Building a Cross-disciplinary PGR Network – and Why You Might Want To!
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The EARTH Scholarship Programme: Researching With Discipline: On Care, Context, and Interdisciplinary Ethics
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
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...
The EARTH Scholarship Programme: The humanities in times of crisis
This week, PhD Researcher Lewis Wood kicks off a three-part series reflecting on the 2025 EARTH Scholarship Programme. In this post, he highlights the importance of critical reflexivity in precarious times and how his fellow EARTH Scholars have supported this ongoing endeavour...
Podcast your PhD
This guest blog comes from Ruth Salter (@RuthSalter), who is beginning the second year of her PhD at the University of Edinburgh researching the cultural-political position of the mid-twentieth century Scottish Folk Revival. The blog reflects on the highly acclaimed ‘Podcast Your PhD’, a SGSAH CDF sponsored masterclass which Ruth, Janine Mitchell (University of Stirling, … Continue reading Podcast your PhD
Edinburgh Early Modern Network
It's a guest blog! Here's Thom! My name is Thom Pritchard (yes, I like Radiohead a little bit too much), having completed my Master’s degree in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York, I came to the University of Edinburgh to pursue a PhD in Literature and History on the terrible preoccupations … Continue reading Edinburgh Early Modern Network
This is a Post About Languages
I'm lucky enough to have grown up speaking two languages, Welsh and English (we actually weren't allowed to speak English to our teachers in primary school outside English lessons). In secondary school I then learned a third, French. In my undergraduate degree I took a year of Ancient Greek, and I'm now learning Scots Gaelic … Continue reading This is a Post About Languages
The Dos and Don’ts of Public Engagement
Laura Beattie is a PhD student in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her research looks at ideas of community, citizenship, the household and the commonwealth in Shakespeare's comedies and she is interested more generally in ideas of citizenship and belonging. Recently I have been involved in running a public engagement project, initiated and led by … Continue reading The Dos and Don’ts of Public Engagement
The Spanish Civil War, Living History and Pan’s Labyrinth
This week’s guest post comes from Fraser Raeburn, a third-year PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh funded by the Wolfson Foundation, researching Scottish participation in the Spanish Civil War (1936-9). Alongside his research, he helps edit the Pubs and Publications blogging project on the PhD experience, and is the co-founder of the Scottish History Network. You … Continue reading The Spanish Civil War, Living History and Pan’s Labyrinth
Guest Blogger: Beijing: the city of wonders
This week's guest blogger, Caterina Bellinetti, has written a really exciting, insightful piece about her recent trip to Beijing, which was funded by the SGSAH as part of the Speaking My Language programme. Caterina previously wrote about her experiences of the course and why it's great from PhD students. “Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again … Continue reading Guest Blogger: Beijing: the city of wonders
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