I stood there, pint in hand just people watching. My mind was as full as my back pack with 18th century philosophy. It was 1 am and I had just finished up at the library for the night and fancied a pint on the way home. It was Friday night after all. Just as I … Continue reading Advocating for the Arts and Humanities
Rebecca Hasler is currently completing a PhD in the School of English at St Andrews. Her research, which is funded by SGSAH, concerns the development of documentary and mockumentary in early modern pamphlets. More broadly, she is interested in the role of genre in interpretation. Follow her on twitter @RLHasler. How are a collection of … Continue reading What to do when your research becomes relevant
This post was written by Erin Farley, a second year PhD candidate at the University of Strathclyde on the Collaborative Doctoral Award project “Poetry, Song and Community in the Industrial City: Victorian Dundee,” in partnership with Dundee Central Library. Her research focuses on how the composition, performance and reception of poetry and song reflected and … Continue reading Poetry, performance and place: a postcard from Dundee
Laura Beattie is a PhD student in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her research looks at ideas of community, citizenship, the household and the commonwealth in Shakespeare's comedies and she is interested more generally in ideas of citizenship and belonging. Recently I have been involved in running a public engagement project, initiated and led by … Continue reading The Dos and Don’ts of Public Engagement
Lucie Whitmore is just heading into the final year of her SGSAH funded PhD at the University of Glasgow, interpreting women’s experiences of the 1914-1918 war through the clothes they wore. She is a costume intern at the Museum of Edinburgh, and previously worked as a research assistant on a historical embroidery project at Edinburgh … Continue reading Guest Blogger: Learning to share: research impact, public engagement and the SGSAH Summer Showcase
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