In the next post from the British Council Scotland SGSAH EARTH Scholarship Scheme series, guest blogger Marta Kucza details her experimental fieldwork in Estonia and Scotland.
Tag: Philosophy
Oil Pigs: The Moving Energy Theatre and ‘Performing the Archive’ in Shetland
In the first in a series of posts from the British Council Scotland SGSAH EARTH Scholarship Scheme, guest blogger Miriam Sentler shares thoughts about her creative research methodology in the context of Shetland’s changing energy landscapes and industries.
Reflecting on the British Council Scotland SGSAH EARTH Scholarships
Ahead of the EARTH Scholarships Impact Symposium in April 2026, and continuing the ecologies strand, resident blogger Jelena Sofronijevic introduces a series of posts from this year’s cohort.
Armchair experts and saving the world: disillusionment about academia and philosophy
This week, Joyce Fungo reflects on the inequalities that inevitably shape knowledge production within the field of Philosophy and in academia more generally, which became evident to her when she moved from the Philippines to Scotland to do her PhD in 2021.
5 Minutes With… Adriana Alcaraz-Sánchez
In this series we interview PhD researchers across the arts and humanities in Scotland, and throughout the month of March we're putting a special focus on women-identifying researchers. In this post, we hear from Adriana Alcaraz-Sánchez, who is a PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow. What year are you in, and at what school? … Continue reading 5 Minutes With… Adriana Alcaraz-Sánchez
Doing Philosophy in Public
Claire Field (@fieldclaire) and Ethan Landes are PhD students in Philosophy on the University of St Andrews and University of Stirling joint programme. This workshop series was made possible by funding from SGSAH. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/publicphilnetwork/ It’s never been a better time to be a philosopher. At least, a cursory glance at a newspaper provides a cornucopia … Continue reading Doing Philosophy in Public
Reasonable Expectations and Re-Offending: Lessons from the Criminal Justice System.
Claire Field is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, where she is a member of both the Arché and CEPPA research centres. She is supported by a SGSAH Doctoral Studentship, and her internship with Theatre Nemo was made possible by additional funding from SGSAH. For more information about her work … Continue reading Reasonable Expectations and Re-Offending: Lessons from the Criminal Justice System.
Learning the Russian Tongue
This guest blog comes from Poppy Mankowitz, who is a fourth year PhD student in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews. Poppy’s research centres on the meanings of words used to talk about quantities (e.g. ‘the’, ‘a’, ‘some’, ‘three’, ‘every’, etc.), and the effect of contextual factors on the interpretation of these words. For … Continue reading Learning the Russian Tongue
SGSAH Blog 