Oxford or Cambridge? That was the decision facing UHI archaeology graduate Francesca Meneghetti this year after being offered a place at both esteemed universities.
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.
This summer, students from the UHI Archaeology Institute were instrumental in a major, and eye-opening, discovery at the Ness of Brodgar.
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!
UHI Archaeology Institute students arrived at the Ness of Brodgar today to participate in the 2024 field school.
Some of our students were on a fieldtrip earlier this week, visiting archaeological sites around Perthshire.
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.
Eighteen-year-old Mila hails from Oslo, Norway, and has made her way across the North Sea to study a BSc (Hons) Archaeological Science with us.
Our student fieldtrips continued last week with a visit to view archaeological and heritage sites in Rousay.
Learning more about the history and archaeology of Kirkwall on the last student fieldtrip of 2023.
Our first fieldtrip of the new semester took place yesterday, with some of our new undergraduate students joined by existing postgrads for an introduction to Orkney’s archaeology.
The third, and final, day of our fieldtrip saw us depart Helmsdale early in the morning and head south.
Day two of the 2023 Student Easter fieldtrip.
Students from the UHI Archaeology Institute made their way to Helmsdale, Sutherland, yesterday for this year’s Easter Fieldtrip.
UHI Archaeology Institute BSc graduate Sue Dyke has won a prestigious award for her undergraduate dissertation.
Dr Ben Elliott will be in London on Saturday, representing the UHI Archaeology Institute at the annual University Archaeology Day.
Archaeology student Francesca Meneghetti has been named Orkney College UHI’s 2022 Student of the Year.
Our BSc (Hons) in archaeology and environmental studies is one of a trio of courses that have placed the UHI first in Scotland in the “Earth and Marine Sciences” category of The Guardian newspaper’s 2023 University Guide.
