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Chamber and committees

University of the Highlands and Islands celebrates 10 years.

  • Submitted by: Gail Ross, Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party.
  • Date lodged: Monday, 08 February 2021
  • Motion reference: S5M-24089

That the Parliament recognises the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) as it celebrates its 10th anniversary of acquiring university status; further recognises that UHI has the largest student population in Scotland, educating c.40,000 students per annum; understands that UHI will mark this anniversary with a series of public virtual lectures and a social media competition; notes that some of the highlights of UHI research over the last decade include: re-growing ancient strains of barley for whisky distilling, improving the quality of water being released into the environment, minimising the risks to aquaculture by studying algal blooms, quantifying research on marine plastics, exploring the effect of climate change on blanket bog areas, improving liver cancer treatments, developing the first ever large-scale aircraft powered by variable-buoyancy propulsion, and engaging in deep research over socially unjust emigration due to land inequality in rural Scotland, and wishes UHI more success in the decades to come.


Supported by: Clare Adamson, Alasdair Allan, Jeremy Balfour, Alex Cole-Hamilton, Annabelle Ewing, John Finnie, Kenneth Gibson, Bill Kidd, Richard Lyle, Fulton MacGregor, Ruth Maguire, Gillian Martin, Liam McArthur, Stuart McMillan, Gil Paterson, Stewart Stevenson, David Torrance, Maureen Watt, Sandra White