Following their presentation at the SGSAH Welcome Event 2025, guest blogger Dr Sarah Mackay shares their journey from a SGSAH-funded PhD to becoming a library curator.
Category: PhD Experience
Slippery Realities: Researching Scotland’s Fishing Industry through Speculative Fiction
Guest blogger Marie-Chantal Hamrock shares their research-based artistic practice, exploring maritime cultures in Aberdeen, Peterhead and Fraserburgh.
Looking Back to Look Forward: Conversations on Living Proof: A Climate Story (2021) at the University of Edinburgh
In the first post of the ecologies strand, guest blogger Anna Stacey reflects on an Environmental Humanities Film Screening in partnership with Dr. Emily Munro and the National Library of Scotland.
Introducing Jelena Sofronijevic, SGSAH’s New Resident Blogger
New resident blogger Jelena Sofronijevic introduces their practice-based research and plans for the SGSAH platform...
‘Really, that’s it?’ The under- and overwhelming experience of finishing your PhD
Guest bloggers Julia Römer and Marly Muudeni Samuel reflect on their experiences of completing a PhD.
A Letter to My First Year Self: Part 2
This week, a group of 3 doctoral and early career researchers share what they wish they would have known going into the first year of their PhD...
A Letter to My First Year Self: Part 1
This week, Resident Blogger Emma shares what she wishes she had known when she started her PhD by writing a letter to her 'first year self'...
Coming Off SSRIs During the PhD
This week, Resident Blogger Emma writes candidly about her experience of being weaned off anti-anxiety medication amidst the PhD...
Why I Left Academia
This week, guest blogger Callum Simpson shares his story about starting a PhD, leaving a PhD, and re-discovering his passion in the process...
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...
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