Stone Tools of Shetland: Experimental Felsite Project by Brendan O’Neill, Bernard Gilhooly, Gabriel Cooney

“…The Shetland Islands are the northernmost part of Britain, located northeast of the Orkney Islands and Scottish mainland. …”
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Migration, Education and Employment: Socio-Cultural Factors in Shaping Individual Decisions and Economic Outcomes in Orkney and Shetland by Rosie Alexander

“…Migration is a common feature of island experiences, with young people especially likely to migrate to mainland communities for education and employment opportunities. …”
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VIKING II, a Worldwide Observational Cohort of Volunteers with Northern Isles Ancestry by Shona Kerr, Rachel Edwards, David Buchanan, John Dean, Zosia Miedzybrodzka, James Wilson

“…They are known to be genetically distinct from mainland British populations. Methods and Analysis Online methods are being used to recruit ~4,000 people who have Northern Isles ancestry, living anywhere in the world. …”
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Increased ultra-rare variant load in an isolated Scottish population impacts exonic and regulatory regions. by Mihail Halachev, Alison Meynert, Martin S Taylor, Veronique Vitart, Shona M Kerr, Lucija Klaric, S. G. P. Consortium, Timothy J Aitman, Chris S Haley, James G Prendergast, Carys Pugh, David A Hume, Sarah E Harris, David C Liewald, Ian J Deary, Colin A Semple, James F Wilson

“…We present the first whole genome sequencing (WGS) study of the VIKING cohort, a representative collection of samples from the isolated Shetland population in northern Scotland, and explore how its genetic characteristics compare to a mainland Scottish population. …”
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The island effect: a sociospatial theory of health. by Kathryn Halliday

“…Background Birthweights are found to be significantly greater on Scottish islands compared to mainland Scotland. This ’island effect’ remains even after adjusting for numerous confounding factors (e.g. ethnicity, socioeconomic factors, smoking, pollutants) that dissolve any significant correlation between locations of varying degrees of rurality and birthweight on the mainland. …”
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Linguistic Island as an Environment Favouring Sustainable Development of Regional Language Varieties (Focus on Scots) by Alexander Ye. Pavlenko, Galina V. Pavlenko, Olga A. Stroganova

“…The Shetland dialect, as a vital variety having important differential features and performing a symbolic function in the community, also has a significant potential for development if the situation favours it.…”
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The status of harbour seals (<i>Phoca vitulina</i>) in the United Kingdom by Dave Thompson, Callan Duck, Mike E Lonergan

“…The populations along the north and northwest mainland coast were an exception, with numbers appearing to be stable. …”
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Large-scale forcing of the European Slope Current and associated inflows to the North Sea by R. Marsh, I. D. Haigh, S. A. Cunningham, M. E. Inall, M. Porter, B. I. Moat

“…Proxies for both Slope Current transport and Atlantic inflow to the North Sea are sought in sea level height differences across the FSC and between Shetland and the Scottish mainland (Wick). Variability of Slope Current transport on a wide range of timescales, from seasonal to multi-decadal, is implicit in sea level differences between Lerwick (Shetland) and Tórshavn (Faroes), in both tide gauge records from 1957 and a longer model hindcast spanning 1958–2012. …”
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A Typology of the Employment-Education-Location Challenges Facing Rural Island Youth by Gordon B. Cooke, Bui K. Petersen

“…We present a typology of ‘Stayers’ and ‘Leavers’ among rural island youth (aged 18-30) to illustrate their employment-education-location decision, based on semi-structured interviews with 30 young adults, and 81 older adults, in rural locations in Ireland, Newfoundland, Faroe Islands, and Shetland. Although there are exceptions, rural labour markets tend to be less diverse, and jobs in the primary sector, which have historically sustained these communities, face restructuring and decline in many places. …”
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Resolving tsunami wave dynamics: Integrating sedimentology and numerical modelling by Jon Hill, Graham Rush, Jeff Peakall, Michael Johnson, Luke Hodson, Natasha L. M. Barlow, Elisabeth T. Bowman, W. Roland Gehrels, David M. Hodgson, Georges Kesserwani

“…The resulting tsunami had estimated run‐up heights of around 10 to 20 m on the Norwegian coast, over 30 m in Shetland and 3 to 6 m on the Scottish mainland coast. …”
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Geophysical investigations on the continental shelf and slope north of Scotland by Watts, A

“…A gravity, magnetic and seismic reflection survey of the continental shelf and slope around the Orkneys, Hebrides and Shetlands was completed by Durham University on RRV John Murray in 1968. …”