Exploring Pedagogies: Arctic Pedagogy

Come and explore how Education in the North is influenced by Arctic Pedagogy, a way of looking at education that comes from a partnership of institutions in the Circumpolar North.

Wednesday 10 September 2025 4:00 pm

British Merchants, Swedish Trade and the Foundation of Colonial Power by Dr Adam Grimshaw

This event was a lecture in the UHI Institute for Northern Studies Public Seminar Series. The paper was given by Dr Adam Grimshaw and a recording is available on our You Tube Channel.

Thursday 29 May 2025 7:00 pm

Weaving the Strands: An Oral History Interview Workshop for Secondary Teachers of History, Modern Studies and Social Sciences

Schools in the Highlands and Islands have the wonderful resources of their communities at hand. This workshop will look at how we can enable intergenerational communication – how we can get children speaking to older generations and gathering their stories, and how to weave them into a narrative of place, helping them to understand the lived experience of their communities, past, present and future.

Thursday 12 June 2025 4:00 pm

Outdoor Adventures for Health and Well-Being; People, Place and Planet

Online event for S4-S6 pupils, June 11, 11am -12pm

Wednesday 11 June 2025 11:00 am

Online Early Careers Research Sessions

Researchers at SAMS will contribute to  remote class sessions for school learners about their research and journey into their respective fields. Topics for this are flexible, depending on suitable dates. This can include diving into research on:

• Marine mammals
• Oceanography
• Development of marine robotics
• Seaweed and algae
• Microbiology
• Marine policy and conservation

Wednesday 26 March 2025 9:00 am

Online seminar – The Viking Age trade routes of Eastern Europe: interactions between Slavs, Vikings and Arabs

This paper will explore the archaeological, historical and iconographical evidence for the development of standardisation at early medieval marketplaces in the Viking Age along the trade routes of the Baltic and Eastern Europe.

Thursday 28 November 2024 7:00 pm

Seasonality and Illegality in the Early Modern Atlantic

UHI Institute for Northern Studies: second seminar in the Public Seminar Series 2024-25.

Monday 11 November 2024 7:00 pm

Kings, Peasants and Places of Power: Control of the Assembly in Mediaeval Norway Seminar

First session in the UHI Institute for Northern Studies Seminar Series 2024-25

Tuesday 1 October 2024 7:00 pm