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

Gave a wee talk today, ICYMI. Discussing The Two Roberts with @sarasheridan.bsky.social @nationalgalleries.bsky.social

⭐ 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....

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

Looking forward to hearing about it!

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!

⭐️ 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...

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...

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

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...

Coming Next Month: The 2025 Palestinian Liberatory Book Fair

The second Palestinian Liberatory Book Fair is set to take place October 17-19. The PLBF promises three days of interviews, talks, panels, workshops and readings centering the Palestinian struggle; organizers answered a few questions…

Saddened by the death of Tony Harrison but grateful for the A Level English teacher - Dr Richard Bateson - who set us V to read only a short while after it was written. A coruscating, meditative text that made my class see poetry can be about the political here and now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...

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...

🌍 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

In case anyone hasn't already seen: 34 of the Gaza students with scholarships at UK institutions arrived this week, including a student who is due to start a PhD with me at Edinburgh. I'm so grateful to everyone who helped with this - thousands of people. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

We've got a chunky @britishacademy.bsky.social report out looking at the emergence of 'cold spots' where you can't study arts, humanities or social science subjects close to home. We call for an urgent review of HE funding & monitoring of at risk subjects
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...

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A great evening at @glasgowschoolofart.bsky.social hearing about The Two Roberts as fabulously told by @damianbarr.bsky.social - here signing with their portrait @canongate.co.uk

📢 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

I’m delighted that Prof Maria Fusco will be the next Director of @sgsah.bsky.social - she’ll take over in January 26 - wish her well everyone, she’ll be brilliant! bsky.app/profile/sgsa...

⭐ 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/

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)

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

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset.
In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia.
In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)