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Survey for people with island connections now live

How do islanders maintain connections to their communities when they are living elsewhere? This is one of the questions I am exploring in my PhD to try and understand how those with island connections could play a part in the future of island life, including through return migration. I’m keen to hear from people who…

Rebalancing island tourism?

Earlier this year Professor Lorna Philip and I looked at concerns around the impact of tourism in rural and island Scotland, and how IsleHoliday aims to address this in a piece for the Geography Directions blog. “Tourism is big business, generating revenue that supports local jobs, shops and other services. Yet, within fragile rural areas,…

Remote / Far away

As well as my research and my work in communities, I am an artist, working in various media. ‘Remote / Far away’ was a work that I secretly installed (with the help of a friend) in an abandoned sign post at Feolin on Jura in the early hours of a March day in 2021. The…