What is the truth and who holds it?

Local Gaelic primary teacher and university lecturer Lisa MacDonald in a conversation with Lucy Beattie presents the findings of a literature review commissioned by Ulluminate examining the growing awareness in scientific communities of the value of indigenous knowlege. She speaks to the validity of citizen science and the importance of recovering what we once knew and re-cultivating the deep connection and responsibility to place that the Gaelic communities of the Highlands have long known.

“When we used to do things right we never questioned why we did them so. It had to go wrong before we could understand why the old folk’s ways were right. The challenge of today is to become ecologists again, but this time to be so consciously” - Alastair McIntosh, Rekindling Community.

• Special performance of songs of bird migration and behaviour by the Gaelic Community Choir, led by Lisa.

Supported by the New Voices Grant as part of the Highlands and Islands Climate Change Community Researcher Network funded by UKRI and co-delivered by BSA and Science Ceilidh, Lisa has also worked with the Gaelic Community Choir to perform songs demonstrating observations of bird migration and behaviour captured in song.