This week, guest blogger Taylor Jeoffroy sheds some light on the current Scottish HEI funding crisis, sharing her personal experience as a PhD student at the University of Dundee and reflecting on the ways in which precarity in the sector affects postgraduate researchers directly (Featured image courtesy of The Courier)...
Tag: PhD Experience
Beyond Interdisciplinary: Does Disciplinarity Create Exclusion?
This week, guest blogger Hannah Duffew offers their take on interdisciplinary research through the lens of crip studies. Is it time for academia to move beyond discipline?
Spotlight on Interdisciplinary Research: Exploring ‘Audience’ Through a House in Torlum
This week, guest blogger Mhairi Ferrier writes about her work as an multidisciplinary researcher across archaeology, history and digital heritage. Here, she ponders her audience: What will the communities surrounding taighean-tughaidh take from her contributions to these respective fields?
Archiving as You Go Along: The (Un)expected Performativity of Documenting the PhD
Many PhD researchers decide to document their PhD research, but what about the PhD journey itself? This week, Emma shares how she's capturing #phdlife through a durational digital performance she calls 'Snippets of a PhD'...
Embodying Research Through Performance: In Conversation with Ashley Brown and Lori Delaney
Recently, we've seen quite a proliferation of research-driven performances in the SGSAH community. As part of our ‘In Conversation With’ series, resident blogger Emma Dorfman speaks to two PhD Researchers at the University of Glasgow, Ashley Brown and Lori Delaney, about their respective projects and navigating the intersections between humanities research and live performance-making.
Creating Change: Switching Supervisors in the Middle of My PhD Project
Guest blogger Julia Vallius writes about how she tackled one of the most difficult things a PhD student can go through within their project: changing supervisors. She shares the thought process behind this decision and how instigating this change empowered her and helped her project move forward.
A’ leantainn na sgeulachdan ghaisgeil air cruth-tire na h-Alba / Tracing Heroic Tales in the Scottish Landscape
This week, Ceit Langhorne invites you to the world of her PhD thesis: Gaelic-speaking Scotland and its heroic tales. She explains some of the meaning lost in translation between English and Gaelic, the importance of local culture in preserving heroic tales, and how she plans to work with local communities as part of her research. Be sure to read to the end, where Ceit links to her podcast and Gaelic short film.
Welcome to the Real World: Expectations and Self-Doubt in Your PhD
In this week's blog, Mengyuan Yue shares her wisdom and advice for making the transition from a Master's degree to a PhD, rethinking "perfection", and trusting yourself and your work.
How do I survive … my PhD supervisors?
In this week’s blog, Meike van Lit shares her advice on how to coordinate an interdisciplinary team, how to make the transition from Master's degree to PhD, and, more importantly, how to survive your PhD supervisors!
Writing Retreat with a Beat: Harmonising Productivity and Creativity 🎵🎶
In this week’s blog, guest author Eneida García Villanueva shares her reflections on organising and running a series of online writing retreats, and the surprising power of music to help you find your writing groove.
