Person

Gibbon, Sarah Jane

1976

Sarah Jane graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1998 with a joint honours degree in Archaeology and History, following which, in 2000, she completed a research masters in Norse castles in Orkney. In 2006 she was awarded a doctorate in archaeology for which she studied Orkney’s medieval ecclesiastical landscape. She has worked as an archive assistant in the Orkney Library and Archive, lectured in cultural studies and archaeology at Orkney College UHI and was one of the three Big Orkney Song Project leaders. Currently she divides her time between self-employed historical and genealogical projects, archaeological projects with Orkney College, research, writing and singing songs, helping her husband Robert with their farm...)