This week, Resident Blogger Emma unpacks the ongoing 'financial crisis' at the University of Edinburgh. Featured image courtesy of BBC News.
Tag: Politics
The EARTH Scholarship Programme: The humanities in times of crisis
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...
Being an International Researcher is Hard, But Did It Just Get Harder?
This week, resident blogger Emma shares her experiences as an international student whilst unpacking the new government's immigration plans, questioning particular restrictions for students, and musing on how this might impact international PhD researchers in the future...
Politics.
It’s all getting a little bit fraught in the UK at the minute. There’s a general election happening in three weeks. The media and government are at each other’s throats. Fake news abounds. There are strikers outside nearly every HEI in Scotland right now. And I’ve run out of milk. If you're doing a PhD, … Continue reading Politics.
Writing a Current Thesis
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
Reflections on Teaching
It turns out getting into gear for teaching is...exhausting! Mostly because I was having weird panic dreams about being in class and forgetting which text we were covering, then waking up in a cold sweat. And also the general admin that goes along with a teaching position is a draaaaaag. So many new and different … Continue reading Reflections on Teaching
GUEST BLOG: Is post-truth politics a thing?
As part of the SGSAH 'Theories of Knowledge' series, Professor Richard Coyne gave an illuminating talk on knowledge and ignorance in our digital age. He has kindly shared with us a post originally published on his own blog, discussing post-truth politics. The term “post-truth politics” was coined by journalist David Roberts in an article in Grist in 2010. The … Continue reading GUEST BLOG: Is post-truth politics a thing?
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