Project Category
Healthy Environments
Project Year - 2025
Pollinator Pals: A co-created civic arts and science project improving nature connection and biodiversity in a urban garden
The Pollinator Pals project aims to connect children aged 6-12 years with nature, belonging, and community in a socioeconomically deprived area of Glasgow.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Environment
Scran Fir Bees
Through her funded project, environmental artist Natalie Taylor will work in North Edinburgh to extend a series of existing public space artworks incorporating wildflowers to provide nectar-rich habitats and food sources for pollinators. The long-term vision is that these artworks, using large-scale text cut into the landscape, will join up to form a bee corridor across North Edinburgh.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Environment
Ecological transformation of the woodland edge at Dronley Community Woodland
Dronley Community Woodland is an area popular with walkers, runners, cyclists and horse riders, with over 20,000 visits annually. It is a multi-purpose woodland where biodiversity, timber production and recreation are equal priorities.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Environment
Colvend Lochs aquatic plant survey
The Colvend and Southwick Community Council, with the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI), have been funded to undertake an aquatic and marginal plant survey of the lochs in the Colvend Community Council area.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Environment
Quarter century of discovery: 25 years of bottlenose dolphin photo-identification in the Hebrides
The Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust hold the longest time series of bottlenose dolphin images, collected from sightings in the Hebrides since 2000. Despite this, the data has not been updated or published for nearly a decade.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Environment
Am Monadh Ruadh: A living landscape
Am Monadh Ruadh, the Cairngorm Mountains are the only sub-arctic habitat in Britain. This landscape of plateaus, hills, and glens was once far more lived-in than it is today.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Environment
What is a sustainable cup of take away coffee?
South Seeds is a community organisation based in the South Central area of Glasgow. It works in partnership with residents and organisations within the local community to help improve the area’s appearance and feel. The group’s mission is to enable Southsiders to lead more sustainable lives.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Environment
Project Year - 2024
Exploring Sustainable Solutions for Food Waste in Island Communities
Eday, an island in the Orkney archipelago, has a small community of around 130 people. The community proposes to research and evaluate options to identify a sustainable – and possibly commercial – solution for reducing food waste in an island community.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Environment
Willow Worlds
Tree planting has never been more important than now, but in Scotland, we face the problem of overgrazing by deer.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Environment
Rebuilding Biodiversity in Campbeltown
A troubling biodiversity loss within Campbelltown has been identified by the South Kintyre Development Trust.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Environment
Thrift: Climate Conversations
Art Walk Projects aim to develop a series of public conversations with artists, scientists, farmers, landscape architects, and climatologists.
RSE Research Award – Healthy Environment
Project Year - 2023
Ecopoetics Report
Shaping sustainable food futures through education, engagement, and action for a healthy planet.
Public Learning Workshop 2023