Our guest post today comes from Lois Burke, a co-founder of the Postgraduate Gender Research Network of Scotland (PGRNS). Lois is completing her PhD in nineteenth-century girls’ life writing and literature at Edinburgh Napier University. PGRNS is a growing network, and will turn 1 year old in August. They have recently hosted events including a launch … Continue reading Reflections on the PGRNS Workshop
Monthly Roundup: May 2017
It is time for the May monthly round up on the SGSAH blog - bringing together a collection of blog posts, articles and other stuff that may be of interest to arts & humanities PhD students. We've had a slightly quieter month that usual here on the SGSAH blog while we made some changes to … Continue reading Monthly Roundup: May 2017
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
All Good Things
We have a bonus post this week; a farewell from SGSAH Director Jude on her last day in the post. Doing a PhD can be pretty scary at times, but if you are lucky enough to have people like Jude helping you through it, the PhD experience becomes much less scary and much more enjoyable. Good luck … Continue reading All Good Things
How To Look After Your PhD Student
Our guest post today comes from Birdie, a part time PhD assistant. Birdie is supposed to be working on creating a healthy but constructive work/life balance, but spends most of her time trying to make the work environment as difficult as possible. When she isn't "working", Birdie's main interests include tennis balls, snacks and shouting … Continue reading How To Look After Your PhD Student
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
Monthly Roundup: April 2017
It's time for our next monthly roundup! A collection of blog posts, podcasts, articles, conference CFPS, news stories and any other online content that may be of interest to PhD students working in the arts and humanities. We've been treated to some brilliant guest posts on the blog this month. First we had a report from Catherine Bateson, … Continue reading Monthly Roundup: April 2017
Civilians and the ‘other stuff’ of war and conflict: Conference Review
We have a bonus post on the blog this week! This review of the SGSAH funded War Through Other Stuff conference comes from Michael Reeve. Michael is a second-year doctoral researcher based at the Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull, with secondary supervision from Leeds Beckett University. Michael’s research interests are primarily the expression of … Continue reading Civilians and the ‘other stuff’ of war and conflict: Conference Review
