Mark Shucksmith OBE is Professor of Planning at Newcastle University, Visiting Professor at Ruralis, Trondheim and a Trustee of ACRE and the Carnegie UK Trust.Jayne Glass is Researcher in the Natural Resources and Sustainable Development group in the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.Polly Chapman is CEO of HISEZ CIC, a social enterprise business consultancy which also operates Impact Hub Inverness, a co-working space that is part of the global Impact Hub network.Jane Atterton is Senior Lecturer and Manager of the Rural Policy Centre at Scotland’s Rural College.

"Getting ‘under the skin’ of hidden poverty benefits from qualitative research approaches. This volume succeeds admirably in this regard, providing an important addition to a research area neglected because of its hiddenness." Town Planning Review

• Foreword by Professor Sir Howard Newby1. Introduction2. Poverty and social exclusion in rural Britain: a review3. East Perthshire: an accessible rural area in Scotland4. Harris: an island area of Scotland5. The North Tyne valley, Northumberland: a remote area of England6. Rural poverty in a pandemic: experiences of COVID-197. Changing sources of support: precarity, conditionality and social solidarity8. Conclusions and policy implications

Mark Shucksmith OBE is Professor of Planning at Newcastle University, Visiting Professor at Ruralis, Trondheim and a Trustee of ACRE and the Carnegie UK Trust.Jayne Glass is Researcher in the Natural Resources and Sustainable Development group in the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.Polly Chapman is CEO of HISEZ CIC, a social enterprise business consultancy which also operates Impact Hub Inverness, a co-working space that is part of the global Impact Hub network.Jane Atterton is Senior Lecturer and Manager of the Rural Policy Centre at Scotland’s Rural College.

"Getting ‘under the skin’ of hidden poverty benefits from qualitative research approaches. This volume succeeds admirably in this regard, providing an important addition to a research area neglected because of its hiddenness." Town Planning Review

• Foreword by Professor Sir Howard Newby1. Introduction2. Poverty and social exclusion in rural Britain: a review3. East Perthshire: an accessible rural area in Scotland4. Harris: an island area of Scotland5. The North Tyne valley, Northumberland: a remote area of England6. Rural poverty in a pandemic: experiences of COVID-197. Changing sources of support: precarity, conditionality and social solidarity8. Conclusions and policy implications

Mark Shucksmith OBE is Professor of Planning at Newcastle University, Visiting Professor at Ruralis, Trondheim and a Trustee of ACRE and the Carnegie UK Trust.Jayne Glass is Researcher in the Natural Resources and Sustainable Development group in the Department of Earth Sciences at Uppsala University and Honorary Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.Polly Chapman is CEO of HISEZ CIC, a social enterprise business consultancy which also operates Impact Hub Inverness, a co-working space that is part of the global Impact Hub network.Jane Atterton is Senior Lecturer and Manager of the Rural Policy Centre at Scotland’s Rural College.

"Getting ‘under the skin’ of hidden poverty benefits from qualitative research approaches. This volume succeeds admirably in this regard, providing an important addition to a research area neglected because of its hiddenness." Town Planning Review

• Foreword by Professor Sir Howard Newby1. Introduction2. Poverty and social exclusion in rural Britain: a review3. East Perthshire: an accessible rural area in Scotland4. Harris: an island area of Scotland5. The North Tyne valley, Northumberland: a remote area of England6. Rural poverty in a pandemic: experiences of COVID-197. Changing sources of support: precarity, conditionality and social solidarity8. Conclusions and policy implications