UHI Events

Pictish Power Structures from Local Communities to Kingdoms

Tue, 04 May 2021 14:00:00 +0100

The next seminar in the series held in conjunction with the Institute for Northern Studies and Culture Perth and Kinross is a presentation by Nicholas Evans.

Excavations at the Kings Seat, Dunkeld: a Pictish Royal centre

Tue, 11 May 2021 14:00:00 +0100

The fourth presentation in our seminar series held in conjunction with Culture Perth and Kinross.

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? 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.

"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.

Carbon Planet: a journey into the science of peatlands - an inaugural professorial lecture by Professor Roxane Andersen

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 16:00:00 +0100

Peatlands form where primary plant productivity exceeds decomposition, and therefore where partially decomposed organic matter - peat – accumulates. Peatlands cover approximately 3.5 M km2 in boreal and subarctic regions, an area equivalent to 3% of the Earth’s land mass. These northern peatlands have functioned as a carbon sink throughout the Holocene and are estimated to store nearly a third of the world’s soil carbon pool, a lot of which is derived from the moss genus Sphagnum. Sphagnum peatlands are therefore disproportionately important for global biogeochemical cycles and climate regulation. In addition, they harbour highly specialised biodiversity and play essential roles in the regulation of regional hydrology.

Getting into deep water: adventures in marine geology - an inaugural professorial lecture by Professor John Howe

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 16:00:00 +0100

In this lecture Prof John Howe will outline some of his research surveying the ocean floor. From mapping and drilling the seabed around Antarctica to modern surveys using an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). The need for better maps of our ocean floor has become essential as we aim to both understand and sustainably manage our oceans (Wolfl et al., 2019).

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.

Rural Health: why our connections to land, landscape and community shape our wellbeing

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 16:00:00 +0100

An inaugural lecture by Professor Sarah-Anne Munoz

"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'.

‘On my planet…..’- an inaugural professorial lecture by Professor Gary Campbell

Tue, 21 Sep 2021 16:00:07 +0100

An exploration of the joys of implementing what should be a simple plan in a multifaceted and multi-employer organisation.