Following their presentation at the SGSAH Welcome Event 2025, guest blogger Dr Sarah Mackay shares their journey from a SGSAH-funded PhD to becoming a library curator.
Tag: PhD Experience
Slippery Realities: Researching Scotland’s Fishing Industry through Speculative Fiction
Guest blogger Marie-Chantal Hamrock shares their research-based artistic practice, exploring maritime cultures in Aberdeen, Peterhead and Fraserburgh.
Looking Back to Look Forward: Conversations on Living Proof: A Climate Story (2021) at the University of Edinburgh
In the first post of the ecologies strand, guest blogger Anna Stacey reflects on an Environmental Humanities Film Screening in partnership with Dr. Emily Munro and the National Library of Scotland.
‘Really, that’s it?’ The under- and overwhelming experience of finishing your PhD
Guest bloggers Julia Römer and Marly Muudeni Samuel reflect on their experiences of completing a PhD.
Reflections on a SGSAH-funded Internship tro mheadhan na Gàidhlig
This week, guest blogger Rebecca Madlener reflects on her 6 month-long SGSAH-funded Internship with Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba (Gaelic Place-names of Scotland)...
Precarity in Scottish HEIs, Continued…
This week, Resident Blogger Emma unpacks the ongoing 'financial crisis' at the University of Edinburgh. Featured image courtesy of BBC News.
Introducing the ‘Scottish 17th Century Research Group’ – Not Just for Historians!
Building a Cross-disciplinary PGR Network – and Why You Might Want To!
A Letter to My First Year Self: Part 2
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
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'...
Why I Left Academia
This week, guest blogger Callum Simpson shares his story about starting a PhD, leaving a PhD, and re-discovering his passion in the process...
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