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.
Category: 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.
Institute director shares knowledge at sustainable development conference
Professor Jane Downes was among the experts participating in the NORA – UNESCO Network Conference in Edinburgh on Friday.
Project takes to the fields in search of early prehistoric activity in Stronsay
We’ve been out in Stronsay for a two-day fieldwalking exercise looking for evidence of the island’s early prehistory.
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.
Institute lecturer on the shortlist for prestigious literary prize
Dr Antonia Thomas has been shortlisted for the Profile Books and Alexander Aitken Ideas Prize for the best debut trade non-fiction proposal from an academic.
Welcome additions to the institute’s skeletal reference collection
The new year has seen some major additions to the UHI Archaeology Institute’s skeletal reference collection.
PhD student celebrates viva success
Congratulations to UHI Archaeology Institute student Sandra Henry, who has passed her PhD viva examination.
LIFTE pottery research among 2023’s ‘most amazing’ Scottish discoveries
Research carried out by the LIFTE research project has been named one of Scotland’s five “most amazing archaeological discoveries of 2023”.
Re-excavating the stone circle – a look back at the 2008 Ring of Brodgar dig
After the original was lost, we’ve collected all the material from the 2008 Ring of Brodgar excavation dig diary, expanded on it, and made it available online again.
Talking St Magnus on ‘Scotland’s Sacred Islands’ TV programme
Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon is one of the guests on the next episode of the television programme Scotland’s Sacred Islands with Ben Fogle.
‘Gaan Nort’ – capturing the oral history of Orkney’s North Isles
Our new website section outlining a project to capture the oral history of Orkney’s North Isles is now available.
‘Orkney’s enigmatic seal-ationship’ – research showcase online
The results of her Camellia Biswas’ research project – Orkney’s Enigmatic Seal-ationship: Mapping Dynamics of Eco-Cultural Evolution Of Human-Seal Relations in the Orkney Islands – are now available online.
Sarah Jane heading to Bergen for medieval conference and lecture
UHI Archaeology Institute lecturer Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon is in Norway this week after being invited to attend a workshop hosted by the University of Bergen research group Medieval History – religion and everyday life.
LIFTE project on the programme at Ruralia conference in Norway
The ongoing LIFTE research project was one of the topics discussed at the Ruralia conference in Norway this week.
South Pacific cultural heritage survey – new reports now available
Earlier this year, Professors Jane Downes and Colin Richards were back in the Cook Islands and Niue as part of an ongoing project to document endangered cultural heritage sites.
First phase of Energy Heritage Strategy project complete with report available to download
The first phase of a project to develop an Energy Heritage Strategy for Orkney has been completed, with the report now available to download.
Colonialism and the European Mesolithic – debate papers available online
The final comments in an invited debate over colonial legacies within European Prehistory have now been published, open access, by the Norwegian Archaeological Review.