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SGSAH ARCS Studentship

Curating Heritage for Sustainable Communities in Highly Vulnerable Environments:The Case of Scotland’s Northern Isles A collaboration between Intercultural Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University Institute for Northern Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands Shetland Museums and Archives Learning for Sustainability Scotland Funding period: November 2016 to October 2019 Researcher: Catherine J McCullagh The Northern Isles are […]


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Alliance for Intergenerational Resilience

2019 Year of Indigenous Languages Initiative The Alliance for Intergenerational Resilience (AIR) is excited to announce that for the remainder of 2018 and 2019 Air will be supporting the UNESCO sponsored 2019 year of Indigenous Languages through prioritizing the revitalization of Indigenous Languages as part of our work. We are interested not only in the relationship between Indigenous […]


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Digital Heritage – Scotland’s Sounds

Collecting and preserving access to Intangible Cultural Heritage within the digital environmentEvaluating New Models for Scotland Scottish Cultural Heritage Consortium Scholarship, 2016-19 Researcher: Naomi Harvey Sound is a valuable form of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) that encompasses music, song, oral histories, soundscapes or spoken word recordings. Such collections play a key role in sustaining community […]


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