Orkney College UHI

Activities

Activities per year 1993 2010 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2021

• 150 Participation in conference
• 96 Invited talk
• 60 Oral presentation
• 52 Participation in workshop, seminar, course
• 250 More
  • 43 Types of Public engagement and outreach - Public lecture/debate/seminar
  • 30 Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk
  • 30 Types of Public engagement and outreach - Schools engagement
  • 29 Types of Public engagement and outreach - Media article or participation
  • 28 Publication peer-review
  • 15 Editorial activity
  • 15 Types of Public engagement and outreach - Festival/Exhibition
  • 9 Other
  • 8 Types of External academic engagement - Contribution to the work of national or international committees and working groups
  • 5 Types of External academic engagement - Research and Teaching at External Organisation
  • 4 Membership of committee
  • 4 Types of Business and Community - Consultancy (in kind)
  • 4 Types of External academic engagement - Hosting an academic visitor
  • 3 Consultancy
  • 3 Examination
  • 3 Membership of network
  • 3 Types of Business and Community - Membership of public/government advisory/policy group or panel
  • 3 Types of External academic engagement - Membership of peer review panel or committee
  • 2 Types of Business and Community - CPD delivery/organisation of courses for externals (in kind)
  • 2 Types of Business and Community - Work on advisory panel to industry or government or non-government organisation
  • 2 Types of External academic engagement - Membership of external research organisation
  • 1 Membership of board
  • 1 Types of Award - Appointment
  • 1 Types of Award - Election to learned society
  • 1 Types of Award - Fellowship awarded competitively
  • 1 Types of Award - National/international honour

Activities per year

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• Who was the Muckle Black Wallawa?

  Ragnhild Ljosland (Speaker)

  8 Dec 2021

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Trade in the North Atlantic, 1400-1700: current knowledge and future research

  Sarah Jane Gibbon (Speaker), Paul Sharman (Speaker), Natascha Mehler (Speaker), Ingrid Mainland (Speaker), Mark Gardiner (Speaker) & Bart Holterman (Speaker)

  20 Oct 2020

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Medieval Christianity in Orkney

  Sarah Jane Gibbon (Speaker)

  8 Jun 2019

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• The Men in Maeshowe: Why did they break in?

  Ragnhild Ljosland (Speaker)

  21 Aug 2019

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Tracing the use of dialect in Orkney Songs

  Sarah Jane Gibbon (Speaker)

  8 Jun 2019

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Mapping Magnus: visualising saintly impact in a North Atlantic rural landscape

  James Moore (Speaker) & Sarah Jane Gibbon (Speaker)

  19 Sep 2018

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Mapping Magnus: visualising saintly impact in a North Atlantic rural landscape

  Sarah Jane Gibbon (Speaker)

  19 Oct 2018 → 21 Oct 2018

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Runic forgeries: Linking past and present identities?

  Ragnhild Ljosland (Speaker) & Andrea Blendl (Speaker)

  16 Sep 2017

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Performative aspects of Norse cult sites

  Alexandra Sanmark (Speaker)

  Jul 2016

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• 'Sites of power and assembly in the Thames Valley in the middle ages', Æthelred II and Cnut the Great

  Alexandra Sanmark (Speaker)

  Jul 2016

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• The production of ritual space

  Alexandra Sanmark (Speaker)

  Jul 2015

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• A percentage for art? Integrating artistic practice and archaeological survey

  James Moore (Speaker) & Rik Hammond (Speaker)

  3 Sep 2015

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• The 12th century intuders' attitude to Maeshowe

  Alexandra Sanmark (Speaker)

  May 2015

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Hakon Hakonsson Memorial Lecture

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  3 Sep 2015

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Grand tour of Orkney

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  Dec 2015 → Jan 2016

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Neolithic legacies: recording, understanding and managing the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site

  Amanda Brend (Speaker), James Moore (Speaker), Jane Downes (Speaker) & Mark Edmonds (Speaker)

  5 Sep 2015

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Art and Archaeology in the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site

  Antonia Thomas (Speaker)

  24 Sep 2015

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• From thing sites to modern centres of power: Norse assembly sites in the 'Longue Durée'

  Alexandra Sanmark (Speaker)

  Sep 2014

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Norse assembly sites in Scotland: The making of identities and memory in a new landscape

  Alexandra Sanmark (Speaker)

  Mar 2014

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Pixels and polygons or places and practices? Interpreting multiple survey datasets in landscape archaeology

  James Moore (Speaker)

  19 Sep 2014

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• The ocean as cultural space

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  27 Apr 2013

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Inaugural professorial lecture: "From the fury of the Norsemen, good Lord, deliver us?"

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  Nov 2013

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Caithness: The well at the World's end

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  25 Jun 2013

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• "From the fury of the Norsemen, good Lord, deliver us?”: re evaluating the Norse legacy in Northern Scotland

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  21 Jun 2012

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Selkies, shapeshifters, and sex: Scots ballads and the supernatural

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  3 Feb 2012

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• CNS public lecture: Viking navigators

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  21 Jul 2011 → 22 Jul 2011

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• "Pithie purpois prudent and perfyt": the influence of Guillaume de Salluste, Sieur du Bartas, on the poetry of John Stewart of Baldynneis

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  22 Jul 2011 → 26 Jul 2011

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Stormy Crossing: Norse-Scots balladic synergies

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  14 Apr 2011 → 15 Apr 2011

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Summary of career and research presentations

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  27 Oct 2010 → 29 Oct 2010

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• George Mackay Brown Fellowship memorial lecture: The myriad voices of GMB

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  16 Apr 2010

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• UHI public lecture: The North Atlantic Ocean: a key cultural space?

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  22 Apr 2010

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• The Norse element in the Orkney dialect

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  21 Jul 2009 → 25 Jul 2009

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Imagining Scotland: Evaluating our cultural icons

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  13 Aug 2009

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Where is Orkney?: ‘Beyond Britannia, where the endless ocean opens, lies Orkney.’

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  7 May 2009 → 10 May 2009

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Insular dialects in broadcasting and education

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  21 Jun 2008

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “So, no sweet talk‟: The role of women in the poetry of Rognvald Kali Kolsson

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  Jul 2008

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Earl Rognvald of Orkney: warrior, poet, saint

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  19 Sep 2008

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Cosmic Voices: William Heinesen and Neil Gunn

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  27 Dec 2007 → 30 Dec 2007

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Norse expansion in Orkney: The Thorfinn effect

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  Sep 2007

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Assembly sites in early medieval Sweden- movement and ritual

  Alexandra Sanmark (Speaker)

  Aug 2006

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Early Christianity in Rönö, Södermanland

  Alexandra Sanmark (Speaker)

  Jan 2006

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Assembly sites and royal routes in Viking and early medieval Sweden

  Alexandra Sanmark (Speaker)

  Jun 2006

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• A Patriotic Poet: John Stewart of Baldynneis’ Roland Furious in its European context

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  11 Mar 2005 → 13 Mar 2005

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Understanding Scottish identity in the medieval period: the clues in the texts

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  25 Feb 2005 → 26 Feb 2005

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• The poetry of Sorley Maclean

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  29 Apr 2004

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Thing sites in Sweden – extent and foci?

  Alexandra Sanmark (Speaker)

  Sep 2004

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• John Stewart of Baldynneis: national man of mystery

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  3 Apr 2004

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• “Upon the utmost corners of the warld”- Orkney in Literature

  Donna Heddle (Speaker)

  May 2003

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• The nature of scandinavian pre-Christian religion

  Alexandra Sanmark (Speaker)

  Jul 2002

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• The role of secular rulers in the conversion of Sweden

  Alexandra Sanmark (Speaker)

  Jul 2000

  Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation