SCRR News Issue 95, featuring… Prof Sarah Skerratt, Scientific Director of SCRR, on dialogue and engagement at a time of global challenge; climate change and our coasts; the condition of Scottish woodland; badgers, cows and TB; and a report on the online RSE/SCRR Peter Wilson Lecture 2020
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‘Young People & Evidence: Lessons from youth debate on climate change’ Monday May 11, 2020 Online event UPDATE: please see below for event report. This event brings together young speakers from diverse backgrounds to inspire us with discussion on how we can share and work with evidence in rural climate change responses. In order to
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SCRR Mini-Conference focusing on Early Years Researchers November 13, 2019 Venue: An Lochran, Inverness Across the breadth of Scotland, there are many researchers examining different aspects of the ‘rural’ from multiple perspectives – geography, geology, sociology, ecology, animal health, anthropology – and from the very micro through to the macro. In November 2019, SCRR held
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Francesca Osowska, chief executive, Scottish Natural Heritage ‘International Leadership for the Environment’ May 30, 2019 UPDATE: please see below for event report. In her Peter Wilson Lecture given at the RSE on May 30, 2019, Francesca Osowska set out some challenges on how nature should be at the heart of decision-taking in rural Scotland. She
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SCRR / Coastal Forum workshop November 2, 2018 Venue: Technology & Innovation Centre, Glasgow UPDATE: please see below for event report. In November 2018, the Coastal Forum and the Scottish Consortium for Rural Research held a one-day workshop during the Annual Science Meeting (ASM) of the Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS).
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Roger Crofts, chair, Royal Scottish Geographical Society – ‘Scotland’s land: successes and failures, challenges and solutions’
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SCRR seminar February 24, 2017 • 1pm Venue: Salisbury Suite, Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh An SCRR seminar around the Scottish Government’s draft strategy for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) education will be held on Friday, February 24, 2017 to: provide a forum to increase awareness of the strategy and to discuss issues raised by
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Professor William J Sutherland, Miriam Rothschild Chair in Conservation Biology, University of Cambridge ‘Policy Making in Uncertain Environments’ Monday February 6, 2017 • 6pm UPDATE: please see below for event report. Evidence-based medicine is one of the triumphs of recent decades and has indisputably saved innumerable lives and resulted in more cost-effective practice. However, is
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Prof Dame Anne Glover, former Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of the European Commission ‘Lost in Translation’ February 25, 2016 UPDATE: please see below for event report. SCRR’S showpiece event, the annual Peter Wilson lecture, for 2016 is to be given by Professor Dame LA Glover, former Professor of Molecular biology and Cell biology at
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SCRR / SRUC ‘round table’ discussion Tuesday June 30, 2015 Venue: Stirling University UPDATE: please see below for event report. In policy, there are ‘place-less’ approaches operating throughout Scotland, designed neither for ‘urban’ or ‘rural’; there are also policies designed specifically for urban and rural places, as well as spaces in between. Researchers tend to
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