The first public workshop for the TRANSECTS project was held in Stromness on 26th Feb 2025. Sixteen Orkney-based arts and heritage practitioners along with seven members of the project team were invited to explore creative practice and energy transitions and what this means for Orkney past and present. A team from the University of the … Read more
Coastal Futures 2025 was held at the Royal Geographical Society in London on 29-30 January 2025. The event was attended by 550 people in person, in addition to online attendees, representing UK and international policy, practitioners, industry and research/academia. From TRANSECTS Professor Tavis Potts and Dr Daryl Burdon attended the event. The theme of the … Read more
The TRANSECTS project team met with stakeholder partners and the project advisory group at the Sir Duncan Rice Library, University of Aberdeen (and online) on 27-28 August 2024 to formally kick-off the project. Two days of discussions focused on interdisciplinary collaboration and further refining the scope of research activities and methodologies to examine the effects … Read more
The use of whale oil for lighting in the 1800s and the production of oil and gas from the North Sea in the 1970s are to help inform scientists at Heriot-Watt University about the impact on coastal communities of past and present energy transitions. The research is one of four projects to share £14.8 million … Read more