
Students try their hand at walkover surveys during Wasdale walkabout
The parish of Firth, in Orkney’s West Mainland, was the destination for Friday’s student fieldtrip looking at the finer details of walkover surveys.
The parish of Firth, in Orkney’s West Mainland, was the destination for Friday’s student fieldtrip looking at the finer details of walkover surveys.
A group of postgraduate students have been in South Ronaldsay this week carrying out survey work around the Howe of Hoxa.
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.
Postgraduate students were out fieldwalking in Orkney’s West Mainland last week – their focus a newly ploughed field to the north-east of Maeshow
Dr Magdalena Blanz has been awarded the BAG-Förderpreis 2021 by the Austrian Society for Bioarchaeology (BAG) for her PhD dissertation.
Staff and students from the UHI Archaeology Institute have been in Elgin this week for the 2023 UHI Research Conference.
Archaeology student Francesca Meneghetti has been named Orkney College UHI’s 2022 Student of the Year.
Three archaeology students were recognised at the 2021 Orkney College special awards ceremony this week.
UHI Archaeology Institute undergraduate Sara Marinoni was successful in securing a Carnegie Vacation Scholarship this year and her final presentation is now available online.
Time for another “student story” – this time from Fredrik Fongen, who relocated to Orkney, from Norway, to study at the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute. Here he explains why…
After graduating from the University of the Highlands and Islands with a BA (Hons) in archaeology in 2016, Holly Young returned to the UHI Archaeology Institute in 2019 to undertake a Masters…
Students have given their experience with the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute a definite thumbs-up.
The 2020 National Student survey shows that overall satisfaction for undergraduate archaeology students was 92.3 per cent. The Scottish average was 85 per cent.
Ailsa Westgarth is a project manager at a commercial archaeology company with offices in Scotland and England. She is currently undertaking an MLitt in archaeological studies, fitting her course work around her day job.
Perth-based Gerry Gillies on his time as a mature student with the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute.
Mairead, an archaeology student with the University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute, tells us what drew her to archaeology and her experiences studying with the UHI.
UHI Archaeology Institute student Magdalena Blanz has passed her PhD viva examination.
Gary Lloyd, an archaeology student based at Orkney College UHI, has been named overall winner of the University of the Highlands and Islands Higher Education Student of the Year award.
University of the Highlands and Islands Archaeology Institute postgraduate student Hannah Genders Boyd updates us on her continuing MRes research into the Bronze and Iron Age landscapes of Gairloch on the west coast of Scotland.