The LLMVC School is delighted to offer the New Kings Studentship to new Postgraduate Research students starting their studies with us between September 2025 and August 2026. 🎓💻📔 Read the full T&Cs at the link below! abdn.ac.uk/llmvc/scholars…

If you're having a tough time this term, help is always avialable to our Students, 24/7, whether over the phone, or using the free Spectrum. Life app. 😰📱 abdn.ac.uk/students/suppo… Spectrum.Life

DEADLINE EXTENSION: 14 March Still getting fantastic abstracts coming in, so we're staying open for submissions a bit longer! Send in your abstracts and join us for what's shaping up to be a fascinating and diverse day of research presentations and discussion! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿📚🦌🦐🦛🐁🦒🦔

Prof Rhona Brown will be giving a talk 'Commemorating and Editing Robert Fergusson at the 250th Anniversary of his Birth' on Tues 18 March 2025, 16:00 - 17:30 at the University of Aberdeen. The event is hybrid, for more details, see the link below: abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-eve…

A range of part-time in-person and virtual group project-based internships with various lengths and eligibility requirements are now open for applications. Please check the website for more information: abdn.io/1ka. Applications close on the 24th March.

Don't forget to submit your abstract for our annual conference 'Universalism and Locality in Nineteenth-Century Ireland' Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies Deadline 17 March! For more see ssnci.org/annual-confere… #irishstudies

⏰⏰⏰IASIL 2025 ⏰⏰⏰ CFP Closing MARCH 19 University of Galway: Technology and Ireland 21-25 July #IrishStudies Full cfp here: iasil.org/conference-202… IASIL IASIL Postgraduates

Call for papers closes 31 March

Reminder - Prof Rhona Brown will be giving at talk in Aberdeen today about all things #ProjectFergusson!

A ceremony to repatriate Tasmanian ancestral remains held in University of Aberdeen collections since the 1850s will take place on 21 March. The University contacted the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre in 2019, which led to a proposal to return the remains of a young man. This was

The LLMVC School is delighted to offer the New Kings Studentship to new Postgraduate Research students starting their studies with us between September 2025 and August 2026. 🎓💻📔 ⏰ The first deadline is tomorrow!!! ⏰ Read the full T&Cs below! abdn.ac.uk/llmvc/scholars…

Whilst you'll still be able to check up on us on us here, RIISS is moving to platforms new. If you find your're not using this platform so much anymore you can keep in touch on Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies.bsky.social or we're AbdnRIISS on Facebook.

Meal a naidheachd dhan Àrd-ollamh na Gàidhlig, Michelle NicLeòid, airson a dreuchd mar cheannard air Sgoil Cànain, Litreachais, Ceòl, agus Cultar Lèirsinneach! Gur math a thèid leibh, Michelle! abdn.ac.uk/staffnet/news-…

Our next JST #JacobiteStudies workshop is upon us on Tue, 8 April at 5pm UKT; we'll be welcoming Dr Katarzyna Gmerek, who will update us on her longstanding research into the Jacobite O’Byrn family through their movements from Ireland to Central Europe. jdb1745.net/events/jstwork…

We're hugely excited to welcome SSNCI. Join us if you can!

If you can't wait for the 2025 WayWORD Festival to kick off in the autumn, there are some exciting events in their "Spring Into Summer" programme, over the next few weeks! WayWORD Festival waywordfestival.com

J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit' can now be read in Scottish Gaelic, thanks to the efforts of an University of Aberdeen prof. Read about his work, & his future plans to translate texts by H.G. Wells & Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into Scottish Gaelic. thenational.scot/news/25112006.… #scottishsfu

University of Aberdeen graduates (with Home or RUK fee status) can now study a full-time, on-campus postgraduate programme for just £7,000 thanks to our new Alumni Postgraduate Scholarship. This offer also includes conversion programmes designed to help you pivot into growing