Our Research - Communities and Youth Futures

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Rejuvenate

Mapping and reconceptualising child and youth rights.

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Community change-scapes of Covid-19 recovery

The main aim of the project is to influence community recovery from Covid-19 through systematic community driven research including understanding individual/group support and actions raised in communities to providing evidence to change policy and practice regionally.

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Youth Entrepreneurship – Abriachan Forest Trust

UIF KE Funding is supporting research that supports young people to document their learning in entrepreneurship with the community-owned woodland trust.

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Mitaani hadi shuleni

Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) funded revisits in partnership with Pendekezo Letu in Kenya to explore the experiences of your street-connected women during Covid – ‘Living on the Edge: Young vulnerability and agency in street situations.

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Silence in the classroom

This research explores the reasons why young people remain silent in the physical classroom after re-entering college education after Covid-19.

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The Wellbeing of International Migrants in Rural Areas: Bridging the Migration-Development Nexus

The presence of international migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in rural regions of Europe, North America and Australia has received growing attention as a means of facilitating development and the sustainability of rural regions and communities.

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College Development Network and Colleges Scotland

Vicky Johnson was invited to attend a webinar for colleges across Scotland to discuss the recent publication, ‘Pathways out of Poverty’. UHI Inverness are continuing to discuss research to document and build on their poverty interventions within the college.

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People's Archive

This research is funded by the Rural Policy Learning Commons looking at archival representation of people who pass through the Highlands.

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Youth and positive uncertainty - negotiating life pathways in post-conflict and fragile environments

Young people do not necessarily view uncertainty in their lives as negative, especially those most-marginalised youth who see their ‘certainty’ as poverty, unemployment, and environmental fragility.

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Steps for engaging young children in research

A comprehensive resource developed for academics and practitioner researchers wanting to include the perspectives of young children in their research.

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Rethinking Rural

The ‘Rethinking Rural’ series foregrounds place and specifically rural places and communities as dynamic, diverse, and mutually constitutive.

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Youth uncertainty world research

Youth Uncertainty Rights (YOUR) World Research – Insecurity and Uncertainty: Marginalised youth living rights in fragile, and conflict affected situations in Ethiopia and Nepal.

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Innovative Tourism: Creative Story Mapping of Special Book Collections

Using ArcGIS Story Maps to tell the story of one of the special collections at Inverness Library in an innovative, accessible and exciting way.

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