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Back to Basics: Demystifying Publications

September 25, 2025Leave a comment

This week, Resident Blogger Emma unpacks everything you need to know about academic publishing...

On Side Projects: How Much is Too Much? And Other Questions to Consider

September 18, 2025September 17, 2025Leave a comment

This week, Resident Blogger Emma talks about side projects: When should I take them on, and when should I leave them be?....

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Introducing the ‘Scottish 17th Century Research Group’ – Not Just for Historians!

September 9, 2025September 9, 2025Leave a comment

Building a Cross-disciplinary PGR Network – and Why You Might Want To!

A Letter to My First Year Self: Part 2

September 4, 2025Leave a comment

This week, a group of 3 doctoral and early career researchers share what they wish they would have known going into the first year of their PhD...

A Letter to My First Year Self: Part 1

August 28, 2025August 28, 2025Leave a comment

This week, Resident Blogger Emma shares what she wishes she had known when she started her PhD by writing a letter to her 'first year self'...

Back to Basics: Conferences, Presentations, Networking – Oh My!

August 21, 2025Leave a comment

This week, Resident Blogger Emma prepares for her very first conference as a PhD Researcher, reflecting back on mistakes from her first conference experience prior to the PhD...

Coming Off SSRIs During the PhD

August 14, 2025August 14, 2025Leave a comment

This week, Resident Blogger Emma writes candidly about her experience of being weaned off anti-anxiety medication amidst the PhD...

Why I Left Academia

August 7, 2025August 7, 2025Leave a comment

This week, guest blogger Callum Simpson shares his story about starting a PhD, leaving a PhD, and re-discovering his passion in the process...

The EARTH Scholarship Programme: Researching With Discipline: On Care, Context, and Interdisciplinary Ethics

July 31, 2025July 31, 2025Leave a comment

This week, international PhD Researchers David Ogoru (USA) and Zahra Tootonsab (Canada) wrap up a three-part series reflecting on the 2025 EARTH Scholarship Programme. Through their respective research practices, David and Zahra unpack the side effects of merging disciplines, which can often result in ethics and care falling by the wayside...

The EARTH Scholarship Programme: The Value of Dipping Into Other Disciplines

July 24, 2025July 28, 2025Leave a comment

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...

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