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Strathclyde Water Walk
Full text linkThe ‘Strathclyde Water Walk’ depicts and describes 12 locations in and around the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow that have a relationship to water. It invites people, collectively or on their own, to walk (or jog, run, wander or wheel) the route at their own pace observing, discussing, learning and reflecting on these locations, and ways they relate to water in different ways: whether as forms of material and built culture, place names, infrastructure and technology, cultural and historical narratives, or socio-economic practices and entities. It seeks to broaden out, and open up, understandings of ways water is entwined in the historical, spatial and social-cultural fabric of place. Simultaneously it endeavours to encourage practices of active mobility, and the broader health and wellbeing possibilities of walking and spending time in the outdoors, while also enacting/provoking for an attention to place through walking: as a practice of movement and observation, a way of coming to know a place, and a means of ‘stakeholder engagement’ that is creative, participatory, transdisciplinary and playful
Decisive Action on Scottish CO2 Transport and Storage Can Lock In Long-Term Growth and Jobs
No full textThis insight brief highlights how early action to develop Scottish CO₂ transport and storage (T&S), anchored by the Acorn project, could deliver significant economic benefits while supporting UK emissions targets. The brief calls for clear government decisions, coordinated skills planning and long term policy support to unlock these opportunities
Enhanced performance of thermoplastic starch foams using waste-based plasticizer and rice husk filler
Full text linkThis study develops biodegradable rice starch-based foams (RSFs), using modified used palm oil (mUPO) as a plasticiser and rice husk (RH), a lignocellulosic agricultural residue containing significant biogenic silica, as a reinforcing filler, both derived from household and agricultural wastes. The RSFs were produced through a simple, low-energy process and exhibited marked improvements in structural integrity, moisture resistance, and thermal stability. Incorporation of mUPO enhanced foam expansion and flexibility, reducing shrinkage from 27.2 to 24.4% and lowering moisture uptake from 5.9 to 1.7%. The addition of RH acted as both a reinforcing and nucleating filler, further refining pore size and raising impact strength from 4.0 to 11.9 J/m at 5 phr (parts per hundered parts of starch by weight). One-way ANOVA with Tukey’s post-hoc test confirmed that the improvements in pore size, shrinkage, and moisture resistance were statistically significant (p < 0.05), validating the combined effect of mUPO and RH. The dual-waste formulation also increased thermal stability and shifted glass transition behaviour, reflecting the complementary roles of plasticisation by mUPO and reinforcement by RH. Overall, the results highlight waste-to-value strategies that transform low-cost secondary products into high-performance RSF, offering promising potential in sustainable packaging, insulation, and lightweight protective materials for the food, logistics, and construction sectors. Among the tested formulations, RSFs containing 6 phr mUPO as plasticiser and 5 phr RH as reinforcement represented the optimum composition, making it particularly promising for eco-friendly packaging, cushioning, and insulation applications where both mechanical robustness and dimensional stability are required
Poverty, Prevention and Fairness : Public attitudes to health inequalities and the social determinants of health in the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey
No full textScotland experiences some of the largest health inequalities in Western Europe, and public understandings of health inequalities are an important part of the evidence base when designing new policies, strategies, or programmes to tackle these inequalities. With this in mind, SHERU funded 11 questions in the Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, to get a sense of how people in Scotland understand health inequalities, what they think about the social and structural conditions that shape health, and what they believe should be done to address these issues
Compact, tunable microring resonator on a lithium niobate platform using etchless fabrication methods
Full text linkTunable microring resonators on a lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) platform are demonstrated making use of thick polymer strip-loaded waveguides and bound states in the continuum (BIC) to achieve compact devices without plasma etching. The racetrack resonator device, with a bend radius of 94 , demonstrates strong confinement for TM-polarized modes, enabling electro-optic modulation with a modest half-wave voltage–length product of 35 . The device achieves a loaded quality factor of 4.17 × 104 for TM polarization and also supports purely linear TE modes with a loaded quality factor of 1.1 × 104 through guiding in the polymer layer. This etch-free process simplifies fabrication while maintaining access to lithium niobate’s (2) nonlinearity, offering a scalable route for photonic integrated circuits that combine reduced footprint, effective electro-optic performance with future potential for polarisation diversity on-chip
Advancing innovation ecosystem research : Measurement dynamics and contextual intelligence
Full text linkThis integrative editorial introduces the Special Issue (SI) on the evaluation of innovation ecosystem (IE) performance. While ecosystem perspectives have gained prominence across innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategy research, the systematic measurement of ecosystem performance remains theoretically fragmented and methodologically underdeveloped. Drawing on eleven SI articles, this editorial provides an integrative synthesis that advances understanding of how ecosystem performance can be conceptualised, operationalised, and evaluated across dynamic and contextual settings. We aim to identify cross-cutting patterns, unresolved challenges, and emerging research trajectories by synthesising the SI papers. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research aimed at fostering a richer conceptualization of innovation ecosystem performance
Advancing container shipping with machine learning : a bibliometric analysis and systematic review of seaport–hinterland studies
Full text linkThis study explores how Machine Learning (ML) is being applied across seaport–hinterland networks to improve operational decision-making in container shipping. It draws on a comprehensive systematic review of research published from 2008 to 2025, complemented by a bibliometric analysis of publication trends. The reviewed literature is organised by ML methods, the operational challenges they target, and the data required for model development. Among the various applications identified, container throughput forecasting is the most common. Frequently used datasets include equipment counts, container throughput records, quay crane performance data, truck traffic volumes, and weather information. Findings reveal a clear shift toward combining ML with hybrid frameworks, operations research techniques, and simulation-based models, resulting in stronger prediction accuracy and more robust decision support. The analysis also illustrates the ways ML contributes to decision-making across seaport-hinterland operations, outlining emerging research avenues, stakeholder-driven trends, key implementation issues, and practical recommendations. Overall, the study provides a structured synthesis of current knowledge, mapping major themes and developments while offering methodological insights for future ML research in this domain
Insights on structure and influence from the adjacency and Laplacian eigenspectra of intersecting ring networks
No full textA network’s community structure commonly impacts its functions. For instance, networks seeking synchronisation will see this process follow the topology’s hierarchical and community structuring. Herein, the interplay of network adjacency and Laplacian eigenspectra is shown to uncover hierarchical influence and community structure. Ring networks embedded with hubs of high connectivity are first analysed to characterise the differing insights of the adjacency and Laplacian eigenspectra. This understanding is then transferred to the case study of satellite networks composed of intersecting rings. From these scenarios, it is found that where the adjacency reflects a network’s structure, the Laplacian detects nodes’ influence profiles. The adjacency identifies the number and relative sizes of salient network structures, for example hubs of high connectivity. In contrast, the Laplacian decomposes these structures in sets of nodes with equivalent influence profiles, where influence emerges due to variations in nodes’ connectivity
Public Perceptions of Sentencing : 2025 Survey Report
Full text linkWe conducted a nationally representative survey of Scottish adults to explore public perceptions, understanding, and attitudes towards sentencing in Scotland. Commissioned by the Scottish Sentencing Council, our research examined: public confidence of sentencing in general; community penalties; media reporting. It also examined public perceptions of sentencing in relation to cases of : domestic abuse; and, people with mental health or developmental conditions
LGBTQ+ ageing
No full textThe dynamic nature of ageing reflects the shifting societal, cultural, and social meanings of what it means to age in different contexts. Global ageing is beginning to recognise the diversity of individuals and communities in later life and their unique experiences including those with diverse sexual and gender identities. Central to understanding diverse ageing is the cumulative inequality approach, which posits that inequality over the life course leads to worsened quality of life in late adulthood and how early life events shape health and social care outcomes in later life (Miller 2023). This chapter considers the growing body of international research evidence and theories on the experience of ageing in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer (LGBTQ+) community (Pereira and Banerjee 2021) helping us to understand this better
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