Category: Students
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Power and Legacy: Redefining Women’s Roles and Leadership in Viking Society
Shanna Bryman, a PhD candidate at the University of the Highlands and Islands Institute for Northern Studies, is redefining our understanding of women’s roles in Viking society. Her ground-breaking research, spanning the 8th to 11th centuries, unveils a society that accepted women into pivotal roles in leadership, politics, and land…
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UHI Launches New Early Modern European Studies MLitt
The University of the Highlands and Islands Institute for Northern Studies, in collaboration with the UHI Centre for History, UHI Archaeology Institute, UHI Highland Theological College and UHI Literature team, is pleased to announce the launch of our new MLitt programme in September 2025 – Early Modern European Studies (EMES).…
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UHI Institute for Northern Studies Celebrates a Record Number of Students Starting in January
The UHI Institute for Northern Studies is excited to welcome a record number of students for the upcoming semester, which begins at the end of January. Students from around the world, and closer to home in Scotland and England, are embracing the blended learning approach offered by the University of…
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Institute for Northern Studies Summer Course 2025
The Birth of Scotland: Celtic & Viking Legacies in the Forging of a New Kingdom Following 2024’s successful summer course, the Institute for Northern Studies Viking and Early Medieval Studies (VEMS) is delighted to announce our summer course for 2025: The Birth of Scotland. The course is residential and will…
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Community Seminar Series Begins Afresh for 2024
In collaboration with Culture Perth and Kinross, the Institute for Northern Studies has created a programme of public lectures and seminars for 2024-25 that are open to the community in the Perth area. The exciting programme has proved to be very popular. It brings seminars and talks to members of…
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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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PhDing, Ballading and January Living in the Faroe Islands: Sjúrðar kvæði deluxe edition
An update from Institute for Northern Studies PhD student Anthony Olsson. At the beginning of my PhD in Faroese poetry and literature, I joked to a friend ‘you’ll find me somewhere windy and expensive in the North Atlantic’. True to form, off I flew to Tórshavn at the beginning of…
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‘Views in Orkney and on the North Eastern Coast of Scotland’ by Countess Duchess of Sutherland (Elizabeth Leveson-Gower, 1765-1839)
Many people will be familiar with the significant part Countess Duchess of Sutherland, the Marchioness of Stafford, had to play in the Highland Clearances. It is not so widely known that she was a visual artist of some skill.
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Can we make tourists love the intangible?
A look at the state of Orkney’s tourism market
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