Donna Heddle, FRSE

Professor

  • 12b Ness Walk

    IV3 5SQ Inverness

    United Kingdom

  • United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Prof Heddle welcomes PhD enquiries, particularly interdisciplinary ones involving language, literature, and cultural identity. She has supervised PhDs in the following areas:
Scottish dialects
Visual Sociology
Women's travel literature
Scottish war poetry
History of Scottish Fiddle music
Technology and Identity
History of the Shetland Boat
Comparative Nordic cultural identities
Perceptions of renewables in small communities
The lives of the Scots herring girls

Calculated based on number of publications stored in Pure and citations from Scopus
Calculated based on number of publications stored in Pure and citations from Scopus
19952020

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Research Expertise

Research interests

Prof Heddle’s main research interests are the creation of new paradigms in Scottish and Northern isles studies, small island studies, Scottish language and literature in a European context, and Scottish cultural history. She is the author of a number of publications in these areas and is currently leading several national and international research and cultural tourism projects involving the North Atlantic rim. She is at present working on Scots-Nordic balladic synergies; the underpinning philosophy of Northern Studies; the Huguenot influence of Du Bartas on the poetry of the Scots Court under James VI; and geophysical and metaphysical correlations in historical depictions of Orkney. She is also working on a history of Highlands and Islands literature. She is particularly passionate about locative research - in the communities, by the communities, for the communities.

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Keywords

  • PE English
  • Old Norse, medieval literature, Scots, Orcadian,
  • sagas
  • DL Northern Europe. Scandinavia
  • Vikings, Scotland, Scottish cultural history
  • Scottish identity, Scottish heritage

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