In the final contribution in a series from Cove Park in Scotland, guest blogger Leena Nammari reflects on their SGSAH-supported residency, and practice-based research about heartbreak and grief in Palestine.
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‘Peace and Time’: Writing up a PhD at Cove Park
Following Grace Wright's contribution to the Blog about zine-making, guest blogger Lucy Howie shares notes from their SGSAH-supported residency at Cove Park in Scotland.
Take the Floor: A PhD Researcher’s Guide to the Ceilidh
Following the SGSAH Year 1 Residential in Stirling—and Burns Night—guest blogger Joshua MacRae leaps through the history of cèilidh dancing, his personal favourite dances, and what academics can learn from taking part.
Plotting the Protest: Zine-Making as Research and Resistance at Cove Park
In the next post of the ecologies strand, guest blogger Grace Wright reflects on their SGSAH-supported residency at Cove Park in Scotland, and the place of zines in archives, academic research, and active resistance.
The EARTH Scholarship Programme: The humanities in times of crisis
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...
Being an International Researcher is Hard, But Did It Just Get Harder?
This week, resident blogger Emma shares her experiences as an international student whilst unpacking the new government's immigration plans, questioning particular restrictions for students, and musing on how this might impact international PhD researchers in the future...
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.
Research in Rome
This guest blog comes from Emma Brunton, a first-year PhD student at the University of Glasgow. Her thesis is titled: ‘Transformations in women’s spiritual power from precolonial to early colonial Rwanda’. Here, she discusses her experience conducting fieldwork from May to June of 2019. When I started my PhD about eight months ago, I knew … Continue reading Research in Rome
SGSAH STUDENT DEVELOPMENT FUND: (RE)COLLECTING YUGOSLAVIA’S PAST IN LJUBLJANA AND BELGRADE, 10TH-25TH MAY 2018
Stefana Djokic is a first year History of Art PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh. Her PhD focuses on the role of art in US-Yugoslav relations during the Cold War, examining to what extent exhibitions of post-war US art in Yugoslavia were diplomatic tools, aimed at strengthening US-Yugoslav relations and transferring US cultural and … Continue reading SGSAH STUDENT DEVELOPMENT FUND: (RE)COLLECTING YUGOSLAVIA’S PAST IN LJUBLJANA AND BELGRADE, 10TH-25TH MAY 2018
Impact in Context: Lessons in Engagement from a Romanian Mountain Top
Alexandra Chiriac is a third 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 and 30s. She holds an MA in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art … Continue reading Impact in Context: Lessons in Engagement from a Romanian Mountain Top
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