All Outputs (2177)

Emoji-citation, a novel tool to explore emotions in controversial topics. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
VELO HIGUERAS, M. 2025. Emoji-citation, a novel tool to explore emotions in controversial topics. Presented at the 2025 International creative research methods conference (ICRMC 2025), 8-9 September 2025, Manchester, UK. Hosted on Panopto [online]. Available from: https://rgu.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=e67510da-c790-4ca1-a8d3-b35000b0f192

Controversial topics can unearth deep-seated values about what is right or wrong. In the context of maternity care in high-income countries, freebirth - the deliberate decision to birth without professional attendance – has become one recent controve... Read More about Emoji-citation, a novel tool to explore emotions in controversial topics..

Implementation of a feedback literacy intervention across applied sport and exercise science and sport coaching programmes. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BURGESS, K. 2025. Implementation of a feedback literacy intervention across applied sport and exercise science and sport coaching programmes. Presented at the 2025 Higher education in sport conference, 3rd September 2025, Manchester, UK.

"A process by which learners make sense of information from various sources and use it to enhance their work or learning strategies" is the definition of feedback. According to Carless and Boud (2018), feedback literacy is "the understandings, capaci... Read More about Implementation of a feedback literacy intervention across applied sport and exercise science and sport coaching programmes..

Development and implementation of an applied professional development module for final year undergraduate students. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BURGESS, K.E and MAUGHAN, P. 2025. Development and implementation of an applied professional development module for final year undergraduate students. Presented at the 2025 Higher education in sport conference, 3rd September 2025, Manchester, UK.

Academics and practitioners in sport and exercise science higher education face challenges in producing graduates proficient in real-world employment skills and ensuring students have the necessary academic and scientific rigor. With a broader range... Read More about Development and implementation of an applied professional development module for final year undergraduate students..

Generating realistic benchmarks for dynamic truck and trailer scheduling using Gaussian Copulas. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ALZA, J., CEBERIO, J., BARTLETT, M. and MCCALL, J. 2025. Generating realistic benchmarks for dynamic truck and trailer scheduling using Gaussian Copulas. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM/SIGEVO (Association for Computing Machinery/Special interest group on genetic and evolutionary computation) Foundations of genetic algorithms (FOGA 2025), 27-29 August 2025, Leiden, The Netherlands. New York: ACM [online], pages 25-36. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3729878.3746620

Academic research in dynamic optimisation uses benchmark generators to artificially simulate controlled and reproducible changing-environments to systematically compare algorithmic performance under uncertainty. However, due to the scarcity or diffic... Read More about Generating realistic benchmarks for dynamic truck and trailer scheduling using Gaussian Copulas..

Safety on the horizon: mapping human factors in offshore wind. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ROBERTS, R. and FLIN, R. [2025]. Safety on the horizon: mapping human factors in offshore wind. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society annual meeting [online], Online First: special issue on 69th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) international advancing systems and practices through innovation, research and education (ASPIRE) annual meeting 2025. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1177/10711813251360007

Global wind energy is experiencing an unprecedented period of expansion. Such requirements present challenges concerning maintaining safety standards and training at scale with industry data indicating a range of hazards during operations and mainten... Read More about Safety on the horizon: mapping human factors in offshore wind..

My body is my piano. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
LEUZZI, L. 2025. My body is my piano. Presented at the 2025 Convergence festival: a borderless romance, 8-10 August 2025, Milford (Borrisokane, Tipperary), Ireland.

In this performative keynote presentation, the author explored visibility and the body in relation to performance, sound art and experimental music. The keynote encompassed bits of creative writing, performance, and critical and historical analysis.... Read More about My body is my piano..

Animals are my friends: exploring the relationship between animal companionship in childhood and moral concerns in adulthood. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BERGER-MEUNIER, L., SMITH, D.S., MAREC-BRETON, N. and BONNETON-BOTTÉ, N. 2025. Animals are my friends: exploring the relationship between animal companionship in childhood and moral concerns in adulthood. Biology and life sciences forum [online], 45(1): selected papers from the 3rd International electronic conference on animal 2025 (IECA 2025), 12-14 March 2025, [virtual event], article number 2. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/blsf2025045002

Research on human–animal relationships suggests that close bonds with animals can enhance empathy, reduce speciesism, and improve human physical and psychological health. This study investigated whether pet ownership—particularly attachment to a comp... Read More about Animals are my friends: exploring the relationship between animal companionship in childhood and moral concerns in adulthood..

Integrating corporate social responsibility strategies for sustainable pipeline maintenance in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BELLO, M.B., IBEKE, E. and BURNETT, S. [2025]. Integrating corporate social responsibility strategies for sustainable pipeline maintenance in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. In Proceedings of the 11th International conference on corporate social responsibility, sustainability, ethics and governance (GCGI 2025 / CSEG 2025), 25-27 June 2025, Lisbon, Portugal. Cham: Springer [online], (submitted).

The Niger Delta area of Nigeria, which are known to be very rich in oil reserves, encounter degradations around the environment, socio-economic disturbances, and conflicts which are as a results of perceived inadequate maintenance of pipeline. Cooper... Read More about Integrating corporate social responsibility strategies for sustainable pipeline maintenance in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria..

Digital technologies, resilience and innovation: a decolonial perspective of migrant women entrepreneurs in the global south. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
IRENE, B., LOCKYER, J., ONOSHAKPOR, C., OLORUNFEMI, D., NDLOVU, E. and ARIYO, B. 2025. Digital technologies, resilience and innovation: a decolonial perspective of migrant women entrepreneurs in the global south. Presented at the 15th International interdisciplinary conference on gender, work and organization (GWO 2025): world in crisis and future of work: gender, work and organization and bodies on the move, 22-23 July 2025, Nantes, France.

This study investigates how migrant women entrepreneurs in Nigeria and South Africa use digital technologies to build resilience, drive innovation and assert agency within exclusionary systems. In particular, the study explores how these technologies... Read More about Digital technologies, resilience and innovation: a decolonial perspective of migrant women entrepreneurs in the global south..

Towards ordinal few-shot learning for automated essay grading. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
WIJAYASEKARA, V.A., MARTIN, K. and WIRATUNGA, N. 2025. Towards ordinal few-shot learning for automated essay grading. In Cristea, A.I., Walker, E., Lu, Y., Santos, O.C. and Isotani, S. (eds.) Artificial intelligence in education. Posters and late breaking results, workshops and tutorials, industry and innovation tracks, practitioners, doctoral consortium, Blue Sky, and WideAIED: proceedings of the 26th International conference in Artificial intelligence in education 2025 (AIED 2025), 22-26 July 2026, Palermo, Italy. Communications in computer and information science, 2590. Cham: Springer [online], part 1, pages 346-351. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-99261-2_35

Ordinal essay grading, an essential task in educational domain and natural language processing (NLP), involves categorising essays based on quality, such as grading scale levels. This is crucial in automated assessment systems that evaluate student w... Read More about Towards ordinal few-shot learning for automated essay grading..

Modified CBAM: sub-block pooling for improved channel and spatial attention. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HUSSAINI, H., BANO, S., ELYAN, E. and MORENO-GARCIA, C.F. 2026. Modified CBAM: sub-block pooling for improved channel and spatial attention. In Ali, S., Hogg, D.C. and Peckham, M. (eds.) Proceedings of the 29th Annual conference of the Medical image understanding and analysis 2025 (MIUA 2025), 15-17 July 2025, Leeds, UK. Lecture notes in computer science, 15917. Cham: Springer [online], part II, pages 116-130. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-98691-8_9

The Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) has emerged as a widely adopted attention mechanism, as it seamlessly integrates into the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture with minimal computational overhead. However, its reliance on gl... Read More about Modified CBAM: sub-block pooling for improved channel and spatial attention..

Exploring pathways for country-level blockchain-driven, federated, digital twining of social housing. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
DOUNAS, T., SCOTT, J. and BLAZUSIAK, M. 2025. Exploring pathways for country-level blockchain-driven, federated, digital twining of social housing. In Proceedings of the 2025 European conference on computing in construction (EC3 2025), co-located with the 42nd CIB W78 conference on IT in construction, 14-17 July 2025, Porto, Portugal. Sint-Niklaas: European Council for Computing in Construction [online]. Available from: http://www.doi.org/10.35490/EC3.2025.401

This paper outlines the development of a Existing Building Digital Twin system for social housing in Scotland. The project focuses on enhancing retrofit planning and execution. Research methodology involved stakeholder workshops, surveys, and case-ba... Read More about Exploring pathways for country-level blockchain-driven, federated, digital twining of social housing..

Few-shot essay grading: weighted prototypical networks for ordinal text classification. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
WIJAYASEKARA, V.A., MARTIN, K., WIRATUNGA, N., MASSIE, S. and WIJEKOON, A. [2025]. Few-shot essay grading: weighted prototypical networks for ordinal text classification. To be presented at the 25th European conference on artificial intelligence 2025 (ECAI-2025), 25-30 October 2025, Bologna, Italy.

Automated Essay Scoring (AES) presents a key opportunity to improve student experience while reducing the administrative burden of academic staff. However existing methods for AES are reliant on large volumes of data and fail to consider the ordinal... Read More about Few-shot essay grading: weighted prototypical networks for ordinal text classification..

Embedding an entrepreneurial mindset in postgraduate engineering courses for real world societal benefits. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
MAHON, R., IYALLA, I., MOULE, C. and GORMLEY, D. 2025. Embedding an entrepreneurial mindset in postgraduate engineering courses for real world societal benefits. Presented at the 2025 Advance HE teaching and learning conference, 1-3 July 2025, Sheffield, UK.

This engaging talk aims to inspire HE educators to embed an entrepreneurial mindset in engineering education, aligned with the Advance HE's Framework for Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education. It highlights a collaborative initiative at Robert Go... Read More about Embedding an entrepreneurial mindset in postgraduate engineering courses for real world societal benefits..

Socio-spatial narratives of migrants' journey: edited book of abstracts from the proceedings of the 4th Border Urbanism Research Centre conference. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ZAMAN, Q.M. (ed.) 2025. Socio-spatial narratives of migrants' journey: edited book of abstracts from the proceedings of the 4th Border Urbanism Research Centre conference, 27-30 June 2025, Graz, Austria. Aberdeen: Border Urbanism Research Centre (BURC).

This is a book of abstracts for the 4th Border Urbanism Research Centre (BURC) conference. There were four themes at the conference: 1) social fragmentation of migrant communities; 2) spatial injustice and contested urbanism; 3) non-place and empty g... Read More about Socio-spatial narratives of migrants' journey: edited book of abstracts from the proceedings of the 4th Border Urbanism Research Centre conference..

AlignLLM: alignment-based evaluation using ensemble of LLMs-as-judges for Q&A. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ABEYRATNE, R., WIRATUNGA, N., MARTIN, K., NKISI-ORJ, I. and JAYAWARDENA, L. 2025. AlignLLM: alignment-based evaluation using ensemble of LLMs-as-judges for Q&A. In Bichindaritz, I. and López, B. (eds.) Case-based reasoning research and development: proceedings of the 33rd International conference on case-based reasoning 2025 (ICCBR 2025), 30 June - 3 July 2025, Biarritz, France. Lecture notes in computer science (LNCS), 15662. Cham: Springer [online], pages 21-36. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-96559-3_2

Evaluating responses generated by large language models (LLMs) is challenging in the absence of ground-truth knowledge, particularly in specialised domains such as law. Increasingly, LLMs themselves are used to evaluate the responses they generate; h... Read More about AlignLLM: alignment-based evaluation using ensemble of LLMs-as-judges for Q&A..

Improving geothermal resource assessment: a data-driven approach to chemical geothermometry using deep learning. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
ALGAIAR, M. 2025. Improving geothermal resource assessment: a data-driven approach to chemical geothermometry using deep learning. Presented at the 2025 SEG (Society of Exploration Geophysicists) Net-zero emissions workshop, 23-25 June 2025, [virtual event].

This study presents a deep learning model trained on a dataset of 674 water samples from Nevada to predict geothermal reservoir temperatures. The model outperforms traditional geothermometers and other machine learning models, achieving high accuracy... Read More about Improving geothermal resource assessment: a data-driven approach to chemical geothermometry using deep learning..

Context driven multi-query resolution using LLM-RAG to support the revision of explainability needs. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
JAYAWARDENA, L., LIRET, A., WIRATUNGA, N., NKISI-ORJI, I. and FLEISCH, B. 2025. Context driven multi-query resolution using LLM-RAG to support the revision of explainability needs. In Bichindaritz, I. and López, B. (eds.) Case-based reasoning research and development: proceedings of the 33rd International conference on case-based reasoning 2025 (ICCBR 2025), 30 June - 3 July 2025, Biarritz, France. Lecture notes in computer science (LNCS), 15662. Cham: Springer [online], pages 111-125. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-96559-3_8

The revision step in the Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) cycle ensures that cases are adaptable and that updates can be integrated meaningfully based on evaluation metrics. However, the effectiveness of this step heavily depends on how new knowledge is ac... Read More about Context driven multi-query resolution using LLM-RAG to support the revision of explainability needs..

GlucoPredict: an ensemble machine learning method using lifestyle, health, and socioeconomic factors to predict and prevent diabetes risk. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
KANTHASAMY, G. and PORAVI, G. 2025. GlucoPredict: an ensemble machine learning method using lifestyle, health, and socioeconomic factors to predict and prevent diabetes risk. In Arai, K. (eds.) Intelligent computing: proceedings of the 2025 Computing conference (CompCom 2025), 19-20 June 2025, London, UK. Lecture notes in networks and systems, 1424. Cham: Springer [online], 2, pages 345-360. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-92605-1_21

One of the most common chronic illnesses, diabetes affects millions of individuals annually and has a major negative economic impact. The two main characteristics of diabetes are either insufficient insulin production by the body or inefficient use o... Read More about GlucoPredict: an ensemble machine learning method using lifestyle, health, and socioeconomic factors to predict and prevent diabetes risk..

Sustainable supply chains: beyond the final product. (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
BREMNER, P. 2025. Sustainable supply chains: beyond the final product. Presented at the 2025 CQI/IRCA (Chartered Quality Institute/International Register of Certified Auditors) Quality live conference and awards ( Quality Live 2025): dreamers and disruptors: driving innovative, sustainable, competitive quality, 19 June 2025, London, UK.

Globally, the fashion industry produces around 92 million tonnes of textile waste annually. This contributes significantly to environmental pollution, with the industry responsible for 10% of global carbon emissions. We consume 62 million tonnes of t... Read More about Sustainable supply chains: beyond the final product..