10 on 10: Researchers on Research series
To cap off the end of SGSAH’s 10 Year Anniversary Celebrations, across December we posted 10 short videos made by researchers in the SGSAH Community that showcased their projects, achievements and day-to-day research.
These 10 videos were posted on the SGSAH social media channels daily across the first 2 weeks of December 2024.
Please watch every video submitted for this series on our YouTube playlist here
To find out more about each Researcher's video, please see below.
Gala Morris
Our first video comes from Gala Morris who shows us what her research looks like on a day-to-day basis, from a cosy home desk to the torrential rain of Glencoe.
Gala is a SGSAH-funded PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow in Archeology, looking at music & sound as a form of connection the past and the world in the face of climate change.
Gala was also one of our 2024 British Council Scotland EARTH Scholars alongside 12 other Scotland-based researchers and 13 international researchers who all embarked on a 2-week cohort-building core leadership programme held in various locations around Scotland.
Read more about Gala here
Gala Morris
Calum Eccleston
Our second video comes from Calum Eccleston who shows us his daily practice of 'writing with the archive' at the Alastair Maclennan Archive at the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee.
Calum is a SGSAH-funded PhD researcher at the University of Dundee studying the works of Alastair Maclennan, and exploring how contemporary performance making can add to existing approaches of working with the ephemeral and intangible heritage of historical performance art archives.
Read more about Calum here
https://youtube.com/shorts/5vYGgBJzSa0
Calum Eccleston
Maria Elena Bertoli
Our third video comes from Maria Elena Bertoli who shows us her work conducting Fibre analysis of prehistoric textiles with Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) at the CEASC (Centre of Analyses and Services for the Certification) of the University of Padua, Italy.
Maria is a SGSAH-funded researcher at the University of Glasgow and a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the University of Padua, studying textile economies and the fibre revolution in the Bronze Age of northern Italy.
Read more about Maria here
Maria Elena Bertoli
Katherine Mackinnon
Our fourth video comes from Katherine Mackinnon who shows us a tour on refugee histories she lead with David Lees for Radical Glasgow Tours for the Refugee Festival in 2023. This tour walked participants through some of Glasgow's refugee and migration histories, ranging from La Pasionaria and international solidarity to asylum dispersal, Jewish refugees in Glasgow and the Spanish Civil War.
Katherine is a PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow working on an oral history of refugee lives in Scotland from the 1970s to the present day. Katherine is a writer, workshop facilitator and founding member of Radical Glasgow Tours, a collective that runs radical history walks around Glasgow.
Read more about Katherine here
Katherine Mackinnon
Victoria Evans
Our fifth video comes from Victoria Evans who shares sounds & images from her 3-month internship in Portugal. Victoria, whose multimedia artworks explore the world of sound, undertook a SGSAH artist’s residency with MARE, a marine research agency in Madeira, Portugal, learning about underwater acoustics and whale communication.
Victoria is a SGSAH-funded researcher at the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh College of Art doing a practice-based PhD involving creating artworks in a variety of media, ranging from sculpture through filmmaking and sound composition, to experimental fiction. These artworks speculate on the power of sound as a material force that connects us tangibly to the wider environment and each other.
Read more about Victoria here
Victoria Evans
Ebba Strutzenbladh
Our sixth video comes from our own Resident Blogger Ebba Strutzenbladh who shows us some of her favourite medieval women's signatures from images held at collections at the University of Aberdeen.
Ebba is a SGSAH-funded researcher at the University of Aberdeen studying Women and the Law in North-East Scotland, 1420-1570.
Ebba also writes & facilitates weekly blogs over at sgsahblog.com
Read more about Ebba here
Ebba Strutzenbladh
Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman
Our seventh video comes from former SGSAH intern Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman who introduces us to her PhD research and gives us a peek at her desk layout.
Cleo is a SGSAH-funded researcher in English Literature at the University of Glasgow, Stirling and Edinburgh. Her research analyses the relationship between novel reading and ‘improvement’ in Scotland, between 1800 and 37, combining textual analysis with archival research to ascertain how improvement was represented in the novels of six Scottish authors and the extent to and ways in which discussions of improvement feature in historical readers’ responses to these novels.
Read more about Cleo here
Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman
Adam Benmakhlouf
Our eighth video comes from artist, writer & researcher Adam Benmakhlouf who shows us a map of their research process:
“The Contributions of Method, Methodology, and Epistemology to Qualitative Research”
A useful resource which reminds them of the tools they have at their disposal within formal systems of knowledge production, and situates the interventions & experiments they make as part of their creative practice research.
Adam is a SGSAH-funded researcher at the University of Dundee, who uses experimental performances to draw out the interpersonal, psychic and social dynamics of working together within lateral power structures and using anarchic methods.
They previously performed their one act play “Magenta Velour Glove” at a previous SGSAH Summer School.
Adam’s primary research thematics consider the productive possibilities and the challenges of informalised work practices within environments of cultural production. Adam looks in particular to the traditions and lineages of queer collectivity, seeing the intersectional relevance of these methods to decolonial and class struggles.
Read more about Adam here
Adam Benmakhlouf
Marlene Zijlstra
Our ninth video comes from Marlene Zijlstra who shows us a small selection of the diverse number of decaying spaces that appear in Paisley, Renfrewshire.
Marlene Zijlstra’s research at the University for the West of Scotland looks at the opportunities inherent to decaying spaces around the town of Paisley and the usage of creative initiatives to leverage these as long-term urban assets.
The research takes community resilience as a starting point to question how we can revive a deep sense of engagement to our urban environments. By curating a series of workshops and engaging in autoethnographic writing under the banner of the Hidden Spaces Paisley project (a series of creative interventions that she designed), she seeks to examine the configuration of derelict spaces and vernacular means of creativity in the current trajectory of Paisley’s regenerative placemaking.
Read more about Marlene here
Marlene Zijlstra
Ahmed Mostafa
Our tenth and final video comes from Ahmed Mostafa who shows us his virtual tour of the Glasgow City Chambers.
This virtual tour immerses the audience in a 3D photogrammetric journey, following the same path of daily tourist tours that have been conducted for many years. The tour also reveals hidden narratives that the official tours never reveal from the viewpoint of the colonised rather than the coloniser. The tour contains a voiceover for a poem in English that explores the secrets of another world. The British poet John Keats' "Ode on Grecian Urn" served as the inspiration for this poem.
Ahmed is a PhD researcher at Abertay University investigating the potential of Extended Reality for alternative understandings of forced migration and devastated Middle Eastern Cultural Heritage Sites. Ahmed is also a member of our Doctoral Researcher Committee, and is currently the DRC representative for the Media, Communications, Film and TV Discipline+ Catalyst.
Read more about Ahmed here
