⭐ 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....
07.10.2025 11:09 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A modern atrium with tall glass windows and vertical green vines.
A slate board with beef tartare, egg yolk and mustard alongside a blue-coloured hardback book called ‘Murder at the MLA’ and a bread basket.
Aerial view of Warsaw's Old Town, featuring colourful historic buildings, a wide plaza with people, and a clear blue sky.
Steinway grand piano in a small concert room with floral wallpaper and ornate mirrors.
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!
30.09.2025 15:52 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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...
30.09.2025 13:05 — 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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...
29.09.2025 09:45 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you for sharing!
25.09.2025 11:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Back to Basics: Demystifying Publications
This week, Resident Blogger Emma unpacks everything you need to know about academic publishing…
✨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...
25.09.2025 11:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
⭐️ 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...
23.09.2025 11:16 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🌍 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
23.09.2025 08:53 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
⏳ Don't miss out - the closing date is this Friday 26th September! ⬇️
23.09.2025 08:19 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🌟 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...
22.09.2025 10:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Maria will succeed @clairesquires.bsky.social, whose inspiring leadership since 2020 has expanded SGSAH’s international profile and opened up new opportunities for PhD researchers.
05.09.2025 09:11 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📢 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
05.09.2025 09:11 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
A Letter to My First Year Self: Part 2
This week, a group of 3 doctoral and early career researchers share what they wish they would have known going into the first year of their PhD…
💥 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...
04.09.2025 09:24 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Congrats on the publication!
04.09.2025 08:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This article is based on fieldwork supported by @uofgartshums.bsky.social Archaeology colleagues, and @nts-archaeology.bsky.social, funded by @sgsah.bsky.social
03.09.2025 18:15 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Fantastic! What a momentous occasion, Jenny. Well done! 👏🎉
02.09.2025 13:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Love this! Well done, Katie. We're so pleased you enjoyed the internship. 👏
02.09.2025 08:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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)
01.09.2025 19:48 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Check it! ☝️ @sahavoice.bsky.social @agrayarchive.bsky.social @natlibscot.bsky.social @nationalgalleries.bsky.social @traversetheatre.bsky.social @edinburghup.bsky.social @fablevision.bsky.social @royalsociety.org @creativelivescl.bsky.social @uofggameslab.bsky.social @janeaustenshouse.bsky.social
01.09.2025 14:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
⭐ 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/
01.09.2025 14:27 — 👍 8 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
Great to see several SGSAH researchers presenting their work at this conference—including @eilidhfinlayson.bsky.social & @ebbastrutzenbladh.bsky.social. Wishing everyone a fantastic event!
28.08.2025 13:20 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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
27.08.2025 10:14 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
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...
27.08.2025 10:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Christie Chan's photo captures sand, sea, mountains and sky in harmony
Esther Meeks' photo captures an atmospheric beach scene and soft light
Camila Cavalcante Pereira's photo captures a bold night scene with neon reflections
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
26.08.2025 13:53 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
B/W image of me as a figure skater, captured mid-air during a split jump on ice
Year 1 down, APR done ✅ Now leaping into Year 2 of PhD'ing!
#PhD #UniversityofEdinburgh #designinformatics #sgsah
01.07.2025 20:29 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
💛❤️💜💚💙
26.08.2025 11:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Back to Basics: Conferences, Presentations, Networking – Oh My!
This week, Resident Blogger Emma prepares for her very first conference as a PhD Researcher, reflecting back on mistakes from her first conference experience prior to the PhD…
✨ New @sgsah.bsky.social Blog Post✨
With my first conference as a PhD Researcher on the horizon, I reflect back on what I wish I had known this time last year, when I presented very first conference paper...
As always, read on here: sgsahblog.com/2025/08/21/b...
21.08.2025 11:21 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaborating, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
sgsah funded PhD | letters & literary networks of the Scottish novelist Susan Ferrier | Aberdeen & Edinburgh | she/her
Nineteenth-century, O/A journal welcoming Humanities and Social Sciences research from scholars at all career stages.
www.rrrjournal.com
EiC Sophie Thompson | Dep Ed @katiemacleann
An international community at the heart of the University of Edinburgh bringing together over 3,000 staff and students.
https://llc.ed.ac.uk/
Head of School (Modern Languages and Cultures) and Professor of French @uofglasgow.bsky.social. Text/image, modern & contemporary poetry, memory studies & museums.
Author, book trade event attendee, Negroni drinker https://ullapoolism.wordpress.com/blaire-squiscoll-author/
Reader in American Literature, University of Glasgow. All things Edith Wharton, US women's writing, modernism, 1930s, Transatlantic Literary Women
Department of History at Saint Mary's University in Halifax / K'jipuktuk. Offering BA & MA degrees as well as minors in Applied History and British Studies. For info: history@smu.ca
Peer-reviewed journal focusing on Literature, Language and Culture of English-speaking world, eight issues a year, founded in 1919, published by @tandfresearch.bsky.social
Exploring intersections between literature and psychiatry in the 19th century as a British Academy and LKAS Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Glasgow / Medical Humanities Research Centre. Into literature, the history of medicine, and book history.
Exploring Britain’s war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
We aim to uncover and share the stories of women artists, designers, makers and collectors in Scottish collections.
Sharing knowledge & developing research around the dynamic relationship between literature and religions @uoedivinity.bsky.social
CVARF Engagement Officer at Archaeology Scotland, affiliated researcher @UofG interested in early modern uplands, shieling practice, hunting and estates, and 17th c. Glencoe. I also dabble in contemporary archaeology - edgelands and archaeologies of waste.
SGSAH/AHRC PhD Researcher @uofglasgow | Researching Scottish women etchers c. 1880-1930 | Scottish art & folklore | Leòdhasach |
The inspiring Hampshire cottage where Jane Austen lived and wrote her globally beloved novels.
ay-lee. PhD researcher @uofglasgow.bsky.social Scottish female beneficiaries of transatlantic slavery. Scottish, gender & global historian. SGSAH funded.
I research armed conflict & economic justice in the Horn of Africa. Fearlessly critical & post-liberal. My views only.
