Meet Siún Carden, researcher with the University of the Highlands and Islands, Shetland.
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Originally from Co. Down, Siún arrived in Shetland in 2016 as a research fellow with the idyllically named Centre for Island Creativity.
After a stint at Queens and a lecture series on knitting, a job devoted to knitting research seemed too good to be true. A midnight journey on the overnight ferry from Aberdeen and a successful interview later, Siún packed her bags and moved to the North Atlantic archipelego.
‘I assumed it would only be for a short time because I always really wanted to move to a bigger city. I was surprised that I absolutely loved Shetland.’
Long a place of travel and trade, blow-ins are not as unusual as one might expect.
‘There's a lot of migration in both directions. There are a lot of people here who started their lives elsewhere. People who were born here often have family all around the world and are very well travelled through the oil & fishing industries and the Merchant Navy & Navy. Because of boats, Shetland has always bee…
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