What are Discipline+ Catalysts?
The primary aim of our 11 Discipline+ Catalysts is to plan and deliver ongoing training events that draw on and speak to disciplinary expertise and innovation across the SGSAH’s 17 member institutes. Members of the Catalysts are drawn from SGSAH members relevant to their PhD programme delivery.
To support the pursuit of knowledge and advancement of disciplines, Catalysts offer methodological and thematic training at the leading edges of arts and humanities and drive cross- and interdisciplinary collaborations with sciences and social sciences.
Catalyst events are open to all doctoral researchers in arts & humanities across our 17 member institutes, irrespective of their funding source.
We encourage researchers to sign up to the SGSAH Weekly Digest so that they receive information about forthcoming Catalyst activities.
There is no charge for attending Catalyst events and SGSAH can reimburse travel costs where these are incurred (see travel expense guidance).
Each Catalyst:
- Plans and delivers an annual training programme
- Identifies disciplinary expertise and resources across the membership and devises mechanisms to share these with doctoral researchers across Scotland
- Identifies gaps in training available to doctoral researchers in that discipline and collaborate on addressing these
- Innovates training in the discipline
- Drives collaboration with Science and Social Science sectors
- Supports doctoral researcher-led, cross-consortium disciplinary activities through the award of Interdisciplinary Training Funding
- Creates a disciplinary cohort where doctoral researchers across Scotland feel supported.