Key figure of mobility : the pedestrian

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Understanding values beyond carbon in the Woodland Carbon Code in Scotland

Acknowledgments Paola Ovando and James Koronka thank the financial support of the Macaulay Development Trust through the Fellowship on Natural Capital at the James Hutton Institute, and the project Finding Viable Pathways for Forest Carbon Offsetting in Europe: FOREWAY (Plan Estatal: PID2021-125340OA-I00). James Koronka began this research as a Masters student at the University of Aberdeen supervised by P. Ovando and J. Vergunst. We especially thank Phoebe Somerville for her support with carbon buyer data preparation. We are very grateful to all the people we interviewed for contributing to this research, Vicky West for providing a UK WCC projects database, Pat Snowdon and James Hepburne Scott for their valuable comments on an earlier version of this paper, and attendees of the Hutton Symposium 2020 for their valuable comments.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

The use of photo elicitation to explore the role of the main street in Kirkwall in sustaining cultural identity, community, and a sense of place.

This paper explores the value of photo elicitation as a method for investigating the role played by small town main streets in Scottish island communities in sustaining cultural identity, community, and a sense of place. In particular, it critically evaluates the photo elicitation techniques used during a multidisciplinary pilot study, conducted in Kirkwall, Orkney, in 2010. A number of techniques were used, including a photographic exhibition, discussion groups, extended face-to-face interviews, and the creation of a special Facebook page. Throughout all approaches, participants were presented with old and current photographs of the main street, together with some novel merged images combining both historical and contemporary views. These elicitation techniques proved successful in obtaining rich, detailed, qualitative data from 164 informants, who each shared their personal memories and perceptions of the social and cultural role of the Kirkwall main street. Indeed, the very process of identifying familiar buildings, landmarks and faces from photographs (both past and present) appeared to reinforce the participants cultural identity

Featured Organism: Arabidopsis Thaliana

Arabidopsis is universally acknowledged as the model for dicotyledonous crop plants. Furthermore, some of the information gleaned from this small plant can be used to aid work on monocotyledonous crops. Here we provide an overview of the current state of knowledge and resources for the study of this important model plant, with comments on future prospects in the field from Professor Pamela Green and Dr Sean May

The 'main street' in Kirkwall: a pilot research projects.

In July 2010, researchers from Robert Gordon University, in collaboration with the University of Aberdeen, conducted a pilot research project which investigated the role of the main street (i.e. Bridge Street, Albert Street, Broad Street and Victoria Street) in sustaining cultural identity, community, and a sense of place in Kirkwall, and in Orkney more widely. This project built on previous research conducted by Robert Gordon University which examined journey making and travel behaviour in Kirkwall as part of a wider study looking at car culture in the town

Establishing an agenda for social studies research in marine renewable energy

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A Walk as Act / Enact / Re-enactment: Performing Psychogeography and Anthropology

This book’s keywords of re-enactment, replication and reconstruction pose a distinction between an original on the one hand and some kind of copy on the other. The practice of walking and everyday life in general suggest alternatives. Using the series of terms ‘act’, ‘enact’ and ‘re-enactment’, the chapter investigates creativity in ways that cannot be reduced to the dichotomy of original and copy. It begins with an account of some pedagogical experiments into walking and psychogeography, and then explores the act of walking in psychogeography. It moves on to the enactment of shared practice between psychogeography and anthropology, and finally the re-enactment of psychogeography as anthropology, and vice versa

Rhythms of walking : history and presence in a city street

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Action heritage: research, communities, social justice

Societies are unequal and unjust to varying degrees and heritage practitioners unavoidably work with, perpetuate and have the potential to change these inequalities. This article proposes a new framework for undertaking heritage research that can be applied widely and purposefully to achieve social justice, and which we refer to as action heritage. Our primary sources are semi-structured conversations we held with some of the participants in three heritage projects in South Yorkshire, UK: members of a hostel for homeless young people, a primary school, and a local history group. We examine ‘disruptions’ in the projects to understand the repositioning of the participants as researchers. The disruptions include introducing a scrapbook for personal stories in the homeless youth project and giving the school children opportunities to excavate alongside professional archaeologists. These disruptions reveal material and social inequalities through perceptible changes in how the projects were oriented and how the participants thought about the research. We draw on this empirical research and theorisations of social justice to develop a new framework for undertaking co-produced research. Action heritage is ‘undisciplinary’ research that privileges process over outcomes, and which achieves parity of participation between academic and community-based researchers through sustained recognition and redistribution

Inhabiting the landscape through access rights and the COVID-19 pandemic

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