Author Archive: ronaitken

Second-year Event Management students raise £5700 for charity while undertaking an assignment

students at an event

The Event Management module – part of the BA (Hons) International Festival and Management degree at Edinburgh Napier University Business School – tasks students with organising an event of their choice each year. Remarkably, this year, the second-year students voluntarily…
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Overcoming disruptions in global supply chains

Dr Eoin Plant-O'Toole

Over the past couple of years, supply chain disruptions have become prominent. Whether we think of the incident at the Suez Canal last year, when the Ever Given blocked the canal costing world trade an estimated $1billion USD; the lack…
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Enhancing Career Prospects in Cybersecurity for Neurodivergent Learners

Image of a human head with a lock inside surrounded by cyber data

Cybersecurity is a constantly evolving threat to organisations of all sizes. Now, the opportunity for jobs focused on this risk is expanding, and Edinburgh Napier University is to promote a short course on Fundamentals of Cybersecurity redesigned to appeal directly…
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New toolkit to support festival sustainability in Mexico and beyond

People at a festival

Running festivals and events sustainably is an enormous challenge for the industry. Waste management is just the tip of the iceberg. Practitioners need to consider multiple factors, which can be overwhelming and difficult to manage. The good news: a new…
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ENU Student Wins AEME’s First-Ever UK Event Management Student of the Year Award

Cameron Hughes standing in front of a stage at a festival's venue

Edinburgh Napier student – Cameron Hughes – is among the first four recipients of the UK Undergraduate Event Management Student of the Year award from the Association for Events Management Education (AEME). AEME is an international organisation that aims to support…
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Unlock & Revive: Involving People Living with Dementia in Online Cultural and Heritage Events

A new report created by ENU researchers illustrates optimal ways to create accessible online cultural and heritage events to benefit people living with dementia and their carers. The report, entitled Unlock & Revive, is a multi-disciplinary action-research project set up…
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New Edinburgh Napier Policy Lab Turning Cities Smart and Sustainable Worldwide

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The Urban Innovation Policy Lab at Edinburgh Napier University – Unity – is on a mission to make a global impact by creating more smart and sustainable urban environments for all of us. Digital and smart technologies offer industrial sectors…
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Purpose Beyond Profit – An Interview with Maurice Rosenstein

The Business School exterior

MSc Business Management student, Maurice Rosenstein, won second prize at the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) annual writing competition 2021, for his ground-breaking essay on “Purpose Beyond Profit”. According to the organisers, the contest – organised for the past…
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One course, many paths – it all adds up with Accounting

There seems to be a misconception about accounting courses, or accounting related occupations; where many have this idea that there is only one specific predictable career path. Reality couldn’t be further from the truth… Here are two stories of Edinburgh…
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