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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 & Humanities across Scotland. 🎓✨
Director: Prof Maria Fusco
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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...
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...
February 19, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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...
February 18, 2026 at 11:55 AM
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...
February 18, 2026 at 10:26 AM
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...
‘My work as an artist is about being in the world, a twenty-four-hour connection to it’: Leena Nammari on the recharge of a residency
In the final contribution in a series from Cove Park in Scotland, guest blogger Leena Nammari reflects on their SGSAH-supported residency, and practice-based research about heartbreak and grief in …
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February 17, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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.

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Climate Crisis and Research Integrity: Developing an Environmental Impact Assessment
Tue 3 Mar, 14:00 - 15:00 [GMT]: This session will examine the development of the ‘Environmental Impact Assessment’ (EIA) by the Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities (SGSAH). The purpose of th...
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February 16, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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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...
February 12, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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...
February 12, 2026 at 9:07 AM
✨ 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...
Unbordering Futures: Tracing Art, Migration, and Zeljko Kujundzic in Post-War Scotland
Resident blogger Jelena Sofronijevic shares a second extract from their research article about the artist Zeljko Kujundzic (1920-2003), ahead of their presentation at Unbordering Futures: Migration…
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February 10, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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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.
February 10, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Don't forget—Our call for SGSAH Summer School 2026 session proposals is open until 27th Feb! 📝
📣 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...
February 5, 2026 at 10:14 AM
📝 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...
‘Peace and Time’: Writing up a PhD at Cove Park
Following Grace Wright’s contribution to the Blog about zine-making, guest blogger Lucy Howie shares notes from their SGSAH-supported residency at Cove Park in Scotland.
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February 3, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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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
January 29, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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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...
Take the Floor: A PhD Researcher’s Guide to the Ceilidh
Following the SGSAH Year 1 Residential in Stirling—and Burns Night—guest blogger Joshua MacRae leaps through the history of cèilidh dancing, his personal favourite dances, and what academics can le…
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January 29, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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...
Take the Floor: A PhD Researcher’s Guide to the Ceilidh
Following the SGSAH Year 1 Residential in Stirling—and Burns Night—guest blogger Joshua MacRae leaps through the history of cèilidh dancing, his personal favourite dances, and what academics can le…
sgsahblog.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:00 AM
📣 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
📧 arts-cscs@glasgow.ac.uk
January 27, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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...
January 27, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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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 🙏
January 27, 2026 at 7:12 AM
📚 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...
Publishing and Peer Review in Academia (Archaeology/Classics)
A three-hour online workshop with experienced editors from Archaeological and Classics journals, as well as editors of student-led journals.
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January 22, 2026 at 2:54 PM
📣 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...
January 21, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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...
Plotting the Protest: Zine-Making as Research and Resistance at Cove Park
In the next post of the ecologies strand, guest blogger Grace Wright reflects on their SGSAH-supported residency at Cove Park in Scotland, and the place of zines in archives, academic research, and…
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January 21, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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...
January 21, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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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.
January 15, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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...
In Conversation with Professor Maria Fusco, New Director of the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities
Professor Fusco speaks to resident blogger Jelena Sofronijevic about her practice, as she assumes directorship of SGSAH in January 2026.
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January 13, 2026 at 3:05 PM
🔶🔸 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...
The Poetics of the Proxy: Rethinking Ownership, Authenticity, and Institutional Authority Through Replicas
Fri 27 Feb, 10:30 - 17:00 [GMT]: This training event stems from doctoral research investigating the copy as a strategy for remediation and institutional critique. It examines the implications of physi...
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January 12, 2026 at 1:51 PM
🌷 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/...
January 8, 2026 at 10:26 AM