A chronological list of postgraduate dissertation topics at the UHI Archaeology Institute.
2012/13
- Fraser McKillop: A Victorian Island – Household occupancy and population distribution Berneray 1961 to 1901.
2013/14
- Andrew Watson: A visual hierarchy study of the Cotswold-Severn long barrows of Somerset with experiential landscape analysis.
- Erika Sutherland: Characterising the variation in Bronze Age burials from Central and East Scotland.
- Finlay MacLennan: A Desert Place in the Sea – An assessment of Early Christianity in Lewis between 8th and 11th centuries.
- Lorraine Dunn: Interpreting Pictish Age burials – Ritual and Materiality in Early Medieval Scotland.
- Michael Fraser: Balnuaran Clava Cairns as a Case Study – Phenomenological Experiences through Social Media.
2014/15
- Catriona Graham: Assessment of Neolithic and Medieval grain and associated weed seeds from Station Brae, Dreghorn, North Ayrshire.
- Joanne Stavert: Violence/conflict in Prehistoric Britain.
- Lily Hawker-Yates: Exploring connections between metalworking sites and the deposition of human remains in Iron Age Orkney.
- Robin Lingard: World Heritage Sites – their implications for the interests of archaeology.
2015/16
- Amanda Woods: How did the distribution of settlements change between the Mesolithic and the end of the Iron Age? Were there changes in land use between the periods? Is it possible to see settlement continuity in the prehistoric landscape of northwestern Uist?
- Ben Price: Virtual Coppersmiths – To what extent our understanding of non-ferrous metalworking can be enhanced by utilising three dimensional scanning technology?
- David MacInnes: Social Organisation in the Orcadian Neolithic?
- Judith Crow: How does the pictorial iconography on historical era funerary monuments inform us about social development in Wick, Caithness?
2016/17
- Allan Stroud: The archaeology of the counter-reformation in the Western Isles.
- Andrew Prentice: A spatial and temporal analysis of ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy at The Cairns, South Ronaldsay.
- Darroch Bratt: Pairc Trust Project – A plan to enable the community to benefit from the historic environment of Pairc, South Loch, Isle of Lewis.
- David Bain: The Hogback Stones of the Early Medieval Kingdom of Strathclyde. A landscape-based regional study of the hogback stones at Luss, Govan, Dalserf and St Blaneâs, Isle of Bute.
- Gilles Favier: The maritime landscape of Burness, Sanday during the Viking and Late Norse periods.
- Jenna Ward: Christianity in Pre-Norse Orkney. Looking for Irish influences in Pictish material culture.
- Karen Kennedy: Feasting in Iron Age Scotland.
- Karl-James Langford: A comparison of the use of space within two near contemporary, but widely separated settlements. The Ditches Roman villa complex at Bagendon, Gloucestershire and Scatness Broch, Shetland.
- Lorna Ovington: Ponies of the Picts – Examining the depictions of horse on the Pictish symbol stones in Scotland.
2017/18
- Amber Rivers: Textile Production at The Cairns – Weaving the Social Fabric of North Atlantic Scotland.
- Catherine Roden: Islet dwelling in the Central Highlands – A medieval perspective.
- Derek Watson: The Role of Canids in Neolithic Orkney.
- Katie O’Connell: Double Houses in the 3rd millenium BC in Orkney and Shetland.
- Katie Pennycock: Discussion of the Archaeology of burial practices in the Northern and Western Isles of Scotland during the transition phase between the Late Neolithic Period and the Early Bronze Age.
- Hayley Brown: Looking at the Heart of Neolithic Orkney, discuss the function, architecture and monumentality and relation of the sites to each other during the late Neolithic period.
2018/19
- Caitlin Davies: Mousland, Orkney: A landscape narrative.
- Eilidh Paterson: Settlement changes on Atholl Estates during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
- Emily Terrell: Developing a methodology for use-wear analysis of denticulated shell tools.
- Keith Harvey: A preliminary methodological approach to prehistoric soundscapes.
- Alanis Buhat: A palaeoentomological approach to the study of the Northern Isles and Western Isles of Scotland.
- Lynn Powell: Contested Space – an archaeological approach to material culture in Northern Ireland in the Troubles and beyond
- Stephen Jackson: Polishing pieces of places: a journey in the search for stone axe finishing sites in the Borrowdale Valley, Cumbria.
- Kathanne Greene: How, if at all, feminist archaeology has been used in the analyses of evidence of interpersonal violence in the Neolithic of Europe, and its corresponding question, if feminist methodologies have not been used, how might they be used to improve on the current research?
- Sigurd Towrie: Was there disruption? How real are the perceived settlement changes in Orcadian society in the third millenium BC?
- Alice Martin: An exploration of the interpretative nature of art and archaeology within museums.
- Lynn Brown: Distribution of intertidal peats on the west coast of Scotland and the Western Isles.
- Kris Chambers: Battle of Cruden Bay 1012 – the challenges associated with Viking Age battlefield archaeology sites.
- Wanda Machin: “All roads lead to Whithorn”. Debunking the myth – A multi-disciplinary methodological framework for studying a landscape of pilgrimage across the southern Rhins of Galloway in south west Scotland.
2019/20
- Angus Morrison: Analysis of the charred plant remains from the post-broch period at The Cairns.
- Colleen Turner: As Dunbartonshire was a part of the GĂ idhealtachd, did the Gaelic origins impact the beliefs in witchcraft during the early modern period?
- Hannah Collins: What variation can be seen in burial practice throughout Orkney during the later medieval period (AD 1000 – 1500)?
- Holly Young: What can the marine shell remains tell us about diet, resource exploitation, function and ritual at The Cairns during the Iron Age?
- Johnnie Gallacher: Metallurgy in Britain and Ireland, c.2500-2000 BC: Catch-up and overtake – from inception to innovation.
- Mary Brailsford: Iron Age artefacts, body ornamentation and identity using The Cairns as a case study.
- Rachel Nicholson: Rock art and the landscape in Neolithic Orkney.
2020/21
- Shona Dow: Climate change impacts on Scotlandâs heritage – a risk-assessment approach to manage buried heritage.
- Cameron Taylor: Heritage Under Threat: The Links of Noltland, Westray.
- Scott Gibson: How have different groups, i.e. local population, the Christian church, and learned society esp. antiquaries and early archaeologists, understood stone monuments and how have the dominant discourses changed from 1600 to 1900?
- Lisa Robertson: An archaeological study of the Cup and Ring Marks at Druim Mor, Swordale in relation to Cup and Ring mark modern theories.
- Stephen Jennings: The Iron Age in the Neolithic Axe Factory, North Roe, Shetland.
- Adam Markham: How did people relate to and engage with northern gannets (Morus bassanus) in Orkney and the Western Isles during the Viking and Norse periods?
- Deborah Russell: What effect did the movement of people from Continental Europe into the British Isles contribute to the end of the Neolithic in the Scottish Islands.
- Douglas Redwood: The Third Sight – Challenges and Opportunities in AR & VR in Scottish Highland Archaeology.
- Anne Campbell: Animals as architecture in later prehistoric domestic contexts in Atlantic Scotland.
- Collin Williams: Can the historic landscape in the district of Westside, Rousay, be mapped by way of a remote DBA, and if so, how can this be achieved to provide a holistic understanding of the area through time?
- Gary Lloyd: Can function and significance of the stone spatulate tools from the Ness of Brodgar be determined?
- Ian McHardy: Promontory sites in Atlantic Britain.
- Kath Page: Can zooarchaeological analysis of faunal remains evidence the significance of red deer during the Orcadian Neolithic?
- Lucy Morgan: The rise and fall of the 19th century herring fisheries in Caithness.
- Lucy Morris: The Cata Sand whale assemblage – a study of the exploitation of cetaceans in the Northern Isles.
- Ruth Sime: Use of steatite and ceramic cooking vessels in the Northern and Western Isles â Viking identity or efficacy.
- Valerie Ward: What is an island without the sea? An Exploration of the Maritime Cultural Landscape of Iron Age Orkney and Shetland.
- Catherine Caseman: Living stones – contemporary pagan customs, beliefs and interactions with megalithic monuments.
- Anthea Deane: A Riverscape through Time – A landscape biography of the River Ericht, North East Perthshire.
- David Paty: Capitol Offense: An archaeological investigation into the events of January 6th.
- Jessica Latham: Archaeology, Morality, and Heritage – evaluating management policies of Confederate monuments.
- Vivian Bailey: A comparative analysis of graveyard memorials in Rousay, Orkney.
- Lynda Baird: Cultural heritage management values and statues.
- Jane Brewer: The use of remote sensing in the preservation assessment of Bronze Age barrows.
- Federica Casari: Passage Tombs and the Sea.
- Karen Collins: Archaeology and Wellbeing.
- Delia Cummings: The role of voyaging and myth in contemporary MÄori Culture – woven from the ancestral threads of Hawaiki, into the future, and depicted in present time
- John Cutright: Learning from the past? Archaeologyâs relevance to climate change: a review.
- Iain Dodds: An examination of the relationship between Crannogs and agricultural land as seen through the lens of Iron Age monumentality.
- Andrew Fitches: Heavy antler tools.
2021/22
- Aaron Hawthorn: An investigation of Roman temple architecture through phenomenography.
- Anna Kahn: Maeshowe in myth and folklore.
- Sara McGourtey: Landscape study for Cateran Ecomuseum.
- Fiona Shaw: Popular representations of Maeshowe in 20th century literature.
- Mark Woodsford-Dean: Hof, VĂ© and Ăing: Legitimisation and power through Pre-Christian central Hall and Cult Sites in Early Viking Age Orkney.
- Robert Lewis: c14 dating in Iron Age Orkney.
- Gianluca Marzagalli: A changing agriculture: Analysis of charred plant remains from Structure J from the broch to the post-broch phases.
2022/23
- Hannah Carmichael: Weaving the Social Fabric of the British Iron Age: Long-handled Combs, Identities and Deposition.
- Heather Leonard: A comparative analysis of graveyard memorials in Rousay, Egilsay and Wyre, Orkney.
- Rosalind Neville-Smith: Understanding population sustainability in relation to maternal health: exploring approaches for identifying pregnancy and breastfeeding in skeletal remains.
- Logan O’Brien: Time and Tide Wait for No One – A Landscape Approach to Prioritising Future Research.
- Gareth Pierce: Reconstructing activities-in-life from skeletal changes in horses from Early Modern England.
- Lucille Rodrigues: Breaking Even? Investigating Fragmentation at Links House, Stronsay, Orkney.
- Irene Dyer: Why was Broughmore Wood selected as a site for rock art creation?
2023/24
- Stephen Taylor: âStrange Worldsâ – Gothic fiction, landscape and the archaeological imagination.
- Michael Zambon: Challenging the âMonumentalityâ of Some Megalithic Structures: An Analysis of Architectural Changes of Orkney-Cromarty Multi-Period Chambered Cairns within the Northern Scottish Neolithic.
- Audrey Burns: From deep time to our time – meeting the past in the present. A Case Study to Explore the Relationships of Tangible, Intangible and Natural Heritage within the Landscape of the Cateran Ecomuseum in Perthshire, Scotland.
- Alannah Edwards: To weave or not to weave, that is the question? An experimental approach to understanding the wear on Scottish Iron Age Long-Handled âWeavingâ Combs.
- Jean Rumball: Mammal bone from The Cairns broch – A zooarchaeological study of bone from the West Room, South Room and South Passage.
- Kat Nikola: River, Forest, City – : A deep mapping of Kaiserslautern, Germany.
- Jaron Rochon: The Impacts of Trade on the Social and Emotional Norse: Insights from Medieval Nordic Runic Inscriptions.
- Jonni McCoy: Did the Tiny Grooved Ware Pottery of the Ness of Brodgar Contain Play Objects?
- Dharma Stevenson: Medieval Norse attitudes towards love, courtship, and sex: as reflected in runic inscription c.1050-1500.
- Angelo Lofre: The role and symbolism of gaming pieces in Scotland during Viking Age and Late Norse Period.
- Eileen Connolly: Orkney Brochs and Social Hierarchy: The architecture of broch villages and broch interiors.
- Julie Brunner: A Life in Plants. Diachronic investigation of agricultural and subsistence practices through analysis of the charred plant remains from the SE room of the Middle Iron Age broch at The Cairns, South Ronaldsay, Orkney.
- Heinke Pulhorn: A World of Pain – Using Modern Data to Assess the Degree of Pain and Disability caused by Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis in a Historical Population.
- Leah Rawlinson: The Utility of Structured Deposition in Iron Age Britain – A Study of Depositional Practices in Atlantic Scotland and Wessex.
- Robert McCurdy: Pillow Stones at the Ness of Brodgar.
