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ScotLand Futures online panel: What can land reform do for urban Scotland?

Online panel: What can land reform do for urban Scotland?

Land reform is often viewed through a rural lens, but urban Scotland faces its own pressing challenges around land use, ownership and value.

Join us for this ScotLand Futures online panel exploring the role of land reform in creating fairer, greener and more inclusive urban places.

Book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-panel-what-can-land-reform-do-for-urban-scotland-tickets-1561268438929?aff=oddtdtcreator

Meet our panel:

Dr Calum MacLeod (Chair)

Land Commissioner, Scottish Land Commission

Dr Calum MacLeod is Senior Policy and Public Affairs Officer for the Mental Health Foundation in Scotland and a freelance sustainable development consultant.  In 2010 he led post-legislative scrutiny of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 on behalf of the Scottish Parliament.  Formerly Policy Director of Community Land Scotland, Calum has a PhD in public policy implementation and has taught sustainable development and public policy courses at several Scottish Universities.  He is a Board Member of MG ALBA (Gaelic Media Service) and was previously a Board Member of the Harris Tweed Authority, championing sustainable, community-focused development.

Hanna Wheatley

Senior Economist, Future Economy Scotland

Hanna is a Senior Economist at Future Economy Scotland. Hanna most recently worked at the Scottish Land Commission where she led work on land markets and managed the Commission’s programme of research to support evidence-based policy recommendations on land reform. Prior to that Hanna was a Senior Researcher at the New Economics Foundation specialising in quantitative research, and the coordinator of the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust. Hanna has an MA in International Political Economy from King’s College London.

Dr Carey Doyle

Research Associate, SRUC

Carey Doyle is a chartered town planner and social scientist with 20 years’ experience across academia, private practice and the third sector. Her work focuses on land governance, community landownership and land reform, with a strong interest in inequality, empowerment and policy. She joined SRUC in 2024 following work on the Community Ownership Hub in Glasgow and Clyde Valley and specialises in applied research using both quantitative and qualitative methods.

Euan Leitch

Chief Executive, SURF

Euan Leitch has been Chief Executive of SURF since May 2021, bringing with him a strong background in policy and regeneration. Prior to this, he spent eight years with the Built Environment Forum Scotland (BEFS), where he led work linking the built environment with community regeneration, diversity, and resilience. A long-time supporter of SURF’s cross-sector approach to tackling inequality, Euan is particularly committed to ensuring that communities most affected by deprivation are meaningfully involved in shaping responses to the climate emergency.