Our latest guest blog comes from Charlie, a first-year PhD student in the Architecture by Design program at the University of Edinburgh. He is studying the architecture of prisons and the potential for such architecture to directly exert moral influence upon inmates. And he is tired of hearing references to Foucault. I went to the National Library … Continue reading Library antagonisms
Our latest guest blog comes from Charlie, a first-year PhD researcher in the Architecture By Design program at the University of Edinburgh. His research is on the architecture of prisons, and perhaps someday he will design you a new home. I’m a doctoral researcher studying the architecture of prisons with the goal of developing improved … Continue reading Meta-prisons, or, Imprisonizing introspections upon investigations of incarceration
Today's post is by Sam Grinsell, a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests lie in colonial cities and the built environment more broadly, and he also maintains a strong interest in digital pedagogy. His current research on British imperial architecture in the Nile valley is funded by the Society of Architectural Historians of Great … Continue reading Why do you work on that? Explaining how we arrive at our research topics
As part of the 2016 SGSAH Residencies Pilot, Matluba Khan joined the team at Deveron Arts in Huntly as their Thinker-in-Residence, which she discussed in two guest posts earlier in the year (read them here and here). This week we're very pleased to have an insight from the opposite side of the residency with an post … Continue reading GUEST POST: Reflections from a residency host
This week's guest post comes from Matluba Khan, who discusses her experiences as thinker-in-residence at Deveron Arts, a position funded by the SGSAH. You can find Part 1 of Matluba's story here. On the verge of being overwhelmed writing my PhD thesis, I decided to go for a short writing retreat in Berwick-upon-Tweed. I enjoyed … Continue reading GUEST BLOGGER: Walking with the SGSAH: The ‘Thinker’ Hat of Mine (Part two)
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