Mika Schroder is in the second year of her PhD at the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance. Her research explores the meaning and practice of the ‘participation’ of ‘local stakeholders’ within international biodiversity law from the perspective of spatial justice and ethics. This is the second of two posts related to her AHRC … Continue reading Immersion into spaces of law: Experiences from international legal negotiations
Claire Field (@fieldclaire) and Ethan Landes are PhD students in Philosophy on the University of St Andrews and University of Stirling joint programme. This workshop series was made possible by funding from SGSAH. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/publicphilnetwork/ It’s never been a better time to be a philosopher. At least, a cursory glance at a newspaper provides a cornucopia … Continue reading Doing Philosophy in Public
Mika Schroder is in the second year of her PhD at the Strathclyde Centre for Environmental Law and Governance. Her research explores the meaning and practice of ‘participation’ of ‘local stakeholders’ within international biodiversity law. The project is interdisciplinary, drawing on methods and theories from anthropology, law and geography. Her methodology is grounded in spatial … Continue reading A journey for scoping out research: Reflections on ethics, dialogue and process
On the 27th of November, SGSAH held a Heritage Careers Day at the National Galleries Scotland for researchers looking to explore their prospects in the Scottish heritage sector. Registration for the event filled up extremely fast, so for those who were not able to attend the day in person, I've made note of a few … Continue reading SGSAH Heritage Careers Day
Happy fall y’all! After a wee delay on this (anyone else have EVERYTHING happen all at once??) we’re back with another round-up for the month of October. As always, I will try to keep an eye out for any exciting opportunities, blogs, etc., happening in the near future, but please do drop me an email … Continue reading Monthly Roundup: October 2018
During my Undergraduate degree, I was the Queen of 'extracurricular activities'. From creating a non-profit group on campus, to holding membership in a handful of other associations and organisations, I was always busy adding to my CV and networking across departments and interest groups. During my Master's degree, I was just trying not to sink. … Continue reading Developing Groups or Associations during the PhD
Dr Katie Halsey is a Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Studies in the Division of Literature and Languages at the University of Stirling, as well as Co-Director of the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at Stirling. 23 doctoral researchers signed up for this doctoral training workshop via the EventBrite site. On the day, 18 students attended (of whom … Continue reading Technical Skills for Textual Editing: Understanding Variants
Hello everyone! Today we are trying something a bit different at the SGSAH blog... our first VLOG! Hopefully we'll add more new content to the blog along the lines of Vlogs, Podcasts, and the recent photo blog we had, so keep an eye out! In honour of World Mental Health Day, I'm here discussing some … Continue reading SGSAH Vlog 1: World Mental Health Day
This blog post comes from Nora Epstein, PhD Student at the University of St Andrews, who co-organised and attended the Colour Printing by Example workshop, held at the University of Glasgow earlier this year. On May 2, PhD students, alongside librarians, and lecturers from universities around Scotland, took a breakneck tour of the history of … Continue reading Colour Printing by Example
Hello again all! After a series of amazing guest blogs this month, I thought we needed even more of a variety of voices on this blog, so starting this month we'll be bringing back the monthly roundups! These roundups really helped me engage remotely with the PhD world in Scotland and beyond during my first … Continue reading Monthly Roundup: September 2018
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