Carey Doyle
cdoyle34.bsky.social
Carey Doyle
@cdoyle34.bsky.social
chartered town planner at the interface of academia and practice— here mostly talking about Scottish community landownership and Land Reform.
Event next Wednesday (8 Oct) on food systems in rural Scotland, you can join online or in person in Parliament.

Includes #Knoydart farms speaker on their food growing projects 👍🏼
Join us at the next Rural Policy CPG on 8th October 2025 to discuss how can we change the food system to benefit people and planet?

Sign up to join us in person or online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cross-part...
September 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Interesting event— although from speakers it looks like Who Owns England would be more accurate?
🚨 Join us at the Labour Party Conference!

We’ll be hosting a panel & drinks reception, exploring insights from our new project — Who Owns Britain? — where we investigate who owns our essential services & how we can rebuild the country.

RSVP 🔗 www.eventbrite.com/e/who-owns-b...
September 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I’m in Knoydart this week doing fieldwork. A gentleman dropped off his personal buyout archive for us to have a look at— an ideal evening of drinking tea and reading land reform archives 👌 😂
September 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
New title, new slides… enjoyed sharing my research on Community Right to Buy at the #UKIPRC2025. Good feedback, I think this paper’s almost ready to go out into the world
September 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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NEW: The National is launching a new series highlighting positive stories of refugees and asylum seekers in Scotland.

The increasingly hostile political commentary and media coverage is appalling. We have a duty to correct misinformation and stand up for those without a voice
August 22, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Scottish Land Fund closed to applications yesterday, no new money for new purchases until after the election in May— probably a year atleast 😬
A community group in a Scottish coastal town is attempting to take a historic church into local ownership
Ayrshire trust in race to raise £200k for community ownership of B-listed church
www.thenational.scot
August 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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What can land reform do for urban Scotland?

Join our expert panel to explore housing, climate, and community power in towns and cities.

📅 28 August | 🕓 4pm - 4:50pm | 💻 Zoom
🔗 buff.ly/P0cbP15

#ScotLandFutures
August 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Interested in rural community development? There are many opportunities to get involved in the Scottish Rural Communities Policy Review! bit.ly/4lzZaqL

The Youth Survey is now live, please complete and share: bit.ly/46Gldbr
July 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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In the 1930s, J.A. Dempster and Hugh Smith designed over 50 pithead baths for Scotland and northern England for the Miners' Welfare Fund. Influenced by German pithead baths, they were strikingly modern in appearance. All were demolished between the 1960s and 1980s.
#LostHeritage
July 1, 2025 at 6:12 AM
7 years ago today I officially got my PhD— with 2 PhD babies (who are now big!) #QueensUniversityBelfast
June 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Finishing up an excellent conference on Scottish Law: Land, Environment, power. Some great presentations— very helpful to dig into history and legal philosophy, and lots of planning chat as well. Also a first airing of my CRtB paper!
June 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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New blog post! 🏙️ Explore the results of this Seminar Series on urban vacancy, occupation, & commoning by Dr. Suraya Scheba, Dr. Cian O’Callaghan, & Dr. Andreas Scheba – a project supported by a #USFSeminarSeriesAward.
🔗 www.urbanstudiesfoundation.org/2025/06/17/u...
#Vacancy #Commoning #Occupation
June 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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We have just published a new episode!

urbanpolitical.online/92-radically...

Joanna Kusiak recently published ‘Radically Legal: Berlin Constitutes the Future’ and offers a brilliant insight perspective on the beginning and movement of Deutsche Wohnen & Co. Enteignen. Enjoy!
June 23, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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The algorithmic societies team map the emerging political logics of generative AI across: generativity, latency, broken sequences, & zero shot www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A world model: On the political logics of generative AI
The computational logics of large language models (LLMs) or generative AI – from the early models of CLIP and BERT to the explosion of text and image …
www.sciencedirect.com
June 22, 2025 at 8:13 AM
£150k grant to private developer as sweetener for development of Compulsory Purchase Order property …

www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/2525603...
Councillors back 'carrot' for potential developer of Glasgow's Egyptian Halls
A “carrot” of £150,000 will be on offer to the developer chosen to revamp Glasgow’s Egyptian Halls, as the council aims to signify its intent…
www.glasgowtimes.co.uk
June 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Same for Scottish local authorities negotiating with wind farm developers…
Local Planning Authorities who are responsible for securing developer contributions through Section 106 agreement are facing staff shortages and a gap in skills compared to large developers who often have specialist negotiators. Important new @nao.org.uk report
www.nao.org.uk/reports/impr...
Improving local areas through developer funding - NAO report
This report assesses whether MHCLG is overseeing an effective system of developer contributions that delivers the intended benefits.
www.nao.org.uk
June 6, 2025 at 10:07 AM
An inspiring few days at @communityland conference.

There are live streamed sessions, including the one I facilitated on community landownership and town planning. www.youtube.com/live/TESeWWW...
Navigating complexity: Community Projects and Planning (Workshop session)
YouTube video by Community Land Scotland
www.youtube.com
May 31, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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WE WON!

The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camp on Dartmoor. This is a huge win for access to nature.

But we're just getting started.

It was never just about Dartmoor.

We’re fighting to extend the right to roam, swim, and sleep under the stars - across all of England.
May 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Change of scenery this week! Not quite the N Highlands.
May 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Looking forward to this event on British Land Commons tomorrow, great line up of speakers @tomchance.bsky.social

Still time to join if you’re in London www.kairos.london/event/revivi...
May 19, 2025 at 7:39 AM
What do you think @jeinsle.bsky.social can I fit in some more travel? 😜
28 years ago they said it would fail... we beg to differ 😎 Come and see some of Eigg's groundbreaking projects and enjoy our famous hospitality as we celebrate 28 years of #CommunityOwnership😊
isleofeigg.org/2025/05/2025...
May 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Writing morning! time for the proven combination of caffeine and Beyoncé’s Lemonade album
a woman in a yellow dress is standing on a street
ALT: a woman in a yellow dress is standing on a street
media.tenor.com
May 16, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Anyone want to play guess that peak?

I am enjoying another few days fieldwork— thought provoking, enjoyable and exhausting in equal measures
May 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM