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Slippery Realities: Researching Scotland’s Fishing Industry through Speculative Fiction

December 2, 2025December 1, 2025Leave a comment

Guest blogger Marie-Chantal Hamrock shares their research-based artistic practice, exploring maritime cultures in Aberdeen, Peterhead and Fraserburgh.

Looking Back to Look Forward: Conversations on Living Proof: A Climate Story (2021) at the University of Edinburgh

November 25, 2025November 25, 20252 Comments

In the first post of the ecologies strand, guest blogger Anna Stacey reflects on an Environmental Humanities Film Screening in partnership with Dr. Emily Munro and the National Library of Scotland.

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‘Really, that’s it?’ The under- and overwhelming experience of finishing your PhD

November 14, 2025November 17, 2025Leave a comment

Guest bloggers Julia Römer and Marly Muudeni Samuel reflect on their experiences of completing a PhD.

What is Academia’s Role in a ‘Post-Literate Society’?

October 30, 2025October 30, 2025Leave a comment

This week, Resident Blogger Emma discusses James Marriott's "The dawn of the post-literate society" and its implications for the work of academic researchers.

Looking Back: My research path towards becoming a Chancellor’s Fellow at Gray’s School of Art

October 22, 2025Leave a comment

This week, guest blogger Laura Leuzzi dives into post-PhD life and her journey toward a postdoctoral fellowship...

AI, Attention, and Academia

October 16, 2025October 16, 2025Leave a comment

This week, Resident Blogger Emma discusses generative artificial intelligence, 'cognitive offboarding', and the implications of this on academic publishing and thinking at large...

Reflections on a SGSAH-funded Internship tro mheadhan na Gàidhlig

October 8, 2025Leave a comment

This week, guest blogger Rebecca Madlener reflects on her 6 month-long SGSAH-funded Internship with Ainmean-Àite na h-Alba (Gaelic Place-names of Scotland)...

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Back to Basics: Demystifying Publications

September 25, 2025Leave a comment

This week, Resident Blogger Emma unpacks everything you need to know about academic publishing...

On Side Projects: How Much is Too Much? And Other Questions to Consider

September 18, 2025September 17, 2025Leave a comment

This week, Resident Blogger Emma talks about side projects: When should I take them on, and when should I leave them be?....

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Introducing the ‘Scottish 17th Century Research Group’ – Not Just for Historians!

September 9, 2025September 9, 2025Leave a comment

Building a Cross-disciplinary PGR Network – and Why You Might Want To!

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