Unperturbed by mud and standing water, a group of hardy students clocked up a few miles today on a field trip to take in four of Orkney's best known Neolithic chambered cairns.

Archaeology graduate Katie Joss has been awarded the Highland Society of London Prize for her research into diet in post-medieval Orkney.

A survey on the St Magnus Way, created by Dr Ragnhild Ljosland, will be launched at a drop-in event in the Harray Hall on Sunday, October 4.

An online seminar this afternoon, Friday, September 25, looks at Living cultures: cultivating the knowledges and ecologies of our fermented foods.

Join artist Kirsty Russell and archaeologist Dan Lee to explore marine energy sites and stories in Fittie, on Saturday, October 3, for a TRANSECTS creative walking event.

Professor Ingrid Mainland, Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon and Dr Siobhan Cooke-Miller were three of the 12 Scottish delegates invited to attend the recent Viking Congress.

PhD student Sophie Durbin looks back on her summer research trip to Orkney.

Dan Lee, one of the project directors, is giving a talk in Kirkwall tonight on the 2026 season of excavation at Skaill farm, Rousay.

On a suitably blustery day, ORCA’s Dan Lee was joined by Neil Kermode (Orkney Renewable Energy Forum) on walk/talk on Orkney wind energy history in the West Mainland this afternoon.

This autumn, the TRANSECTS project is inviting people in Hull and the wider Humber community to share memories and experiences of living alongside the region’s changing marine energy industries.

Three institute events - a talk on red deer, The Cairns and exploring the history of wind power in Orkney.

Professor Colin Richards will deliver the David Drever Memorial Lecture at the 2026 Orkney Archaeology Festival tomorrow evening, Thursday, September 10.

Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon features in Tom Muir’s latest podcast, where they talk about the stories, songs, beliefs and archaeological remains that help us understand how Orkney became the place it is today.

Some of our PhD students will give presentations on their ongoing research at an event at UHI Orkney on Thursday, September 10, as part of the second OAS Orkney Archaeology Festival.

The recording of Associate Professor Antonia Thomas' recent Orkney Archaeology Society talk.

To mark the start of the academic year, 27 of our new undergraduate and postgraduate students - from all over the globe - experienced all the weather Orkney could throw at them today on a field trip to the Heart of Neolithic Orkney World Heritage Site.

Archaeologists from the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology (ORCA) have helped uncover what could be a 1,000-year-old Viking church on the island of Swona.

Dr Sarah Jane Gibbon teams up with Dr Tom Rendall to ponder the future of Orcadian dialect in an Orkney Science Festival event in Kirkwall this afternoon, Thursday, September 3.

The 2026 Orkney International Science Festival gets under way tomorrow, with an event in UHI Orkney looking at traditional food in the county.

A new website looking at Orkney’s role in changing energy supplies over the centuries has been launched.

Dr Ragnhild Ljosland features in the latest Robwords podcast, looking at 'What happened to Britain's Viking language?'

'Ness Day' is just one of many events on the horizon as part of the Orkney Science Festival and Orkney Archaeology Festival.

A project to assess carbonised plant remains from the Ness of Brodgar is one of 43 to receive funding through the first Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science (RICHeS) Access Fund.

An ORCA team will be carrying out excavations around the Tomb of the Eagles in South Ronaldsay from August 24-September 11.

An exhibition by Jemima Hall, part of her MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology final project, runs at the Clook Gallery, Stromness, from September 12 -16.

The Spurness excavation in Sanday draws to a close but we're looking forward to getting back next year.

Photographs of the stone artefact recovered from the wall of the Spurness Early Neolithic building.

Today's update from Spurness, Sanday, by Professor Colin Richards.

Today's update from Spurness, Sanday, showing the scale of the monumental Early Neolithic building.

More divisional orthostats suggests Early Neolithic building was more monumental than first believed.

The programme for the second Orkney Archaeology Festival (September 9-13) is now available online.

Eleven funded PhD projects are now available as part of the  North Sea Heritage in Transitions (NHT), which launched last month.

UHI Orkney has named Katie Joss as its Student of the Year in recognition of her academic achievement, dedication and resilience throughout her studies.

An update on the final week of excavation from Dan Lee.

Back on site, we've got a side door to the Early Neolithic structure.

A day of enlightenment, with several things that were difficult to interpret began to make sense.

An exceptional day, but not entirely for the expected reasons.

Photographs from day seven in Sanday.

It seems our Early Neolithic building is large - c.19.5 metres long.

Day five at Spurness, Sanday.

Trench cleaning, filming and a couple of great finds.

An update from Skaill farm, Rousay, by Dan Lee.

Deturfing complete, it was time to remove the protective covers...

An exciting day on site - it seems out Neolithic structure might be bigger than we thought.

We're back in Sanday to resume excavation of a wonderful Neolithic structure overlooking the Bay of Stove.

After 20 years of excavation, the UHI Archaeology Institute’s research dig at The Cairns has now come to an end. With the work on the site now completed, it’s time for site director Martin Carruthers to sum up…

We’re back in Sanday this week, with excavations resuming at a prehistoric site at Spurness on Sunday.