Hutton at the ESP Europe 2026 tinyurl.com/398b7593 - Simone Martino, Kirsty Blackstock, Kerry Waylen (SEGS) & Alessandro Gimona (ICS) - presenting on Nature-based Solutions, justice, transformation, natural capital & participatory valuation. Insights from ScotGov and Horizon projects. #esp2026

How can alternative land ownership models support a sustainable food transition? This new TABLE essay explores examples from the Netherlands for Scotland - Europe's most private land-concentrated country - with unique legal infrastructure for recognizing community ownership. tinyurl.com/3my52h9f

Great #Hutton #SEGS presence at the 100th #Agricultural Economics Society conference in Oxford. Colleagues discussed #JUSTLANZ on farmers’ capacity for Net Zero, Scottish farmers’ agri-environment scheme preferences, and H2020 FoodLAND on links between farming, migration and food security in Africa.

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

'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

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.

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

#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

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?

Have 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-...

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 🌍♻️