✨ New SGSAH Blog Post ✨ Guest bloggers Julia Römer and Marly Muudeni Samuel share their reflections on completing and submitting a PhD, and invite readers to consider their own personal journeys through the doctoral process. 📚🫣🎉 Read it here ➡️ sgsahblog.com/2025/11/14/r...

From finding a space from which to travel to distant lands through reading books as children, to using their university libraries as undergrads, @louisewelsh00.bsky.social & @damianbarr.bsky.social will reminisce about how libraries helped shape their careers. 📅Wed, Nov 12th |📍Kelvin Hall 🎫👇

Call for Papers: 'Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction', 28-29 May 2026, Università di Napoli L'Orientale. Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2026. sites.google.com/view/irsconf...

Interested in issues of transdisciplinarity, co-reading, co-performing and the architecture of books, writing, images and spaces❓ Join us for Transdisciplinary Research: A Common Room for (Un)Common Books 📚 📍Edinburgh 📅 26th Nov, 11:00-15:30 Register: tockify.com/sgsah/detail...

Missed it the first time? Good news — the event below has been rescheduled for Thursday 13 November! You can still register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/david-who-...

Delighted to welcome musician, filmmaker, & @sgsah.bsky.social PhD researcher Carla J Easton today! We discussed her work on Since Yesterday documentary & her ongoing research & planned archive with Scottish Music Centre —DIY culture, feminism, care, & overlooked stories, an inspiring chat!

Do you work with community groups in your research? Curious how to make these collaborations meaningful for your participants? Join our free training event, open to all Arts & Humanities PhD students in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿! 🔗 Find out more & register your interest: forms.office.com/e/bNP5vTLwSZ @sgsah.bsky.social

Introducing ‘The Blether’ 💬 The Blether is a developing idea from 4 Scot Lit PGRs @uofglasgow.bsky.social designed to highlight the work and research being carried out in Scottish Literature. Follow us to get involved!📚✍🏼💬 #scottishliterature #theblether #thebletherpgr

BIG thanks to @erdorfman.bsky.social for the thematic variety, topical insights & fabulous guests she has introduced to the SGSAH PhD blog over the past 6 months... Check out her last post as SGSAH blogger, and all of Emma's contributions over at: sgsahblog.com 💫

✨New @sgsah.bsky.social Blog Post✨ For my last post as SGSAH Resident Blogger 🥹, I discuss James Marriott's "The dawn of the post-literate society" 📚 🤯 and the complicated, tenuous role researchers 👩‍🏫 play within this landscape. Read it here ➡️ sgsahblog.com/2025/10/30/w...

A date for your diary! All welcome, Sat 15 Nov at 10am in Dunblane Cathedral Hall, to 2025 Geraldine Goddard Memorial Lecture, “Enlightenment & Conspiracy at Leighton Library, 1780-1832’ presented by Dr Josh Smith, Leighton Library Volunteer Guide www.leightonlibrary.org.uk/calendar/202... …/👇

Interested in exploring how generational perspectives can deepen our understanding of authorship, readership & cultural change? Join us for Thinking Generationally: Authors & Readers organised by our #LiteratureCatalyst 📍St Andrews 🗓️ 24 Nov, 11–16:30 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/thinking-g...

No tricks, just opportunities! 🎃 Apply for our Research Internships before the deadline creeps up — Friday 31 October!

Next month, I’ll be presenting at the @scotsarchives.bsky.social conference about the tarot card deck I created during my @sgsah.bsky.social internship last year. I’ve never given a talk on my creative process before and look forward to lots of interesting questions 🔮

⭐️ New Featured Researcher: Sasha de Buyl ⭐️ Sasha's PhD in Creative Writing @uofglasgow.bsky.social explores how looking to trans histories can help imagine more liveable futures. 🔗 Read more: sgsahresearch.com/featured-res...

We’re delighted to share the SGSAH Annual Report 2024–25 — celebrating a year of creativity, collaboration and impact across Scotland’s Arts & Humanities research community. 📖 Read the full report here: issuu.com/sgsah/docs/s...

The SGSAH October 2025 newsletter is here 📨 In this issue: ➡️ Read our 2024-25 Annual Report ➡️ Research internship opportunities ➡️ SGSAH team updates ➡️ Viva successes ...and much more. 🔗 Read it here: mailchi.mp/sgsah/newsle...

New Beyond the Books episode out now, featuring SGSAH researcher Madeleine Banatvala - tune in for an inspiring conversation!

Arts/Humanities PhDs in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, go work with @sgsah.bsky.social if you can. One of the kindest, most generous institutions I've encountered, staffed with warm and wonderful people. They want you to think your research big - get in touch and see what they can do for you! Love, a former SGSAH-funded PhD.

There's lots of brilliant research internships & artist residencies here from @sgsah.bsky.social (nb only for current PhD researchers in Arts & Hums in Scotland, due to our funding source), but I'll highlight some of the publishing & literary ones, nb deadline 31 Oct ... 1/ bsky.app/profile/sgsa...

✨New @sgsah.bsky.social Blog Post✨ This week, I discuss artificial intelligence 🤖, changing perceptions of attention 🧐, 'cognitive offloading', and what this all could mean for academic writing and thinking at-large. 🤯🧠 Read the full post here ➡️ sgsahblog.com/2025/10/16/a...

Curious about history, legacy & public debate? Join our History Catalyst for “David Who?”—a session for PhDs exploring the David Hume project with the David Hume Institute. 📍St Andrews | 🗓️ 29 Oct, 10–12:30 Register by 28 Oct: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/david-who-... #SGSAH #HistoryCatalyst

2025 BAA postgraduate #conference 📆 Thursday 27 Nov 2025, 12:20-17:30 💻 Online via Zoom View programme and register: thebaa.org/events/2025-...

New Arts & Humanities PhD researchers in Scotland — you’re invited to SGSAH’s Welcome Event! 📅 13 Nov 2025, 10.30–3 GMT 📍 Royal Society of Edinburgh or online Meet peers, hear from current PhDs & discover SGSAH opportunities. Lunch + travel (in-person) covered. 👉 sgsah-welcome-25.eventbrite.co.uk

PhDs — a quick reminder about this job opportunity! Applications are still open until Thursday 16th October, so there’s still time to apply. ⤵️

⭐️ Our 2026 internship opportunities are live! ⭐️ Check out 30+ paid internships & artist residencies for Arts & Humanities PhD researchers in Scotland. Gain real-world experience, build skills & grow your networks with diverse partners. 🕔 Apply by 31 Oct 2025 👉 www.sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/i_ar/

🎓 PhD Researchers! Apply for a 3-month paid internship with @sgsah.bsky.social exploring the Alasdair Gray archive. Creative, flexible, self-directed. Deadline: 31 Oct 2025. Open to SGSAH PhDs. www.sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/i_ar/202...

Fantastic to meet the new @sgsah.bsky.social PhD cohort today at @vadundee.bsky.social, including a talk about the Thread Memory exhibition of Palestinian embroidery by SGSAH PhD researcher Leena Nammari, who has work included

⭐ Free PhD training event ⭐ ➡️ Coding Literacy for Historians in the Age of AI 📅 17-18 Oct 📍 St Andrews 👥 For PhD students at Scottish HEIs 🔗 Details & registration: spatialhistory.net/info/coding....

Grateful to have spent a week at the University of Warsaw’s Current Debates in Publishing Studies Summer School earlier this month – a fantastic programme of insightful sessions, engaging discussions and even some sightseeing… Huge thanks to all involved and @sgsah.bsky.social for funding the trip!

Celebrate Scotland’s #BlackHistoryMonth2025 with us + @sgsss.bsky.social! Free, online student talks showcasing cutting-edge doctoral research on race, culture & identity across Arts & Social Sciences. 8th, 17th + 24th Oct, 2pm start. Open to all ✨ ➡️ tockify.com/sgsah/detail...

How can we design community engagement that’s ethical & culturally sensitive? 🌍 Join our Discipline+ Catalyst hybrid workshop for Arts & Humanities PhD researchers... 📅 Mon 13 Oct 📍Online & in-person (Aberdeen) Details & register: tockify.com/sgsah/detail... @fransiskalouwagie.bsky.social

The SGSAH September 2025 newsletter is here 📨 In this issue: ➡️ Meet SGSAH's next Director ➡️ EARTH Scholarships Coordinator role ➡️ Black History Month events ➡️ Highlights from the SGSAH Blog ...plus much more. 🔗 Read it here: mailchi.mp/sgsah/newsle...

140 hours of paid work for anyone on an Arts and Humanities doctoral programme at a Scottish HEI, co-ordinating the incredible @sgsah.bsky.social Earth Scholarship programmes 2026 Symposium. Closes 16/10/25. Go go go! www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/sgsah-ea...

✨New @sgsah.bsky.social Blog Post✨ This week, I'm front-loading all the memes and opinions I can muster when it comes to publications. 📚 Many of the practices normalised in academic publishing are a bit... strange 😕😵‍💫. Want to know why? Read the full post here ➡️ sgsahblog.com/2025/09/25/b...

⭐️ New Featured Researcher: Mahtab Karami ⭐️ PhD @dundee.ac.uk in Gendered Aesthetics & Feminism. Her thesis, Comparative Gendered Aesthetics in Contemporary Afghan painting (post-1970), explores art, gender & resistance in Afghanistan & beyond. 🔗 Read more: sgsahresearch.com/featured-res...

🌍 We’re hiring! 🌍 SGSAH seeks a doctoral researcher in the Arts & Humanities to coordinate impact activities from the EARTH Scholarships (2023–25), incl. a 2026 symposium + report. Apply by 16 Oct 👉 www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/sgsah-ea... @britishcouncil.bsky.social

⏳ Don't miss out - the closing date is this Friday 26th September! ⬇️

🌟 Blog Update 🌟 Our funded PhD researcher, Siân MacGregor, reflects on collaborative practice and power structures following @tapra.bsky.social 2025: www.imaginate.org.uk/news/blog-an...

📢 We’re delighted to announce Professor Maria Fusco as the next Director of SGSAH An award-winning writer & interdisciplinary leader @dundee.ac.uk, she joins us in January 2026 👉 More in our press release: www.sgsah.ac.uk/about/news/h... #ArtsandHumanities #PhDTraining @uofgartshums.bsky.social

💥 New GROUP @sgsah.bsky.social Blog Post 💥 This week, I hand over the reins to a group of 3 doctoral and early career researchers, as they each share the letters they wish they would have received in the post before starting their PhD! 🤔 🙏 📨 Read on➡️ sgsahblog.com/2025/09/04/a...

This article is based on fieldwork supported by @uofgartshums.bsky.social Archaeology colleagues, and @nts-archaeology.bsky.social, funded by @sgsah.bsky.social

Yesterday I handed in my thesis! ✨ @uofglasgow.bsky.social @sgsah.bsky.social it has been an absolute joy!

My time as Glasgow Zine Library's funding intern has come to an end! I am so grateful to @sgsah.bsky.social for offering paid internships for PGRs. The team at GZL were so welcoming and attentive to my development needs (I leave the role with a PVG, 420+ hours of experience, and SO MANY ZINES)

⭐ Host a PhD Researcher in 2026 ⭐ We support paid internships & artist residencies, enabling Arts & Humanities researchers to spend up to 3 months with an organisation. Benefit from expertise, creativity & fresh perspectives – while supporting future research leaders! 👉 www.sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/i_ar/

Great to see several SGSAH researchers presenting their work at this conference—including @eilidhfinlayson.bsky.social & @ebbastrutzenbladh.bsky.social. Wishing everyone a fantastic event!

Explore 50 years of Scottish film & TV in this free exhibition From Film Bang to Filming Boom 🎞️ Audiovisual works from 1970s—present curated by SGSAH researcher @correiadigital.bsky.social w/ @edinburghnapier.bsky.social & @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 📍 @natlibscot.bsky.social Edinburgh & Glasgow

The SGSAH August 2025 newsletter has arrived 📨 In this issue: ➡️ Meet SGSAH's new Operations Manager ➡️ Learn how your organisation can host a funded PhD intern in 2026 ➡️ Get involved in Black History Month 2025 ➡️ SGSAH Blog highlights ...and a lot more. 🔗 Read it here: mailchi.mp/sgsah/newsle...

We had a stunning photo comp during last week’s SGSAH 2nd Year Residential on Great Cumbrae! 🥇 @cyhchristie.bsky.social 🥈 Esther Meeks 🥉 Camila Cavalcante Pereira Congrats to the winners + thanks to all our PhDs who shared their eye for beauty and detail 📸 #SGSAHmillport25

Year 1 down, APR done ✅ Now leaping into Year 2 of PhD'ing! #PhD #UniversityofEdinburgh #designinformatics #sgsah