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18 June, 10:00-12:00

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Tune in to hear Jeff Derksen, Professor, Dean and Associate Provost, Graduate Studies at Simon Fraser University in Canada, deliver the first of two SGSAH Summer School keynote speeches.

This event will be Chaired by Dr Dely Lazarte Elliot, who is Senior Lecturer, School of Education, at the University of Glasgow and a Scottish Parliament Academic Fellow

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The Playfulness, Poetics, and Art of Research and Writing

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The Playfulness, Poetics, and Art of Research and Writing

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19 June, 10:00-12:00

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Drawing on a range of experiences of writing, research, and making art, this keynote event will reflect on various approaches to embracing playfulness, poetics, and creativity as part of the work that we do and as part of everyday life. Focusing on different ways to develop ideas and share forms of creativity, this session will address the topic of ‘turning your ponderings into something that lands on the page’. This will include consideration of differences and similarities between certain types of writing (e.g., non-fiction, speculative fiction, narrative driven graphic novels, blogposts/editorial pieces, ‘silent’ comics, short monographs, and longer works). 

This session will be Chaired by Professor Ed Hollis, who is a writer and Director of Postgraduate Research at Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Edinburgh.

Dr Francesca Sobande is a writer and reader in digital media studies (Cardiff University). Her books include The Digital Lives of Black Women in Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), Consuming Crisis (SAGE, 2022), and Big Brands Are Watching You (University of California Press, 2024). 

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18 June, 10:00-12:00

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Get to know the core principles of visual communication design to help you improve clarity and accessibility in your presentation slides. 

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Microsoft PowerPoint on a laptop or desktop, as you’ll be redesigning slides during the workshop.

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Presentations are central to academic practice, from teaching and internal meetings to conferences and research collaborations. Despite this, many current and future academics receive little formal guidance on how to design slides that communicate information clearly and accessibly without overwhelming their audience. This session introduces key principles of visual communication design in the specific context of academic slide design. Participants will examine common design problems in academic presentations and explore practical strategies for improving layout, typography, colour use and visual hierarchy. The session combines short conceptual inputs with applied examples and guided redesign activity to support more intentional and accessible communication practices. 

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Mapping the Geography of Discontent: Place, Inequality and Democratic Behaviour

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Mapping the Geography of Discontent: Place, Inequality and Democratic Behaviour

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18 June, 10:00-12:00

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Explore the spatial, perceptual, and policy dimensions of ‘left-behind’ narratives and democratic behaviour. 

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None, although familiarity with debates on spatial inequality or regional development may be helpful.

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Political discontent is often framed as a problem of 'left-behind' regions. Yet growing research shows that disadvantage is more granular, relational, and shaped by how inequalities are perceived, narrated, and experienced within specific places. This workshop introduces participants to the 'geography of discontent' as a framework for understanding how spatial inequalities, local identities, and policy responses interact to shape democratic behaviour. The session foregrounds the perceptual and emotional dimensions of inequality. Drawing on examples from the UK and Europe, participants will explore how political discontent operates as a spatial feedback loop and consider how place-based policies might better engage with lived experiences.

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Introduction to QGIS and Making Maps for Historians 

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Introduction to QGIS and Making Maps for Historians 

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18 June, 13:00-16:45

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Get started with creating maps and the broader possibilities of GIS for historical research. 

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A laptop or desktop computer. Please download and install the QGIS software (https://qgis.org/) available for Mac, Windows, or Linux. 

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This session begins with an introduction to the basic terms and concepts of GIS (geographic information systems). We will then explore examples of how GIS and map making can be useful for historical research for illustrations, formal analysis, or for heuristic discovery. Roughly two-thirds of the session will be a practical introductory tutorial to the open source software QGIS. By the end of the session you will be able to create a basic map visualisation and geo-reference a historical map in order to extract features.  

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Contested Terrain: Post-Conflict Culture as Counter-Archival Practice

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Contested Terrain: Post-Conflict Culture as Counter-Archival Practice

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18 June, 14:00-16:00

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Explore cultural production from post/conflict societies, and how the study of art and literature from sites of historical violence expands the potential of arts and humanities research. 

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Cultural extracts will be provided, but candidates are encouraged to bring a piece that is relevant to their own project. 

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This workshop offers a focused approach to post/conflict cultural production, combining lecture with collaborative and responsive activities to look beyond disciplinary categories in the study of arts and literature. It offers a focus on postcolonial and feminist cultural production – across literature, visual arts, sonic cultures and film – that unearth excluded narratives of conflict. Looking at the interstice of gender, territory, economics and architecture, this session addresses the problem of the archive and the potential for creative practice to open up different epistemologies and voices beyond dominant historical discourses. 

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Research Share - Playful approaches to talking about your research

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Research Share - Playful approaches to talking about your research

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18 June, 14:00-16:00

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How do you make your research memorable, engaging and accessible to different audiences?

This workshop invites you to explore playful approaches to communicating your research, helping you see your work from new angles and experiment with creative ways of sharing your ideas. No preparation required - just bring your curiosity and your research.

Led by ECRs Dr Helen Shutt and Perpetual Brade

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An Early Career Researcher’s Guide to Parliamentary Engagement

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An Early Career Researcher’s Guide to Parliamentary Engagement

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18 June, 14:00-16:00

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Get practical guidance on how to engage with the Scottish Parliament.

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Dr Andrew Tickell, Dr Conor Hill & Melissa Murray

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Research is essential to the parliamentary process, with policymakers in Scotland regularly seeking expert evidence to inform changes to the law. This session explains the opportunities to engage with parliamentary processes that are available to early career researchers.  
 
In this seminar, you will learn about the legislative process in Scotland, including the opportunities to submit and present evidence at each stage of the process. The seminar will explain how to prepare both written and oral evidence, and give practical advice about how best to communicate your specialist knowledge to different audiences as part of the parliamentary process. The seminar will also explain what happens after you have given evidence, including translating your evidence into research impact. 

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18 June, 14:00-16:00

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This workshop aims to demystify academia from the outset, in doing so it draws upon academic literature and personal experience to explore (working) class barriers in academia from the perspective of doctoral students and early career academics who are wishing to pursue a career in academia or research. We consider the relationship of class and higher education, considering the politics of knowledge production, representation, navigating academic cultures, practices and institutions. Attention is paid to the challenges and obstacles of navigating academia from a working-class positionality and background with advice shared and guidance given. Throughout the workshop there is space for individual or collective reflection and discussion as well as the opportunity to ask questions throughout. 

It is delivered by Carli Rowell (University of Sussex), a working-class feminist academic, who at 34 was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia.  

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Making the Most of Academic Conferences: Learning, Networking and Impact

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Making the Most of Academic Conferences: Learning, Networking and Impact

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19 June, 10:00-12:00

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Explore strategies to maximise your learning, networking opportunities and research impact before, during and after your academic conference presentations. 

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Participants are encouraged to bring an abstract of a conference presentation they have delivered or plan to deliver, together with brief information about the conference.  

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This interactive workshop supports doctoral researchers in approaching conferences purposefully and strategically in order to maximise learning from others, build meaningful connections and enhance the impact of their research. We will explore all stages of conference participation, from selecting suitable events and preparing an effective abstract, to presenting research findings, fostering discussion and following up after the conference. Participants will reflect on their own goals and conference contexts.

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Research Studies in Theology, Biblical Studies and Religion

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Research Studies in Theology, Biblical Studies and Religion

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19 June, 10:00-12:00

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Gain an overview of the landscape for early career research funding opportunities in Theology, Biblical Studies, or Religious Studies and get practical advice for developing your next project and writing the grant. 

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In the second half of the event, students will have dedicated time to work on or plan a future project in small groups. To support preparation and reflection, a document will be circulated two weeks in advance of the event. Students are encouraged to complete this document ahead of the meeting where possible, though doing so is entirely optional.

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19 June, 10:00-12:00

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From conferences to social media: what doctoral researchers need to know about IP

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No prior knowledge is required, though researchers are welcomed to reflect on their own experiences working with intellectual property and prepare questions for the facilitator(s).     

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This online session explores how doctoral researchers can use intellectual property (IP) to protect their work, and the situations in which you can use the work of others. We will consider IP-relevant questions for the ‘real world’ of research: who owns what you post on social media? Can you re-use someone else’s dataset? What does it mean to publish ‘open access’? What happens if someone copies work you present at a conference?   The session is intended to be interactive, and researchers are encouraged to reflect on their own experiences and submit their intellectual property-related questions for the facilitator(s) ahead of the session. We will accommodate space for a Q&A session and copyright ‘mythbusting’. 

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Understanding the Risks of Visibility when Sharing Research Publicly

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Understanding the Risks of Visibility when Sharing Research Publicly

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19 June, 14:00-16:00

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This guided workshop invites PGRs to reflect upon some of the potential risks of being in the public eye as a consequence of publicising research findings. While sharing research with diverse audiences is important and can be very rewarding, the risks are often ignored in university training which focuses on engagement and impact. In this session we’ll unpack some of the myths of public engagement work (e.g. ‘it doesn’t take long to send a few tweets’), and consider how we can take the risks to members of our community seriously. We’ll look at how there are greater costs of safety labour required of people belonging to already marginalised groups, and identify where institutions’ current practices lack.

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Democracy under Threat: the Rise of Fascism and how to Recognise it

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Democracy under Threat: the Rise of Fascism and how to Recognise it

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19 June, 14:00-16:00

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Gain an in-depth knowledge of the rise of Fascism in the 1920s as well as the recent worldwide spread of extreme far-right movements and parties.

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Dr David Broder, Prof John Foot and Dr Amy King 

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The worldwide spread of extreme far-right movements and parties is before everybody’s eyes. Comparing their political agenda, strategies and extensive use of propaganda with those of historical Fascism can be illuminating. Over the course of the session, three academic speakers will help us understand what Fascism really is and how to recognise its distinctive features. Participants will learn about the strategies implemented by the Italian Fascists to build consensus in the 1920s as well as the features and aims pursued by the MAGA movement in the USA and the neo-fascist groups in Italy. A final roundtable will encourage everyone to share their knowledge, experience and ideas on this subject, reflecting upon the threat that Fascism poses to our democracies. 

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Everyday Objects as Memento Mori: Material Properties and Death-Related Meaning-Making in Art Practice

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Everyday Objects as Memento Mori: Material Properties and Death-Related Meaning-Making in Art Practice

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19 June, 14:00-15:00

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This workshop explores how everyday objects—from medical records and X-rays to pill boxes and health monitors—generate meaning about death through their material properties and physical transformations in contemporary art practice. Moving beyond traditional death symbols like skulls and tombstones, we examine how artists use ordinary objects to create installations that facilitate calm acceptance rather than fear. Through case studies and practical examples, participants will learn how materiality studies can inform practice-led research, understanding how objects' physical qualities, spatial arrangements, and viewer interactions collectively produce death-related signification. This session is particularly relevant for researchers working with material culture, installation art, or death studies, offering new perspectives on how artistic practice can engage with mortality through everyday materials.

This session will be of particular interest to practoce-based researchers, those working with material culture studies, installation art, or death studies, and researchers wishing to explore how materiality studies can inform their research methodologies.

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19 June, 14:00-16:00

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An experience-based interactive workshop on progress and self-kindness amidst the challenges of completing a PhD.  

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This session draws on the speaker’s twenty years of experience as a neurodivergent doctoral student, lecturer, supervisor, and PhD examiner. It will focus on how autism, ADHD and other forms of neurodivergence may intersect and impact upon the PhD experience, and on practical ways of navigating these. Milestones including chapter completion, annual reviews, part-time lecturing, viva preparation and publication will be addressed, as will anxieties around ‘rival’ research, and ways of escaping perfectionism. The second half of the workshop will take the form of a Q / A sharing session. 

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Creative Research Futures: Sustaining Practice, Community & Impact Beyond the PhD 

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Creative Research Futures: Sustaining Practice, Community & Impact Beyond the PhD 

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24 June, 09:30-13:30

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This session invites researchers to reflect on and actively shape their post-PhD futures, foregrounding how creative and research practices can be sustained across different contexts. Moving beyond linear or academic-only career narratives, it explores the realities of working across sectors, roles, and forms of practice.

Through short speaker provocations, peer discussion, and creative activities, participants will encounter diverse career trajectories spanning academia, policy, cultural institutions, and independent practice. These perspectives open up space to consider how research and practice evolve over time, and what enables meaningful shifts, opportunities, and collaborations.

Participants will then explore their own potential futures through a visual mapping exercise that frames practice as a network of relationships, values, and conditions rather than a single pathway. Small-group dialogue and collective reflection will surface shared challenges and possibilities, alongside the kinds of support, resources, and communities that help creative research continue and thrive beyond the PhD.

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Charting the Unknown: Researching Sensitive and Rapidly Changing Legal Issues

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Charting the Unknown: Researching Sensitive and Rapidly Changing Legal Issues

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24 June, 10:00-12:00

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Intrepid Explorers Unite! Join us to plot a course through the challenges of researching sensitive and contemporary legal issues. 

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Pre-reading will be circulated in advance

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This session will address two separate research challenges. The first part will focus on researching sensitive environments and the second will focus on navigating fast changing research landscape. Participants will be expected to prepare in advance. They will be provided with specific case studies and prompt questions around which the in-person workshop will be built. 
By the end of this workshop, participants should have: 
1. Developed the ability to identify a sensitive research environment 
2. Developed the ability to anticipate challenges presented by sensitive research environments and to take appropriate steps to ensure research integrity 
3. Developed the ability to anticipate challenges presented by fast changing research environments and to plan accordingly 

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24 June, 10:00-13:00

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Explore the role of community archives and heritage groups in recording and sustaining intangible cultural heritage.

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How do we archive and hold onto our intangible culture — songs, stories, languages, crafts, practices, and ways of knowing — in a modern, diverse Scotland? What does this mean for community archives and heritage groups, and how can we help sustain, represent and celebrate these living heritages? How can we recognise both Scotland’s distinct traditions and the new cultural fusions that reflect the richness of contemporary life here?

Following the UK’s recent ratification of UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, this Heritage Hub event will explore how we recognise, record and sustain ‘living heritage’ in all its diversity. It will introduce students to the work of Community Archives and Heritage Group (Scotland) and consider the challenges and opportunities presented by working with intangible, ‘living heritage’. The event will be led by Audrey Wilson of Scottish Council for Archives, with a performance and guest talk by János Lang, founder of Ando Glaso, an organisation focusing on Roma arts and cultural heritage.

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24 June, 09:30-16:30

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Condense and communicate your thesis argument as a short fanzine-style piece.

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This workshop, hosted by the editorial team of Riffs: Experimental Writing on Popular Music, will support participants in creating a fanzine publication derived from their respective PhD theses.   

The session will start with a three-hour writing workshop exploring how the zine aesthetic and format can help doctoral researchers to re-think and re-articulate the findings and arguments of their thesis in alternative forms and formats.   

Following the workshop, there will be optional writing groups running throughout the day for any who would like accountability and/or support in developing their piece. Participants will have until the end of the day to submit their piece for inclusion in a digital special issue of Riffs which will be published via the journal’s website.  

This session will be of most interest to researchers who are approaching the end of their empirical data-gathering and analysis, or in the early stages of writing up their thesis.

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Location and Mediation: An Environmental Humanities Workshop

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Location and Mediation: An Environmental Humanities Workshop

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24 June, 10:00-15:00

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How creative environmental research can merge art, literature, music, food, and gardening.

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Some pre-reading will be sent in advance

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Dr Claudia Dellacasa and Dr Damiano Benvegnù 

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Conversation between Dr Dellacasa and Dr Benvegnù  on how to communicate the climate crisis through public-faced writing and events. 

Part 1: Introduction to strategies and methodologies of communication of heated environmental issues that effectively engage non-academic audiences, while being based on thorough scholarly research. Specific examples will be given of how to translate complex analysis into incisive and compelling journalistic and creative work.   

Part 2: KNOCKvologan Studio practical workshop on creative environmental research merging art, literature, music, food, and gardening. Participants will learn how to engage with the land and culture that surrounds us. A range of activities in the North Kelvin Meadow will be proposed to discuss in situ the potential of environmental literacy to understand and protect local stories, communities, and spaces.  

NB: The session may include up to 30 minutes of walking outdoors, weather dependent. 

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Introduction to Broadcasting, BBC Scotland

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Introduction to Broadcasting, BBC Scotland

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24 June, 10:00-15:00

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This event on Wed 24 June at BBC Scotland is being hosted by the SGSAH Creative Economies KE Hub. The morning session will involve a tour of the BBC production facilities at the Pacific Quay Media Centre. After a lunch break, participants will spend the afternoon with BBC producers to hear about BBC Scotland and their relationship with research and researchers. This session will also include a pitching exercise where researchers will learn how to present creative ideas to media producers and broadcasters. 

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24 June, 12:30-13:00

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Join us for an informal, collaborative meet‑up for arts and humanities partnership / collaborative PhD students across Scotland. This is a chance to share experiences, discuss common challenges and opportunities, and connect with others working in similar contexts.

No booking is required — just come along.

Helen Kendrick, SGSAH Partnerships Manager, will be there for an informal chat and to answer questions.

A great opportunity to meet peers, build connections, and feel part of a wider community of partnership PhD researchers.

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24 June, 13:00-17:00

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Learn the basics of the LaTeX typesetting system.

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Participants should bring a laptop with which they can access Overleaf online. Creating an account before the session is not strictly necessary but will be helpful. Account creation is free on https://www.overleaf.com/.

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This session will cover basic to intermediate use of the typesetting system LaTeX as well as skills useful for typesetting work in the language sciences in particular. Topics will include working with different writing systems, special characters (including the International Phonetic Alphabet), using glossed examples, tree diagrams, generating glossaries and lists of abbreviations etc. We will also go into how to do reference management and bibliographical data organisation in LaTeX.

By the end of the session, participants will be able to use LaTeX to write larger projects, including their PhD dissertation.

We will use the online platform Overleaf which will allow participants to learn on the spot without any previous knowledge of LaTeX.

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Beyond intuition: Making Methodology Work in Creative Practice PhDs

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Beyond intuition: Making Methodology Work in Creative Practice PhDs

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24 June, 14:00-16:00

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Make research positioning visible, explicit, and defensible. 

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Creative practice PhD researchers are often asked to explain how research decisions were made, beyond saying that something "felt right." This session offers a practical and supportive way into that challenge, focusing on the foundational step of research positioning: making explicit the assumptions about the nature of reality and the nature of knowledge that underpin creative practice enquiry. 

Through a structured, hands-on activity, participants will explore their own ontological and epistemological positioning, working toward a provisional articulation of their research stance. Rather than treating these concepts as abstract theory, the session makes them accessible and directly applicable to participants' own projects. 

In the second part of the session, a worked example drawn from creative practice doctoral research demonstrates how clear philosophical positioning generates a coherent and defensible methodological strategy, with particular attention to how creative research decisions can be systematically traced and evidenced. 

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25 June, 10:00-15:00

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Dr Adrastos Omissi, Dr Alex Antoniou, Dr Periklis Mastrangelis & Dr Maria Mili

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Join us for an exciting training event exploring the world of coins and the stories they tell, through the celebrated collection of The Hunterian, University of Glasgow. Coins are among the most abundant surviving artefacts from antiquity, making them a vital part of museum collections and central to the study and presentation of past societies to modern audiences. They offer valuable insights into economic history, while also shedding light on political ideologies, religious practices, cultural beliefs, and artistic traditions. The training event will include: An overview of The Hunterian’s numismatic holdings, spanning Ancient Greece to the present day. You will learn about the curation and collections management of coinage. Hands-on sessions with selected materials, where participants will handle and analyse coins up close, explore their iconography and inscriptions, and gain practical experience in numismatic research.

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Making Sense of Interview Data: 3 Ways with NVIVO

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Making Sense of Interview Data: 3 Ways with NVIVO

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25 June, 10:00-12:30

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Learn what's possible and what’s valuable in the NVIVO program to help gain value and insight from your data.   

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Participants should have or have planned to use NVIVO as a part of their data analysis strategy and be familiar with its basic functionality. 

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How can we use NVIVO to make use and sense of data derived from interviews and other forms of qualitative research. This short workshop will focus on some ways to utilise NVIVO in making creative use of qualitative data for thinking through research problems, exploratory-ideation and data presentation. We will consider functions including code book, mind mapping, search and word trees and talk about how we have each used NVIVO to maximise the value and impact of data collected through qualitative methods.   

The workshop is designed to showcase from existing examples and will not be a formal training in NVIVO – a process that typically takes several days. 

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Reading the Digital Archive: Theory, Method and Messiness in Digitised and Born-Digital Archives

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Reading the Digital Archive: Theory, Method and Messiness in Digitised and Born-Digital Archives

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25 June, 10:00-12:00

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Learn about the foundational theories and methodologies for researching using digital sources, including digitised records and born-digital web archives. 

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Participants will be asked to complete some minimal preparatory reading in advance of the day and answer a series of questions to allow them to participate in small group discussions.

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Whatever their research questions or methodological approach, almost all humanities researchers today interact with some primary source material through digital mediums. Yet, whilst the use of these sources may now be commonplace for many researchers, the broader questions concerning their use and usefulness often go unconsidered. Reflecting on the methodological approaches of two-SGSAH funded projects which both made extensive use of digitised and born-digital archives, this workshop will introduce foundational concepts and theory underpinning digital archives and internet-mediated research. Participants are invited to discuss their own use of digital sources and will leave with a stronger theoretical knowledge and better able to reflect upon their own research practice. 

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25 June, Time TBC

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'Researchers Come Dine With Me'
Morning session: 10:30-12:00

Inspired by Lois Weaver's Long Table format, this session invites you to join a conversational banquet where the meal is the conversation. Together, we'll explore questions and themes relating to research, doctoral study and life beyond the PhD. Contribute your own questions, share experiences, listen to others, and take part in a collaborative discussion where everyone can have a seat at the table.

Led by ECRs Dr Helen Shutt and Perpetual Brade


'Transitioning out of the PhD and Beyond'
Afternoon session: 14:00-15:30

What does life really look like after the PhD? Join Dr Helen Shutt and Perpetual Brade for an informal discussion about transitioning beyond doctoral study and navigating the early career researcher landscape. This session is designed as an open space for conversation, questions and reflection, with plenty of opportunity to discuss the realities, uncertainties and possibilities of post-PhD life. No question is too small, too obvious, or too "stupid".

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25 June, 14:00-16:00

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Explore the practical and conceptual approaches to developing and designing interviews as a methodology in arts and humanities research.

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Interviews can be a powerful way of engaging with a wide range of experiences and perspectives otherwise absent from academic research. This workshop explores how and why you might draw on interview-based methods within your thesis project and offers strategies for drawing on knowledge of your own positionality in designing and making sense of your encounters with your research participants. 

This session will be of particular interest to doctoral researchers in the first or second year of their project during the planning stage of interview-based research AND doctoral researchers looking to develop further analytical approaches to interview analysis. 

Stephen Greer is Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Glasgow where his work focuses on contemporary theatre, queer performance and live art. Since 2021, he's led the Live Art in Scotland project exploring the histories and possible futures of experimental performance in Scotland: liveartscotland.org 

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25 June, 15:00-17:00

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‘No one has imagined us’, Adrienne Rich writes in ‘Poem I’ of ‘Twenty-One Love Poems’ (1978). 

This workshop considers how language comes to be when the words for certain kinds of lives don’t yet exist. We will take our cue from writers from the late 20th century to today who have applied a queer imagination to literary form in order to conjure lives, experiences and possibilities out of the margins. 

Taking a creative and critical approach, we will bring a queer lens to elements like narrative perspective, duration, rhythm, sonority, descriptive language, address and allusion.  

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25 June, 17:15-19:00

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Creative exhibits and performances showcasing the work of doctoral researchers from across the country. We welcome anyone interested in arts & humanities PhD research in Scotland to come along. Exhibitor information will be available soon.

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Citizenship, Culture and Ethics: Working in Partnership through Curating and Artistic Collaborations

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Citizenship, Culture and Ethics: Working in Partnership through Curating and Artistic Collaborations

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24 June, 14:00-17:00

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In the first section of this two-part interactive session, Dr Cat Dunn will be in conversation with Dr Alberta Whittle about her research-led curating and artistic collaborations in partnership with organisations Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and Timespan for the exhibitions Archaeology and Empire (2026) and White Ground, Black Water (2026-7). Through discussion with Dr Whittle, Dr Dunn will reflect on ideas of curatorial and ethical care, dialogue, and the role of being a bridge between organisations and diasporic artists, focusing on re-indigenisation as a collaborative curatorial model, particularly in relation to retelling histories of Empire, and the role of site-specific research in this process. This will be followed by a group Q&A. The second part of the session will comprise a creative zine-making activity on art and decolonisation led by PhD researchers Aqsa Ashraf and Jin Chenxiao (University of St Andrews), in which PGRs will have the chance to reflect on their own research in relation to the workshop themes. No previous experience of zine making is necessary and all zine making material will be provided. 