Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities

Meet our 2023 AHRC Postdoctoral Fellows

The AHRC have permitted SGSAH to use underspend from AHRC DTP1 funding for a one-off Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme in 2023 to offer short-term fellowships to SGSAH AHRC DTP1 alumni. 

Our fourteen successful applicants will take up their Fellowships at one of the SGSAH AHRC DTP1 Higher Education Institutes (HEIs; Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Glasgow School of Art, St Andrews, Stirling, Strathclyde) between January and September 2023. Meet our 2023 AHRC Postdoctoral Fellows below and click on a tile to read more.

Richy Carey

Richy Carey

Richy is a composer whose practice explores ways of thinking about listening as being a collaborative, rather than an individualist activity. He will be working at DJCAD, University of Dundee, under the mentorship of Prof Maria Fusco on a new commission exploring questions around what it is to 'make sound public'. He will be working towards composing a new work for community choirs and the publication of a series of scores devised in collaboration with the choirs.

Fred Carter

Fred Carter

During his Fellowship, Fred will be based at the University of Glasgow to continue his current research which traces the poetics of exhaustion and politics of refusal that emerge in the wake of intersecting crises of petroleum, productivity, and social reproduction in 1973. Previously, Fred has held positions as Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Centre, research associate with Regenerative Energy Communities in Sweden, and Saltire Emerging Researcher at the University of Amsterdam.

Mila Daskalova

Mila Daskalova

Mila's research interests lie in nineteenth-century medicine, literature, periodicals, and print production more widely. During her Fellowship, she will work with the Medical Humanities Research Centre at the University of Glasgow to expand her understanding of the history of asylum periodicals by continuing her primary research in British archives and visiting several repositories in the US.

Stefana Djokic

Stefana Djokic

Stefana's research looks at the diverse relations between the US and East-European art worlds, and challenge existing Cold War narratives in terms of an East-West binary. During her Fellowship at the University of Edinburgh, Stefana will carry out archival research and also plans to organise a workshop open to the postgraduate community in Edinburgh and beyond, which will explore the the multi-layered relations between art, politics, and ideologies.

Robert Fell

Robert Fell

Robert's academic interests focus on oral storytelling within the folkloric traditions of Scotland's Traveller communities and extend to oral history, onomastics, narratology, performance contexts and creative ethnology. During his time as a Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Robert will convert his thesis into a book and conduct novel fieldwork within Scotland’s Traveller communities.

Sarah Forrest

Sarah Forrest

Sarah is an artist and filmmaker who earned her PhD from Glasgow School of Art (GSA) in 2022. For the Fellowship, Sarah will be returning to GSA where she will be building on her research into unreliable/reliable narration. The project will explore and employ filmic methods characteristic to meta-cinema (camera/editing techniques, scripted/unscripted formats), using this vocabulary to produce moving image work that reactivates and performs the research generated in her thesis.

Kiefer Holland

Kiefer Holland

Kiefer’s research examines the nineteenth-century lives and literatures of six African American women: Jarena Lee, Maria Stewart, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Charlotte Forten, and Anna Julia Cooper. During his time as a Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Kiefer will be developing his thesis into a monograph and seeking a publishing deal, writing articles for submission to peer-reviewed journals, creating a project website, and pursuing teaching accreditation.

Marcus Jack

Marcus Jack

Marcus is a curator and researcher based in Glasgow. His research uses archival and oral history methods to locate overlooked histories within contexts of cultural policy, infrastructure and socio-economic systems. During his Fellowship with the Glasgow School of Art, Marcus will develop his doctoral research through publishing and public programming before initiating a new enquiry into queer visual cultures in Scotland before decriminalisation.

Hannah Laurens

Hannah Laurens

Hannah specialises in the History of Philosophy and works on both Ancient and Early Modern Philosophy, in particular on Aristotle and Spinoza. For this Fellowship, she returns to her alma mater, the University of St Andrews, to work on Aristotle’s account of animal perception and animal phronesis (practical wisdom). Highlights of her project include collaborations with local nature recovery networks and Scottish museums with extensive natural history collections.

Fraser McQueen

Fraser McQueen

Fraser's research interests lie in postcolonial French studies, the cultural production of the far right, representations of jihadi women, and the work of Michel Houellebecq. His Fellowship will be hosted by the University of Edinburgh and will focus on completing his monograph, 'Towards a Community of Friendship? Islamophobia and Being-in-Common in Contemporary French Literature and Film'.

Tim Penn

Tim Penn

Tim is an active field archaeologist who has contributed to fieldwork projects in ten countries, primarily working on objects, which has also led to him to work on ancient board games. For his Fellowship, he will be based at the University of Edinburgh, where he will work towards the transformation of his thesis into a monograph by adding funerary data from Central Italy to his existing datasets.

Mika Schroder

Mika Schröder

Mika's key research interests pertain to environmental justice, and the recognition and safeguarding of individual and community rights, knowledges and perspectives within environmental law and governance. For her Fellowship, Mika will be re-joining the University of Strathclyde to continue her doctoral research and collaborations with activists and local community representatives at biodiversity negotiations.

Rory Scothorne

Rory Scothorne

Rory is a historian of ideology, politics and culture, focusing on left-wing radicalism, nationalism, devolution and civil society in Scotland throughout the second half of the twentieth century. During his Fellowship at the University of Stirling, Rory will be developing his doctoral work into a monograph, incorporating new research into the role of radical politics in the development of a distinctly Scottish “third sector” of non-governmental organisations between 1967 and 1992.

Kate Wilson

Kate Wilson

Kate's research focuses on post-1945 cultural, literary and social history. During her Fellowship, Kate will be based at the Scottish Oral History Centre, University of Strathclyde. She will undertake further oral history interviews with writers, publishers and activists; conduct archival work relating to race and ethnicity in community publishing and action; and host a public adult education workshop on the history of community media and campaigning in the south of Glasgow.