On 4th and 16th March 2021, Alastair Mackie and Amandine le Maire were involved in a Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities’ workshop for PhD students in arts and humanities disciplines on ethnographic research methods, organised by the University of Aberdeen and Heriot-Watt University. During the two online sessions, they introduced research methods that … Continue reading Workshopping Ethnographic Research Methods: A SGSAH Report
Hello! I'm Jimmy, and for the next six months, I'm running the SGSAH blog. I'm really excited to try some new things, and pretty nervous to fill Lizzie's shoes. I'm a first-year PhD researcher at the University of Stirling, looking at Gaelic and Welsh gravestones as a comparitive study of Celtic language funerary traditions (I … Continue reading A Graveyard Grabber of Grub
This guest blog comes from Emma Brunton, a first-year PhD student at the University of Glasgow. Her thesis is titled: ‘Transformations in women’s spiritual power from precolonial to early colonial Rwanda’. Here, she discusses her experience conducting fieldwork from May to June of 2019. When I started my PhD about eight months ago, I knew … Continue reading Research in Rome
Mika Schroder is in the second year of her PhD at the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance. Her research explores the meaning and practice of the ‘participation’ of ‘local stakeholders’ within international biodiversity law from the perspective of spatial justice and ethics. This is the second of two posts related to her AHRC … Continue reading Immersion into spaces of law: Experiences from international legal negotiations
