Miles, mud and mortuary practice – a day at Orkney’s chambered cairns Unperturbed by mud and standing water, a group of hardy students clocked up a few miles today on a field trip to take in four of Orkney's best known Neolithic chambered cairns....

UHI awards dissertation prize to archaeology graduate Katie Joss Archaeology graduate Katie Joss has been awarded the Highland Society of London Prize for her research into diet in post-medieval Orkney....

A survey on the St Magnus Way, created by Dr Ragnhild Ljosland, will be launched at a drop-in event in the Harray Hall on Sunday, October 4.

Free online seminar – fermentation and heritage food practices An online seminar this afternoon, Friday, September 25, looks at Living cultures: cultivating the knowledges and ecologies of our fermented foods....

Free marine energy walkshop in Fittie on October 3 Join artist Kirsty Russell and archaeologist Dan Lee to explore marine energy sites and stories in Fittie, on Saturday, October 3, for a TRANSECTS creative walking event....

Professor Ingrid Mainland, Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon and Dr Siobhan Cooke-Miller were three of the 12 Scottish delegates invited to attend the recent Viking Congress in Norway.

We’re delighted to announce that UHI Archaeology Institute PhD student Jenny Murray has passed her viva examination with corrections.

UHI Archaeology Institute PhD student Sophie Durbin looks back on her summer research trip to Orkney.

Dan Lee, one of the project directors, is giving a talk at 7pm in the King Street Halls, Kirkwall, tonight on the 2026 season of excavation at Skaill farm, Rousay.

Archaeology Festival: Exploring the story of wind energy in Orkney On a suitably blustery day, ORCA’s Dan Lee was joined by Neil Kermode (Orkney Renewable Energy Forum) on walk/talk on Orkney wind energy history in the West Mainland this afternoon....

This autumn, the TRANSECTS project is inviting people in Hull and the wider Humber community to share memories and experiences of living alongside the region’s changing marine energy industries.

Three institute events - a talk on red deer, The Cairns and exploring the history of wind power in Orkney.

Professor Colin Richards will deliver the David Drever Memorial Lecture at the 2026 Orkney Archaeology Festival tomorrow evening, Thursday, September 10.

Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon features in Tom Muir’s latest podcast, where they talk about the stories, songs, beliefs and archaeological remains that help us understand how Orkney became the place it is today.

Some of our PhD students will give presentations on their ongoing research at an event at UHI Orkney on Thursday, September 10, as part of the second OAS Orkney Archaeology Festival.

The recording of Associate Professor Antonia Thomas' recent Orkney Archaeology Society talk.

A day among the monuments for group of new archaeology students To mark the start of the academic year, 27 of our new undergraduate and postgraduate students - from all over the globe - experienced all the weather Orkney could throw at them today on a field trip to the Heart of Neolithic Orkney…

Archaeologists from the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA) have helped uncover what could be a 1,000-year-old Viking church on the island of Swona.

Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon teams up with Dr Tom Rendall to ponder the future of Orcadian dialect in an Orkney Science Festival event in Kirkwall this afternoon, Thursday, September 3.