📌 Creative Citizenship in the Archives: Methods for Engaging with Activist Histories | 2 April w/ @natlibscot.bsky.social, Artist-in-Residence Bex Šik, @womenslibrary.bsky.social, @cicelyjexfarrer.bsky.social & Alison Scott. 👥 Open to PhDs based in Scotland 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/creative-c...

🦋 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 – 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲! In collaboration with the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science - @sgsss.bsky.social - SGSAH is delighted to launch the Spring into Methods 2026 programme this Friday 6 March 2026!

✨ New on the SGSAH PhD Blog ✨ 2025 EARTH Scholar, Miriam Sentler, explores Shetland’s energy history through archival re-enactment & her project 'The Moving Energy Theatre' - testing 'performing the archive' in oil & wind landscapes. 🔗 Read the full blog: sgsahblog.com/2026/03/03/t...

We're looking forward to delivering a session tomorrow on 'Climate Crisis and Research Integrity: Developing an Environmental Impact Assessment' ➡️ tockify.com/sgsah/detail...

Ahead of the EARTH Scholarships Impact Symposium this Earth Day, the latest SGSAH blog reflects on the programme and introduces a new series highlighting scholars from the 2023–2025 cohorts. 🌏 Read it here: sgsahblog.com/2026/02/24/i...

⏱️ Just one week left to apply ⏱️

This time next week (ie 3 March)! bsky.app/profile/sgsa...

Our latest Featured Researcher is Cameron Taylor 👋 His PhD @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social explores how archaeology, tourism & storytelling intersect — and how transmedia approaches can enrich visitor engagement with prehistory. ➡️ Read Cameron's full feature: sgsahresearch.com/featured-res...

⏱️ Just 2 weeks left to apply ⏱️

Want to: ✔️ Connect with fellow PhD researchers ✔️ Influence decision-making ✔️ Gain governance experience ✔️ Bring new perspectives to the PhD community ✨ Join the DRC! ✨ Open to all Arts & Humanities PhDs at Scottish institutions. 🔗 Apply by 3rd March: www.sgsah.ac.uk/about/news/h...

Are you a doctoral researcher in Arts & Humanities in Scotland? Apply to showcase your research at our 2026 Research Showcase. ✨ ✔ Up to £1000 funding ✔ Creative formats welcome ✔ Open to all PhDs at SGSAH member institutions Apply by 27th March ⏳ 🔗 Full details: www.sgsah.ac.uk/about/news/h...

The SGSAH Feb 2026 newsletter is here 📨 In this issue: ➡️ Be part of our 2026 Research Showcase ➡️ EDI Associate Director vacancy ➡️ Join our Doctoral Researcher Committee ➡️ Scottish Research Integrity & Culture Week ➡️ PGR training workshops ...and more. 🔗 Read it here: mailchi.mp/sgsah/newsle...

Red wine gums, heartbreak in Palestine, and the recharge of a writing residency... Palestinian artist & practice-based PhD researcher Leena Nammari @leenafalasteeniyeh.bsky.social reflects on this and more in the latest SGSAH blog — @covepark.bsky.social edition: ➡️ sgsahblog.com/2026/02/17/m...

Join us for: 🌿 Climate Crisis & Research Integrity: Developing an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) 🗓️ 3rd March | ⏰ 2-3pm | 💻 Online @clairesquires.bsky.social & Craig Martin discuss SGSAH's EIA and how to support environmentally aware PhD research. 🔗 tockify.com/sgsah/detail...

Great (seconded) role for someone in Scottish HE to lead on EDI activity at @sgsah.bsky.social ...

We're hiring! 📣 SGSAH is recruiting an EDI Associate Director (0.2FTE, Secondment) for a 2‑year term starting May 2026. Open to colleagues across SGSAH’s 17 member institutions. 🗓 Apply by 9th March 2026 📄 Full details: www.sgsah.ac.uk/about/news/h...

✨ New on the SGSAH blog ✨ Explore artist Zeljko Kujundzic (1920-2003) and how his journeys across Scotland and Canada shaped his pioneering, ecological, and experimental work. A story of migration, memory, and hidden histories. 👉 Read the full piece on our blog: sgsahblog.com/2026/02/10/u...

Really interesting project by @sgsah.bsky.social funded #PhD candidate Cameron looking at #Neolithic Narratives. If you've been to #Orkney please do take part and help shape the future of how these sites are accessed and presented.

Don't forget—Our call for SGSAH Summer School 2026 session proposals is open until 27th Feb! 📝

📝 New on the SGSAH Blog: ‘Peace and Time’: Writing up a PhD at Cove Park Lucy Howie reflects on her SGSAH-supported residency, finding space to write, and rethinking productivity, access, and care in academic life. 👉 Read it here: sgsahblog.com/2026/02/03/p...

Researching Agnes Owens: our archive is reshaping how she’s understood. Laura MacDonald’s CDA is the first full study of Owens’ work, using archives and oral histories to centre her as a feminist, working-class voice. Supported by @sgsah.bsky.social delivered with Strathclyde & Glasgow universities

Love this - though the section on Strip the Willow needs a cautionary warning for Achilles tendons… (in my @sgsah.bsky.social experience)

What can PhD researchers learn from a ceilidh? 🕺📚 From Gay Gordons to Strip the Willow, guest blogger Joshua MacRae dances through history, academia, and Burns Night reflections. Take the floor—read the full blog: sgsahblog.com/2026/01/27/d...

📣 Call for Papers! Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies Postgraduate Symposium | 28 May 2026 Theme: People, Place & Movement in the Celtic World 15-min papers, all methods welcome, hybrid (Glasgow/online). Submit by 2 March 2026 📧 [email protected]

New Featured Researcher: Anand Ranjan, @anandranjan.bsky.social A PhD researcher @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social exploring Digital Hinduism — how apps, platforms & ritual labour are reshaping devotional life and sacred experience in India. ➡️ Read Anand’s full feature: sgsahresearch.com/featured-res...

Free creative clay workshop at AGA for Gray Day. 24 Feb 2026, 11am–1pm. Led by Rhona Warwick Paterson & Niamh Gordon. Playful making, imagination and the creative unconscious. No experience needed, with thanks to @sgsah.bsky.social for supporting this event 🙏

📚 PhD workshop: Publishing & Peer Review in Academia (Archaeology/Classics) 🗓 Fri 27 Feb | ⏰ 1–4pm | 💻 Online Learn how to publish, choose journals & handle peer review. Open to Scotland-based Arts & Humanities PhDs. 👉 Learn more & register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/publishing...

📣 Call for proposals: SGSAH Summer School 2026 We’re inviting session proposals for #SGSAHSummer26, bringing together Arts & Humanities PhD researchers from across Scotland. 🗓️ 18–19 June (online) | 24–25 June (in-person, Glasgow) ⏰ Closing date: 27 Feb 👉 Learn more www.sgsah.ac.uk/about/news/h...

Zines as research, archive & resistance 📚 In our latest blog, @graceq22.bsky.social reflects on a SGSAH-supported residency at Cove Park and how zine-making can surface marginalised histories of land agitation in the Isle of Skye. 👉 Read it here: sgsahblog.com/2026/01/20/p...

The SGSAH January 2026 newsletter is here 📨 In this issue: ➡️ Leadership transition ➡️ Calls for Spring into Methods & Summer School ➡️ New EARTH Impact Coordinator ➡️ Funding opportunities & events ➡️ New research outputs & alumni achievements ...and more. 🔗 Read it here: mailchi.mp/sgsah/newsle...

FREE WORKSHOPS – Play With Gray. Two free creative workshops at The Alasdair Gray Archive devised by Niamh Gordon supported by @sgsah.bsky.social for writers & creatives. Explore process-as-method with clay, drawing & writing. Feb 24 & Mar 10. Book by email.

What does it mean to lead with care, complexity, and voice in the Arts & Humanities? In our latest SGSAH blog, Jelena Sofronijevic sits down with our new Director, Maria Fusco, to explore these questions —and more. Read here: sgsahblog.com/2026/01/13/i...

🔶🔸 The Poetics of the Proxy | Fri 27 Feb 🗓️ @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social A one-day PhD training event exploring replicas, ownership, authenticity & institutional authority through theory and practice with artists, curators & researchers. 🔗 Sign up / find out more: tockify.com/sgsah/detail...

🌷 Call for workshop proposals for Spring into Methods 2026 🌷 Together with @sgsss.bsky.social, we invite staff at affiliated HEIs to propose interdisciplinary research methods training for PhD researchers across Scotland. ⏰ Submit your proposal by 3pm Fri 30 Jan 🔗 www.sgsah.ac.uk/supervisors/...

Calling Scotland-based PhDs interested in heritage! 📣 Join the Scottish Heritage Studies Collaborative Workshop (Thu 19 Feb, 2–4pm, online) to connect with peers, workshop ideas & explore SGSAH CDF funding. 🌟 More info & sign up 👉 tockify.com/sgsah/detail...

Re-sharing this great blog from our former Director, @clairesquires.bsky.social, published on @sahavoice.bsky.social — well worth a read if you missed it ⤵️

Interested in turning your PhD into a book? 📚 Join this half-day hybrid event on 16th Jan exploring multiple routes from thesis to publication, with Booker-shortlisted author Sarah Bernstein and leading scholars. Includes a proposal workshop! #PhDtoBook Sign up: tockify.com/sgsah/detail...

Now open: 2026 AHRC CDA PhD Studentship 🎓 A collaborative project with @stir.ac.uk & @stirlingcht.bsky.social exploring built heritage, housing & climate justice, focusing on tenants in historic tenements. 🗓️ Closing date: 23 Jan 2026 🔗 Find out more: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I'm organising this hybrid training event on PhD thesis to book for @sgsah.bsky.social Literature+ Catalyst on Fri 16 January. Great speakers inc. Sarah Bernstein, @drjamesbailey.bsky.social, @hannahkateboast.bsky.social, @emilyalder.bsky.social. Please sign up! www.sgsah.ac.uk/e_t/dp/disci...

Delighted to have an article published in The British Journal for the History of Science, on Charles Darwin's chromatic vocabulary on the Beagle voyage. With enormous thanks to @sgsah.bsky.social, @edincollegeofart.bsky.social, @sochistnathist.bsky.social

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