Hello all. John here from the SGSAH office to give an update on how things are going at the world’s first national graduate school for the arts & humanities. As I’m sure you all saw from the deluge of promotion, we had our welcome event for 1st year PhD students last Friday. It was the … Continue reading SGSAH Welcome Event 2016/17
Category: Events, Projects, Conferences
Material Culture: The Stuff of Research
Hello! John here from the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities. Thought I’d steal the blog from Marianne for a minute to talk about our latest big event and to give an insight into what we’re up to behind the scenes. Monday sees the launch of our newest training course and everyone is involved … Continue reading Material Culture: The Stuff of Research
SGSAH Meet the Host Event
Last Thursday I went along to the City Arts Centre in Edinburgh to check out the SGSAH Meet the Host event, and to learn more about some of the opportunities available in this year’s Doctoral Internship/Artist-in-Residence programme. The event was great overall, and very busy. The City Arts Centre was an excellent venue – plenty … Continue reading SGSAH Meet the Host Event
Guest Blogger: Learning to share: research impact, public engagement and the SGSAH Summer Showcase
Lucie Whitmore is just heading into the final year of her SGSAH funded PhD at the University of Glasgow, interpreting women’s experiences of the 1914-1918 war through the clothes they wore. She is a costume intern at the Museum of Edinburgh, and previously worked as a research assistant on a historical embroidery project at Edinburgh … Continue reading Guest Blogger: Learning to share: research impact, public engagement and the SGSAH Summer Showcase
GUEST BLOGGER: SGSAH THEORIES OF KNOWLEDGE LECTURE SERIES—DR STEPHEN GREER
Dr Stephen Greer, Lecturer in Theatre Practices at the University of Glasgow, was a featured lecturer for the SGSAH 2016 Theories of Knowledge Lecture Series, speaking on Performance and Performativity. He was gracious enough to provide us with a blog of additional new insights that supplement and expand upon his lecture. Thinking about gender as a performance can draw our attention … Continue reading GUEST BLOGGER: SGSAH THEORIES OF KNOWLEDGE LECTURE SERIES—DR STEPHEN GREER
GUEST BLOGGER: WALKING WITH THE SCOTTISH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES—AN INSPIRATIONAL EXPERIENCE (PART ONE)
Matluba Khan, a PhD Candidate in Architecture and Landscape Architecture at University of Edinburgh's College of Art, speaks to the beginning of her journey toward being SGSAH's first Thinker-In-Residence, through participation in SGSAH's Policy Stories and Legacy Resources. ‘You have done a Ph.D. You have written a 100,000 word thesis. So what?’ Most PhD researchers in Arts and Humanities … Continue reading GUEST BLOGGER: WALKING WITH THE SCOTTISH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES—AN INSPIRATIONAL EXPERIENCE (PART ONE)
GUEST BLOGGER: SGSAH THEORIES OF KNOWLEDGE LECTURE SERIES—DR ANDREW HASS
Dr Andrew Hass of the University of Stirling was a featured lecturer for the SGSAH 2016 Theories of Knowledge Lecture Series, speaking on Sign & Structure. He was gracious enough to provide us with some related muses on "The Coming of Nothing." “Nothing will come of nothing.” We have all heard this phrase before. It … Continue reading GUEST BLOGGER: SGSAH THEORIES OF KNOWLEDGE LECTURE SERIES—DR ANDREW HASS
GUEST BLOGGER: SGSAH SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE—CHINESE TRACK
Caterina Bellinetti, a PhD Candidate at the University of Glasgow, speaks to her experience in the 2015-2016 SGSAH Speaking My Language Programme in Chinese. Learning a language is no easy business, as many of you likely well know. At one point or another, learning a language during a PhD proves possibly even more challenging than the PhD itself, … Continue reading GUEST BLOGGER: SGSAH SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE—CHINESE TRACK
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