Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities

Spring into Methods 2022 - Call for Proposals

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 15:01:00 GMT

Deadline 31/1/2022. The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities, in partnership with the Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences, invites proposals from members of staff in any of the affiliated HEIs to provide interdisciplinary online training for The ‘Spring into Methods’ 2022 programme.

SGSAH Annual Report 2020-21

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 11:49:00 GMT

Read about the latest developments at SGSAH, the activities of our doctoral researchers, our events and training opportunities and how we managed the impact of COVID-19 in SGSAH's 2020-21 annual report.

SGSAH Doctoral Training Partnership Studentships 2022: Equalities and Ring-fenced Studentships

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:40:00 BST

For the 2022 SGSAH DTP Open Studentships Competition, SGSAH is making available *at least* three ring-fenced studentships for applicants from UK Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities. We intend to ensure equity of experience and opportunity to access funded studentships, in alignment with our existing Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) policy. Learn more.

SGSAH awarded £100,000 in the SFC Saltire Emerging Researcher Scheme 

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 10:50:00 BST

The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) has been awarded £100,000 from the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) to fund research collaborations between Scotland and Europe through a series of research exchanges, with researchers travelling from Europe to Scotland, and from Scotland to Europe. 

Call for Abstracts – Black History Month

Wed, 04 Aug 2021 10:06:00 BST

In partnership with SGSSS, Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP, Midlands AHRC DTP, South, West Wales AHRC DTP, Midlands ESRC DTP, SeNSS ESRC DTP, NINE ESRC DTP, Northern Bridge Consortium AHRC DTP and the Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER), we are looking for inspiring Doctoral Researchers to showcase ways in which social science and arts and humanities research can bring to life the stories of African, Caribbean and Asian people in this country. Click to read more.

UKRI Policy Intern Amanda Gavin

Tue, 10 Aug 2021 11:08:00 BST

Amanda Gavin, a SGSAH Doctoral Researcher in History at the University of Glasgow has been awarded a UKRI Policy Internship. She will be joining the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) from 6 September - 26 November 2021, gaining first-hand experience of policy-making, law-making and scrutiny processes in a political environment.

Diversity in Scottish Screen Industries examined

Wed, 19 May 2021 12:16:09 BST

A groundbreaking research project is aiming to uncover reasons behind a “crisis” in representation in the Scottish screen sector. As part of the project, UWS, in partnership with the University of Glasgow, the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities, the Scottish Funding Council and BBC Scotland, is offering a 3.5-year full-time funded PhD.

Widening the Impact of Co-design Research

Wed, 03 Feb 2021 09:22:00 GMT

In Sept 2020 a team at UWS hosted a series of sessions on Co-designing Research: Widening Impact through Critical Materialist and Posthumanist approaches. The event was designed by the interdisciplinary team at UWS drawn from Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Practitioners and researchers, ranging from urban geographers to performers, sociologists to visual artists are extending the participation relationships to all aspects of the research process.