Blue skies and a brisk breeze for students’ hilltop augering session
Conditions were perfect for last week’s practical augering/core sampling session on the Hill of Lyradale, Firth, Orkney.
Category: Postgraduate
Fieldtrip focuses on the heritage and archaeology of Rousay
Our student fieldtrips continued last week with a visit to view archaeological and heritage sites in Rousay.
Postgraduate students out west for fieldwalking exercise
Postgraduate students were back out fieldwalking in Orkney’s West Mainland last week, this time focusing on a newly ploughed field at the north-western end of the Loch of Stenness.
Link: Reconstructing the landscape of Brodgar’s prehistoric communities
UHI Archaeology Institute MRes student Sue Dyke updates us on her research project to reconstruct the landscape around the Ness of Brodgar using pollen analysis.
PhD student celebrates viva success
Congratulations to UHI Archaeology Institute student Sandra Henry, who has passed her PhD viva examination.
Heading east and west for first student fieldtrip of the new semester
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.
Survey module takes students to a sunny Howe of Hoxa
A group of postgraduate students have been in South Ronaldsay this week carrying out survey work around the Howe of Hoxa.
Easter fieldtrip 2023 – day three
The third, and final, day of our fieldtrip saw us depart Helmsdale early in the morning and head south.
Easter fieldtrip 2023 – day two
Day two of the 2023 Student Easter fieldtrip.
Students’ Easter fieldtrip under way in Helmsdale
Students from the UHI Archaeology Institute made their way to Helmsdale, Sutherland, yesterday for this year’s Easter Fieldtrip.
Fieldwalking in the shadow of Maeshowe…
Postgraduate students were out fieldwalking in Orkney’s West Mainland last week – their focus a newly ploughed field to the north-east of Maeshowe.
Link: Investigating the function and significance of multi-hollowed cobbles in the Orcadian Neolithic
In a new blog post for the Ness of Brodgar, UHI Archaeology Institute MRes student Gary Lloyd introduces his new research project looking into multi-hollowed cobbles in the Orcadian Neolithic.
PhD thesis earns prize for UHI Archaeology Institute researcher
Dr Magdalena Blanz has been awarded the BAG-Förderpreis 2021 by the Austrian Society for Bioarchaeology (BAG) for her PhD dissertation.
‘Burning issues’ – funded MRes studentship available looking at Ness of Brodgar burnt animal bone
The UHI Archaeology Institute has a funded Masters by Research (MRes) studentship available, looking at the burnt bone assemblages from the Ness of Brodgar Neolithic complex.
Students head west for a taste of the Orcadian Neolithic
A selection of photographs from this morning’s student field trip led by Professor Jane Downes, Dr Ben Elliott, Dr Scott Timpany and Dr James Moore.
Graduate’s special prizegiving at Bergen conference
Professor Ingrid Mainland is pictured presenting Adam Markham with this year’s prize for best performance in postgraduate archaeology.
Students extremely satisfied with postgraduate archaeology courses
For the second year running our MA in Contemporary Art and Archaeology has a 100 per cent student satisfaction rating, while our MLitt in Archaeological Studies secured a 94 per cent satisfaction rate.
PhD success for another Archaeology Institute student
UHI Archaeology Institute PhD student Darroch Bratt has passed his viva with flying colours.