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.
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.
PhD student Holly Young took the award for best research poster at the recent UHI Postgraduate Research Student Conference.
Professor Jane Downes was among the experts participating in the NORA – UNESCO Network Conference in Edinburgh on Friday.
We’ve been out in Stronsay for a two-day fieldwalking exercise looking for evidence of the island’s early prehistory.
Weāre delighted to announce a fully funded PhD opportunity focusing on the āblackhousesā – Taighean Tughaidh – of the Western Isles.
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.
The new year has seen some major additions to the UHI Archaeology Instituteās skeletal reference collection.
Congratulations to UHI Archaeology Institute student Sandra Henry, who has passed her PhD viva examination.
Research carried out by the LIFTE research project has been named one of Scotlandās five “most amazing archaeological discoveries of 2023”.
After the original was lost, weāve collected all the material from the 2008 Ring of Brodgar excavation dig diary, expanded on it, and made it available online again.
Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon is one of the guests on the next episode of the television programme Scotland’s Sacred Islands with Ben Fogle.
Our new website section outlining a project to capture the oral history of Orkneyās North Isles is now available.
The results of her Camellia Biswas’ research project – Orkneyās Enigmatic Seal-ationship: Mapping Dynamics of Eco-Cultural Evolution Of Human-Seal Relations in the Orkney Islands – are now available online.
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 ā religion and everyday life.
The ongoing LIFTE research project was one of the topics discussed at the Ruralia conference in Norway this week.
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.
The first phase of a project toĀ develop an Energy Heritage Strategy for Orkney has been completed, with the report now available to download.
The final comments in an invited debate over colonial legacies within European Prehistory have now been published, open access, by the Norwegian Archaeological Review.