UHI Events

Kings of Places and Kings of People: the case of Alt Clut with Dr Alex Woolf

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 14:00:00 +0100

The University of the Highlands and Islands in conjunction with Culture Perth & Kinross presents Kings of Places and Kings of People: the case of Alt Clut with Dr Alex Woolf Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews.

Leader Perspectives – the view from the United States

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:00:00 +0100

The second in a series of University of the Highlands and Islands ‘Leader Perspectives’ events.

Leading communities and economy - A’ stiùireadh coimhearsnachdan is eaconamaidh

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:00:00 +0100

A brief look back at the birth of the millennium institute and its transition into the University of the Highlands and Islands. How from small but ambitious beginnings this institution has transformed the opportunities available to the region’s population.

5th International St Magnus Conference

Wed, 14 Apr 2021 22:00:00 +0100

The 2020 St Magnus Conference was postponed, but will now take place online from 14-16 April 2021. The 2020 speakers have agreed to deliver their papers in 2021.

Leading the blue economy - A’ stiùireadh an eaconamaidh ghorm

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 16:00:00 +0100

The marine resource of the Highlands and Islands is an enviable and unique asset, not only for the region, but for Scotland and the whole United Kingdom. It has created and maintained valuable economic opportunities for generations, in sectors as varied as aquaculture, fisheries, life sciences, tourism and renewable energy. With the right strategic approach, carefully targeted investment and access to excellent science and skills, we believe it has the potential to deliver much more, playing a key role in the contribution made by Scotland’s rural economy, supporting a sustainable future for hundreds of communities around its coasts and, in doing so, contributing significantly to the country’s net zero ambition. This seminar will bring together industry, academia and the public sector to discuss which areas might best benefit from support and investment to deliver the greatest impact in the region. How do we strike the correct balance between benefiting communities, creating jobs and/or environmental safeguarding? It will also consider how we can achieve more through working collaboratively with partners. The event will include a panel discussion and question and answer session. This event is hosted in partnership with Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and forms part of a series celebrating the university partnership's 10th birthday and will examine how we can help lead our region to a post-COVID recovery.

Leading rural health - A’ stiùireadh slàinte dhùthchail

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 16:00:00 +0100

The seminar will consider how social science in the Highlands and Islands has contributed to new ways of delivering health and wellbeing services and activities to rural communities.

"Art/Archaeology: Exploring Disciplinary Edges" (Dr Antonia Thomas)

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 13:00:00 +0100

Art and Archaeology have many points of intersection. Parallels can be drawn between archaeological practice and process-led art, and contemporary art is often drawn upon as an analogy for prehistoric visual culture in archaeological interpretations.

Leading learning - A’ stiùireadh ionnsachadh

Thu, 13 May 2021 16:00:00 +0100

Through this pandemic the university’s proven track record in blended learning and teaching delivery has been in sharp focus but what does the future of learning and education hold?

"Between past and present, word and deed: dictionaries at the margins" (Dr Roderick McDonald)

Thu, 27 May 2021 13:00:00 +0100

Dictionaries are social constructs, and they occupy a problematic zone between the static and the dynamic: on the one hand freezing language in time, yet paradoxically asserting stolid authority over the fundamental dynamism of actual language use. Often they succeed in doing neither, and yet, for endangered languages a lexicon can also offer a lifeline, however fraught.

Leading health research and innovation - A’ stiùireadh Rannsachadh slàinte is ùr-ghnàthachadh

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:00:00 +0100

This event forms part of a series celebrating the university partnership's 10th birthday and will examine how we can help lead our region to a post-COVID recovery.

"Creative Islands (Scilly Islands)"

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0100

Located 28 miles off the coast of Cornwall out into the Atlantic Ocean, the Isles of Scilly archipelago is literally on The Edge, marking the most southerly point in the United Kingdom. Five of the islands are inhabited with a resident population of 2,500 while annual visitor numbers reach over 100,000. This beautiful but remote location means that Scilly is also on The Edge economically and socially, facing real challenges in terms of its future as a sustainable community.

'The literature of Highland protest': the Sea League and its newsletter, 1933-1939 - a thoroughly modern cause" (Prof Ùisdean Cheape)

Thu, 26 Aug 2021 13:00:00 +0100

Between the two world wars, a need for the protection of that natural resource - fisheries - on which the wellbeing of islanders on the Edge had always depended was still never more pressing. The concept of being 'on the edge' was exacerbated by the apparent neglect of a remote government and bureaucracy. In 1933 Compton Mackenzie, then living 'in exile' Barra, founded 'The Sea League' or Comunn Iasgairean na Mara to lobby for the closing of the Minch to trawlers and the increase of fines for illegal trawling, and thus to rebuild local inshore fisheries with drift-nets and 'long lines'.