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Category: Postgraduate

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Archaeobotany Courses Postgraduate Zooarchaeology

New environmental archaeology masters degree starting in 2026

A new environmental archaeology masters degree is coming to the UHI Archaeology Institute in 2025.

By Sigurd TowrieThursday, January 23, 2025 (9:10am)Monday, March 10, 2025 (12:59pm)
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Structure Five at the Ness of Brodgar. (📷 Tom O'Brien)
Neolithic Postgraduate Research Student Stories

PhD student’s presentation highly commended at TAG 2024 meeting

A paper delivered by UHI Archaeology Institute PhD candidate Anna Estaroth has been highly commended in the 2024 Don Henson Award.

By Sigurd TowrieMonday, December 16, 2024 (1:30pm)Tuesday, February 25, 2025 (2:49pm)
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Courses Postgraduate

Passionate about the past? Take your interest to a new level with our MLitt Archaeological Studies course

Our MLitt in Archaeological Studies is accepting students to start in January 2025.

By Sigurd TowrieFriday, December 6, 2024 (1:30pm)Friday, December 6, 2024 (1:43pm)
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Postgraduate Research

Applications invited for archaeology research degrees

The UHI Archaeology Institute is inviting applications for MRes and PhD research degrees.

By Sigurd TowrieTuesday, October 8, 2024 (11:56am)Tuesday, October 8, 2024 (11:57am)
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Mesolithic Postgraduate Publications Research Student Stories

MLitt graduate’s peer-reviewed paper published in experimental archaeology journal

A peer-reviewed paper by Andrew Fitches, a graduate of our MLitt in Archaeological Studies programme, and Dr Ben Elliot has been published in the EXARC Journal.

By Sigurd TowrieWednesday, September 4, 2024 (9:35am)Thursday, September 5, 2024 (9:58am)
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Sieving the spoil. (📷 Tom O'Brien)
Excavation Neolithic Postgraduate Student Stories Undergraduate

The dig of a lifetime – UHI students help excavate rediscovered Neolithic chambered cairn

A group of UHI Archaeology Institute students are participating in the excavation of a lifetime in Orkney’s East Mainland – investigating a Neolithic chambered cairn in the parish of Holm.

By Sigurd TowrieThursday, August 29, 2024 (12:32pm)Thursday, August 29, 2024 (2:02pm)
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Excavation Neolithic Ness of Brodgar Postgraduate Student Stories Undergraduate

Students’ field school trench reveals another huge wall section at the Ness of Brodgar

This summer, students from the UHI Archaeology Institute were instrumental in a major, and eye-opening, discovery at the Ness of Brodgar.

By Sigurd TowrieWednesday, August 28, 2024 (12:30pm)Friday, August 30, 2024 (11:50am)
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Picture: Antonia Thomas
Art & Archaeology Postgraduate

Art and archaeology course secures 100 per cent student satisfaction rating for fourth year running

For the fourth year in a row our MA in Contemporary Art and Archaeology secured a 100 per cent satisfaction rating in the Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey, while our MLitt in Archaeological Studies scored 93 per cent.

By Sigurd TowrieSunday, August 11, 2024 (3:49pm)Sunday, August 11, 2024 (3:49pm)
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Deturfing Trench Z. (📷 Jo Bourne)
Excavation Postgraduate Undergraduate

What a difference a week makes – Ness of Brodgar Trench Z under excavation by UHI students

The first week of the 2024 UHI Archaeology Institute fieldschool at the Ness of Brodgar drew to a close on Friday. And what a difference a week makes!

By Sigurd TowrieSunday, July 14, 2024 (9:00pm)Saturday, July 13, 2024 (12:35pm)
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(📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Ness of Brodgar Postgraduate Undergraduate

Student field school begins at the Ness of Brodgar

UHI Archaeology Institute students arrived at the Ness of Brodgar today to participate in the 2024 field school.

By Sigurd TowrieMonday, July 8, 2024 (8:32pm)Wednesday, August 28, 2024 (1:43pm)
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MacBeth's Stone. (📷 Dan Lee)
Postgraduate Undergraduate

Perthshire archaeological sites on the itinerary for latest student fieldtrip

Some of our students were on a fieldtrip earlier this week, visiting archaeological sites around Perthshire.

By Sigurd TowrieFriday, June 14, 2024 (9:45am)Friday, June 14, 2024 (9:54am)
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Mesolithic Postgraduate Research Student Stories

Masters research into Mesolithic tools leads to a PhD project for Lucille

Mesolithic stone tools are the subject of a new PhD research project being undertaken by UHI Archaeology Institute graduate Lucille Rodrigues.

By Sigurd TowrieTuesday, June 11, 2024 (8:00am)Friday, June 7, 2024 (10:48am)
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Kirbuster curator Neil Leask explains the history of the farm. (📷 Sigurd Towrie)
Archaeobotany Postgraduate Student Stories Undergraduate Zooarchaeology

Students gather in Orkney for two weeks of practical sessions

The UHI Archaeology Institute has been buzzing these past two weeks with students from across the network in Orkney for their two-week environmental archaeology practical module.

By Sigurd TowrieWednesday, May 22, 2024 (11:33am)Wednesday, May 22, 2024 (1:54pm)
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Picture: Tom O'Brien
Excavation Postgraduate Student Stories

Results of test-pit exercise hint that Firth promontory may be a crannog

Postgraduate students were back in Firth, Orkney, recently to carry out test-pitting on a promontory at the northern end of the Wasdale loch.

By Sigurd TowrieMonday, May 20, 2024 (8:15am)Monday, May 20, 2024 (9:48pm)
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Examining an exposed face at Buckquoy. (📷 Dan Lee)
Postgraduate Student Stories

Monitoring the impact of erosion during coastal survey practical session

Coastal survey was the topic of a recent postgraduate practical session, with students heading to three eroding sites in Orkney’s West Mainland.

By Sigurd TowrieWednesday, May 15, 2024 (7:55am)Wednesday, May 15, 2024 (9:31am)
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Gary Lloyd at the Ness of Brodgar
Neolithic Postgraduate Research Student Stories

Gary secures PhD scholarship to continue his research into stone tools

After completing a BA and two Masters degrees with us, Gary Lloyd has won a prestigious PhD scholarship to investigate Neolithic stone tools from Orkney.

By Sigurd TowrieMonday, May 13, 2024 (7:55am)Monday, May 13, 2024 (11:35am)
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Postgraduate Research

Top spot for Holly’s research poster

PhD student Holly Young took the award for best research poster at the recent UHI Postgraduate Research Student Conference.

By Sigurd TowrieThursday, May 2, 2024 (11:44am)Thursday, May 2, 2024 (2:34pm)
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Climate Change Postgraduate

Funded PhD studentship looking historic landscapes and climate change adaptation

Newcastle University is inviting applications for a four-year PhD studentship looking at historic landscape character and climate change adaptation

By Sigurd TowrieMonday, April 29, 2024 (12:30pm)Monday, April 29, 2024 (12:34pm)
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Chris and Ross carrying out a resistivity survey. (📷 Tom O'Brien)
Postgraduate Student Stories

Students back at the Howe of Hoxa for practical survey module

A group of postgraduate students were at the Howe of Hoxa, South Ronaldsay, last week as part of their archaeological and geophysical survey module.

By Sigurd TowrieTuesday, April 23, 2024 (8:05am)Tuesday, April 23, 2024 (8:15am)
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(📷 Rebecca Rennell)
Postgraduate Research

Fully funded PhD opportunity looking at the Hebridean Taighean Tughaidh

We’re delighted to announce a fully funded PhD opportunity focusing on the “blackhouses” – Taighean Tughaidh – of the Western Isles.

By Sigurd TowrieFriday, April 19, 2024 (12:30pm)Monday, April 22, 2024 (1:14pm)
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