This week on the SGSAH blog we have a series of posts from students who undertook SGSAH funded residencies earlier this year. Yesterday we heard from Katerina Talianni, who was thinker in residence at Deveron Projects in Huntly. SGSAH Research Residency at Cove Park Our post today is by Daphne de Sonneville. Daphne is an artist and … Continue reading SGSAH Residencies: Researcher in Residence at Cove Park
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SGSAH Residencies: Thinker in Residence at Deveron Projects
Earlier this year SGSAH funded three very special residency opportunities for PhD doctoral researchers working in the arts and humanities. Three students got to spend time with the selected partner organisations, focusing on their own research and development and simultaneously considering how the place, site, environment or experience linked to their PhD project. This week on … Continue reading SGSAH Residencies: Thinker in Residence at Deveron Projects
That Time I went to Finland & Sweden and Took over 3500 Photos: Making the Most of Student Development Funding
Our guest blogger this week is Hannah Yoken. Hannah is a Finnish-American SGSAH / AHRC funded PhD candidate at the University of Glasgow researching transnational Nordic feminism. Her PhD project is titled 'From peripheral to paragon? The transnational development of Nordic feminism since the 1960s'. During her studies Hannah has specialised in the development of various social … Continue reading That Time I went to Finland & Sweden and Took over 3500 Photos: Making the Most of Student Development Funding
Monthly Roundup: June 2017
It has as usual been a busy month here on the SGSAH blog! To bring June to a close I have brought together various links that may be of interest, as well as recapping our posts of the last month. We started the month with a post from Lois Burke and the Postgraduate Gender Research … Continue reading Monthly Roundup: June 2017
Being a feminist researcher
As many of you will be aware, this week the annual SGSAH Summer School took place in venues across Glasgow. It is such a great opportunity to take part in some PhD related training events and creative workshops, and to catch up with PhD peers from across Scotland. There is a real sense of community … Continue reading Being a feminist researcher
The Pleasure in Stuff
On Monday I attended the 'Stuff of Research' symposium at Kelvinhall in Glasgow, the culmination of the year long material culture research programme organised by SGSAH. (You can find out more about the programme and previous events in these blog posts: here, here and here.) The day was organised by students who had taken part … Continue reading The Pleasure in Stuff
The Stuff of Research: Putting material culture in practice
Our second post on the SGSAH Material Culture programme, 'The Stuff of Research', comes from Alexandra Chiriac. Alexandra is a second year PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews, funded through the SGSAH AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership. She is researching the impact of modernism on stage design and interior design in Romania in the 1920s … Continue reading The Stuff of Research: Putting material culture in practice
The Stuff of Research: Being disruptive in the museum
Our post today comes from Rhona Ramsay, a museum professional with a background in community engagement and learning. Her PhD research builds on projects which brought Gypsy/Travellers into museums to engage with examples of their cultural heritage. The aims of her research are to uncover the presence of Gypsy/Traveller objects and agency within Scottish museums, to examine … Continue reading The Stuff of Research: Being disruptive in the museum
SGSAH Update
Hello! John here from the SGSAH office taking over the blog for today to give you a quick update on what is going on at the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities. The start of the year is a busy time for SGSAH so we thought it best to pop into the blog and … Continue reading SGSAH Update
The PhD Squad
When I applied for this role I was asked to write a short blog post about PhD training provision. To be quite honest with you, I was at first a bit stumped by the challenge of writing something genuinely interesting and innovative about this subject. This is not to say that I have not valued the formal training I … Continue reading The PhD Squad
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