The challenges, experiences and everyday stuff of PhD life
Sometimes it can be difficult to admit you're in over your head and need some assistance, but I'm sure we've all been there- including your supervisors. I know when I started out my PhD I felt like I was going to take on the world. I was going to be the PGR Representative, take a … Continue reading Asking for help
This blog post comes from Nora Epstein, PhD Student at the University of St Andrews, who co-organised and attended the Colour Printing by Example workshop, held at the University of Glasgow earlier this year. On May 2, PhD students, alongside librarians, and lecturers from universities around Scotland, took a breakneck tour of the history of … Continue reading Colour Printing by Example
Hello again all! After a series of amazing guest blogs this month, I thought we needed even more of a variety of voices on this blog, so starting this month we'll be bringing back the monthly roundups! These roundups really helped me engage remotely with the PhD world in Scotland and beyond during my first … Continue reading Monthly Roundup: September 2018
John David Minto is a 2nd year PhD candidate in English Literature based at the University of Dundee. His research adopts an existential approach to the concept of cultural well-being with a focus on everyday aesthetics and the related aesthetic theory of two seemingly dissimilar thinkers: William Morris and Martin Heidegger. The summer of 2018 … Continue reading In London with all things Morris
Allyson Keehan is a PhD Candidate in Fine Art Painting at Glasgow School of Art. From January to June 2018, she completed a Doctoral Internship supported by SGSAH as a Programme Researcher at Hospitalfield. | w: www.allysonkeehan.com | t: allysonkeehan We are always seeking new guest bloggers! If you have an idea for a blog post or would like to informally discuss writing … Continue reading Photo-journal of a Doctoral Internship
It can be hard to know where to start with your PhD, or how to start back up after some time away. Sometimes motivation is found through your friends encouragement, sometimes from your supervisors setting targets and goals with you, and sometimes it even comes from blogs such as this (I mean...hopefully you do!). One … Continue reading The Power of Empowerment
Blog post by Rebecca Jones (University of Strathclyde) Twitter: @scotwomencreate and @beckmjones A mother’s unmistakable and inimitable influence on a daughter’s creative imagination. The power of therapeutic making. Women driving community building, and the celebration and recognition of creative women whose contributions have been historically subsumed by those of their male relatives. On Friday 17thAugust … Continue reading Celebrating Women Creating Scotland!
Katey Warran is the recipient of an AHRC Creative Economy Studentship led by The University of Edinburgh in partnership with Queen Margaret University, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. She is interested in bringing together the arts and sciences, with experience across a range of disciplines including arts and health, cultural sociology, philosophy and music. … Continue reading Finding peace in a frantic PhD
PhD's are not a straightforward experience of writing a thesis and passing a viva. The path to a PhD has all kinds of twists and turns and can even throw you for a loop. While there may have been some kind of expectation that you might get to do GTA work as a PhD student, … Continue reading Upcoming Opportunities: Internships and Artist Residencies
Annnd we're back! Hello again everyone! Did you miss me? I missed you. It has certainly been a minute, so let me explain. Have you ever had one of those days where it just feels like life piles and piles things on you and you make zero progress forward? How about one of those weeks? … Continue reading When ‘life’ happens
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