This week on the SGSAH blog we have a series of posts from students who undertook SGSAH funded residencies earlier this year. Yesterday we heard from Katerina Talianni, who was thinker in residence at Deveron Projects in Huntly. SGSAH Research Residency at Cove Park Our post today is by Daphne de Sonneville. Daphne is an artist and … Continue reading SGSAH Residencies: Researcher in Residence at Cove Park
SGSAH Residencies: Thinker in Residence at Deveron Projects
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
Imposter Syndrome at Hogwarts
Imposter syndrome is something that every normal PhD student faces at some point. It was one of the first things I blogged about when I was quite new to the world of academia. I didn't then realise how widespread this issue was, or how much you can achieve despite the regular pangs of inadequacy. I … Continue reading Imposter Syndrome at Hogwarts
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
Monthly Roundup: June 2017
It has as usual been a busy month here on the SGSAH blog! To bring June to a close I have brought together various links that may be of interest, as well as recapping our posts of the last month. We started the month with a post from Lois Burke and the Postgraduate Gender Research … Continue reading Monthly Roundup: June 2017
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
On being the only one
Our guest blogger this week is Diljeet Bhachu. Diljeet is a SGSAH-funded doctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh. Based in the Reid School of Music, she is currently researching how people learn to facilitate musical learning, specifically in primary school and community music contexts, with an interest in how lifelong and life-wide experiences shape … Continue reading On being the only one
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
PhD-ing in Orkney: A slightly different experience
Andrea Blendl is working on a PhD titled “Runic Writing in the diaspora: expression of a Norse identity” funded by a SGSAH Applied Research Collaborative Studentship. She is based at the Centre for Nordic Studies in Orkney, other partners are Orkney Museum and the University of Aberdeen. Andrea moved to Kirkwall from Germany to pursue … Continue reading PhD-ing in Orkney: A slightly different experience
The PhD Top Ten
Welcome to the 100th post on the SGSAH blog! I (Lucie) have been the blogger in residence for SGSAH since February and I am so pleased to have reached this milestone! This blog is all about PhD life: research, opportunities and the PhD experience. In the last 16 months we have covered every subject from social … Continue reading The PhD Top Ten
