Invited to Norway to present research at the 20th Viking Congress
Professor Ingrid Mainland, Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon and Dr Siobhan Cooke-Miller were three of the 12 Scottish delegates invited to attend the recent Viking Congress.
Sigurd Towrie
Congratulations Jenny – another PhD student passes viva examination
Jenny Murray has passed her PhD viva examination with corrections.
Report from the field – notes on a PhD research trip to Orkney
PhD student Sophie Durbin looks back on her summer research trip to Orkney.
TRANSECTS – marine energy transitions in the Humber
This autumn, the TRANSECTS project is inviting people in Hull and the wider Humber community to share memories and experiences of living alongside the region’s changing marine energy industries.
Archaeology Festival: An update on the 2026 Skaill farm excavations
Dan Lee, one of the project directors, is giving a talk in Kirkwall tonight on the 2026 season of excavation at Skaill farm, Rousay.
Archaeology Festival: Exploring the story of wind energy in Orkney
On a suitably blustery day, ORCA’s Dan Lee was joined by Neil Kermode (Orkney Renewable Energy Forum) on walk/talk on Orkney wind energy history in the West Mainland this afternoon.
Archaeology Festival: Neolithic deer, energy walk and The Cairns
Three institute events – a talk on red deer, The Cairns and exploring the history of wind power in Orkney.
Archaeology Festival: Talking Childe and Skara Brae with Colin Richards
Professor Colin Richards will deliver the David Drever Memorial Lecture at the 2026 Orkney Archaeology Festival tomorrow evening, Thursday, September 10.
Archaeology Festival: Orkney’s submerged landscapes
Associate Professor Scott Timpany is leading a walk to the Bay of Ireland, Stenness, on Thursday afternoon, September 10, as part of the Orkney Archaeology Festival.
Sarah Jane joins Tom for a blether about ‘Saints, sandstone and selkie songs’
Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon features in Tom Muir’s latest podcast, where they talk about the stories, songs, beliefs and archaeological remains that help us understand how Orkney became the place it is today.
Archaeology Festival: Emerging research at the institute
Some of our PhD students will give presentations on their ongoing research at an event at UHI Orkney on Thursday, September 10, as part of the second OAS Orkney Archaeology Festival.
Art and architecture at the Ness of Brodgar – a talk by Associate Professor Antonia Thomas
The recording of Associate Professor Antonia Thomas’ recent Orkney Archaeology Society talk.
A day among the monuments for new archaeology students
To mark the start of the academic year, 27 of our new undergraduate and postgraduate students – from all over the globe – experienced all the weather Orkney could throw at them today on a field trip to the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site.
ORCA involved in discovery of possible Viking-era church on Swona
Archaeologists from the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA) have helped uncover what could be a 1,000-year-old Viking church on the island of Swona.
Pondering the future of Orcadian dialect at science festival event
Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon teams up with Dr Tom Rendall to ponder the future of Orcadian dialect in an Orkney Science Festival event in Kirkwall this afternoon, Thursday, September 3.
Focus on traditional Orkney food on opening day of 2026 science festival
The 2026 Orkney International Science Festival gets under way tomorrow, with an event in UHI Orkney looking at traditional food in the county.
Orkney Energy Trail website now live
A new website looking at Orkney’s role in changing energy supplies over the centuries has been launched.
Raggie talks Norn in latest Robwords language podcast
Dr Ragnhild Ljosland features in the latest Robwords podcast, looking at ‘What happened to Britain’s Viking language?’
Dig into the Ness as part of 2026 Orkney Science Festival
‘Ness Day’ is just one of many events on the horizon as part of the Orkney Science Festival and Orkney Archaeology Festival.
Ness plant remains project benefits from national RICHeS funding programme
A project to assess carbonised plant remains from the Ness of Brodgar is one of 43 to receive funding through the first Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science (RICHeS) Access Fund.