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...
The EARTH Scholarship Programme: The humanities in times of crisis
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...
Somatics and Resilience in Times of Crisis: Researching through and with Trauma
This week, guest blogger Rosalind Masson shares the beginnings of her research journey, offering insight into the intersections between embodied practice and resilience after trauma...
Precarity in Scottish HEIs
This week, guest blogger Taylor Jeoffroy sheds some light on the current Scottish HEI funding crisis, sharing her personal experience as a PhD student at the University of Dundee and reflecting on the ways in which precarity in the sector affects postgraduate researchers directly (Featured image courtesy of The Courier)...
Beyond Interdisciplinary: Does Disciplinarity Create Exclusion?
This week, guest blogger Hannah Duffew offers their take on interdisciplinary research through the lens of crip studies. Is it time for academia to move beyond discipline?
Being an International Researcher is Hard, But Did It Just Get Harder?
This week, resident blogger Emma shares her experiences as an international student whilst unpacking the new government's immigration plans, questioning particular restrictions for students, and musing on how this might impact international PhD researchers in the future...
Spotlight on Interdisciplinary Research: Exploring ‘Audience’ Through a House in Torlum
This week, guest blogger Mhairi Ferrier writes about her work as an multidisciplinary researcher across archaeology, history and digital heritage. Here, she ponders her audience: What will the communities surrounding taighean-tughaidh take from her contributions to these respective fields?
Debunking the Progression: Here’s Why it Really Matters
End-of-year progressions, annual reviews, and 'updates' hang over the heads of many researchers this month. This week, Resident Blogger Emma shares her insights on the Annual Progression and why you should take it seriously...
Summer School Preview: ‘Zine Your Thesis
This week, guest blogger Dr Iain Taylor shares the curious intersection between 'zine-making and cultivating academic arguments...
Archiving as You Go Along: The (Un)expected Performativity of Documenting the PhD
Many PhD researchers decide to document their PhD research, but what about the PhD journey itself? This week, Emma shares how she's capturing #phdlife through a durational digital performance she calls 'Snippets of a PhD'...
