Organization profile

Organisation profile

The Orkney and Shetland Islands, along with Caithness on the Scottish mainland, are identified primarily in terms of their nordic cultural and linguistic heritage. The work of the Institute for Northern Studies is to rediscover, preserve and interpret local culture for future generations.

This interdisciplinary research centre has bases in both Orkney and Shetland.

The Institute has the following four strategic aims

To promote and publicise research in Nordic Studies, focusing on Orkney and Shetland studies.

To promote Orkney and Shetland culture and stimulate debate. The Centre will provide educational opportunities at secondary and tertiary level for both local and external students.

To provide an overarching focus for locative research in Orkney and Shetland, including their relationship to the North Atlantic Rim.

To work in partnership with Orkney Islands Council, Shetland Islands Council, the HIE Network, and local bodies such as Shetland Amenity Trust to create a resource which will enhance and benefit local communities.

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Profiles

Stefan Brink

stefan.brink@uhi.ac.uk

Institute for Northern Studies - Professor

Person: Academic Research Active

Donna Heddle

donna.heddle@uhi.ac.uk

Tourism Research Network
Institute for Northern Studies - Director of the UHI Institute for Northern Studies
Orkney College UHI - Director of the UHI Institute for Northern Studies

Person: Academic Research Active

Andrew Jennings, MA MSc PhD FrHist

andrew.jennings@uhi.ac.uk

Tourism Research Network
Centre for Rural Creativity
Institute for Northern Studies - Post Doctoral Research Associate

Person: Academic Research Active

Projects

4 Active
5 Finished

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

Sanmark, A. & Hall, M.

31/03/20 → 31/03/21

Project: Research

Archipelagoes of Adventure II: Fiji

Heddle, D. & Sanmark, A.

1/08/19 → 31/07/20

Project: Research

Tuna Revisited. The place-name Tuna, the diffusion of linguistic innovations and the emergence of central places in Northern Europe during the first millennium A.D.

Brink, S. & Vikstrand, P.

1/04/19 → 31/03/22

Project: Research

Research Output

Picts and Britons in the early medieval Irish Church: Travels west over the storm-swelled sea

Plumb, O., Sep 2020, Brepols Publishers. 204 p. (The North Atlantic World)

Research output: Book/Report › Book

Upon the utmost corners of the warld: Orkney in early maps and literature

Heddle, D., 2020, What is North?: Imagining and Representing the North from Ancient Times to the Present Day. tbc ed. Brepols Publishers, Vol. tbc. p. tbc tbc. (The North Atlantic World).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Viking and Norse Heritage Tourism in Scotland

Timoney, S. & Sanmark, A., 16 Jan 2020, 23 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Other report

Open Access

File

Prizes

David Masson scholarship

Heddle, Donna (Recipient), 1993

Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively

David Masson scholarship

Heddle, Donna (Recipient), 1994

Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively

Docent

Sanmark, Alexandra (Recipient), 2011

Prize: National/international honour

Activities

Bolstering Bólstaðir: Norse placenames in Lewis in context

Donna Heddle (Speaker)

31 Oct 2019

Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk

The fourth St Magnus conference

Alexandra Sanmark (Organiser)

16 Apr 2018 → 18 Apr 2018

Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference

Brepols Publishers (Publisher)

Alexandra Sanmark (Editorial board member)

2017 → …

Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity

Press / Media

'Mask of Integrity' Design Innovation Inspired by Viking Women

Donna Heddle

16/09/20

1 item of Media coverage

Press/Media: Research

Prickly Thistle Scotland unveils plans for pioneering community face mask

Donna Heddle

14/09/20

1 item of Media coverage

Press/Media: Research

Ancient Viking waterway discovered in Orkney

Alexandra Sanmark

4/08/20 → 5/08/20

20 items of Media coverage

Press/Media: Research

Impacts

Kirkwall Township Heritage Initiative Viking Walk

Ragnhild Ljosland (Participant), Alexandra Sanmark (Participant), Donna Heddle (Participant), Victoria Whitworth (Participant), Crawford Barbara (Participant), Olwyn Owen (Participant), James Barrett (Participant) & Christopher Gee (Participant)