Shifting the Narrative: Stories of Rural Resilience in Post-Covid Scotland

Within the context of post-Covid19 recovery, this meeting will discuss the evidence on current levels of mental and physical ill-heath in rural Scotland, compare these with rural Ontario, Canada and focus on different examples of positive interventions tackling these challenges across rural and island Scotland.

Speakers

• Jim Hume, Convener of the National Rural Mental Health Forum, to open with a summary of the state of mental and physical health in rural Scotland.
• Associate Professor Leith Deacon, University of Guelph, to discuss the outcomes of his ‘Rural Responses to Covid-19’ survey highlighting the findings on reported differences in individual well-being in rural Ontario before and after the pandemic.
• Ailsa Clark from Inspiralba and Lilia from Positive Action / Heal Scotland will discuss health and wellbeing challenges and responses from a rural community led perspective.
• Other speakers TBD

Host or Publisher Rural Policy Centre