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This paper is concerned with people's attachments to historic urban places they experience in their daily lives. The topic has received growing emphasis in the realm of heritage studies, given its importance to the conservation and management of historic urban environments. Drawing on qualitative data collected from thirty in-depth interviews carried out in Edinburgh, Scotland, I explore the multiple ways in which (known as dimensions in place attachment literature) people develop attachments to historic urban places: from a kind of autobiographic attachments which were grounded in their everyday living and memories, and those of their families to intellectual attachments wherein they showcased their deep appreciation for the attributes that define a historic place. I also seek to demonstrate a class-specific nature of attachments at the intellectual level, adding a politicised view to the complexity of the phenomenon. In so doing, I demonstrate the many ways in which historic places are important to people's enjoyment of lives in the city, and the various roles the history of places and/or their historic attributes played in forging such attachments. I conclude the paper with discussions on findings related to the current state of knowledge in place attachment research and implications for heritage practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the Culture and Communities Mapping Project, a study that uses cultural mapping to understand the relationships between the Edinburgh's cultural spaces and local communities. The paper begins by detailing different methodological paths that those carrying out cultural mapping projects will navigate: formatting the project to collect quantitative or qualitative data, which is usually correlated with tangible or intangible data, as well as approaching the map as a means to policy outcomes or as part of a process of community building through collective memory, or both. The paper then offers an in-depth case study of the Edinburgh-based map, a tool that artists, art institutions, and policy makers can use to better understand Edinburgh's cultural geography and guide further research on arts equity and access. The findings section concludes with thoughts on what the project reflects about the cultural mapping enterprise more broadly. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The 10th UK National Heat Transfer Conference was held in Edinburgh, Scotland, during 10-11 September 2007 under the auspices of the UK Heat Transfer Committee and was co-organized by the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University. The conference was part of a series of conferences which were initially organized every 4 years but more recently every 2 years in a synchronized manner with the European Thermal Sciences Conference and International Heat Transfer Conference. Thus, the UK heat transfer community, along with the international participants, can get together every year in a national or European or international heat transfer conference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 1910 some 1200 delegates from Protestant missionary societies came together in Edinburgh, Scotland to attend a World Missionary Conference. In preparation for this event eight commissions were established to research various topics of importance to missionary societies. Commission III was dedicated to 'Education in Relation to the Christianization of National Life' and presented a volume of 470 pages as its report to the Conference based on over 200 responses to a list of questions under 14 broad topics. One of these topics pertained to the working relationship between missionaries and governments. This paper examines the discussion within the report regarding governmental attitudes to missionary education within colonial spaces. It provides a comparison between the aims of missionary education and the recorded experiences under various governments, particularly at times when they contrasted and conflicted. Taking a broadly comparative view, the paper shows the differences in concerns and objectives that various missionary bodies had in different colonial spaces, as well as the commonalities across colonial spaces in relation to governmental attitudes towards missionary education. This paper demonstrates the fruitfulness of a comparative approach to writing colonial histories of education, through elucidating both specificities and commonalities between different colonial education policies and practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Between 1809 and 1820, Thomas Knight (1775–1853) published quite a few papers on mathematics and its applications. These show him to have been surprisingly well-versed in French analytical mathematics at a time when French works were little read by his British contemporaries. InBSHM Bulletin2, Gloria Edwards and I published a paper (Craik and Edwards 2004) entitled ‘In search of Thomas Knight’, designated below as ‘[1]’, that examined Knight’s life and work. This follow-up paper gives further biographical information that links him with Edinburgh; it describes some more of his publications that were previously overlooked (for notice of the latter, I am grateful to a correspondent who wishes to remain anonymous); and it records some remarks about his work by his contemporaries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the 38th annual conference and Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Scottish Legal History Group which was held on October 6, 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and it mentions the next conference on October 5, 2019. Abstracts are provided for papers such as "Supplications to the Papacy in Late Medieval Scotland" by Dr. Alan MacQuarrie and "Continuity and Change: the Highland Estate and the Regality Court of Grant" by Charles Fletcher which were presented at the 2018 event.

This paper reports on innovations in public order policing during the protests surrounding the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) Parliamentary Assembly in Edinburgh, November 2009. When masked anarchist protesters determined to ‘smash NATO’ gathered on the streets on the first morning of the Assembly, they were initially confronted by three plainclothes police negotiators rather than a line of riot police. In this paper, we draw on empirical data to offer an analysis of these developments and gauge the extent to which they meet the stated intentions of the police to ‘facilitate lawful protest’. Whilst welcoming the shift in attitudes and approach towards political protest, we argue that the accent on facilitation in this operation ultimately appeared neither innovative nor effective in practice and frequently reverted to styles of policing designed to contain protest. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In 2004, the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED) established a project to pilot restorative practices (RPs) in schools in three local authorities (LAs) in Scotland. The pilot project was one strand of the Scottish Executive's range of initiatives to promote Better Behaviour Better Learning in Scottish schools and was to run from 2004 to 2006. In parallel with the pilot project, SEED commissioned a team from the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow to evaluate the initiative. That evaluation was collaborative and flexible and took account of differences between the eighteen pilot schools and also of the varying aims schools had in implementing RPs. This paper will draw on data emerging from the evaluation to compare and contrast the experiences of schools as they tried to work in ways which were more restorative and less punitive. The first part of this paper will define RPs and will discuss the nature and distinctiveness of these approaches as they have been used in different settings. The paper will then examine RPs in relation to the experience of schools in the Scottish pilot. Did successful implementation depend upon the existing ethos of the school? Or were RPs themselves a vehicle by which schools could develop a more positive ethos? Three case studies in implementing RPs will be offered. These will be used to exemplify how some schools changed their practices as a result of implementing RPs incorporated RPs into existing practices did not change at all These varying experiences of the case study schools will be used to probe notions of restorative and retributive approaches in relation to school ethos. Finally, the paper will explore the capacity of RPs to transform school ethos and, in general, will consider the conditions necessary for this to happen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper draws from the presentation "Sex Games People Play" before an audience of 80 at the World TA 2005 Summer Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. Included in this paper are new, unpublished TA theories on sex and intimacy including: the Sexual Winner's and Loser's Loops, the new field of Intimacy Analysis, the Intimacy Winner's and Loser's Loops, and five new versions of the Drama Triangle at the psychological and script levels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the highlights of the Meeting of Commonwealth Law Ministers in Edinburgh, Scotland, in July 2008. Conference secretary and director Betty Mould-Iddrisu presented a paper on the need to further refine principles underpinning a rule of law framework for the Commonwealth. Professor Christopher H. W. Gane presented a paper which addresses a number of issues and challenges facing the role of the Law Ministers within the Commonwealth.

The City of Edinburgh in Scotland in the UK had advanced plans for a congestion charging scheme until 25 February 2005. However, these plans were abandoned at that time after a referendum that resulted in a 'no vote'. This paper explains the origins of the scheme, outlines its nature, extent, charging technology and predicted effect; it also analyses the difficulties that exist when attempting to plan and implement such a scheme in a particular governance context, and when there is little unanimity of public opinion about the need for a scheme. As well as the primary documentation from the proposals (e.g. public inquiry submissions, papers to government), the paper also draws upon a series of face-to-face interviews that were undertaken with key stakeholders. It also provides an analysis of press coverage in the local (Edinburgh) and national (Scottish) newspapers in the run-up to the referendum. These sources explain both the systemic and more local barriers to the scheme's implementation. The paper draws key lessons which are important for authorities considering the implementation of a road user charging scheme, by suggesting how legislative and governance barriers to implementation can be reduced. The lessons are of relevance world wide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent research in the history of geography has highlighted the significance of biographical perspectives, of different institutional narratives and the importance of memory and of non-foundationalist accounts in understanding the development of geography as a formal subject. Attention to various practices such as fieldwork, the production by undergraduates of geographical magazines and research-led teaching has further enriched our understanding of the experiences of doing geography. This paper draws upon such work in outlining the 100-year history of geography as a teaching department in the University of Edinburgh. Despite such new perspectives and, perhaps, because of them, and because the history of geography as a department is not the same as the history of the subject, it is not possible to offer a full centennial history of the lives lived within a department of geography. Using evidence relating to Edinburgh's century of geography teaching in a department, the paper questions the extent to which it is ever possible to reconstruct narratives of geography's institutional presence and addresses the implications of this for the history of geography more generally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that young people's subcultural styles and identities are closely bound up with social class. We show that youth subcultures have been explained in a number of ways since emerging as a subject of serious study in the second half of the twentieth century, and that these explanations are located within a broader social scientific discourse. Fieldwork data collected through interviews with young people in Edinburgh and Newcastle indicate that, rather than being a free-floating lifestyle choice, young people's membership of subcultural groupings is largely determined by social class. In particular, the study shows that young people labelled as ‘Chavs’ or ‘Charvas’ should be understood as a subcultural group with specific social class affiliations. The paper concludes by considering some implications of these findings for theory, for further field research and for practical action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The city of Bath was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1987, the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh in 1995. At the dates of their inscription, management plans were not required by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as part of the nomination process. Although management guidelines for world cultural heritage sites have been published, these do not offer a template for the holistic heritage-driven management of complex urban sites at the scale of Bath or Edinburgh. Management plans for the Bath and Edinburgh World Heritage Sites have now been published. Following on from this author's paper ‘The World Heritage Convention and the Exemplary Management of Complex Heritage Sites’ in the Journal of Architectural Conservation, this paper aims to: summarize the approach and key issues that have been addressed in these two management plans - including aspects of their implementation; relate these to the expectations of the World Heritage Convention and other international agendas; and comment on the extent to which these management plans provide models for complex urban sites elsewhere, both in the United Kingdom and abroad. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increasing health problem of hepatitis C virus infection has only recently attracted the attention of psychosocial research, especially among subjects at higher risk (e.g. injecting drug users). There is a lack of information about the knowledge, perceptions and feelings that injecting drug users hold about their hepatitis C antibody positive status and what it means to them. In order to clarify these issues it is necessary to take a holistic view of the problems faced and to explore the sense of self, or 'identity', that the drug user has as a backdrop to coping with their hepatitis C antibody positive status. This paper is guided by interpretive phenomenology. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with a group of injecting drug users from a general practice in a socially and economically disadvantaged area of Edinburgh. By allowing the group to talk about their past and present lives the process of how they constructed their identity was illuminated and their knowledge and feelings about their hepatitis C antibody positive status revealed. Lack of knowledge about their condition was evident but was engulfed by their 'problem drug user' identity and the many difficulties this entailed. The paper concludes by highlighting important areas of future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper centres on the Beltane Fire Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland. The objectives are to: first, identify the stages of the festival’s evolution and their respective characteristics; second, distinguish features corresponding to the carnivalesque; and, finally, examine the changes in event evolution, particularly regulatory interventions, and their effect. A qualitative approach comprising interviews with internal and external festival stakeholders was utilised. It is argued that there are three stages in the festival’s evolution: revival and early development; development and regulation; and, maturation. The characteristics of these evolutionary stages are identified. As the festival has developed and been subject to increasing regulation, features of the carnivalesque have been reduced. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ABSTRACT This paper steps into the minefield that is urban sustainability studies. It defends a rigorous definition of sustainable development called Environmental Space. This approach starts from the assumption that (1) there are limits to the biophysical capacity of the ecosystem and (2) that--within these limits--each individual has equal access rights to natural capital. On this basis, per capita sustainable consumption targets are calculated which can be (and are being) used as policy objectives. The paper explores how environmental space has influenced local sustainability politics in Edinburgh, Scotland. By doing so, it finds that environmental space targets are still far from being achieved. Reasons for this failure are investigated and Edinburgh's continued commitment to the material growth of her economy is identified as one key barrier. This point is illustrated through the investigation of recent policy decisions in Edinburgh which were justified as being necessary for growth, but which clearly contradict the aims of sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several papers discussed at the 10th annual Wood Science & Engineering (WSE) network meeting held in Edinburgh, Scotland on October 13-14, 2014 is presented. Topics include timber engineering, wood technology, and thermal and chemical modification of wood. The meeting featured several speakers including Peter Wilson, Callum Hill, and Peter Wilson.

Gerard Baldwin Brown was appointed as the first Professor of Fine Art in Edinburgh in 1880. In 1905 he published The Care of Ancient Monuments. This book presented a comprehensive survey of the heritage protection systems in Europe, calling for the strengthening of the heritage legislation in Britain and the creation of a new national inventory body. It was to prove to be a key book in the development of cultural resource management systems in Britain and yet, due to a lack of a broader understanding of Baldwin Brown and his conservation activities, he is often overlooked or given only passing mention in conservation historiographies. This paper sheds light on Baldwin Brown's wider preservation campaigns in Edinburgh and suggests that it was these experiences which persuaded him of the need for the book and strongly influenced the recommendations it contained. Study of his work in Scotland's capital also sheds interesting light on the emergence of discourses of urban heritage conservation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on papers that were delivered at the annual conference of the Scottish Legal History Group on October 2, 2010 in the Advocates Library, Edinburgh, Scotland by historians such as Gero Dolezalek, Andrew Simpson, and Rab Houston. Topics discussed include the office of coroner in Scotland, medieval law in Scotland, and common law.

This paper considers the ways in which jazz audiences participate in and contribute to musical events, and examines the roles that music plays in their lives and identities. Analysis of a large-scale survey and in-depth interviews, carried out at the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival in 2007, reveals a sense of community and atmosphere within which audience members value the opportunity to be amongst like-minded jazz enthusiasts. The jazz festival is shown to be enhanced by the city and the context of the larger Edinburgh Festival, with the size and character of the venues also contributing significantly to the intimacy and success of each event. The findings challenge the prevailing view that jazz audiences tend to be younger than those for classical music (S. Oakes, 2003, Demographic and sponsorship considerations for jazz and classical music festivals, The Service Industries Journal, 23(3), 165-178), and offer points of comparison with recent studies of classical music audiences (S.E. Pitts, 2005, What makes an audience? Investigating the roles and experiences of listeners at a chamber music festival, Music and Letters, 86(2), 257-269; S.E. Pitts, 2005, Valuing Musical Participation. Aldershot: Ashgate; S.E. Pitts & C.P. Spencer, 2008, Loyalty and longevity in audience listening: Investigating experiences of attendance at a chamber music festival, Music and Letters, 89(2), 227-238), showing a stronger sense of individual taste amongst jazz listeners, expressed through loyalty to performers and genres, rather than to the festival itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several papers discussed at British Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery Group Meeting held in November 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland is presented. Topics include deep brain stimulation for orthostatic tremor, accuracy of depth electrode placement and vagus nerve stimulation in the management of thalamic pain.

The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh possesses a substantial collection of unpublished nineteenth-century Moroccan ceramics, including 49 pieces from the collection of Sir John Drummond Hay, British Minister Plenipotentiary in Morocco from 1845 to 1886. The Drummond Hay wares are of considerable interest to scholars of history and visual culture alike, as the personal collection of a major figure in nineteenth-century Anglo-Moroccan relations, and as representatives of a part of Moroccan visual culture that has been largely ignored within recent discourses of Islamic art history. This paper is the result of a research project into the history of the Drummond Hay ceramic group, examining not only the formal qualities of the ceramics but also their particular social history, and the insight their story provides into perceptions of the Maghreb in nineteenth-century Britain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several papers at the 28th annual conference sponsored by the Legal Scottish History Group on October 4, 2008 at the Advocates Library in Edinburgh, Scotland on matters regarding the law reports is presented. Topics include the long-term project for publication of Sinclair's "Practicks," the earliest Scottish form of law reports, the parliamentary process in the reign of James VI and a re-analysis of the "duel under the law of Clann Duib."

The topic of how planning authorities consider and improve design quality through design review is complex—there is no absolute definition of good design, and the process involves a range of different stakeholders, often with differing or competing interests. As design has become a more prominent aspect of UK planning policy, the City of Edinburgh Council has pioneered various initiatives to improve the quality of new development. This paper, based on surveys of those who both operate and use the system, concludes that design review by planning authorities can make a valuable contribution, but that the skills and expertise of the reviewers, the consistency of the advice and leadership from senior managers and politicians are critical factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2005 225,000 people marched through Edinburgh enjoining the G8 to 'Make Poverty History'. The coalition's own assessment of their campaign highlighted the importance of media by focusing on the extent of media coverage. Media outlets, however, have their own agendas. Detailed analysis of newspaper coverage preceding the G8 Summit suggests a disjuncture between campaign objectives and media frames. This paper explores how far newspaper accounts of G8-related protests were 'framed' in terms of social movement aims, and how far in terms of anticipated violence. Our findings lead us to caution against an uncritical equation of 'coverage' and 'success', offering a more nuanced account of the interplay between social movements and media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Schools in the UK looking for solutions to concerns about indiscipline have been enthused by the basic premise of restorative practice; the need to restore good relationships when there has been conflict or harm; and develop a school ethos, policies and procedures that reduce the possibilities of such conflict and harm arising. In 2004 the Scottish Executive funded a national pilot project on restorative practice and commissioned a team at Glasgow and Edinburgh Universities to carry out a two-year evaluation of the pilot. In this paper, we discuss staff and pupil understandings and offer some exploration of the underpinning principles of restorative practice as it has developed thus far in schools. We explore the successes and challenges schools experienced and discuss the potential contribution of restorative practices for schools in challenging times. Finally we relate our findings to some critical arguments about the meaning and purposes of discipline and control in schooling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper critically reviews the public policy framework underpinning the MTV Europe Music Awards Edinburgh03. It argues that, because local organisers did not advocate local cultural participation as a key policy, preferring an economic rationale of marketing and tourism, such involvement was limited. The organisers' global and economic rationale led to the official view that MTV's status within global youth culture re-imaged Edinburgh as a dynamic and cosmopolitan city in the international tourist market, while providing a turning point in Scotland's ability to host world class events. To them, the £750k subsidy to MTV facilitated significant local economic benefits and enhanced the city's profile in the creative industries. However, the narrow policy framework meant local inclusion took place within MTV's overriding emphasis on promoting celebrities and producing a spectacular television show. The Awards therefore had a largely superficial engagement with local youngsters and the Scottish pop industry, with the main beneficiaries being MTV and its sponsors, Edinburgh tourism, global pop stars, and major hotels and retailers. Protests over this were encouraged by MTV's tight control of information, the event's politicisation by a local newspaper, and a local actor's 'anti-MTV Awards' campaign. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fully-fuzzy classification approaches have attracted increasing interest recently. These approaches allow for multiple and partial class memberships at the level of individual pixels and accommodate fuzziness in all three stages of a supervised classification of remotely sensed imagery. A fully-fuzzy classification strategy may be deemed more objective and correct than partially-fuzzy approaches where fuzziness is only accommodated in one or two of the three classification stages. This paper describes two approaches to the fully-fuzzy classification of remotely sensed imagery: a statistical approach based on a modified fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm performed in a supervised mode and an artificial neural network based approach. This is followed by the documentation of a case study using Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data of an Edinburgh suburb. Both approaches were applied to derive fully-fuzzy classifications of land cover, with fuzzy ground data, critical for training and testing the classifications, derived from indicator kriging. Results confirmed the superiority of fully-fuzzy over their respective partially-fuzzy classification counterparts, which is beneficial given their more relaxed requirements for training pixels (i.e. training pixels need not be pure). Similar accuracies were obtained with the artificial neural network and statistical approaches to classification. It is suggested that due emphasis must be placed on derivation and analysis of fuzzy ground data as well as fuzzy classified data in order to further improve fully-fuzzy classifications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is always a challenge in social work education to set assessment tasks that will encourage learning. This paper, written collaboratively by a lecturer and team of students, describes one novel approach to assessment developed at the University of Edinburgh. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several papers discussed in the conference "From Inner Game to Neuroscience," held on June 22, Edinburgh, Scotland is presented. It was attended by several speakers including Kirsty McWilliams, Louise Wightman, and Kitty Gordon. Topics of the paper presented are pathology in neuroscience, executive coaching and emotional intelligence.