Our guest blogger today is Mhairi Brennan. Mhairi is a second year PhD researcher in the Film and Television Department at the University of Glasgow. Her thesis focuses on BBC Scotland's television archive material pertaining to the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. Previously, she worked for several years as a television archive producer. You can find … Continue reading Writing a Current Thesis
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SGSAH Residencies: Researcher in Residence at Hospitalfield house
Today we have the final of our three posts by PhD students who have undertaken SGSAH research residencies this year. You can find out more about the residencies and other SGSAH opportunities here. Researcher in Residence at Hospitalfield House Our blogger today is Théophile Krosi-Douté. Théo is currently a PhD student at the University of Aberdeen. His … Continue reading SGSAH Residencies: Researcher in Residence at Hospitalfield house
SGSAH Residencies: Researcher in Residence at Cove Park
This week on the SGSAH blog we have a series of posts from students who undertook SGSAH funded residencies earlier this year. Yesterday we heard from Katerina Talianni, who was thinker in residence at Deveron Projects in Huntly. SGSAH Research Residency at Cove Park Our post today is by Daphne de Sonneville. Daphne is an artist and … Continue reading SGSAH Residencies: Researcher in Residence at Cove Park
SGSAH Residencies: Thinker in Residence at Deveron Projects
Earlier this year SGSAH funded three very special residency opportunities for PhD doctoral researchers working in the arts and humanities. Three students got to spend time with the selected partner organisations, focusing on their own research and development and simultaneously considering how the place, site, environment or experience linked to their PhD project. This week on … Continue reading SGSAH Residencies: Thinker in Residence at Deveron Projects
Imposter Syndrome at Hogwarts
Imposter syndrome is something that every normal PhD student faces at some point. It was one of the first things I blogged about when I was quite new to the world of academia. I didn't then realise how widespread this issue was, or how much you can achieve despite the regular pangs of inadequacy. I … Continue reading Imposter Syndrome at Hogwarts
That Time I went to Finland & Sweden and Took over 3500 Photos: Making the Most of Student Development Funding
Our guest blogger this week is Hannah Yoken. Hannah is a Finnish-American SGSAH / AHRC funded PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow researching transnational Nordic feminism. Her PhD project is titled 'From peripheral to paragon? The transnational development of Nordic feminism since the 1960s'. During her studies Hannah has specialised in the development of various social … Continue reading That Time I went to Finland & Sweden and Took over 3500 Photos: Making the Most of Student Development Funding
On being the only one
Our guest blogger this week is Diljeet Bhachu. Diljeet is a SGSAH-funded doctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh. Based in the Reid School of Music, she is currently researching how people learn to facilitate musical learning, specifically in primary school and community music contexts, with an interest in how lifelong and life-wide experiences shape … Continue reading On being the only one
How To Look After Your PhD Student
Our guest post today comes from Birdie, a part time PhD assistant. Birdie is supposed to be working on creating a healthy but constructive work/life balance, but spends most of her time trying to make the work environment as difficult as possible. When she isn't "working", Birdie's main interests include tennis balls, snacks and shouting … Continue reading How To Look After Your PhD Student
SGSAH Welcome Event 2016/17
Hello all. John here from the SGSAH office to give an update on how things are going at the world’s first national graduate school for the arts & humanities. As I’m sure you all saw from the deluge of promotion, we had our welcome event for 1st year PhD students last Friday. It was the … Continue reading SGSAH Welcome Event 2016/17
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