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Category: Scotland
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Scottish Arctic Network Hosts Important University of the Arctic Board Meeting in Orkney
Scottish Arctic Network (ScAN) members The University of the Highlands and Islands, Robert Gordon University (RGU) and Heriot-Watt University co-hosted a board meeting of the University of the Arctic (UArctic) between 28th April and 30th April 2025 in Orkney. UArctic is a network comprising universities, colleges, research institutes, and other…
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Analysing Viking Age Textile Production in Northern Britain
Amanda Robinson, an MRes student at the University of the Highlands and Islands Institute for Northern Studies, has recently begun her studies in Viking and Early Medieval Studies at UHI Perth. Her research, entitled ‘Spinning Threads: An Analysis of Viking Age Spindle Whorls in the Northern British Isles, ’ will…
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New Project and Call For Papers. Mapping Identities: Visual Depictions of Scotland
The University of the Highlands and Islands Institute for Northern Studies, together with our collaborative partners from the National Library of Scotland and Landscape Research Group, are delighted to announce the launch of Mapping Identities: Visual Depictions of Scotland. This project, funded through the generous support of an RSE Research…
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INS Lecturers in Prague to Finalise HerInDep Conference
The Heritage in Depopulated European Areas (HerInDep) project examines how the decline in population in peripheral regions of Europe is leading to the loss of cultural heritage, as well as the abandonment and degradation of buildings and landscapes. It also investigates the impact this decline has on the people living…
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VEMS: Viking and Early Medieval Studies at INS Launch Event
Building on the ongoing research by staff and students at the University of the Highlands and Islands Institute for Northern Studies, Viking and Early Medieval Studies (VEMS) will be launched with an event at the Brahan Lecture Theatre, UHI Perth. The series of seminars will take place on Monday, December…
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A Pirates Life – The John Gow Heritage Trail
In the past few years, the UHI Institute for Northern Studies has developed a portfolio of commercial clients who have benefitted from the world-leading research conducted at our Perth, Orkney, and Shetland campuses. One of the deeply rooted Orcadian businesses that has reached out to us is J. Gow Distillery.…
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Research on the Poet Robert Burns is set to be Published in Paperback.
Institute for Northern Studies lecturer Paul Malgrati’s research on the poet Robert Burns and his influence on Scottish cultural politics will be published in paperback in December 2024. Previously successful in hardback, this book explores Robert Burns’s political legacy in modern Scotland and how successive political parties have used his…
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Research Sheds New Light on Viking Sea Communications in 12th Century North West Scotland
A team of archaeologists from the University of the Highlands and Islands Institute for Northern Studies are investigating the possibility Vikings used shortcuts over land to help them move warships and smaller boats around Scotland’s west coast. The research forms part of the ongoing Norse and the Sea project, which,…
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Orkney’s Forgotten War: The Royalist Occupation, 1649-1650
In 1976, George Mackay Brown wrote one of his lesser-known short stories, ‘Soldier From The Wars Returning’. The tale follows the journey of an Orcadian soldier who had enlisted in the marquis of Montrose’s Royalist army in 1649. The unnamed soldier awakes in the aftermath of the fateful Battle of…
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Ireland, Orkney and Shetland, and kingship in the reign of James V’: Dr Alison Cathcart
As part of the Institute for Northern Studies Autumn – Winter Seminar Series Dr Alison Cathcart of the University of Stirling presents ‘They ‘offered to give what they do not even hope to gain’: Ireland, Orkney and Shetland, and kingship in the reign of James V.’ Recorded on 25 November…