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...
Tag: Scotland
Somatics and Resilience in Times of Crisis: Researching through and with Trauma
This week, guest blogger Rosalind Masson shares the beginnings of her research journey, offering insight into the intersections between embodied practice and resilience after trauma...
Beyond Interdisciplinary: Does Disciplinarity Create Exclusion?
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?
Spotlight on Interdisciplinary Research: Exploring ‘Audience’ Through a House in Torlum
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?
Archiving as You Go Along: The (Un)expected Performativity of Documenting the PhD
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'...
Writing a thesis on public transport
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.
The University as Tourist Attraction
Resident blogger Ebba reflects on the tourist/student lifestyle. Are our campuses there to be admired, or are researchers in a unique position to shed light on power and placehood?
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.
Refugee life and the role of the arts and humanities in trying times: a conversation
Dialogue is vital to the research community. Through our ‘In conversation with’ series, resident blogger Ebba explores different topics with guests in a dialogue format. This week she speaks to a fellow researcher, BB, about their experience being a refugee in Scotland, living in the midst of extreme political and cultural narratives, and recognising the value of the arts and humanities in trying times.
Accents, Bias, and the Media: My PhD Story
This week, guest blogger Lucy Jackson shares her PhD story, delving into her research on accents and media bias. Lucy's research examines how the Glaswegian accent and the people who speak with one are represented in the media. She looks at stereotypes, how the media influences our biases, and how eye-tracking techniques can reveal what we really think.
