Research students from three universities – Heriot-Watt, Robert Gordon, and UHI – share news of the progress of their work, hosted by Dr Mike Bell of Heriot-Watt University’s International Centre for Island Technology in the Stromness campus with its views out across the harbour to Graemsay, Hoy and Scapa Flow.

• Alona Roitershtein (Robert Gordon University): Sustainable tourism strategy evaluation: Orkney case study
• Katy Waring (Heriot-Watt University/ICIT): The green in the blue, meet Orkney’s ecosystem with superpowers (seagrass!)
• Flora Robertson (Heriot-Watt University/ICIT): The real power of communities: Assessing the indirect and social benefit of community owned and managed energy systems
• Henny Gunawan (Heriot-Watt University/ICIT): Designing project financing renewable energy systems in Eastern Indonesia – based on community energy
• Adele Lidderdale (UHI/Institute of Northern Studies): The National Islands Plan: a journey to transformational change for Scotland’s Islands?