This week, guest blogger Dr Iain Taylor shares the curious intersection between 'zine-making and cultivating academic arguments...
Tag: PhD life
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.
Introducing Emma Dorfman, SGSAH’s New Resident Blogger
This week, new resident blogger Emma Dorfman introduces herself as an interdisciplinary researcher and self-proclaimed theatre nerd who is no stranger to putting down new roots time and time again...
Beyond the Thesis: Engaging Ways to Share Your Research
If you’re looking for practical tips and inspiration on how to share your research—whether beyond your supervisory team or outside the academic sphere altogether—read on!
Writing a thesis on public transport
The PhD can be a journey in more than one way. In her last post as the SGSAH resident blogger, Ebba looks back on an unexpected delight of her doctoral years: short-distance travel.
The Best Advice You’ll Ever Receive?
Start off 2025 not with a resolution, but with a blog post that has the potential to change how you think about yourself and the place of other people's advice in your life.
Heartbreak and PhDs
A PhD can be a time of immense emotional as well as intellectual change. Following last week's post about falling in love, resident blogger Ebba writes this week about being heartbroken as a PhD student.
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.
Falling in love during the PhD
A PhD can be a time of immense emotional as well as intellectual change. This week's bonus post is about taking the time to fully process how you feel even when it seems easier to postpone these aspects of life until the thesis is out of the way. This is the first of a two-part series about emotion in the PhD by resident blogger Ebba, the second one about heartbreak coming out on 26 December.
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