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Beyond Interdisciplinary: Does Disciplinarity Create Exclusion?

June 26, 2025June 26, 2025Leave a comment

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?

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Spotlight on Interdisciplinary Research: Exploring ‘Audience’ Through a House in Torlum

June 11, 2025November 11, 2025Leave a comment

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?

Debunking the Progression: Here’s Why it Really Matters

June 5, 2025Leave a comment

End-of-year progressions, annual reviews, and 'updates' hang over the heads of many researchers this month. This week, Resident Blogger Emma shares her insights on the Annual Progression and why you should take it seriously...

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Summer School Preview: ‘Zine Your Thesis

May 28, 2025May 27, 2025Leave a comment

This week, guest blogger Dr Iain Taylor shares the curious intersection between 'zine-making and cultivating academic arguments...

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Archiving as You Go Along: The (Un)expected Performativity of Documenting the PhD

May 21, 2025May 27, 2025Leave a comment

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'...

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Beyond the Thesis: Engaging Ways to Share Your Research

March 24, 2025March 24, 2025Leave a comment

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

February 10, 2025January 31, 2025Leave a comment

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.

Activist Ethnography in Palestine: The Dilemma of the Researcher’s In-Between Positionality

January 27, 2025January 27, 2025Leave a comment

Manal Shqair, this week’s guest blogger, writes about her doctoral work which engages with the pastoralist women of Masafer Yatta, Palestine. Reflecting on her roots and the positionality of the activist researcher, Manal describes how she came to her research and her experience of carrying out interviews amid violence and marginalisation.

Creative Writing and Your PhD

January 13, 2025January 15, 2025Leave a comment

Resident blogger Ebba writes this week about how creative writing can help researchers in their work, be it in terms of taking writing advice from creative writing professionals, practising empathy in their work, or exploring how their research assumptions play out 'in action'.

Historical Fiction and the History Discipline: In Conversation with Alyssa Benedetto

December 16, 2024January 31, 2025Leave a comment

Dialogue is vital to the research community. In the fourth part of our ‘In conversation with’ series, resident blogger Ebba discusses historical fiction with Alyssa Benedetto, a PhD researcher combining the study of medieval history with creative writing and intersectional feminism.

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