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The Scotland’s Land Reform Futures project supports Scottish Government policy development regarding community land ownership and engagement in land use decision-making, and increases our understanding of roles of land ownership and land reform in achieving net zero emissions and reversing biodiversity decline. It advances social theory on community empowerment, social justice, and the potential for progressive property rights in Scotland.
This project seeks to both understand and facilitate change in remote, rural and island communities working with stakeholders at local, regional and national levels using a combination of qualitative, quantitative and modelling approaches.
This project uses mixed data and methods, including participatory and experimental approaches and community engagement, to create an advanced model of Scotland’s rural economy, and provides insights into how the benefits of plausible and aspirational economic scenarios could overlap with community- and place-based assets. It assesses progress towards a green recovery and just transition.
SEFARI Gateway Training Sessions - Policy Awareness & Impact This training, led by Newsdirect, is aiming to help colleagues understand the policy-making process in Scotland, across government and parliament. The sessions are designed to aid participants to identify key developments relating to their work, recognise opportunities to promote their research and better enable participants to show the relevance of their research to the issues being discussed in parliament. The first online session (on the 22nd of March, 10am-1pm) will focus on three key themes of the strategic research programme
This project is increasing our understanding of the impacts of land-based funding mechanisms on land values, and related outcomes for landownership diversification and land use change. It incorporates regional case studies and qualitative, quantitative and spatial analysis methods to provide recommendations for policy interventions and land-based funding models, which are aligned with both land use and land reform policy.
This project combines large-scale citizen science through a new Rural Exchange, secondary data analysis, in-depth qualitative work with stakeholders and rural and island communities, policy reviews, and international learning. The project provides recommendations for new and re-designed policy interventions to ensure sustainable, inclusive and just futures for rural and island communities.
I am interested in rural policy, rural economics and population dynamics. I am currently working on projects and themes linked to rural enterprise, rural development economics, rural digital economy, small business economics, economics of entrepreneurship, spatial analysis, agricultural and food economics and edible insects.
The unique characteristics, challenges, and aspirations of the local business base, and opportunities for community wealth building in rural and island communities are examined. We focus on understanding the role of economic infrastructure in prosperity and consider how future changes to agricultural support may impact the rural and island regions of Scotland.
Plant pests and pathogens can have a devastating impact not only on plant hosts but also the wider biodiversity that use the infected plant (e.g., for food, breeding and shelter). Thus, a decline in one plant species can have cascading effects on a wide range of other species, sometimes causing severe declines in their populations. In this project, we trialed different approaches for identifying which habitats are at greatest risk from plant pests and pathogens. Risk assessments prioritizing habitats that are thought to have low resilience (low plant species diversity), gave very different
This project is developing rapid, sensitive and specific tests for the detection, quantitation and characterization of protozoan parasites affecting humans in Scottish drinking water.