Recordings of previous lectures
Islands Matter Webinar 5 with Professor Owe Ronström from the Gotland campus of Uppsala University content
Islands Matter Webinar 4 with Professor Chik Collins, Rector of the University of the Faroe Islands content
Dr A Cathcart They ‘offered to give what they do not even hope to gain’: Ireland, Orkney and Shetland, and kingship in the reign of James V content
Islands Matter Webinar 3 with Professor Des Thompson ‘Where next for the COPs – tackling the climate and biodiversity crises.’ content
Islands Matter Webinar 2 with Dr Laurie Brinklow from the Institute for Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island content
Islands Matter Webinar 1 James Ellsmoor of Island Innovation content
Steve Murdoch: War and Peace: Scotland and Norway as Friends and Foes, 1589-1713 content
Dr Rebecca Ford: Words & Waves: Power of Stories, Community & Renewable Energy in Orkney content
'Women and men of the Viking Age' - an inaugural professorial lecture from Professor Alex Sanmark content
Michèle Hayeur Smith: The Valkyries' Loom content
David Strachan: Excavations at the Kings Seat, Dunkeld: a Pictish Royal centre content
Nicolas Evans: Pictish Power Structures from Local Communities to Kingdoms content
Dr Louisa Campbell .Rediscovering the Antonine Wall Distance Stones' content
Dr Alex Woolf 'Kings of Places & Kings of People: the case of Alt Clut' content
Dr Veerle Van den Eynden 'People and Plants in Scotland: A contemporary view' content
Prof Stefan Brink 'What’s in a Name Why study Onomastics for the sake of Old Norse Mythology' content
Dr Colleen Batey 'The role of the Jarlshof Site in Norse Archaeology' content
Dr Andrea Freund 'The World of Orcadian Runecarvers' content
Dr Natascha Mehler 'The Northern Isles of Scotland during the 16th century: archaeological perspectives on proto-global trade connections' content
David Griffiths 'Birsay and Skaill: archaeological landscapes of Orkney' content
Caroline Wickham Jones 'Nowhere else I’d rather be: A personal view of the archaeology of Orkney and why it is special' content
Dr Oisín Plumb 'Columba, Nessie and the Deadly Loathsome Little Creatures' content
Escape from the Coasts - The Great Escape from Estonia and the Shetland Bus content
Iain Robertson 'Hardscrabble Heritage: the ruined blackhouse and crofting landscape as heritage from below' content
Escape from the Coasts - Shetland Bus Talk content
Dr Victoria Whitworth from the UHI Centre for Nordic Studies talked to us about using her research in creative writing content
Carol Christiansen 'Waulking in the sea: finishing Shetland’s annual vadmal payment' content
Erin Farley 'The supernatural seascapes of Orkney and Shetland' content
Charlotta Hillerdal 'Island identities and the centrality of the peripheral' content
Jenny Murray 'In Aboot da Night wi da Erasmusons: One Family’s Beliefs and Lore' content