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.
Creative Writing and Your PhD
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'.
How Do You Ask Good Questions? In Conversation with Elysia Taylor-Hearn
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.
The Best Advice You’ll Ever Receive?
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.
Heartbreak and PhDs
A PhD can be a time of immense emotional as well as intellectual change. Following last week's post about falling in love, resident blogger Ebba writes this week about being heartbroken as a PhD student.
Creating Change: Switching Supervisors in the Middle of My PhD Project
Guest blogger Julia Vallius writes about how she tackled one of the most difficult things a PhD student can go through within their project: changing supervisors. She shares the thought process behind this decision and how instigating this change empowered her and helped her project move forward.
Falling in love during the PhD
A PhD can be a time of immense emotional as well as intellectual change. This week's bonus post is about taking the time to fully process how you feel even when it seems easier to postpone these aspects of life until the thesis is out of the way. This is the first of a two-part series about emotion in the PhD by resident blogger Ebba, the second one about heartbreak coming out on 26 December.
Historical Fiction and the History Discipline: In Conversation with Alyssa Benedetto
Dialogue is vital to the research community. In the fourth part of our ‘In conversation with’ series, resident blogger Ebba discusses historical fiction with Alyssa Benedetto, a PhD researcher combining the study of medieval history with creative writing and intersectional feminism.
Lifestyle and Gift Inspiration from Medieval Material Culture
There comes a point when your research and your life are so intertwined that the décor in your home and the presents you buy for others are directly inspired by your PhD. This week, resident blogger Ebba, in the hopes of becoming a medieval influencer, shares the hottest trends straight from the medieval period that she has been implementing in her own life - in case anyone is in need of last-minute gift inspiration ahead of the holidays.
What does it really mean when I feel ‘stupid’?
Imposter syndrome is widespread in academia. Resident blogger Ebba gives her perspective on what's actually going on in those moments when you feel like what you're saying is marking you out as a fraud, when you can't make your way into an academic discussion, or plainly when you start to harbour a secret suspicion that you're not smart enough to do a PhD.
SGSAH Blog 