A statement from the Scottish Society for Northern Studies on the current crisis faced by Humanities and Social Sciences in UK Higher Education.

UCU Edinburgh welcomes the news of Principal Peter Mathieson stepping down, and we want to encourage him to do the right thing now: start listening to the voices of staff and students; negotiate with ...

The mass closure of university courses is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the unravelling of Scottish culture today, says Neil Mackay

Sir Peter made the unexpected announcement at Tuesday’s meeting of the university court

Vice-chancellor says £140m of cuts are necessary, but critics claim the university has been on a ‘spending binge’

I’VE had my shield up for universities for months now, since Andy Burnham – graduate of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge – began steering working-class youth away from academic and towards vocational qu...

Students say strikes will have a long term impact on their studies as the union calls for the university to meet its demands

As the University of Edinburgh moves to close a number of degree programmes, including the standalone degree in Scottish Ethnology, Kevin MacNeil reflects on the subject that changed the course of …

Academics, students and alumni across the UK have reacted with horror to the news that 90 programmes will no longer be taught in the Athens of the…

More than 900 students and staff gathered for the inaugural Student-Staff Assembly on Thursday 24 September.

A two-day conference exploring religious prose and verse from between 1500 and 1900, written in Celtic languages including Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Breton and Cornish. Call for papers curr...

There is clear resentment at a State that favours the old at their expense

Bígí linn ag Ollscoil na Gaillimhe don cheathrú comhdháil is tríocha ar Chultúr agus ar Litríocht na Gaeilge! Táimid ag súil le cloisteáil faoin taighde uilig atá ar siúl i réimsí éagsúla de Léann na ...

This British Academy report reveals that many parts of the UK are becoming subject cold spots – areas with no provision in a subject within a commutable distance. These are often in rural, coastal or ...

The Irish language has been associated with politicisation and conflict, particularly in the context of contemporary Northern Ireland identity politics. However, debates around the language extend much further back in time and some key elements of the discourse may be traced to the sixteenth century in particular.This lecture looks at the portrayal of the Irish language by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, and the motivations for some negative stereotypes which were to prove resilient and enduring in later centuries.

Join us for a special conference to mark Recording the Past: The Annals of Inisfallen and the Making of Irish History exhibition. Conference Keynote: Richard Ovenden, Bodley’s...

As part of the 'Strangers to Citizens' Online Talk Series

'Assessing 18th-century toponymic knowledge: Tadhg Ó Neachtain’s Irish gazetteer (1728)' with Aindí Mac Giolla Chomhaill

Laura Stewart’s innovative project explores how Scottish practices of collecting and sharing historical materials after the Reformation shaped identities and what was remembered by future generations