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SEAGULLS AND STANDING STONES, BISHOPS AND BUTTER, BAGPIPES AND BULLETS: THE NORSE IN CAITHNESS MEMORY
This blog post was written by UHI Institute for Northern Studies MLitt Viking Studies student, Stephen Barnaby. I grew up in Thurso, surrounded by streets named after luminaries from the days of the northern Norse jarldoms: Sigurd, Thorfinn, Sweyn, Harold, Magnus. I’d like to claim these dated from the eleventh…
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Heritage in Depopulated Europe Conference Live Streaming
Dr Andrew Lind, Dr Andrew Jennings, Professor Mairéad Nic Craith and Professor Ullrich Kockel of the UHI Institute for Northern Studies together with PhD Candidate Sarah Squire, will be attending the Heritage in Depopulated European Areas (HerInDep) Conference held in Prague between 27th August and 29th August 2025. The project…
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Explorathon 2025 is coming your way
Get ready for an exciting adventure this September as Explorathon 2025 is coming our way! The University of the Highlands and Islands is one of the five universities delivering the annual festival – along with the universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Strathclyde and Glasgow – that celebrates the diversity of research…
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INS PhD Student Published in North Ronaldsay Booklet
University of the Highlands and Islands Institute for Northern Studies PhD researcher Niamh Mackenzie discusses how the continued maintenance of the unique North Ronaldsay drystane dyke can be seen as intangible cultural heritage in the booklet, ‘Making Sense of the North Ronaldsay Sheep Dyke’. The booklet is edited and written…
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INS Research Student Discusses Innovative Approach to Assessment at Conference
University of the Highlands and Islands Institute for Northern Studies PhD researcher Sarah Squire participated in a panel at the University of Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference on 17 June. The annual University of Edinburgh Learning and Teaching Conference brought together staff and students to celebrate and share effective practices…
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Second Mapping Identities Workshop Hailed a Success
On Friday 6 June, UHI Orkney welcomed participants in the second Mapping Identities: Visual Depictions of Scotland workshop on Geography and Cosmology. Like the first workshop, the event was a big success, with academics from across Europe presenting on their research. The papers and resulting discussion provided a bounty of…
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UHI Institute for Northern Studies Well Represented at SIEF Congress
The University of the Highlands and Islands Institute for Northern Studies was well-represented at the June 2025 congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), hosted this year by the Elphinstone Institute at the University of Aberdeen, with the theme of ‘unwriting’. Ullrich Kockel, (UHI INS) Professor of…
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REMRA Conference was a Resounding Success
Between 11-13 June 2025, University of the Highlands and Islands Renaissance and Early Modern Research Alliance (REMRA) hosted its first online conference! Joined by over 80 participants, featuring speakers from across Europe, the conference was a huge success. Structured around REMRA’s key research areas – the North Atlantic and Baltic…
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New Book to be Published Shortly – Royalty and Ritual: Landscapes of Power in Early Medieval Scotland and Europe
The ‘Places of Royal Power and Ritual in Early Medieval Scotland and Europe’ project is an interdisciplinary research programme that unites experts from history, archaeology, culture, and heritage disciplines. The project investigates the role of ritual, particularly in relation to the making of kings, in early medieval Scotland. Co-project leads,…
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New Book Launched in the UHI Institute for Northern Studies Hosted North Atlantic World Series
The UHI Institute for Northern Studies is pleased to announce the launch of another book in The North Atlantic World Series. ‘Small Churches and Religious Landscapes in the North Atlantic c900-1300’ is now on sale from the publisher Brepols. The North Atlantic World series of publications is hosted by the…
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