This week's guest blog comes from Mona Bozdog, a second-year ARCS PhD candidate. As part of her PhD, which investigates the connections between video games and live performance, she designed a live performance that took as its starting point a video game, its design heuristics, aesthetics and mechanics. Mona took part in the Inchcolm Project, … Continue reading GUEST BLOG: The Inchcolm Project and Working with Others Pt. 1
Category: PhD Experience
The challenges, experiences and everyday stuff of PhD life
Talking Animals, Disney and the Sympathtic Imagination
Hello fellow PhDers! I'm literally falling over myself trying to get through my to do list this week (having such issue with settling back to work post-Christmas, ugh!) and as such I've decided to share a blog from my website instead of writing a new one. BUT it's relevant, since Zootropolis (aka Zootopia) just won best animated feature at the … Continue reading Talking Animals, Disney and the Sympathtic Imagination
Guest Post: Getting to Know Your Subject: Human Rights Film Festivals under ARCS Studentship
This week's guest post comes from Alexandra-Maria Colta, a PhD researcher at the Universities of Glasgow and St Andrews, in partnership with the Document Film Festival. Her project is an Applied Research Collaborative Studentship (ARCS) and she has kindly shared some insights into the ARCS experience. I think for many of us starting a PhD we first have to … Continue reading Guest Post: Getting to Know Your Subject: Human Rights Film Festivals under ARCS Studentship
New Term for a New Teacher
Happy new year, folks! I hope you've had a very restful break and you're pumped and ready to step once more onto the PhD carousel. I'm currently pepping myself up with a super strong coffee (rated SIX on the packet!) in order to face my inbox. Before I started this I considered writing a blog … Continue reading New Term for a New Teacher
Seasons Greetings from the SGSAH Blog!
Hopefully you've all signed off on work for the festive season now and you're chilling out on the sofa with a Baileys (yes, I know it's only lunchtime, but 'tis the season) and a good movie. I'm currently watching the classic 2006 Christmas romp, Deck the Halls (which has an average rating of 6% on … Continue reading Seasons Greetings from the SGSAH Blog!
GUEST POST: Some thoughts for new PhD students
This week's guest post comes from Lydia Murtezaoglu, a new PhD student in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. Lydia offers an excellent insight into her experiences of starting the PhD and how daunting that can be. Starting a PhD is challenging, as I knew it would be. You are embarking on your greatest academic … Continue reading GUEST POST: Some thoughts for new PhD students
‘Postdoctoral Careers Beyond Academia’
Since I'm free of D.H. Lawrence (for now!) I've got a wee bit more free time on my hands to take part if real life, as well as attending more PhD-related events. So last Thursday I popped up to the University of Stirling to attended the 'Postdoctoral Careers Beyond Academia' event, organised by the Faculty of … Continue reading ‘Postdoctoral Careers Beyond Academia’
Guest Blogger: Beijing: the city of wonders
This week's guest blogger, Caterina Bellinetti, has written a really exciting, insightful piece about her recent trip to Beijing, which was funded by the SGSAH as part of the Speaking My Language programme. Caterina previously wrote about her experiences of the course and why it's great from PhD students. “Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again … Continue reading Guest Blogger: Beijing: the city of wonders
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year…
That's right, folks, it's funding application season! This week I have some excellent advice from this year's intake of SGSAH AHRC funded students, to help and encourage anyone in the process of composing a proposal. I also thought I'd share the story of my own funding journey, as a means of proving that dreams can come true with … Continue reading The Most Wonderful Time of the Year…
GUEST POST: Publishing in Research and Practice Workshop: Reflections
Joanna Foster is a practice-led PhD Researcher at DJCAD, University of Dundee. She has kindly shared her experiences of the recent SGSAH Publishing in Research & Practice Workshop, as well as some of her fantastic sketches. In September I took part in the SGSAH-run Publishing in Research & Practice Workshop, hosted by Stirling University. The … Continue reading GUEST POST: Publishing in Research and Practice Workshop: Reflections
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