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The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, based at the University of Glasgow, offers world-leading support for doctoral researchers in the arts and humanities across Scotland. 🎓✨
Director: @clairesquires.bsky.social
🚀 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...
Transkribathon (SGSAH Linguistics+ Catalyst training)
Join us for a full-day session introducing Transkribus, the AI-powered tool for handwritten and printed text recognition!
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November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Delighted to celebrate Tim Craven, SGSAH alum (2020), recipient of Debut Poetry Book of the Year at the #SaltireBookAwards — a brilliant achievement! 👏
Wonderful to see @sgsah.bsky.social alum Tim Craven winning the debut Poetry Book of the Year at the #SaltireBookAwards tonight for Good Sons - congrats Tim!
November 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🎭✨ 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
Engaging Audiences; Policy, Practice and Beyond
We invite you to join for SGSAH’s annual pan-KE Hub event, this year looking at engaging with diverse audiences as part of research and beyond.
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November 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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...
November 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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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!
November 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
✨ 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...
‘Really, that’s it?’ The under- and overwhelming experience of finishing your PhD
Guest bloggers Julia Römer and Marly Muudeni Samuel reflect on their experiences of completing a PhD.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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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
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Libraries that shaped me, in-conversation event with Professor Louise Welsh and Damian Barr | SAHA: The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance
A joint initiative of Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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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...
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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...
Transdisciplinary Research: A Common Room for (Un)Common Books
Wed 26 Nov, 11:00 - 15:30 [GMT]: You are invited to join Paula Szturc, PhD Architecture By Design candidate, at the University of Edinburgh to discuss issues of transdisciplinarity, co-reading, co-per...
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November 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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-...
November 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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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!
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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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
November 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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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
October 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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...
What is Academia’s Role in a ‘Post-Literate Society’?
This week, Resident Blogger Emma discusses James Marriott’s “The dawn of the post-literate society” and its implications for the work of academic researchers.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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✨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...
What is Academia’s Role in a ‘Post-Literate Society’?
This week, Resident Blogger Emma discusses James Marriott’s “The dawn of the post-literate society” and its implications for the work of academic researchers.
sgsahblog.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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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...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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...
Thinking Generationally: Authors and Readers
A SGSAH Literature Discipline+ Catalyst Doctoral Training Event
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October 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
No tricks, just opportunities! 🎃 Apply for our Research Internships before the deadline creeps up — Friday 31 October!
⭐️ 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/
October 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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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 🔮
SCA Annual Conference 2025: Celebrating Success
Eventbrite - Scottish Council on Archives presents SCA Annual Conference 2025: Celebrating Success - Thursday, November 20, 2025 at The Mitchell Library, Glasgow, Glasgow. Find event and ticket inform...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
⭐️ 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...
October 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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...
October 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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...
October 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
New Beyond the Books episode out now, featuring SGSAH researcher Madeleine Banatvala - tune in for an inspiring conversation!
This episode’s guest is Madeleine Banatvala, a PhD student in French & Francophone Studies. Madeleine’s research offers up new ideas of female selfhood, and examine the ways in which these were previously off-limits to scholars.

Read Madeleine’s PhD profile: edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/made...
Madeleine Banatvala
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October 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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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...
⭐️ 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/
October 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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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...
⭐️ 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/
October 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM