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PhD Student wins prestigious Prix du Québec
Congratulations to Carley Williams, PhD student at the Elphinstone Institute, for winning the prestigious 'Prix du Québec' for her upcoming project, 'Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Comparative Study of Québec and Scotland'. The prize, which is awarded by the Québec Government, promotes academic studies dealing with issues relating to the province. Carley...
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PhD students in the news
Rod Nicol and Athanasios (Sakis) Barmpalexis were both recently in the spotlight of Aberdeen newspaper The Press and Journal. Rod's research on the folk memory of the Piper Alpha disaster was featured in an article on 14 April. Sakis's research on shamanism in the North-East was featured in an article on 16...
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Elphinstone Institute Newsletter Spring 2016
We are pleased to announce that the Elphinstone Institute's spring 2016 newsletter is now available to download. A hard copy of the newsletter can also be picked up at the Elphinstone Institute, in the MacRobert Building. In this term's newsletter you will find a tribute to our dearly missed colleague, Bill...
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Pat Ballantyne Successfully Defends PhD Thesis
Congratulations to Pat Ballantyne, who has successfully defended her PhD thesis! We are all very proud of and happy for Pat, whose thesis is titled 'Regulation and Reaction: The Development of Scottish Traditional Dance with Particular Reference to Aberdeenshire, from 1805 to the Present Day'. In addition to doing vital research on dance,...