We’re sharing our festive card a little early this year — thank you to our wonderful community for all you’ve brought to 2025, and extra special thanks to @clairesquires.bsky.social for her leadership in her final year as Director. Wishing you all rest, joy and a bright start to the year ahead. 💫

📚 New SGSAH Blog Post 📚 Dr @smgthomson.bsky.social looks back on her path from SGSAH-funded PhD to Curator at @natlibscot.bsky.social — a candid, inspiring journey through post-PhD possibilities and heritage careers. Read it here: sgsahblog.com/2025/12/09/l...

Some medieval mothers struggled to gain custody of their children upon widowhood. My short story “In Her Keeping” is inspired by an Aberdonian custody case, now in print thanks to Causeway Magazine + mentorship by @vickymackenzie.bsky.social A story from my @sgsah.bsky.social internship.

🎣 New SGSAH Blog Post 🎣 Guest blogger Marie-Chantal Hamrock shares their research-based artistic practice, exploring maritime cultures in Aberdeen, Peterhead and Fraserburgh. Read it here ➡️ sgsahblog.com/2025/12/02/s...

Are you an early career researcher in the humanities, arts, or social sciences? Check out the opportunities offered by the British Academy's Early Career Researcher Network: 🔗https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/early-career-researcher-network

🌿 New on the SGSAH Blog! Guest writer Anna Stacey reflects on an Environmental Humanities film screening of Living Proof: A Climate Story (2021)— exploring nostalgia, climate storytelling, and the power of art in imagining sustainable futures. Read it here ➡️ sgsahblog.com/2025/11/25/l...

🌟 New Featured Researcher: Dr Isabella Shields 🌟 Formerly our digital curator, Isabella now turns the spotlight on her own work—sharing insights from her recently completed PhD in English Literature @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social. 🔗 Read more: sgsahresearch.com/featured-res...

🚀 Calling all Arts & Humanities PhDs in Scotland – join our Transkribathon! Learn the basics of Transkribus with experts Dario Kampkaspar & Kevin Kuck. Demos, hands-on practice + space to work on your own project. 📅 3 Dec 2025 🎟️ Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transkriba...

Delighted to celebrate Tim Craven, SGSAH alum (2020), recipient of Debut Poetry Book of the Year at the #SaltireBookAwards — a brilliant achievement! 👏

🎭✨ Join us for 'Engaging Audiences: Policy, Practice & Beyond' on Wed 10th December — a deep dive into creative, cross-sector approaches to audience engagement in #PhD research and beyond! 🎟️ 💻 Only online tickets left — sign up here: events.bookitbee.com/the-scottish... #SGSAH #KEHub #HybridEvent

The SGSAH November 2025 newsletter is here 📨 In this issue: ➡️ Meet our new Blogger & Digital Curator ➡️ Upcoming Hub & Catalyst events ➡️ PGR networks ➡️ Alumni achievements ...and much more. 🔗 Read it here: mailchi.mp/sgsah/newsle...

Delighted to welcome Peter Kravitz for an oral history interview with our @sgsah.bsky.social CDA student, Laura MacDonald at the archive yesterday. He shared rich insights into publishing and Owens’ work, even reading ‘When Shankland Comes.’ Thank you, Peter!

✨ 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! ⬇️