UHI Events

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.

Jasmijn Sybenga: 'Seeing the woods for the trees'

Fri, 04 Jun 2021 16:00:00 +0100

'Seeing the woods for the trees: a palaeoecological investigation of native woodlands to inform present and future woodland conservation management strategies in Northern Scotland' is presented by the university's Archaeology Institute PhD graduate Jasmijn Sybenga.

Quiz Night - Join us online!

Fri, 04 Jun 2021 19:00:00 +0100

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

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

Places of Royal Power and Ritual in Early Medieval Scotland and Europe

Fri, 18 Jun 2021 09:30:00 +0100

This full day conference is held online in conjunction by the Institute for Northern Studies of the University of the Highland and Islands and Perth Museum and Art Gallery. Attendance at this online event is free.

"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.

Leader Perspectives: with Peter May

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 16:00:12 +0100

Internationally bestselling crime writer and Scottish author, Peter May is our special guest for the next Leader Perspectives interview.

'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.

Inaugural professorial lecture by Professor Michael Rayner

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 16:00:00 +0100

Swimming Against the Tide – The Journey from Interested Spectator to Active Researcher

Re-Presenting Rev. James Fraser (1634-1709): The Scottish Highlands and Europe in the Century Before Culloden

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 16:00:00 +0100

What was the Highlands like in the century before Culloden? My lecture will provide a new perspective, drawing on autobiographical sources relating to a traveller, scholar and minister from Kirkhill, by the shores of the Beauly Firth. I will seek to outline how this individual, Rev. James Fraser, or, at least, aspects of his self-presentation, might encourage a new way of looking at the Highlands and Islands today.