SGSAH events, projects, news and funding
Parenting and PhDing, who said I had to choose? From discovering I was pregnant just three weeks into my PhD to navigating life as a mother of three, this year has taught me about rest, intentionality and the importance of community. In my final blog as SGSAH Blogger in Residence, I reflect on embracing motherhood and academia, learning to slow down and finding beauty in the process of becoming.
What good is a degree if all it produces is a greater degree of disconnect? Following a Stuart Hall Foundation gathering, I reflect on intellectual life, the power of academic knowledge and what happens when education triggers us to question the world, but not necessarily to change it.
Connecting with fellow SGSAH scholars aboard the Waverley, with Arran in the background. One of the things I have genuinely appreciated about being a Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) funded student is that my PhD experience has taken me beyond my laptop and university walls. As an international student, I have been … Continue reading Sometimes the PhD Needs You to Leave the Desk: My Year Two SGSAH Residential in Millport
There is something deeply hopeful about watching someone else reach the end while you are still standing near the beginning. Their graduation does not promise that your own journey will be easy or predictable, but it reminds you that the end is possible. Someone else once stood where you are standing now, unsure of how they would make it through, and somehow, they kept going.
As EARTH Scholars reconvened in Glasgow during Earth Day 2026, Harriet Crisp reflects on the impact of a unique international programme at the intersection of environmental arts and humanities.
This week, international PhD Researchers David Ogoru (USA) and Zahra Tootonsab (Canada) wrap up a three-part series reflecting on the 2025 EARTH Scholarship Programme. Through their respective research practices, David and Zahra unpack the side effects of merging disciplines, which can often result in ethics and care falling by the wayside...
This week, PhD Researcher Isobel Harvey continues a three-part series reflecting on the 2025 EARTH Scholarship Programme. In this post, she reflects on the benefits of engaging with different disciplines throughout the programme and how this has fed directly back into her own multidisciplinary research...
This week, PhD Researcher Lewis Wood kicks off a three-part series reflecting on the 2025 EARTH Scholarship Programme. In this post, he highlights the importance of critical reflexivity in precarious times and how his fellow EARTH Scholars have supported this ongoing endeavour...
This week, guest blogger Dr Iain Taylor shares the curious intersection between 'zine-making and cultivating academic arguments...
If you’re looking for practical tips and inspiration on how to share your research—whether beyond your supervisory team or outside the academic sphere altogether—read on!
