The challenges, experiences and everyday stuff of PhD life
When you go through grade school it is assumed your parents will be present in some way, shape or form. Parents are there to scold you for not submitting your homework, to praise you for getting a good mark, they're even there to wake you up in the morning to send you off to school … Continue reading Growing up and the PhD
This guest blog comes to us from Sarah Stewart, an AHRC funded researcher in recipient of the SGSAH Student Development Fund to attend the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) Summer School. Can art and its study meaningfully and significantly intervene in massive human suffering? The UNHCR reports 68.5 million people are now forcibly displaced worldwide, the highest … Continue reading The Arts and Forced Migration: An English Literature PhD student at the Refugee Studies Centre International Summer School
Writing is hard. Anyone that tells you otherwise is a dirty, dirty liar and you don't need that kind of negativity in your life. Or maybe I'm just super envious. I recently reopened my GoogleDrive to figure out where I left off on my PhD and other academic tasks before stepping away for health/life stuff, … Continue reading My First #remoteretreat Experience
Marta Nitecka Barche (PhD student at the University of Aberdeen) brings us this blog on the influential workshop ‘On the Border of Art and Language Teaching in the Multilingual World’ (BAALT 2018) she organised with PhD students Dobrochna Futro (University of Glasgow), and Deirdre MacKenna (University of Dundee) . This workshop took place on the … Continue reading After the workshop ‘On the Border of Art and Language Teaching in the Multilingual World’
Hi, I’m Brittnee, and welcome to my channel! Sorry to disappoint but no, the SGSAH blog is not suddenly turning into a vlog. However, I hope that over the next six months we can expand the type of media on this platform to include more photos, videos, and even podcasts. I have met a number … Continue reading The dawn of the cat.
This will be my last post as the resident blogger for SGSAH before passing it on to Brittnee. I’m excited for both you all and her. I have no doubt you’ll find her posts helpful, insightful, and interesting. I think just like the changing of the seasons the change will be refreshing, but it’s with … Continue reading Passing the Torch: Thoughts on legacy
Zuzanna Dominiak is a PhD candidate at Dundee and is currently undertaking research on the topic of Exhibiting Comics: Applying Creative and Technological Solutions to the Problems of Displaying Comic Art in Museums, Galleries and Visitor Attractions. Zuzanna also creates comics, which you will read more about in the post below. In April 2018 I … Continue reading Report of SGSAH funded research trip to Poland
We often think about intelligence, talent, or maybe even a bit of luck as the keys to academic success. But recently a presenter’s words at the SGSAH summer school struck and stuck with me. The workshop she was running was on prioritizing after the PhD. The workshop was honest and yet optimistic, filled with … Continue reading Resilience and Perseverance: The arch virtue of academia
Stefana Djokic is a first year History of Art PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh. Her PhD focuses on the role of art in US-Yugoslav relations during the Cold War, examining to what extent exhibitions of post-war US art in Yugoslavia were diplomatic tools, aimed at strengthening US-Yugoslav relations and transferring US cultural and … Continue reading SGSAH STUDENT DEVELOPMENT FUND: (RE)COLLECTING YUGOSLAVIA’S PAST IN LJUBLJANA AND BELGRADE, 10TH-25TH MAY 2018
I entered my PhD full of determination and expecting to hit the ground running. I knew what I wanted, and I was determined to make the most out of this opportunity. It felt like the clock started ticking the moment I stepped off the train in Dumfries. I was ready to get box ticking out … Continue reading Starting a PhD: 8 Things I wish I had known and Done
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