This week, guest blogger Rebecca Madlener reflects on her 6 month-long SGSAH-funded Internship with Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba (Gaelic Place-names of Scotland)...
Category: Internships and Research Trips
The EARTH Scholarship Programme: Researching With Discipline: On Care, Context, and Interdisciplinary Ethics
This week, international PhD Researchers David Ogoru (USA) and Zahra Tootonsab (Canada) wrap up a three-part series reflecting on the 2025 EARTH Scholarship Programme. Through their respective research practices, David and Zahra unpack the side effects of merging disciplines, which can often result in ethics and care falling by the wayside...
The EARTH Scholarship Programme: The Value of Dipping Into Other Disciplines
This week, PhD Researcher Isobel Harvey continues a three-part series reflecting on the 2025 EARTH Scholarship Programme. In this post, she reflects on the benefits of engaging with different disciplines throughout the programme and how this has fed directly back into her own multidisciplinary research...
The EARTH Scholarship Programme: The humanities in times of crisis
This week, PhD Researcher Lewis Wood kicks off a three-part series reflecting on the 2025 EARTH Scholarship Programme. In this post, he highlights the importance of critical reflexivity in precarious times and how his fellow EARTH Scholars have supported this ongoing endeavour...
Turning historical legal records into stories
To conclude her recent SGSAH internship, resident blogger Ebba reflects on her creative work at the Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives. She discusses how the City's historical women inspired her fiction, balancing research with creative licence to maintain narrative tension, and unpacks the development of a tarot card deck based on Aberdeen's medieval records.
Finding focus at Cove Park Creative Residencies 2024
This week, guest blogger Matthew Floyd writes about his residency at Cove Park and how this opportunity helped him find focus and creativity as he shifted from part time to full time studies. For those hoping to undertake a residency of this sort in the future, reading Matthew's post is a great way to find out more about Cove Park and what to expect from a week at this scenic and inspiring artistic haven.
What’s a street for? Public spaces and cultural outreach
Reflecting on her current SGSAH-internship with the Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire Archives, resident blogger Ebba shares her process of brainstorming public outreach ideas that highlight the existing strengths of a place or region rather than competing for space with established enterprises and creative practitioners. This exploratory post about roaming the streets of Aberdeen and Nairn aims to inspire the reader to let others into their own creative process sooner rather than later.
HIGHER ED & RACE EQUALITY
Photo by Godisable Jacob on Pexels.com “I read in research that blacks are lazy and not intelligent” - those were the words uttered by my classmate on the first day of my master’s programme. My heart sunk as I was the only black student in class and also because it was the first time in … Continue reading HIGHER ED & RACE EQUALITY
Gender Equality and the Postgraduate Community
In this first post for August's theme of Women in Research, Amy McTurk-Starkie introduces herself, her role as Gender Equality Doctoral Intern at University of St. Andrews, and the Athena Swan charter. She explains her current work on the initiative, and suggests ways in which you (and your HEI) can get involved. Photo by ThisIsEngineering … Continue reading Gender Equality and the Postgraduate Community
Academia Abroad: My Fellowship and Research Trip in California
This week's guest post is by Emma McCabe, a SGSAH-funded researcher at the University of Stirling, who was awarded a Holstein Dissertation Fellowship from the University of California, Riverside for the academic year 2021-2022. In this article, she details some of her adventures duringher visit. Having applied to The University of California, Riverside, for a … Continue reading Academia Abroad: My Fellowship and Research Trip in California
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