing gas. The Working Group included members from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds and was Chaired by RSE , Professor Rebecca Lunn. In June, Professor Lunn presented the findings of the paper to the Scottish Parliament’s Cross- Party Group on Science and Technology. The paper analyses the four choices Scotland has available for sourcing the gas that it will require over the coming decades – demand reduction; import; onshore production; offshore production – and presents the Onshore production would improve benefits and risks associated with each. energy security and allow Scotland In the Advice Paper, to control regulation, but could cause Options for Scotland’s disruption and face opposition from Gas Future, the Working communities. Offshore production Group stressed the high could improve energy security without level of reliance disturbing communities, but may Scotland has on natural prove more expensive and gas for both residential potentially uneconomic. Both onshore and commercial and offshore industries suffer from heating. Gas is further large uncertainty over whether required for both significant viable reserves in Scotland electricity generation actually exist. and as a chemical Irrespective of which option, or feedstock for the options, Scotland decides to take petrochemical industry. The UK currently imports over 50% of the gas it forward, it is imperative that it is done consumes and so to increase energy security in addition to meeting future with the support of the Scottish demand, the UK may wish to increase domestic onshore or offshore public. The decision must be made production. Reducing the demand for gas across the country should also be following meaningful participation considered, albeit in conjunction with one or several of the other options. of a well-informed public. Major Scotland is also committed to meeting statutory climate change targets decisions over energy must be addressed at a societal level and not and any action that is taken must be consistent with these goals, in addition be imposed from above, nor left to to addressing energy security, cost to the consumer and public acceptance. individual communities to accept Sourcing more gas domestically would give Scotland greater control over or decline on a case-by-case basis. environmental control measures such as carbon capture and storage. The Working Group, while wishing to Demand reduction is vital, but significant government investment would be avoid endorsing a particular course needed to ensure extensive uptake by the public. It is also important that of action, made two recommendations: the positive effect demand reduction would have on fossil fuel consumption is not negated by simply moving heat demand from gas to electricity, as this 1. The Scottish Government should could result in increased levels of fuel poverty and a higher electricity consider investing funds to reduce demand that Scotland would struggle to meet. the areas of large uncertainty, notably those surrounding health Importing would eliminate the adverse impacts of production on the Scottish impacts and potential reserves. public, but would serve to move them abroad; leaving Scotland without the ability to enforce strong regulation surrounding the environment and worker 2. Public participatory decision safety. Furthermore, this course of action leaves the UK reliant on other making should be used in reaching countries, with potentially very different values, for its energy and has a a verdict on which option, or greater climate change impact due to transportation and pipeline leakage. options, Scotland takes forward.

The Advice Paper can be found on the RSE website at: www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/BriefingPaper15-01.pdf

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Tuesday 27 October Wednesday 4 November Tuesday 1 December 2015 at 7 pm at Moffat 2015 at 6 pm 2015 at 6 pm Academy, Moffat MACCORMICK JAMES BLACK RSE@THE HOLYWOOD EUROPEAN LECTURE PRIzE LECTURE TRUST – PUBLIC TALK Enlightenment: Sleeping Sickness in Gravitational-Wave a matter of urgency Sub-Saharan Africa Astronomy: Opening Professor Gunter Stock Professor Peter Kennedy CBE FRSE a New Window on President, ALLEA (the federation of Burton Chair of Neurology, the Universe All European Academies) University of Glasgow Professor Martin Hendry MBE FRSE Director, Head, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow

Professor Kennedy will describe his work on a new oral drug, which promises improvement in the lives of the rural poor affected by human African trypanosomiasis – sleeping sickness. Gravitational waves are ripples in the This killer disease, which occurs in 36 fabric of Space and time, predicted by countries in sub-Saharan Africa, putting Einstein and produced by the most 70 million people at risk, is transmitted violent events in the Cosmos: exploding The great societal challenges ahead of by the bite of the tsetse fly and is stars, colliding black holes, even the Big us, such as climate change and health, invariably fatal if untreated. The current Bang itself. Using a global network of can only be tackled if we are able to treatment is excuciatingly painful and giant laser interferometers – among the combine all of our current knowledge kills over 8% of people receiving it. most sensitive scientific instruments ever and make this knowledge available in a built – astronomers are on the threshold quantative and timely fashion. This is of directly detecting gravitational waves where modern Academies in Europe and for the very first time. Professor Hendry around the globe can play an important will describe the remarkable technology role, to present civil society with options that underpins this exciting new field, and alternatives based on current and highlight the fundamental questions scientific knowledge and judgement. – about stars, galaxies, cosmology, This is commonly known as scientific perhaps even the nature of Space and advice, but it can be alternatively time – that may be answered as we open expressed as modern enlightenment. this new window on the Universe. The annual MacCormick European Professor Hendry is the winner of the Lecture is named after the late 2015 RSE Public Engagement Senior Professor Sir Neil MacCormick, in This lecture forms part of an RSE Prize: both he and the Innovator Prize recognition of the contribution made Ordinary Meeting and so will be winner will be presented with their by him to Scottish and European politics preceded by Society business, such medals at this event. and the international work of the RSE. as Fellows signing the Roll.

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Scientific enquiry is about making Tuesday 8 December 2015 at 6 pm generalisations, we are told, about at Moffat Academy, Moffat making things look alike: a few short, sharp general claims to deal with a JOINT LECTURE WITH THE wealth of different cases. We get them to look that way by blurring ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY the details, by distorting all the instances that don’t fit the box. Scientific Generalisations: what’s so good This talk will discuss how we come by general truths in science (not about missing out all generalisations? by generalising) and explores some of the pitfalls in getting back down Professor Nancy Cartwright to concrete, especially when we want Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University to use science to build a laser or to of Durham and at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), USA create a better social policy.

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AcademiaNet interview with Sue Black OBE FRSE, Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, Head of Centre for Anatomy & Human Identification (CAHID), University of Dundee

A Body of Knowledge

AcademiaNet: Your field of research is forensic AcademiaNet: One of your most notable projects anthropology, which is the analysis of human remains during this time, for which you have been awarded for medicolegal purposes. How did you become an Order of the British Empire, was leading forensic interested in this potentially gruesome discipline? anthropology in Kosovo after the Yugoslav wars. What role did you play in Kosovo? Professor Black: My very first job when I was 12 years old was in a butcher's shop. So very early on I became Professor Black: I headed out to Kosovo not really comfortable dealing with blood, bone, muscle, flesh, knowing what to expect or for how long I would be offal and such things. Later I went to university to study out there. The British forensic team was the first team biology, but I hadn't a clue where that was going to go. to go out to Kosovo after the troops had retreated, so In my third year I chose to do anatomy, where you dissect we were very much on the periphery of what was still the human body from the top of the head to the bottom a war zone. We had huge military protection, there of the toes. I found that year just so utterly fascinating, were still snipers in the area. to know not only what's on the outside of the human Although there was one unadulterated crime scene but what's on the inside. that we had to investigate, our main job in the early My first exposure to forensic investigation was when a stages was to record as much information as possible case came along that my supervisor at the time was to support any possible war crime cases. We were looking at. You never quite know how you're going to required to determine what we thought happened at react to your first forensic case, but I found that it just an indictment site, and if what we thought had fascinated me. It seemed a very natural progression from happened matched with what witnesses said happened, a butcher's shop into an anatomy department dissecting that would act as very strong evidence to support a war room to a mortuary assisting the police. crimes case against someone like Milošević or Karadžić. AcademiaNet: After your postgraduate studies, AcademiaNet: You mentioned about being exposed to you spent some time as a lecturer in human anatomy snipers in Kosovo. Your fieldwork has also taken you to before taking up work identifying victims and Sierra Leone and Iraq. Has your work ever felt dangerous? perpetrators of conflicts for the Foreign and Professor Black: When I was in Iraq, it was still very Commonwealth Office and United Nations. What unstable. The military quarters were actually quite safe, made you transition from academia to fieldwork? but it was quite nerve-wracking when we had to venture Professor Black: In some respects, it was simply out to the crime scenes. When we were in Sierra Leone, because of a natural break in my academic career. there was very high security because the rebel forces Around that time I moved away from London back desperately wanted to get a hold of hostages. It would up to Scotland and took some time out to try to finish have been great if they could have got British hostages, writing a very large textbook. And when something because the British troops were stopping the rebels happens overseas, people don't ask whether you can getting into Freetown. And there's so much more go out there in six months, they want to know whether psychological damage that you can do to a person and a you can go out on Friday. While I was writing the book, country if your hostage is female rather than male. So you and didn't have the full time academic demands on me, don't ever take your security lightly, and you have to really the cases started coming along. trust the people who are around you. But it's great fun.

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AcademiaNet: In 2005 you were appointed Professor of Anatomy AcademiaNet: You mentioned your and Forensic Anthropology at the University of Dundee, where you research briefly. Teeth and bones now head up the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification. spring to mind when considering What's an average week like for you at the centre? how to identify a body, but your research is about using anatomical Professor Sue Black: Oh I haven't got one! When you're an active forensic knowledge to develop new practitioner, you don't know what the next phone call is going to be. techniques for identifying people. For example, last February, I got a phone call asking me to be in Doha the What sort of approaches are you next week. Or on a Friday afternoon you'll get a citation for a court case working on at the moment? that you worked on six months ago telling you to be in court on Monday. So when you think you've got your week sorted, something like that Professor Sue Black: The biometrics comes along and everything's got to be moved. we're working on at the moment are predominantly to do with identification In addition, I run research groups and I try desperately to teach at least of living people from the back of the one lecture, if not more, to every single student group that we have within hand. A lot of the case work that is my department. I think that it's important to maintain your face at the coming in to us at the moment is front line of teaching. So there is no commonality to what a week might child sexual abuse cases. This is look like. I may be in court, I may be overseas, I may be in the classroom. one of the rare crimes where the perpetrator actually photographs themselves, or records themselves, in the act of committing the crime. As a result, parts of the offender's anatomy – predominantly the backs of their hands – appear in the images. The anatomical information that is embedded in the back of your hand is phenomenal. For example, the creases of the skin on your knuckles are different on every single finger and different across the two hands. If you look at the pattern of superficial veins on the back of your right hand, it will be different to on your left. If you've got freckles, if you've got moles, if you've got scars, if you've got birthmarks – they'll all be individualistic in © David Gross terms of their position. Professor Sue Black was Head of Profession for the British mission in Kosovo When you start to add up multiple from 1999 to 2000, where this picture was taken. She has also provided aetiological sources of information, anthropological services for war crime investigations in Kosovo, Grenada, it starts to become very very power- Sierra Leone and Iraq, and in Thailand following the 2004 tsunami. ful in being able to identify an individual. About 82 percent of the This interview first featured on the AcademiaNet website cases that come to us result in a (www.academia-net.org) in July 2015 and we are very grateful to change of plea, because it is so very AcademiaNet and Helen Jaques, who conducted the interview obvious when you start to look at and wrote the article, for allowing us to reproduce it here. detailed anatomy that your hands are just so identifiable.

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We offer our congratulations to our Fellows who recently have been honoured in the following ways:

Professor Ian Duncan CorrFRSE, Professor of Neurology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, has received the 2015 Lifetime Excellence in Research Award from the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA). The award honours a veterinary medical researcher for accomplishments in basic, applied or clinical research throughout his or her career. Professor Duncan's work focuses on the development and disease of myelin, a material essential to the proper function of the central nervous system. Professor Duncan was presented with his award at the 2015 Merial–NIH National Veterinary Scholar Symposium held 30 July–2 August 2015 at the University of California, USA.

Professor David Porteous OBE FRSE FMedSci, Chair of Human Molecular Genetics and Medicine at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, and his colleagues have been awarded the 26th Neuronal Plasticity Prize of the Fondation IPSEN. Professor Porteous, Dr Mark Bear (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Professor Thomas Bourgeron (Institut Pasteur – CNRS) have received this award for their pioneering work in the domain of , synapses and psychiatric disorders. The Prize was awarded on 8 July at the IBRO World Congress (International Brain Research) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Congratulations to our past President and Honorary Fellow, Sir Michael Atiyah and his wife, Lily, who celebrated their 60th (Diamond) Wedding anniversary on 30 July 2015.

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The RSE and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) have a formal agreement, established to support research collaborations between Scotland and China. Under the terms of this agreement, the RSE and NSFC organise an annual workshop on a topic of interest to both countries. This year, the workshop was held in Beijing, China on the topic of Sensors and Imaging. The two-day workshop commenced on 24 August 2015 and the full title of the workshop was, Sensors and Imaging Systems – Hyper spectral imaging technologies: • Remote surveying of marine energy sites; • Land use monitoring; • Water body surveying including flood Ming tombs (Thirteen Tombs of the Ming Dynasty) mock ceremony monitoring and prevention. Workshop participants presented their work in this area, had time to discuss their work with the other participants, and explored opportunities for collaboration. There were approximately eight participants each from Scotland and China. The Beihang University (BUAA) hosted the workshop and facilitated a very successful event, with participants well matched from both sides, leading to excellent opportunities for collaboration. BUAA arranged a very enjoyable ‘cultural visits’ day to the Great Wall of China and the Thirteen Tombs of the Ming Dynasty (pictured). Following this workshop, the intention is that participants will submit an application to the RSE–NSFC Joint Project Scheme to support a two-year research project in this The Ming Tombs Ling’en Hall constructed using Cedar wood and Ling subject area, based on the discussions that have taken Xing Archway, believed to be the gateway into the afterlife place during the course of the workshop. The Joint Project funding is designed to facilitate of funding to the Chinese counterpart. The funding may international collaboration between researchers based be seen as seed money to enable further collaboration in Scotland and China. The NSFC provides a similar level and funding in the future.

Further information on this Joint Project scheme and the application process is available on the RSE website at: www.royalsoced.org. uk/801_NSFC.html

RSE–NSFC Workshop participants

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Four years on since its establishment, the Young The YAS has also now produced a five-year strategic Academy of Scotland (YAS) is now a flourishing plan, 2020 Vision, which identifies its forward-looking group of young leaders working for the benefit mission, along with its aspirations and priorities. of society. 2020 Vision was launched at this year’s Annual General The YAS has nine working groups engaged in Meeting. Details of this meeting, as well as other a variety of interdisciplinary projects. projects which are engaging YAS members, follow.

Open Data: Rethinking Peer Review On 18 June, the YAS Open Data Working Group held a seminar on the future of the scholarly publishing paradigm, entitled, Science Open: Rethinking Peer Review. Dr Stephanie Dawson, CEO of ScienceOpen, a freely accessible internet research network, gave a presentation about her company’s vision of the future of scientific communication. While the seminar’s main focus was on Open Access and Post-Publication Peer Review, Dr Dawson considered many of the available traditional and new models for scholarly publishing. The event Pictured with Dr Stephanie Dawson (left) are Young Academy Scotland ended with a lively and productive member, Dr Alexander Kagansky (centre) and Dr Martin Dominik, member of the Global Young Academy, at the reception following the dialogue on the way research is Science Open: Rethinking Peer Review seminar. assessed in the scientific community.

Facilitating Group co-chair, Karly Kehoe (right) introduces 2020 Vision at the 2015 AGM

For more information on these projects and other YAS activites, please visit the website: www.youngacademyofscotland.org.uk

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Annual General Meeting The YAS held its 2015 AGM at Heriot-Watt University on 26–27 August. The meeting also served as the internal launch of 2020 Vision, its five-year strategic plan, and featured a presentation of the YAS’s six core strategic themes: healthier; smarter; enterprising; sustainable; equal; and international. After the Facilitating Group introduced the strategic plan, working groups broke away to discuss how their plans align with these strategies. The AGM also saw the introduction of a new working group on Food and Drink. This group will encourage engagement and collaboration with food and drink research in Scotland across universities and sectors, connecting academic researchers with the food and drink industry, public policymakers, charitable organisations and the general public. Their main activities will be to organise themed interdisciplinary networking events and collaborate with other organisations to develop public outreach projects. These events and projects will focus on key topics of current importance in relation to food in Scotland and beyond.

Research the Headlines co-chair, Sinead Rhodes (right) hosting a Rewrite the Headlines pilot workshop for primary school teachers

Rewrite the Headlines Workshop One of the YAS’s activities is Research the Headlines both researchers and journalists in the process of (http://researchtheheadlines.org), an interdisciplinary knowledge dissemination. The aim of the competition blog that explores how research is reported in the media. is to engage young people in the critical consumption By looking at media coverage of research from an expert of research that may impact their lives. The competition but independent position, the blog aims to give a better will focus on primary school children (P5–7) in its first understanding of the research behind a variety of stories. year. After a workshop from a researcher, the students’ Over the two years the blog has been running, 174 task will be to take a news story related to research articles have been posted, and the site has received and ‘rewrite the headline’. Undergraduate students over 90,000 views. will also be involved in the competition. Their task will be to write a blog post very similar to those the Young Research the Headlines has been awarded funding from Academy publishes. the British Academy (a Rising Star Engagement Award given to group co-chair, Dr Alan Gow) to launch Rewrite Rewrite the Headlines was designed by Young Academy the Headlines. This is a competition aiming to engage members after a series of pilot workshops for teachers young people in evaluating research reported in the and pupils in Scottish schools. The competition launched media, helping them to understand the potential weak in September 2015. For more information, visit the blog points in the pipeline between research and reporting (http://researchtheheadlines.org/) or follow the group on and, in particular, to identify the responsibilities of Twitter @ResTheHeadlines. 11 resource AUTUMN 2015

RSE Enterprise Fellowships RSE Enterprise Fellowships Lessells Travel Scholarships Highlands & Islands Enterprise Scottish Enterprise Martyn McLaggan (October 2015) (April 2015) BRSe Centre for Fire Safety Engineering, University of Edinburgh Alasdair Mort Salman Tahir Visiting:School of Civil Engineering, Centre for Rural Health, Edinburgh Technology Transfer Centre the University of Queensland, Australia University of Aberdeen (ETTC), University of Edinburgh Prevention of fire spread through walls MIME: Managing Information Xi: cross-linking analysis software containing novel phase change materials in Medical Emergencies Lysimachos Zografos Alessandro Peloni ETTC, University of Edinburgh School of Engineering, Science and Technology Parkure Ltd University of Glasgow Facilities Council Visiting:Department of Mechanical (STFC) and Aerospace Engineering, (October 2015) Scottish Enterprise & Biotechnology and Biological University of Florida, USA Alexa Alexandrova Study of solar-sail interplanetary trajectories Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) via direct transcription method Department of Physics, (April 2015) University of Liverpool Renaldi Renaldi D-Beam – Advanced Diagnostics Caroline Barelle Institute for Energy Systems, School for Changed Particle Beams School of Medical Sciences, of Engineering, University of Edinburgh University of Aberdeen Visiting:CanmetENERGY, Natural Creation of a new biotech company based Resources Canada, Ottowa STFC & BBSRC on novel therapeutic shark binding domains Optimisation model validation of energy (October 2015) system with seasonal thermal energy Peter Childs storage Institute for Thin Films, Sensors & Imaging, Scottish Enterprise University of the West of Scotland (October 2015) Katrin Skerl Division of Imaging and Technology, NanoKick: A nanovibrational bioreactor Richard J Walker Ninewells Hospital, University of Dundee for stem cell-derived bone grafts CMOS Sensors & Systems Group, School Visiting:Nightingale Laboratory, Duke of Engineering, University of Edinburgh University Biomedical Engineering, USA Photon Force Ltd Comparison of Shear Wave Elastography BBSRC (October 2015) Colin Gray (SWE) and Acoustic Radiation Force Toby Mottram School of Arts, Media and Computer Imaging in a Phantom Study School of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Games, University of Abertay Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester Keith Smith The Podcost Host Integrated biosensor and sampler to Institute for Digital Communications, improve cow fertility management Maneesh Varshney University of Edinburgh Scottish Eco Innovation Unit (SEIU), Visiting:École Polytechnique Fédérale David I Roper University of Strathclyde de Lausanne, Switzerland School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick Resource Efficient Fish Feed Production Developing the framework of Signal Innovation and Discovery in Bacterial to Support Sustainable Aquaculture Processing on Graphs in EEG functional peptidoglycan biosynthesis as a route to connectivity for application towards the new antibacterial drugs Timothy Willis prediction of Alzheimer's Disease. School of Informatics/Edinburgh Research and Innovation, University of Edinburgh Tusi by Nautilus Beam – Text input on Wearable Tech Carnegie Caledonian Scholarship Fraser Kenneth Coutts Department of Electronic Text input on and Electrical Engineering, Wearable Tech University of Strathclyde by Timothy Willis Extension of Key Signal Processing pictured left and Techniques to the Processing of right. Broadband Multi-Sensor Data

12 resource AUTUMN 2015 Cormack Vacation Research CRF European Travel Fellowships – Visits to Europe Scholarships Lorenza Antonucci Emile Shemilt Daniel Carron Media, Culture and Society, Duncan of Jordanstone Mathematics & Physics, University of West of Scotland College of Art and Design, University of Dundee Visiting:European Social Observatory, University of Dundee Ultrafast observation, spectroscopy European Trade Union Institute Brussells Visiting:Department of Filosofia and bow wave modelling of events Exploring the new politics of inequality in the Comunicazione e Spettacolo from the August 2015 Perseid European Union (Philosophy, Communication and Entertainment), Università degli meteor shower Bethan Benwell Studi Roma Tre Division of Literature and Languages, Steven Kleinegesse Celluloid Film Futures in Italy: University of Stirling Blackett Laboratory, Italy's current and future capacity Visiting:English Seminar, Imperial College London to sustain celluloid film practice. Visiting: The Institute for Astronomy, University of Basel, Switzerland University of Edinburgh Healthcare Communication: Scottish and Elaine Webster The Missing-Baryons Problem Swiss Perspectives Law/Centre for the Study of Human Rights Law, Fabrizio De Francesco Kyle Martin University of Strathclyde School of Government and Public Policy, School of Physics and Astronomy, Visiting:Leuven Institute for University of Strathclyde University of Glasgow Human Rights and Critical Studies, Visiting:Institut d'études politiques, Thermal Broadening of EUV Leuven, Belgium historiques et internationales (IEPHI), Spectral Lines from Solar Flates Understanding Human Dignity University of Lausanne, Switzerland in European Human Rights Magdalena Menz The dynamics of non-proportionate Interpretation School of Physics and Astronomy, policy response to the 2008–9 financial University of Glasgow crisis: a comparative analysis of Investigation of Lyman-alpha regulatory reform in six countries radiation of solar flares Amy Rankine CRF European Travel Fellowships – Visits to Scotland School of Physics and Astronomy, Maurizio Arcari Falk Huettig University of St Andrews Department of National and International Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Studying the effect of varying Legal Sciences, Universita Milano, Italy Nijmegen, The Netherlands alpha-enhanced abundances Visiting:School of Law, University of Glasgow Visiting:Psychology, in full spectral fitting The Responsiblity of UN-Mandated University of Edinburgh or Authorised Peace Support Operations The importance of prediction for for Human Rights Violations language processing Piazzi Smyth Research Scholarship (Cormack) Zoltan Balazs Bjorn-Oliver Magsig Institute of Political Science, Corvinus Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Chris Duckworth University, Budapest, Hungary Research, Munich, Germany School of Physics, Visiting:Centre for Ethics, Philosophy Visiting:Centre for Water Law, Policy University of Nottingham and Public Affairs, University of St Andrews and Science (under the auspices of Visiting: School of Physics The Political in Aurel Kolnai's Political UNESCO), University of Dundee and Astronomy, Thought Strengthening the International University of St Andrews Legal Response to Water Scarcity Andreas Gofas Galaxy Clustering and Bias in and Conflicts of Use International European and Area Studies, the SDSS-IV Extended Baryon Panteion University of Athens, Greece Laura Movilla Oscillation Spectroscipic Survey Visiting:The Handa Centre for the Study Public International Law, of terrorism and Political Violence, University of Vigo, Galicia, Spain University of St Andrews Visiting:Strathclyde Centre for RSE Personal Research Fellowship The Origins and Historical Evolution of Environmental Law and Governance funded by Caledonian Research Transnational Terrorist Waves Legal Proposals for the sustainable governance of transboundary aquifers. Fund (CRF) Christophe Guillotel-Nothmann Matthew R Livesey Institut de Recherche en Musicologie, Canan Ezel Tabur Centre for Integrative Physiology, University Université Paris–Sorbonne, France Department of International Relations, of Edinburgh Visiting:Edinburgh University Library, Çukurova University, Adana, Turkey Physiological function of human pluripotent University of Edinburgh Visiting:The Institute for Advanced stem cell-derived neurones and glia Instrumentälischer Bettlermantl. c. 1650 Studies in the Humanities (IASH), (Edinburgh University Library Special University of Edinburgh collections Dc.6.100/319). Electronic edition, EU-Level policy-making on migration terminology and intertextual networks and development 13 resource AUTUMN 2015

RSE Personal Research Arts & Humanities Small Grants Fellowships Patricia Allmer Stuart Gillespie Christoph Busche History of Art, University of Edinburgh, English Literature/ School of Chemistry, University Edinburgh College of Art School of Critical Studies, of Glasgow Lee Miller: Photography, Surrealism, University of Glasgow Incorporation of magnetically and Beyond Newly Recovered Classical and redox active molecules in Translations, 1600–1800: Glyn Davis complementary metal–oxide– Online School of Design, semiconductor (CMOS) devices Edinburgh College of Art, Brian Hoyle Christos Pliotas University of Edinburgh Film Studies, School of Chemistry, Visiting: Warhol Museum, University of Dundee Univeristy of St Andrews Pittsburgh, USA Unfilmed Scottish Biopics Opening MscL: a promising Andy Warhol’s Final Painting Pavel Iosad antibacterial target Alistair Fair Linguistics and English Lilach Sheiner Edinburgh School of Architecture Language, Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh Parasitology, University of Glasgow University of Edinburgh The phonetics and phonology Dance with me? Mechanisms Modern Playhouses: New British of short vowels in Irish and controlling mitochondrion – cell-cycle Theatre Architecture, 1945–1985 Scottish Gaelic synchrony in Toxoplasma gondii

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Peter Duff Katarzyna Kosmala Graham Jeffery Law School, School of Media, Culture and Society School of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Aberdeen University of the West of Scotland University of the West of Scotland Evolution or Revolution: Regeneration and Waterfront Heritage Zones in Northern Europe: Scots Criminal Evidence Law Interdisciplinary and Cross-Institutional Research Network in the 21st Century

Maria Economou Henriette van der Blom Ernest Schonfield School of Humanities and Hunterian Classics, School of Humanities, School of Modern Languages and Museum, University of Glasgow University of Glasgow Cultures, University of Glasgow Scottish Network on Digital Network for Oratory and Politics (NOP) Cultural Resources Evaluation

Murray Pittock FRSE Graeme B Wilson Raymond MacDonald Pro-Vice-Principal, Reid School of Music, Reid School of Music, University of Glasgow Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, Allan Ramsay and Edinburgh University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh in the First Age of Enlightenment Concurrent: exploring improvisation between performing arts practitioners Anna Vaninskaya English Literature (School of Elizabeth Robertson Fiona Macpherson Annette Kern-Stahler Literatures, Languages and Cultures), English Language, Department of Philosophy, Department of English, University of Edinburgh Scotland and Russia: Cultural University of Glasgow University of Glasgow University of Bern Understanding the Senses: Past and Present Encounters Since 1900

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Arts & Humanities Small Grants Arts & Humanities Workshops Justin Livingstone Elizabeth Elliott School of Critical Studies, School of Language and Literature, University of Aberdeen University of Glasgow The Fiction of Exploration: The Evergreen: A New Season in the North Travellers in Africa and the Colonial Novel David J Code Louise Harris Aideen M O’Leary School of Culture and Creative Arts, School of Culture and Creative Arts, Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Studies, University of Glasgow University of Glasgow University of Aberdeen Visiting: Department of Anglo- Building a British Audiovisual Research Network (BARN) Saxon, Norse, & Celtic, ; Cambridge University Library; Sally Foster Katherine Forsyth the Warburg Institute Library, History and Politics, Celtic and Gaelic, School of Humanities, University of London University of Stirling University of Glasgow Druidic Apocalypse and Church Reform in Mediaeval Ireland Future Thinking on Carved Stones in Scotland Helen O’Shea History, The Open University Hazel Hutchison Alexandra Lewis (Scotland) School of Language and Literature, School of Language and Literature, The Scottish Contribution to University of Aberdeen University of Aberdeen Emergency Law and Order in Women, Science, Narrative: the Post-War British Empire Novel Perspectives on Female Experience in a Scientific Age Ruth Pelzer-Montada School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art, S Karly Kehoe Chris Dalglish University of Edinburgh Social Sciences, Media Archaeology, School of Humanities, Scottish Printmaking at Large and Journalism (History), University of Glasgow Alasdair Raffe Landscapes and Lifescapes: linking past rural development in the Scottish Highlands School of History, Classics to its global context and its present-day legacies. and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh Scotland in Revolution, 1686–90 Alexander Marshall Jochen Schenk History, School of Humanities, School of Humanities, Margaret Stewart University of Glasgow University of Glasgow Edinburgh School of Architecture Proxy Actors and Irregular Forces: The Past and Future of Warfare? and Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh Jacqui Pestell Claire Banks (Printed book) Lord Mar’s plans: Department of Education, Associate of Royal Botanic Garden architecture, landscape and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Edinburgh constitutions, 1700–1732 The Scottish Nepalese Botanical Art Workshop and Exhibition Programme Lynn Whitaker Centre for Cultural Policy Research, Ingrid Mainland Mark Edmonds Dave Cowley University of Glasgow Archaeology Institute, Department Royal Commission on the Understanding and Regulating University of the of Archaeology, Ancient and Historic Children’s ‘In-app purchasing’ Highlands and Islands University of York Monuments of Scotland LANDMARKS

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Current and past awardees are invited to present l–r Leighanne and James Calvey, Tim and Kirsti Willis. posters at the Reception. Dr Muhammad Sadiq, James held a Lessells Scholarship in 2012 and presented Division of Imaging and Technology (DIT) at the a poster entitled, IntelliBike: monitoring the University of Dundee, was awarded a Scottish condition of cycling infrastructure.Tim of the School Enterprise Enterprise Fellowship in 2014 and of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh is about displayed his poster on Active Needle Technology to commence a Scottish Enterprise Entrprise Fellowhip for Safe Needle Interventions. with his development of an app for smartwatches called Tusi – Text input on Wearable Tech.

Pictured on the front cover are recipients of various awards, (including four ‘Crucibilists’), all from the University of Aberdeen: Back row l–r: Scottish Crucible is an award-winning leadership Hazel Hutchison; and development programme for Scotland’s Alexandra Lewis; ‘research leaders of the future’. In its seventh Elizabeth Elliott; year in 2015, it brought together 30 highly Helen Dooley. promising researchers from different institutions Front row l–r: and disciplines. It culminated with the award of Amy Bryzgel; funding for collaborative projects through the Aideen O’Leary; Scottish Crucible Interdisciplinary Project Fund, Heather Morgan; the recipients of which were announced at the Wei Pang. Reception. Nine of this year’s ‘Crucibilists’ were able to attend and are pictured with (on far left), Fuller details of Dr Ruth Neiland, Scottish Crucible Director, all this year’s Professor Alan Miller FRSE and RSE President, projects are available in the Research Awards Reception Dame . Further information Programme, which can be found on the RSE website at: is available at: www.ScottishCrucible.org.uk. www.royalsoced.org.uk/66_Publications.html

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