On 4th and 16th March 2021, Alastair Mackie and Amandine le Maire were involved in a Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities’ workshop for PhD students in arts and humanities disciplines on ethnographic research methods, organised by the University of Aberdeen and Heriot-Watt University. During the two online sessions, they introduced research methods that … Continue reading Workshopping Ethnographic Research Methods: A SGSAH Report
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How to Be an International Scholar (Even While Staying Home)
In this guest post, University of Edinburgh PhD researcher Vesna Curlic explains the importance of internationalisation in our research and practice, and gives advice on how to apply a global mindset to our work. What does it mean to be an international researcher? This, like most questions that academics deal with, is a question that … Continue reading How to Be an International Scholar (Even While Staying Home)
5 Minutes with… Katie Hart
This is the first installment of our '5 minutes with...' series, where we interview PhD researchers across the arts and humanities in Scotland. Our first guest is Katie Hart from the University of Glasgow. What year of your PhD are you currently in? I'm in my second year! What’s the working title of your … Continue reading 5 Minutes with… Katie Hart
Confronting Shadows: Mindful and Ethical Communication of Sensitive Content
This blog post from Peter Tuka (University of Glasgow) summarizes the outcomes of the ‘Confronting Shadows: Mindful and Ethical Communication of Sensitive Content’ workshop that was held on 22nd November 2019 at St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art in Glasgow. The workshop was kindly supported by the Cohort Development Fund from SGSAH. ‘Confronting … Continue reading Confronting Shadows: Mindful and Ethical Communication of Sensitive Content
From Publishing to PhD
Hi all! I’m Chiara, and I’ll be running the SGSAH blog for the next six months. I’m a first-year PhD researcher at the University of Stirling. I’m still getting to grips with describing my research succinctly (perhaps that’s one of the things I’ll be able to improve on after speaking to more of you!) but … Continue reading From Publishing to PhD
Re-immersion into Spaces of Law: Reflecting on research, connections and seas of change
The elegant beauty of Golestan province, Iran. This week we have a guest post from Mika Schroder, a third year PhD student at the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance. Her key interests pertain to the recognition and safeguarding of community rights, knowledges and perspectives within decision-making processes. Her research explores the meaning and … Continue reading Re-immersion into Spaces of Law: Reflecting on research, connections and seas of change
PhDs get Personal
This week we look at a very important subject for our guest blog, written by Ewan Bowlby. Ewan is a doctoral student at the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA) in St Andrews. He is researching ways of using popular artworks to design new forms of art therapy which provide emotional, psychological and … Continue reading PhDs get Personal
Funding a Research Trip
This guest post comes from the Transatlantic experience of Kiefer Holland, and is essential reading for anyone at a Scottish HEI planning to fund a research trip! Kiefer is an English Literature PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh. His research looks at the writing and speeches of six nineteenth-century African American women: Jarena Lee, … Continue reading Funding a Research Trip
Freedom Road
This incredible guest post comes from Janine Mitchell. Janine Mitchell is starting the second year of her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling. Her practice-led research examines the ways in which archival material is analysed, selected and implemented in the creation of biographical narratives, and how this process negotiates the shifting boundaries of … Continue reading Freedom Road
A Graveyard Grabber of Grub
Hello! I'm Jimmy, and for the next six months, I'm running the SGSAH blog. I'm really excited to try some new things, and pretty nervous to fill Lizzie's shoes. I'm a first-year PhD researcher at the University of Stirling, looking at Gaelic and Welsh gravestones as a comparitive study of Celtic language funerary traditions (I … Continue reading A Graveyard Grabber of Grub