The challenges, experiences and everyday stuff of PhD life
I (Aileen Lichtenstein) am a first year AHRC-funded PhD student in History at the University of Glasgow. I signed up to help organise the 7th Annual Glasgow University College of Arts Postgraduate Conference at the end of last year to get an idea what it is like to organise these events and to meet other … Continue reading Reflections and Lessons from Running a Conference
I wasn’t surprised when my writing came up in my annual review. My supervisor and I had identified my writing as an area that needed work. I was less nervous going into this year’s APR, but just before it began I was still going over my ‘proof’ that I had done my due-diligence in addressing … Continue reading Writing and Public Engagement: Finding your voice
My name is Frank Hayes and I’m the founder of the For Enjoyment Company, an art workshop company that provides totally accessible classes in Drawing, Photography and Printing. I studied for six years at Art College and have been involved in art ever since in one form or another including having my own illustration business. … Continue reading Accessible Art = Social Health
I’ve spoken a lot about the need for community, rest, and the value of the arts and humanities. While I was in Dumfries I found those things in an organization called Drawing for Enjoyment or DFE for short. I stumbled across it walking up the high street one day, new to Dumfries, and looking for … Continue reading Drawing for Enjoyment: Finding community and rediscovering humanity
If I could go back and give myself one piece of advice at the outset of my PhD, I’d tell myself to plan a trip, to plan lots of trips. I’ve known this from the start, but it’s only my recent trip to Oban and my upcoming trip to the Isle of Mull that has … Continue reading Plan a Trip: Destress, Recharge, and be more Productive
I’ve mentioned more than once how overwhelmed I feel by my PhD at times. There are publications, conference papers, grants, and public engagement pieces to write alongside your thesis, all to fulfil the undefined and amorphous goal of ‘employability’. Not to mention all those other logistical and bureaucratic tasks that need doing as well as … Continue reading Feeling Overwhelmed: 5 ways to manage yourself better
I (Aileen Lichtenstein) am a first year AHRC-funded PhD student in History at the University of Glasgow. I signed up to help organise the 7th Annual Glasgow University College of Arts Postgraduate Conference at the end of last year to get an idea what it is like to organise these events and to meet other … Continue reading Organise a conference they said – it’ll be fun, they said
This guest blog post is by Katerina Pantoula, a Year 2 PhD candidate in Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the processing of complex syntactic structures by bilingual children who speak English and Greek residing in the Scottish Lowlands, from which she collects primary linguistic data. Having received funding … Continue reading LINGUISTIC DATA COLLECTION: A FIELDTRIP AMIDST GREEK-SPEAKING CHILDREN
I get overwhelmed by my thesis regularly. It’s not necessarily because of how much work is involved in it, but more how much I want to do and accomplish. It seems every new article, book, or primary source I find peeks my interest and I see possible connections and articles. There’s a sense in which … Continue reading Laying a Foundation: Seeing your thesis as a beginning not an end
This guest post comes from Anastasia-Stavroula Valtadorou, a second-year, AHRC-funded doctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh. In November 2017 Anastasia-Stavroula was awarded a grant from the SGSAH Student Development Fund in order to take German language classes with a private tutor, native speaker of the German language. For the links to her personal social media pages … Continue reading Struggling with German: A Love-Hate Relationship!
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