Opinion

Drawing on thirty years of experience in community development and her work with young people in remote and isolated areas, our Acting Chair, Theona Morrison reflects on what a net zero Scotland might look like and how this might be achieved. Three ...

The responses to the recent email from SRA has revealed that around Scotland there are a wide variety of so called “co-ordinating anchors” looking after their communities during the period of lockdown imposed on us because of COVID-19. I thought it ...

A young woman, an artist, a musician, who has lived and worked in Iceland where there is a Grmsay, now finds herself in Grimsay, Uist Outer Hebrides. This is part of what she posted on-line as context before she uploaded herself reading the poem The ...

Rural Housing Scotland Conference 2020: Rural Vision I attended the Rural Housing Scotland conference held at the Dunkeld House Hotel and Birnam Institute over Thursday 27th and Friday 28th February 2020. This year a pre-conference session was held ...

I was one of the privileged, 6 strong delegation that went to Candás, Asturias, Spain to represent Scotland at the European Rural Parliament. It was a long journey and, like many things rural, transport links were not the best. We were made very ...

There is interest in the potential for providing meat to consumers that can be demonstrated to be local and traceable. With the recent closure of abattoir facilities in rural areas of Scotland there are concerns that animals are travelling further ...

Claire Taylor was a SRA Board Member from 2018-2019. In this clip, she talks about attending a board strategy day for the very first time.

I thought I’d share my talk today at the Glasgow event, on the theme of “Imagining Institutions: A Vision for New Democratic Infrastructure”. I’ll post in the forum as well so you can share your thoughts. I’m Amanda Burgauer, the Chair of Scottish ...

It is a striking fact that the registered births in Uist in the Outer Hebrides for 2015, 2016 and 2017 show a 67% increase compared to a decade ago (2005/06/07). There were 13 registered births in December 2017 alone, compared to just 19 registered ...