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The UHI Institute for Northern Studies has always had a strong research ethos. We are delighted to have had so many successful PhD students go through our doors, and are greatly encouraged by the ever increasing number of current students.

You can find out about the activities of our current students via their individual tabs below.

Please contact us if you might be interested in undertaking research with the Institute for Northern Studies at the University of the Highlands and Islands.

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Adele Lidderdale PhD Student content Adele Lidderdale

Adele Lidderdale PhD Student
  • PhD Title - Scottish National Islands Plan: A Roadmap for Transformational Change?
  • Supervisors: Professor Donna Heddle, Professor Steven Heddle & Dr Andrew Jennings
Alex Gibbons PhD Student content Alex Gibbons

Alex Gibbons PhD Student
  • PhD title: A Tradition at Risk? Vernacular Thatching in the Highlands and Islands and its Shared Heritage Throughout the Inner & Irish Seas
  • Supervisors: Professor Ullrich Kockel, Professor Mairéad Nic Craith
Alexandra Simpson MRes Student content A photograph of Bergen, Norway. Source Vberger Wiki Commons

Alexandra Simpson MRes Student

  • MRes title: The Norwegian Bjarkøyretten of Nidaros, Oslo and Bergen, translated from Old Norse into English.

  • Supervisor: Professor Stefan Brink
Alicen Geddes PhD Student content A photograph of Alicen Geddes

Alicen Geddes PhD Student
  • PhD title: Lady Ermingerðr Reimagined: Orkneyinga Saga’s Stanzaic Evolution Examined
  • Supervisors: Professor Donna Heddle (UHI INS), Dr Kyle Smith (UHI)
Anthony Olsson PhD Student content Anthony Olsson PhD student

Anthony Olsson PhD Student
  • PhD title: Faroese and Irish/Scottish-Gaelic balladry: motifs and intercultural connections
  • Supervisors: Dr Andrew Jennings (UHI), Abigail Burnyeat (Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI), Dr Alan Macniven, Programme Director for Scandinavian Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
Cait MCullagh PhD Student content A Photograph of Cait O'Neill MCullagh

Cait MCullagh PhD Student
  • PhD title: Curating Heritage for Sustainable Communities in Highly Vulnerable Environments: The Case of Scotland's Northern Isles
  • Supervisors: Professor Donna Heddle (UHI), Professor Ullrich Kockel (UHI)
Erica Clarkson PhD Student content Faroe Waterfall

Erica Clarkson PhD Student
  • PhD title: HAPPY ISLAND LIVES: Perceptions of happiness and well-being on Scottish islands with islands around the world, but especially the Maltese Islands and the Faroe Islands (working title).
  • Supervisor: Dr Andrew Jennings (UHI)
Evelyn Anderson PhD Student content Evelyn Anderson

Evelyn Anderson PhD Student
  • PhD title: Exploring local authority provision of health services in Shetland: 1908 - 1948
  • Supervisors: Dr Andrew Jennings (UHI) and Professor Sarah-Anne Munoz (NHS Education for Scotland)
Jimm Simon PhD Student content Jimm Simon

Jimm Simon PhD Student
  • PhD title: Robert Louis Stevenson: Literary innovator or commercial imitator?
  • Supervisors: Professor Donna Heddle (UHI), Dr Jeannie (Thomas Utah State University)
John Leith MRes Student content An engraving of Leith Harbour. Source British Library wiki commons

John Leith MRes Student
  • MRes title: Leith Papers
  • Supervisors: Professor Donna Heddle (UHI), Dr Andrew Lind (UHI)
Niamh MacKenzie PhD Student content Niamh MacKenzie

Niamh MacKenzie PhD Student
  • PhD title: Drystane Dyking: Understanding Cultural Significance and Developing Skills in Scottish Communities 
  • Supervisors: Professor Mairéad Nic Craith, Professor Ullrich Kockel, Dr Oisín Plumb, Dr Ben Thomas (Historic Environment Scotland) and Colin Tennant (Historic Environment Scotland) 
Lynn Campbell PhD Student content A Photograph of Kirkwall Cathedral at night

Lynn Campbell PhD Student
  • PhD title: The Role of the Kirk in Orkney, 17th – 19th centuries
  • Supervisors: Professor Donna Heddle (UHI), Professor Alex Sanmark (UHI) and Dr Andrew Lind (UHI).
Pádraig Ó Dálaigh PhD Student content A photograph of Coole Church County Cork. Source J Thacker Wiki Commons

Pádraig Ó Dálaigh PhD Student
  • PhD title: The Tradition of Unbaptised Infants’ Burial Grounds (Cillíní/Killeens) in South-West Cork, Ireland
  • Supervisors: Professor Mairéad Nic Craith(UHI), Dr. Andrew Lind (UHI), Dr. Oisín Plumb (UHI)
Peter Randall PhD Student content Peter Randall

Peter Randall PhD Student
  • PhD title: Places of Assembly in the Kings’ Sagas
  • Supervisors: Professor Alexandra Sanmark (UHI), Dr Hannah Burrows (University of Aberdeen) and Dr Alex Woolf (University of St Andrews)
Rebecca Cornwell PhD Student content Rebecca Cornwell

Rebecca Cornwell PhD Student
  • PhD title: Precious Persistence: The Ecological Legacy of Shetland Botanical Writing for our Modern Understanding and Experience of Rare Plants in the Face of Climate Change
  • Supervisors: Professor Donna Heddle (UHI), Dr Rosalind Bryce (UHI), Dr Aline Finger (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh)
Shanna Bryman PhD Student content Shanna Bryman

Shanna Bryman PhD Student
  • PhD title: Making Herstory: Evaluating Female Leadership in the Viking Age
  • Supervisors: Prof Alexandra Sanmark (UHI), Dr Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson (Uppsala Universitet), and Dr Erin Goeres (University College London)
Suzanne Collyer PhD Student content Suzanne Collyer

Suzanne Collyer PhD Student
  • PhD title: What's in a Name? The Western Isles as a Central Place during the Viking Age
  • Supervisors: Professor Donna Heddle (UHI), Dr Oisín Plumb (UHI), Professor Stefan Brink (UHI)
Tara Athanasiou PhD Student content Tara Athanasiou

Tara Athanasiou PhD Student
  • PhD title: Place, Space and Mobility – Female Networks in the Viking Age and Early Medieval Period 
  • Supervisors: Prof. Alexandra Sanmark (UHI), Prof. Stefan Brink (UHI), and Dr Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir(Nasjonalbiblioteket ) 
Amanda Robinson PhD Student content A photograph of Amanda Robinson

Amanda Robinson PhD Student
  • PhD title: Spinning Threads: An Analysis of Viking Age Spindle Whorls in the Northern British Isles
  • Supervisors: Professor Alexandra Sanmark (UHI), Dr Shane McLeod (UHI), and Dr Michèle Hayeur Smith (Smithsonian Institution)
Harley Botham PhD Student content A photograph of PhD student Harley Botham

Harley Botham PhD Student
  • PhD title: Relaciones diplomáticas entre los nórdicos y la diáspora del sur [Diplomatic relations between the Norse and the southern diaspora].
  • Supervisors: Prof Stefan Brink (UHI), Dr Shane McLeod (UHI) and Dr Irene García Losquiño (USC).
Sarah R Squire PhD Student content Sarah Squire

Sarah R Squire PhD Student
  • PhD title: (Re)Generative relationships: A case study of collaborative land work, culture making, and education for sustainable communities in Scotland 
  • Supervisors: Professor Ullrich Kockel (UHI), Professor Mairéad Nic Craith (UHI) 
Matthew Edwards PhD Student content A pitcure of Matthew Edwards, postgraduate student at INS

Matthew Edwards PhD Student
  • PhD title: Insights from laws and legal codes into economic development and the challenges to trade in early Medieval northern Europe
  • Supervisors: Professor Alexandra Sanmark (UHI), Professor Stefan Brink (UHI)
Terri Barnes PhD Student content A photograph of PhD Student Terri Barnes

Terri Barnes PhD Student
  • PhD title: The Theory of the Viking Leisure Class
  • Supervisors: Professor Alex Sanmark (UHI) and Dr Shane McLeod (UHI)
Claire Stokes PhD Student content A photograph of PhD student, Claire Stokes

Claire Stokes PhD Student
  • PhD title: Viking Age Scandinavian sea-routes and ship havens along the south coast of Britain with a particular focus on the Isle of Wight.
  • Supervisors: Dr Shane McLeod (UHI), Prof Alexandra Sanmark (UHI) and Prof Ryan Lavelle (University of Winchester)
Maureen Whalen PhD Student content A photograph of PhD student Maureen Whalen

Maureen Whalen PhD Student
  • PhD title: Impacts of Polar Science Tourism in Arctic islands
  • Supervisors: Dr Andrew Jennings (UHI), Dr Steve Taylor (UHI), and Laufey Haraldsdóttir (Hólar University)
Nathan MacLennan PhD Student content A photograph of student Nathan Maclennan

Nathan MacLennan PhD Student
  • PhD Title: They Have Hazarded Lives and Fortunes to Serve His Majesty: Royalist Ideology and Identity in Cromwellian Scotland 1649-1661
  • Supervisors: Professor Karin Bowie (University of Glasgow), Dr Andrew Lind (UHI Institute for Northern Studies, Dr Aonghas MacCoinnick (University of Glasgow)
Theresa Jane Bury MRes Student content A photograph of student Theresa Jane Bury

Theresa Jane Bury MRes Student
  • MRes Title: Decent Women - Helen MacInnes's War Novels and the Transition in Attitudes Towards Women and War
  • Supervisors: Kyle Smith and Paul Malgrati
Meg Denmark-Melvin Phd Student content A photograph of student Meg Denmark-Melvin

Meg Denmark-Melvin Phd Student
  • PhD Title: Spatial Analysis of Human Adaptation During the Ill Years (1695–1700): A Study of the Little Ice Age in the Northern Highlands and Islands
  • Supervisors: Dr Andrew Lind (UHI Institute for Northern Studies), Prof Mairéad Nic Craith (UHI Institute for Northern Studies), Dr Alan MacDonald (University of Dundee)
Kristian Barnes content A photograph of Kristian Barnes

Kristian Barnes
  • PhD title: The Ethics of Representation. The Norse in Modern Popular Culture
  • Supervisors Dr Andrew Lind (UHI), Dr Shane McLeod (UHI) and Professor Ullrich Kockel (UHI)