This month marks around a year since I completed my SGSAH internship – I can’t believe how fast the time has gone! Since a new round of internship and artist residency opportunities are now available (check them out here and here – they're open to all arts and humanities PhD students in Scotland, whatever your funding source!), … Continue reading Why you should consider doing an SGSAH internship
Today, sadly, is my final day as the SGSAH blogger. It has been an absolutely rollercoaster past 6 months, but I wouldn't have picked a better time to have the blogging role in my life as I now have a paper trail of my progress over that time, as well as the proof I can … Continue reading Final thoughts on blogging
Allyson Keehan is a PhD Candidate in Fine Art Painting at Glasgow School of Art. From January to June 2018, she completed a Doctoral Internship supported by SGSAH as a Programme Researcher at Hospitalfield. | w: www.allysonkeehan.com | t: allysonkeehan We are always seeking new guest bloggers! If you have an idea for a blog post or would like to informally discuss writing … Continue reading Photo-journal of a Doctoral Internship
PhD's are not a straightforward experience of writing a thesis and passing a viva. The path to a PhD has all kinds of twists and turns and can even throw you for a loop. While there may have been some kind of expectation that you might get to do GTA work as a PhD student, … Continue reading Upcoming Opportunities: Internships and Artist Residencies
Olivia Hicks is based at the University of Dundee, and is currently in the second year of her PhD. Her research focuses on the superheroine in British and American girls' comics. You can follow her on twitter @missoliviahick and read more blog posts by her at Britishgirlscomics101.tumblr.com I recently had the opportunity to spend three … Continue reading Getting the Most Out of an Internship: Comics and the British Library
This blog comes from Rebecca Mason, a PhD candidate in History at the University of Glasgow. Her PhD research, entitled “Wives and the Defence of Property in Early Modern Scotland”, explores how ‘ordinary’ married women litigated within competing jurisdictions in defence of their property during the early modern period, and how their access to justice … Continue reading SGSAH Doctoral Internship with the Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service
I have been a volunteer or an intern for the entire duration of my PhD, fitting one day of museum work into every week of academic writing, research and admin. As my museum role gradually comes to an end - I'll be finishing up in the next couple of months - this seemed an opportune time to … Continue reading Volunteering, Interning & the PhD
Our post today is by Fiona Dakin, a PhD student in French at the University of St Andrews. She is currently researching illustrated editions of Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du mal. As a SGSAH student, she was provided with the opportunity to devise her own internship, so she contacted the curation team at London’s House … Continue reading House of Illustration Curation Internship: A Day in the Life
In January Nicola Martin and Nell Widger become ‘Futures Fellows’ at Scotland’s Futures Forum, a public policy think-tank based at the Scottish Parliament. The Forum works to promote research and stimulate debate on the long-term challenges and opportunities Scotland faces, with the aim of informing MSPs and others, and enabling them to consider the effects … Continue reading Being a Scotland Futures Forum Intern: First Thoughts
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