UHI Events

Quiz Night - Join us online!

Fri, 02 Apr 2021 19:00:00 +0100

Looking for something to do on a Friday eve? Join our ONLINE 'Quiz Night' at 7pm every Friday night with our fabulous quiz master Professor Donna Heddle as she tests your general knowledge in two rounds of twenty questions!

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 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.

Leader Perspectives – the view from the United States

Mon, 26 Apr 2021 16:00:00 +0100

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

"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'.