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Building Community Through the SGSAH Doctoral Researcher Committee

June 19, 2026June 18, 2026Leave a comment

From Advocacy to Mobilisation to Organising What mechanisms are there for doctoral students to advocate, challenge, collectivise, and take agency both within and beyond the structures of higher education? How might we better take agency, use our advocacy, and form networks of solidarity and support? On 12 May 2026, we gathered at the University of … Continue reading Building Community Through the SGSAH Doctoral Researcher Committee

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Precarity in Scottish HEIs, Continued…

October 2, 2025Leave a comment

This week, Resident Blogger Emma unpacks the ongoing 'financial crisis' at the University of Edinburgh. Featured image courtesy of BBC News.

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Introducing the ‘Scottish 17th Century Research Group’ – Not Just for Historians!

September 9, 2025September 9, 2025Leave a comment

Building a Cross-disciplinary PGR Network – and Why You Might Want To!

A Letter to My First Year Self: Part 2

September 4, 2025Leave a comment

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

August 28, 2025August 28, 2025Leave a comment

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'...

Back to Basics: Conferences, Presentations, Networking – Oh My!

August 21, 2025Leave a comment

This week, Resident Blogger Emma prepares for her very first conference as a PhD Researcher, reflecting back on mistakes from her first conference experience prior to the PhD...

Coming Off SSRIs During the PhD

August 14, 2025August 14, 2025Leave a comment

This week, Resident Blogger Emma writes candidly about her experience of being weaned off anti-anxiety medication amidst the PhD...

The EARTH Scholarship Programme: Researching With Discipline: On Care, Context, and Interdisciplinary Ethics

July 31, 2025July 31, 2025Leave a comment

This week, international PhD Researchers David Ogoru (USA) and Zahra Tootonsab (Canada) wrap up a three-part series reflecting on the 2025 EARTH Scholarship Programme. Through their respective research practices, David and Zahra unpack the side effects of merging disciplines, which can often result in ethics and care falling by the wayside...

The EARTH Scholarship Programme: The Value of Dipping Into Other Disciplines

July 24, 2025July 28, 2025Leave a comment

This week, PhD Researcher Isobel Harvey continues a three-part series reflecting on the 2025 EARTH Scholarship Programme. In this post, she reflects on the benefits of engaging with different disciplines throughout the programme and how this has fed directly back into her own multidisciplinary research...

The EARTH Scholarship Programme: The humanities in times of crisis

July 17, 2025July 23, 2025Leave a comment

This week, PhD Researcher Lewis Wood kicks off a three-part series reflecting on the 2025 EARTH Scholarship Programme. In this post, he highlights the importance of critical reflexivity in precarious times and how his fellow EARTH Scholars have supported this ongoing endeavour...