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“There are moments in life where the question of knowing whether one might think otherwise than one thinks and perceive otherwise than one sees is indispensable if one is to continue to observe or reflect ...” Michel Foucault

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Eggs Benelux

Author: Dominic Duckett

Fipronil, a compound hitherto unknown outside veterinary circles, is in our food: specifically, eggs and egg-based products. While the degree of health risk this poses is contested (for example, The Food Standards...

Monday, 28th August, 2017 by Dominic Duckett.
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Policy interventions for enhancing natural assets – are they compatible with crofting communities?

Author: Katrin Prager

Land ownership and management arrangements across Scotland today are complex and multi-layered. These structures must be taken into account if we seek to influence the management of natural assets to support...

Friday, 30th June, 2017 by Katrin Prager.
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Can mental models facilitate social learning?

Author: Rowan Ellis

Our most pressing contemporary challenges, such as enhancing food security and tackling climate change, can only be met by bringing together people from different backgrounds with the goal of learning from and with...

Tuesday, 23rd May, 2017 by Rowan Ellis.
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What is rural community resilience?

Author: Annie McKee

Resilience may be defined as how a body deals with external shocks; Picture credit: www.monarchsystem.com ‘Resilience’ is a term used abundantly today, and there are a plethora of different views...

Tuesday, 25th April, 2017 by Annie McKee.
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What rhymes with agri-environmental scheme?

Author: Orla Shortall

Are the most vivid, vital and interesting representations of the world to be found in art rather than science? Indeed, can art be combined with science to draw on the best characteristics of both: the rigour and...

Thursday, 2nd March, 2017 by Orla Shortall.
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Innovating in the Wake of Disaster: Some Notes from Fukushima’s Nuclear Exclusion Zone

Author: Jelte Harnmeijer

Social Innovation: Filling a void? Work on a big new EU project being led by the James Hutton Institute called ‘SIMRA’ got me thinking about where social innovation comes from. To me, a ‘social...

Friday, 10th February, 2017 by Jelte Harnmeijer.
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Can Ecosystem Services & Natural Capital save the planet?

Author: Scott Herrett

Before life as a research assistant in SEGS I had 15-year career in construction, when during the credit crunch a boss once said to me “you’re more interested in saving the planet than making a few quid...

Friday, 20th January, 2017 by Scott Herrett.
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Shaping Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas (SIMRA)

Author: Maria Nijnik

As the Coordinator of the project "Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas" (SIMRA), I would like to share the latest news from a stakeholder workshop in Bratislava, 26-28 October, and to bring you up...

Wednesday, 4th January, 2017 by Maria Nijnik.
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Is co-creation more than participation?

Author: Katrin Prager

Co-creation, and related terms like co-design, co-production, co-construction and co-innovation, are becoming increasingly popular. Upon closer scrutiny they share many characteristics with participatory processes....

Tuesday, 13th December, 2016 by Katrin Prager.
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“Quantitative Story Telling”: new method, same challenges for nexus policy studies

Author: Kirsty Blackstock

In September I participated in a session entitled, “Be constructive! Situating sustainability research at the nexus of positivism and reflective positionality” during the RGS-IBG 2016 conference on...

Thursday, 17th November, 2016 by Kirsty Blackstock.
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The James Hutton Research Institute is the result of the merger in April 2011 of MLURI and SCRI. This merger formed a new powerhouse for research into food, land use, and climate change.