Recently, we've seen quite a proliferation of research-driven performances in the SGSAH community. As part of our ‘In Conversation With’ series, resident blogger Emma Dorfman speaks to two PhD Researchers at the University of Glasgow, Ashley Brown and Lori Delaney, about their respective projects and navigating the intersections between humanities research and live performance-making.
This week, new resident blogger Emma Dorfman introduces herself as an interdisciplinary researcher and self-proclaimed theatre nerd who is no stranger to putting down new roots time and time again...
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!
The PhD can be a journey in more than one way. In her last post as the SGSAH resident blogger, Ebba looks back on an unexpected delight of her doctoral years: short-distance travel.
Receiving and giving feedback is a central aspect of academia, and we all need to develop strategies to deal with this aspect of the PhD experience. With a view to understanding the world of feedback and reviews as its own distinct corner of our research culture, resident blogger Ebba shares her advice for how to behave in situations involving feedback and what concrete things researchers can do to gain familiarity with the world of feedback and reviews.
Manal Shqair, this week’s guest blogger, writes about her doctoral work which engages with the pastoralist women of Masafer Yatta, Palestine. Reflecting on her roots and the positionality of the activist researcher, Manal describes how she came to her research and her experience of carrying out interviews amid violence and marginalisation.
This week, resident blogger Ebba wonders if there is a divide between senior and junior academics, what that divide consists of, and whether the universalised value of subverting and challenging the old is always the most fruitful in academia.
Resident blogger Ebba writes this week about how creative writing can help researchers in their work, be it in terms of taking writing advice from creative writing professionals, practising empathy in their work, or exploring how their research assumptions play out 'in action'.
Dialogue is vital to the research community. In our ‘In Conversation With’ series, resident blogger Ebba explores different topics with other researchers and professionals in a dialogue format. This week, she speaks to journalist and Glasgow graduate Elysia Taylor-Hearn about how to ask good questions at conferences and other events where academics interact with each other’s work in person.
Start off 2025 not with a resolution, but with a blog post that has the potential to change how you think about yourself and the place of other people's advice in your life.
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