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Ladies 'doing their bit' for the war effort in the north-east of Scotland. (2015)
Journal Article
PEDERSEN, S. 2015. Ladies 'doing their bit' for the war effort in the north-east of Scotland. Women's history: the journal of the women's history network [online], 2(2), pages 16-20. Available from: http://womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-history-summer-2015/

My son's primary school class recently undertook a project on the First World War. One of the topics that the children could choose to study was 'Women in the War' and the usual subjects were included - nurses, VADs, munitionettes and the women's aux... Read More about Ladies 'doing their bit' for the war effort in the north-east of Scotland..

The role of CEO (auto-) biographies in the dissemination of neo-ascetic leadership styles. (2015)
Journal Article
HALSALL, R. 2016. The role of CEO (auto-) biographies in the dissemination of neo-ascetic leadership styles. Leadership [online], 12(5), pages 515-537. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/1742715015591861

This paper attempts to relate the critical analysis of religious or 'sacred' metaphors in leadership to the theory of askēsis, the idea of leader as an incarnation of a virtue defined as 'the formation of a full, perfect, complete and self-sufficient... Read More about The role of CEO (auto-) biographies in the dissemination of neo-ascetic leadership styles..

First catch your fish: designing a 'low energy fish' label. (2015)
Journal Article
GRINNALL, A. and BURNETT, S. 2015. First catch your fish: designing a 'low energy fish' label. Sustainability [online], 7(5), pages 6086-6101. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/su7056086

This paper explores the application of information design principles to label design for fish packaging, identifying energy implications for the product. This stage of the project has consisted of: A review and distillation of the relevant literature... Read More about First catch your fish: designing a 'low energy fish' label..

The owner of one of the largest and most valuable private libraries in Scotland: David Hay Fleming as book collector. (2015)
Journal Article
AITCHISON, B. and REID, P.H. 2015. The owner of one of the largest and most valuable private libraries in Scotland: David Hay Fleming as book collector. Library and information history [online], 31(2), pages 95-116. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1179/1758348914Z.00000000077

David Hay Fleming, one in a long line of gentlemen scholars, is remembered as an historian, antiquary, and critic. Yet upon his death in 1931 he left his library of nearly 13,000 volumes (together with his personal papers, letters, and notebooks) to... Read More about The owner of one of the largest and most valuable private libraries in Scotland: David Hay Fleming as book collector..

Tourism development and the backpacker market in Highland Scotland. (2015)
Journal Article
HINDLE, N., MARTIN, A. and NASH, R. 2015. Tourism development and the backpacker market in Highland Scotland. Tourism and hospitality research [online], 15(3), pages 178-192. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/1467358415578471

Backpacking is an emerging market within the tourism sector. Despite its growth limited research has been conducted in Scotland, or even Europe, in relation to this form of travel. Qualitative data were gathered utilising a combination of interviews... Read More about Tourism development and the backpacker market in Highland Scotland..

Creating sparks: comparing search results using discriminatory search term word co-occurrence to facilitate serendipity in the enterprise. (2015)
Journal Article
CLEVERLEY, P.H. and BURNETT, S. 2015. Creating sparks: comparing search results using discriminatory search term word co-occurrence to facilitate serendipity in the enterprise. Journal of information and knowledge management [online], 14(1), article 1550007. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219649215500070

Categories or tags that appear in faceted search interfaces which are representative of an information item, rarely convey unexpected or non-obvious associated concepts buried within search results. No prior research has been identified which assesse... Read More about Creating sparks: comparing search results using discriminatory search term word co-occurrence to facilitate serendipity in the enterprise..