Earlier this year SGSAH funded three very special residency opportunities for PhD doctoral researchers working in the arts and humanities. Three students got to spend time with the selected partner organisations, focusing on their own research and development and simultaneously considering how the place, site, environment or experience linked to their PhD project. This week on … Continue reading SGSAH Residencies: Thinker in Residence at Deveron Projects
Category: Research and Practice
That Time I went to Finland & Sweden and Took over 3500 Photos: Making the Most of Student Development Funding
Our guest blogger this week is Hannah Yoken. Hannah is a Finnish-American SGSAH / AHRC funded PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow researching transnational Nordic feminism. Her PhD project is titled 'From peripheral to paragon? The transnational development of Nordic feminism since the 1960s'. During her studies Hannah has specialised in the development of various social … Continue reading That Time I went to Finland & Sweden and Took over 3500 Photos: Making the Most of Student Development Funding
Being a feminist researcher
As many of you will be aware, this week the annual SGSAH Summer School took place in venues across Glasgow. It is such a great opportunity to take part in some PhD related training events and creative workshops, and to catch up with PhD peers from across Scotland. There is a real sense of community … Continue reading Being a feminist researcher
The Pleasure in Stuff
On Monday I attended the 'Stuff of Research' symposium at Kelvinhall in Glasgow, the culmination of the year long material culture research programme organised by SGSAH. (You can find out more about the programme and previous events in these blog posts: here, here and here.) The day was organised by students who had taken part … Continue reading The Pleasure in Stuff
What to do when your research becomes relevant
Rebecca Hasler is currently completing a PhD in the School of English at St Andrews. Her research, which is funded by SGSAH, concerns the development of documentary and mockumentary in early modern pamphlets. More broadly, she is interested in the role of genre in interpretation. Follow her on twitter @RLHasler. How are a collection of … Continue reading What to do when your research becomes relevant
Poetry, performance and place: a postcard from Dundee
This post was written by Erin Farley, a second year PhD candidate at the University of Strathclyde on the Collaborative Doctoral Award project “Poetry, Song and Community in the Industrial City: Victorian Dundee,” in partnership with Dundee Central Library. Her research focuses on how the composition, performance and reception of poetry and song reflected and … Continue reading Poetry, performance and place: a postcard from Dundee
Publishing as a PhD student
Our blogpost today comes from Alison Mayne. Alison lives near Falkirk and is a doctoral researcher at Sheffield Hallam University. Her PhD study explores women’s perceptions of wellbeing as they craft alone but share to social media. She has published in conference proceedings for Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities 2015, a journal article in Craft Research … Continue reading Publishing as a PhD student
Volunteering, Interning & the PhD
I have been a volunteer or an intern for the entire duration of my PhD, fitting one day of museum work into every week of academic writing, research and admin. As my museum role gradually comes to an end - I'll be finishing up in the next couple of months - this seemed an opportune time to … Continue reading Volunteering, Interning & the PhD
The [self-styled] PhD writing retreat
For the last week I have been away on a holiday/writing retreat in the Highlands, a chance to get away from Edinburgh and my usual daily routines, and focus on getting some solid chunks of writing done. In this post I am going to talk a little bit about the benefits of planning your own … Continue reading The [self-styled] PhD writing retreat
The Stuff of Research: Putting material culture in practice
Our second post on the SGSAH Material Culture programme, 'The Stuff of Research', comes from Alexandra Chiriac. Alexandra is a second year PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews, funded through the SGSAH AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership. She is researching the impact of modernism on stage design and interior design in Romania in the 1920s … Continue reading The Stuff of Research: Putting material culture in practice
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