Scottish Government - Addressing Depopulation Action Plan
Our work was recently referenced in the Scottish Government’s Addressing Depopulation Action Plan, published in 2024. This plan calls for place-based policy interventions and draws upon knowledge created from our ‘Scotland’s Rural and Islands Futures’ project, particularly our findings from the Living Labs.
Scottish residents' preferences for places to live. What services and place characteristics matter most?
Digital poster presented at the ENRA (Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture) Science, Evidence and Policy Conference 2025, Edinburgh, 30 September 2025.
Aberfeldy, Dull & Weem Community Action Plan Steering Group
Researchers at the James Hutton Institute provided input to prepare the Local Place Plan.
Cost of Living Crisis in Remote and Rural Areas in Scotland
Researchers at the James Hutton Institute were asked to provide evidence to the UK Parliament’s Scottish Affairs Committee about the impact of the cost-of-living crisis in remote, rural and island areas of Scotland.
You can find the written evidence here
What are Living Labs and how can they enable change in rural communities?
Poster presentation for the 3rd Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture (ENRA) Science, Evidence and Policy Conference, Edinburgh, October 3rd, 2025
Scotland's Rural and Island Housing: Stakeholder Insights
Scotland's Rural and Island Housing: Stakeholder Insights
Infographic of associated policy brief on Scotland's rural and island housing (see below publication).
Cite as
Creaney, R., & Wooldridge, T. (2024). Scotland's Rural and Island Housing: Stakeholder Insights. James Hutton Institute. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14039190
Scotland's rural and island housing: A briefing of key policies, challenges and opportunities
Scotland's rural and island housing: A briefing of key policies, challenges and opportunities
This short policy brief highlights the findings from a review of current policies and expert interviews around rural and island housing in Scotland (hereto referred to as rural housing). This work was carried out between July 2023 and July 2024. It forms part of a larger research project exploring ‘Scotland’s Rural and Island Futures’ (2022-2027) which is funded by Scottish Government’s RESAS programme.
Cite as
Creaney, R., & Wooldridge, T. (2024). Scotland's rural and island housing: A briefing of key policies, challenges and opportunities. James Hutton Institute. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14039170
Rural assets enabling a wellbeing-focused economic recovery: an inventory to inform data collection and analysis
A report summarising a framework for structuring data collection on the assets of rural areas, in order to improve our understanding of the Scottish rural economy and its diversity. This constitutes Deliverable 1.1.1 of the project 'Informing a socially and spatially just future for the Scottish rural economy: pinpointing opportunities, assets and support needs'. This work was supported by the Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division (JHI-E1-1).
Cite as
Hopkins, Jonathan, Farinelli, Valentina, & Wilson, Ruth. (2023). Rural assets enabling a wellbeing-focused economic recovery: an inventory to inform data collection and analysis. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8121405
Data and code for reproducing analysis in 'Producing indicative allocations for Community Led Local Development funding in Scotland (2022-23)'
The data and code in this folder can be used to reproduce work used to generate indicative allocations of Community Led Local Development funding (2022-23) to 21 Local Action Group (LAG) areas in Scotland. It accompanies a note ('Producing indicative allocations for Community Led Local Development funding in Scotland (2022-23)', https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7418862) providing an overview of the analysis and its key outputs.
Cite as
Jonathan Hopkins, & Valentina Farinelli. (2022). Data and code for reproducing analysis in 'Producing indicative allocations for Community Led Local Development funding in Scotland (2022-23)' (Version 1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7418990
Producing indicative allocations for Community Led Local Development funding in Scotland (2022-23)
This note provides a short summary of analysis which was undertaken at the James Hutton Institute to distribute funding (£11.6m in total, £7.6m of which was allocated by this analysis) which was made available for Community Led Local Development (CLLD) in 2022-23 in Scotland.
Cite as
Jonathan Hopkins, & Valentina Farinelli. (2022). Producing indicative allocations for Community Led Local Development funding in Scotland (2022-23). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7418862