Hello again all! After a series of amazing guest blogs this month, I thought we needed even more of a variety of voices on this blog, so starting this month we'll be bringing back the monthly roundups! These roundups really helped me engage remotely with the PhD world in Scotland and beyond during my first … Continue reading Monthly Roundup: September 2018
John David Minto is a 2nd year PhD candidate in English Literature based at the University of Dundee. His research adopts an existential approach to the concept of cultural well-being with a focus on everyday aesthetics and the related aesthetic theory of two seemingly dissimilar thinkers: William Morris and Martin Heidegger. The summer of 2018 … Continue reading In London with all things Morris
It can be hard to know where to start with your PhD, or how to start back up after some time away. Sometimes motivation is found through your friends encouragement, sometimes from your supervisors setting targets and goals with you, and sometimes it even comes from blogs such as this (I mean...hopefully you do!). One … Continue reading The Power of Empowerment
Blog post by Rebecca Jones (University of Strathclyde) Twitter: @scotwomencreate and @beckmjones A mother’s unmistakable and inimitable influence on a daughter’s creative imagination. The power of therapeutic making. Women driving community building, and the celebration and recognition of creative women whose contributions have been historically subsumed by those of their male relatives. On Friday 17thAugust … Continue reading Celebrating Women Creating Scotland!
Katey Warran is the recipient of an AHRC Creative Economy Studentship led by The University of Edinburgh in partnership with Queen Margaret University, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society. She is interested in bringing together the arts and sciences, with experience across a range of disciplines including arts and health, cultural sociology, philosophy and music. … Continue reading Finding peace in a frantic PhD
Annnd we're back! Hello again everyone! Did you miss me? I missed you. It has certainly been a minute, so let me explain. Have you ever had one of those days where it just feels like life piles and piles things on you and you make zero progress forward? How about one of those weeks? … Continue reading When ‘life’ happens
This guest blog comes to us from Sarah Stewart, an AHRC funded researcher in recipient of the SGSAH Student Development Fund to attend the Oxford Refugee Studies Centre (RSC) Summer School. Can art and its study meaningfully and significantly intervene in massive human suffering? The UNHCR reports 68.5 million people are now forcibly displaced worldwide, the highest … Continue reading The Arts and Forced Migration: An English Literature PhD student at the Refugee Studies Centre International Summer School
Writing is hard. Anyone that tells you otherwise is a dirty, dirty liar and you don't need that kind of negativity in your life. Or maybe I'm just super envious. I recently reopened my GoogleDrive to figure out where I left off on my PhD and other academic tasks before stepping away for health/life stuff, … Continue reading My First #remoteretreat Experience
It’s hard to believe that I’ve been blogging with SGSAH for almost six months. Next week I’ll compose the monthly round-up and after that I’m handing over to a new blogger who is sure to offer a very different perspective on the experience of being an Arts & Humanities PhD student in Scotland. I’ve loved … Continue reading My final SGSAH blog post!
Researching for a PhD in heritage tourism has forever altered my perspective on travelling. I’ve written about this before in relation to my annual family holiday to the island of Harris in the Outer Hebrides. This month, I had the chance to be a heritage tourist in a more distant location: India. I travelled to … Continue reading Being a heritage tourist in India
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