Project Category
Healthy Communities
Project Year - 2025
Rescue. Preserve. Nourish: Turning Surplus into Sustenance
Run as a collaboration between Café Recharge co-founders Amanda Robinson and Amy Wight and Caroline Timmins, a product development technologist at Queen Margaret University, the Rescue. Preserve. Nourish: Turning Surplus into Sustenance project aims to investigate waste reduction through pilot dehydration trials using surplus vegetables and fruit.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Communities
Improving biodiversity in urban green spaces using participatory citizen science
Urban green areas play a significant role in supporting biodiversity, mitigating heat-related health risks and contributing to public health and resilience against climate change.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Communities
Owning Carfin Street Gardens
Offering access to 43 raised beds outside the People’s Pantry in Glasgow, Carfin Street Gardens encourages residents to learn about and take control of their food systems through weekly gardening sessions facilitated by a staff member.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Communities
Cupar FoodStation Project
The Cupar Foodstation Project aims to conduct feasibility research into opening a food-themed enterprise and welfare hub in the Cupar town centre, offering a community-led solution and a people-centred approach delivered through local organisations and food producers.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Communities
Project Year - 2024
Renfrewshire Land Connections
The Centre for Human Ecology proposes to assess and strengthen capabilities for regenerative land use to strengthen adaptation to climate change in Renfrewshire.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Communities
Dualchas: Dynamic connections between community and the land
The community, together with the cultural hub Grinneabhat, propose to investigate innovations that will enable the continuation and expansion of their existing food system.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Communities
Understanding the potential of a resident-led street closure programme – Play Streets in Inverness
Excessive motor vehicle use is an established problem affecting Scotland’s ability to meet its climate-change targets.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Communities
Project Year - 2023
Ecopoetics Report
Shaping sustainable food futures through education, engagement, and action for a healthy planet.
Public Learning Workshop 2023