As the global environment changes, species are increasingly suffering mismatches between their seasonally timed movements and the conditions that they encounter. The long-distance migrations of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) from their natal rivers to their marine feeding grounds and back again are a charismatic example of such seasonally timed movements. The timings of both the outward and return migrations are heritable, and vary substantially within and among populations, likely reflecting selection to enter the marine environment when survival conditions are optimal and return to the freshwater when breeding success is maximized. Importantly, salmon cannot observe the conditions at their destination and must rely on proximate cues, in particular photoperiod, to schedule their migration. Globally, salmon migrations have advanced over recent decades, suggesting that phenological mismatch could be a factor in ongoing Atlantic salmon declines. How and whether a species can adjust its migratory timing to match new conditions depends on the underlying genetic architecture of this timing. SAL-MOVE will establish a global collaborative network of salmon researchers, collate existing datasets, and apply state-of-the-art genomic analysis to characterize the environmental correlates and genetic basis of Atlantic salmon migration timing throughout its range. This information will be combined with future climate scenarios in an eco-evolutionary modelling framework to predict how Atlantic salmon populations will be impacted by anthropogenic change via their migration phenotypes and genotypes. Results from SAL-MOVE will be used to directly guide management actions intended to increase the security of wild Atlantic salmon.

A partnership project between Sabhal Mor Ostaig UHI, Scotland's National Centre for Gaelic Language and Culture, and the online folklore archive Tobar an Dualchais, will analyse and unlock a rich collection of Gaelic-language folklore recordings from the Outer Hebrides, contextualising them within an extensive corpus of orally-derived material from the same areas dating back as far as 1859. Combining detailed case studies focusing upon individual items, genres, and informants and their genealogical connections, with wide-ranging, time-deep perspectives, the project will enable folklore to illustrate the islands' history, cultural patterns and trends, and demographic and environmental contexts.

Working in collaboration with partners in Spain, Sweden and Italy, the Gastrocert project will explore how the development of local gastronomy can help to protect rural heritage values, and how entrepreneurial culture can enhance locally produced food as a value-added touristic experience. Sustainable landscape management in rural areas requires the creation of opportunities that treat landscapes in the context of their historical, cultural and social factors. The growing popularity of gastronomy efforts, as part of broader sustainable tourism development strategies, calls for study of the dynamics between 'heritage', 'tourism' and 'creative entrepreneurship'. The objectives include understanding the important role that food plays in cultural identities and promotion of local and regional traditions. The project also emphasizes the significance of local knowledge, skills and practices regarding heritage assets and how experiential journeys through cultural landscapes promote gastronomic tourism. The project will entail high-quality, interdisciplinary and collaborative research that will enhance our understanding of the vitally important role that food plays in cultural identities and the appreciation and promotion of local and regional traditions. Gastronomic heritages - and the associated issues of rural and regional development - are truly interdisciplinary subjects that require appreciation of history, art, landscapes, environmental conservation and social structures. This project is designed to produce the following outcomes, which includes the direct transfer of study findings to SME's and policymakers: ? Reports on how local markets can be used to preserve and sustain local producers, while maintaining local identity. ? A blueprint for the development of regional gastronomic initiatives that involve SMEs, public bodies and destination marketing organisations. ? A toolkit on how SMEs can communicate the importance of landscapes and traditions through 'narratives'. ? Results synthesised into appropriate documentation and presented to policymakers, to develop a better understanding of how gastro-tourism can contribute to economic development and increased understanding and preservation of gastronomic cultural heritage.

This project explores theparadox of red deer; a species held as emblemic of the Highlands today, yet poorly understood in the deep past.Whilst regionalstudies along the Atlantic coast provide tantalising glimpses ofsporadictranslocation, herd management and even domesticationwithin University of the Highlands and IslandsSGSAH RD1: PhD Open Studentships 2022-23ApplicationPage 8of 15the prehistoric and protohistoric periods, this project will deliver the first nationalstudy of the relationship between red deer and peoplethrough time. Zooarchaeological approaches will be combined with an appraisal of the cultural significanceof red deer to explore variations in this relationshipacrossScotland, from its first peopling through tohighmedieveal times