The Elphinstone Institute is a centre for research, postgraduate study, and celebration of everyday culture in North-East Scotland and beyond. Staff and students use ethnographic methodologies to explore ideas of identity and belonging, meaning and function, drawing on an exceptional heritage of traditional music, ballad and song, story, lore and language, alongside the dynamic creativity of those who live and work here today. We are interested in how traditions and cultures are created, adapted, reinterpreted and renewed, to meet new and challenging circumstances.