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At this event, hosted by UHI’s Professor David Worthington and Dr Louisa Taylor, you will find out about studying a postgraduate history masters at UHI’s centre for history, internationally renowned for research, teaching and community engagement in Highland, Scottish and wider world history.
In the 2023 Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey , UHI received a score of 92% for overall satisfaction. This result means that UHI achieved the highest rating of any Scottish university for the second consecutive year and are ranked third out of the 101 participating institutions across the UK.
Based in the cathedral town of Dornoch in Sutherland, we offer almost twenty undergraduate and postgraduate taught programmes with a range of flexible study options, including studying online. We also have a thriving postgraduate research community.
Additional info
At the event you will:
Meet our teaching staff
Hear from our current history students and graduates
Learn about UHI’s innovative teaching techniques – which we have developed over sixteen years
Discover more about our online masters programmes where students join us from all over the world and participate in lively staff-led discussions through our virtual learning environment.
We will discuss the four masters programmes starting this January:
MLitt History of the Highlands and Islands (full time and part time)
MLitt History (full time and part time)
MLitt History and Archaeology of the Highlands and Islands (part time)
MLitt Coastal and Maritime Societies and Cultures (part time)
Plus we also have a number of other humanities and social sciences related courses starting in September,
The main selling points of UHI’s masters degrees are the:
high degree of flexibility in terms of study load and methods of study
specialist subject modules reflecting staff research expertise
development of key skills in historiographical and primary source research
interdisciplinary nature of two of our degrees.