Understanding the changing nature and context of poverty in Scottish rural and island communities since 2010

Acknowledgements

The contributions of the following people should be acknowledged. Kate Anderson, Professor Linda Bauld, Francesco Bertoldi, Graeme Beale, Gillian Diggins, Elizabeth Fraser, Tom Lamplugh, Angelica Lorenzo, Emma McCallum, John Patterson, Zach Thompson, Fran Warren and Graeme Wilson for their input over the course of the project and the resulting report. Phillipa Brosnan, Becky Hothersall, Anne McCormack, Nicky Bowman, Stephen Rae, Roanna Sefton for facilitating stakeholder and lived experience engagement. Professor Alita Nandi, Raj Patel and Helen Smith for their statistical support. We are grateful to the expert by experience panel members from Aberdeenshire and Argyll and Bute, coordinated through the Poverty Alliance’s ‘Taking Action on Rural Poverty project’, who generously shared their expertise. Their lived experience perspectives were essential in shaping our understanding and ensuring our analysis reflected the realities faced by rural and island communities.