@huttonsegs.bsky.social
Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences (SEGS) Department, James Hutton Institute
Fully funded PhD opportunity exploring how ideas of the “ideal migrant” shape responses to demographic challenges in rural & island Scotland. Jointly hosted by the University of St Andrews and The James Hutton Institute.
🔍 Learn more & apply here: tinyurl.com/3nhwrhb9
A speaker in a yellow t-shirt and a kilt stands on stage, besides a banner of the European Rural Parliament, addressing an engaged audience at an event in Scotland. The audience, seated and facing the speaker, includes a mix of people of various ages and genders, attentively listening to the presentation
Two stacks publications on a table: one of booklets titled ‘RURACTIVE Insights on Women-Led Innovation in Rural Areas’ and another of brochures titled ‘Hutton Highlights, June 2025.
A group of ten people standing together indoors for a group photo, smiling in front of two display banners titled ‘Spatial Mapping of Rural Scotland’ and ‘Rural Proofing'
'Rural futures start at the European Rural Parliament, where local insights meet European policymaking'.
Glad to contribute with the #GRANULAR Horizon Europe project, exploring how data, dialogue, and local knowledge can shape more inclusive and sustainable rural futures.
#ERP2025 #RuralInnovation
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Rows of plants growing on floating beds in a narrow water channel, with fields and a village in the distance.
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As part of Scotland’s Land Reform Futures Project, our @hannahbudge.bsky.social joined @srucnews.bsky.social and the Stakeholder Advisory Group in the Netherlands to learn from alternative land models and sector leaders on #landaccess, land-use decision-making and collaboration.
17.10.2025 09:35 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
The MERLIN Symposium brought together diverse voices from across sectors to share four years of learning from the Forth Catchment. Check @forthriverstrust.bsky.social's post on LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/posts/forth-...
🔗 Forth Catchment case study (MERLIN CS17): project-merlin.eu/cs-portal/ca...
Call for abstracts! Submit your work to the CORDiALL Conference on Digital Agriculture — April 14–17, 2026, Montpellier, France. Explore AI, low-cost tech, policy, inclusion & more. Deadline: Oct 14, 2025
👉 tinyurl.com/3y4r62tz #DigitAg #CORDiALL2026
Professor Tialda Haartsen's gave a seminar in our Department a few weeks ago about internal #migration patterns of rural young adults in the Netherlands and it's now available on YouTube, posted by the @rgsibg.bsky.social Population Geography Research Group.
Watch the Seminar 👉 youtu.be/6cyqfxAt8SQ
A group of people standing near a metal gate in a grassy field, surrounded by wooden posts and wire fencing. Trees and hills are visible in the background under a partly cloudy sky.
A small stream flowing through an open landscape with tall grasses and bushes on either side. Wooden posts line the stream’s edge, with rolling hills in the background beneath a partly cloudy sky.
#KnowledgeExchange amongst #Nature-based Solutions policymakers and practitioners during National @merlin-project.bsky.social Day. From leaky dams to blended finance, we discussed how to upscale freshwater #NbS @ukceh.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social @forthriverstrust.bsky.social
26.09.2025 13:03 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A group of seven smiling people around a roll-up banner that says 30th European Society for Rural Sociology Congress
Some of our team members were at the Rural Sociology Congress #ESRS2025 this week, discussing some of our top-notch work on rural population, island communities, socio-ecological transformations, agricultural policy, living labs and games methods. Did you catch any of their presentations?
11.07.2025 15:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Have you recently obtained an undergraduate social science degree? Are you interested in sustainability, natural resources, climate change, land use or community vibrancy? You could be our next colleague!
📢We’re #hiring 4 Graduate #ResearchAssistants
👉Apply by 18 July ow.ly/eZC350WfwEG
Last week at a science-policy event organised by Network Nature on Nature-based Solutions (NbS), our Esther Carmen presented insights from @merlin-project.bsky.social on the institutional changes for mainstreaming barrier removal within the EU Hydropower Sector.
👉 project-merlin.eu/outcomes/sec...
Our colleague @samposkitt.bsky.social contributes to explore how indigenous knowledge could be better incorporated into future scenarios for the Global Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: www.hutton.ac.uk/blog/hutton-...
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SEGS colleagues (and many others) recently published a paper on #ValueChains and Sustainable #Mountain Development: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
It highlights a large amount of qualitative work across 23 European land-based mountain value chains from the recent
MOVING Horizon2020 project.
We're proud to see our colleague @kgjura.bsky.social
featured on page 12 of the new @royalsoced.bsky.social ReSourcE magazine with
'Rethinking Rural: Why the City Isn't Always the Centre!
We're delighted to recognize her valuable contribution to #RuralResearch! 👏
👉 rse.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Great to see our @huttonsegs.bsky.social research used in the Scottish Government’s 2024 National Islands Plan Report! 🗣️🌊
It highlights our 2020 & 2023 island surveys and our 2023 #ScottishIsland Regions geography. Thanks to all who completed the survey! 👏
Report: ow.ly/TLkV50VvJaS
Colleagues from @huttonsegs.bsky.social recently ran an event focused on ‘Finding Circular Solutions’.
The event brought together circular economy practitioners to identify solutions and actions for enabling and scaling up the positive work driving the #CircularEconomy 🌍♻️
