On 4th and 16th March 2021, Alastair Mackie and Amandine le Maire were involved in a Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities’ workshop for PhD students in arts and humanities disciplines on ethnographic research methods, organised by the University of Aberdeen and Heriot-Watt University. During the two online sessions, they introduced research methods that … Continue reading Workshopping Ethnographic Research Methods: A SGSAH Report
This guest blog comes from Ruth Salter, who is finishing the first year of her PhD in Celtic and Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Ruth researches the cultural-political position of the mid-twentieth century Scottish Folk Revival and its relationship with theories of cultural dominance. This blog looks at Ruth’s incorporation of listening to podcasts … Continue reading Podcast Your PhD
This guest blog comes from Rebecca Jones, who will shortly begin the second year of her PhD in English at the University of Strathclyde. Her research uses feminist ecological, vegetarian, vegan and animal studies theory to analyse masculinity, species and the consumption of the animal in retellings of the classical Prometheus myth in literary fiction from … Continue reading Getting Emotional in Animal Studies
Thursday, 20th June, 2019 It’s a grey evening in Glasgow, and I can just about see the sun through the thick cloud out of my window, over the tops of the high-rise buildings across the street. It’s a far cry from St Andrews here. Everyone who comes to St Andrews is always shocked at how … Continue reading A Small-Town Girl in Glasgow
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
What I felt characterised the SGSAH summer school was a sense of genuine care and desire to support PhD candidates. From the catering to the choices of workshops on offer and topic for the panel discussion this feeling seemed to run through all three days. I think the feeling of care and support is expressed … Continue reading Reflecting on The SGSAH Summer School
This guest article is by Chloe Bray, whose research interrogates the concept of liminal landscape in fifth-century BC Greek tragedy, focussing on mountains, the sea, and meadows, as common tragic settings. While these literary spaces have often been identified as wild and isolated in opposition to the ancient Greek city and its values, Chloe's approach … Continue reading Cultivating Perspectives on Landscape
