This workshop explores different constructions and understandings of persons and what this means for the ways participants are designing and carrying out participatory research.

This session explores the place of Gaelic and Gaelic-speakers in contemporary Scotland, and the wider historical background, with a particular focus on the relevance of Gaelic to research in different disciplines and on different periods from the medieval to the modern.

This event is designed to facilitate doctoral researchers’ awareness of and engagement with equality, diversity, and inclusion in history in their various roles as researchers, teachers, and public representatives of the profession.

The session will discuss the impact of the Scottish Heritage Partnership research project on immersive and AR/VR technologies in heritage, and how that impact can developed into heritage practice and policy.

This SGSAH keynote, in association with the University of Glasgow’s Creative Conversations, presents Val McDermid and Jo Sharp speaking about their co-edited book, Imagine a Country: Ideas for a Better Future.

Tom Smith and Helen Kendrick answer your questions about the KE Hub ‘Citizenship, Culture and Ethics’ and about engaging with new audiences from your research. 

This session explores key issues an ECR faces in navigating the world of academia after graduation and the kinds of skills PGR can acquire to maximise their chances of employment in academia.

This workshop discusses how researchers can adapt their fieldwork with cultural and creative practitioners and workers to ensure data quality in the current pandemic context.

This session looks out how evidence is used in policy making and offers some tips on how to influence effectively.

This 3-day session provides a platform for doctoral students to explore the ethical dimensions of their research in relation to creative practice and participation.

This workshop will introduce some key concepts in scholarly textual editing, including transcription and textual challenges, rationale for new editions, and the challenges and benefits of digital editing.

A practical workshop for researchers and burgeoning communicators looking to kick start their story-confidence and look at communication from a new vantage point.

This session will underline the value of genre as a methodology across academic disciplines and cultural forms.

Drawing on research of British immigrant communities, this keynote examines how insights into historical diasporas and their ethnic associational culture can inform current debates, policy and advocacy efforts in relation to EU citizens living in the UK.

A practical workshop for researchers and burgeoning communicators looking to kick start their story-confidence and look at communication from a new vantage point.

This session unpacks the nuts and bolts of editing, offering techniques, structures and frameworks to reduce editing anxiety and increase editing confidence and efficiency.

This is an introduction to public engagement giving participants techniques and skills to engage the public with their research.

This session provides non-Gaelic speakers (and beginning learners) with a taste of the language, including some tips on how to pronounce and understand the meanings and importance of Gaelic names of people and places; and direction to resources and language-learning opportunities, including what to do after DuoLingo.

Writing is Hard: Caring for Writing, Caring for the Writer

This one-day workshop will introduce the knowledge and skills needed to start your own podcast, from formulating an idea to releasing the first episode.

In this workshop, participants will look at the ways in which citations are used in academic practice and consider how being attentive to who we cite and why we cite them can support a values-led approach to research practice.

This session examines the central role which research fulfils within broadcasting and particularly within BBC programmes and content production.

This session unpacks the nuts and bolts of editing, offering techniques, structures and frameworks to reduce editing anxiety and increase editing confidence and efficiency.

This performative paper dismantles some of the mythology that surrounds diversity work within Higher Education. In this Academic Cabaret, Kieran will explore the role individuals, leaders, and institutions can play in fostering more inclusive research environments that stretch well beyond the confines of the ivory tower.

This session focuses on the well-being of research students. The discussion will address two main topics: well-being of others and well-being of self.

This 3-day session provides a platform for doctoral students to explore the ethical dimensions of their research in relation to creative practice and participation.

This hands-on session takes participants, in groups and supported by senior BBC Scotland production staff, through the process of what is required to mould a simple idea into a proposition for a programme, which in turn they will present to a BBC Scotland programme commissioner.

A lively and informative one-hour interactive webinar considering different ways in which researchers can work with industry including collaboration, joint funding, consultancy, startup and a career in business.

This 3-day session provides a platform for doctoral students to explore the ethical dimensions of their research in relation to creative practice and participation.

Explore the ‘what?’, ‘why?’ and ‘how?’ of engaging the public with the arts and humanities in this interactive session.

This workshop is aimed squarely at developing the leadership skills of early career scientists and researchers. Aspiring leaders will have the chance to develop their unique leadership style for maximum impact focussing on specific leadership and management challenges that arise in a variety of relevant contexts.

Where diversity might make a certain sense, is ‘decolonisation’ relevant at all to the university situated in Europe, broadly defined? Can the erstwhile coloniser decolonise? Must they? Answering broadly in the affirmative, this keynote situates the project of ‘decolonising’ the metropolitan Anglophone university.

This session explores how intellectual property law impacts doctoral researchers, and how this can be used protect the commercial potential of their intellectual outputs.

This session supports researchers in organising their time, managing distraction, achieving deep work and building resilience.

This workshop explores how we can use approaches from animal studies to inform both literary criticism and creative writing.

This session introduces students to key steps and strategies in applying for funded postdoctoral fellowships in the UK, using examples and tips from reviewers.

This workshop will focus on academic writing with an emphasis on how to write a journal article and a book review and how to get published.

Explore the ‘what?’, ‘why?’ and ‘how?’ of engaging the public with the arts and humanities in this interactive session.

Learn to articulate your research effectively at meeting and conference presentations.

This workshop offers new ways to engage with critical theory in the arts and humanities through the vehicle of pop music and creative writing.

This keynote will take the form of a Guerrilla plenary, where we hand over the microphone to our spectacular SGSAH PhD researchers who will present eight 'Think Pieces' on a wide range of topics.

Learn to articulate your research effectively at meeting and conference presentations.

This workshop will introduce some key concepts in scholarly textual editing, including transcription and textual challenges, rationale for new editions, and the challenges and benefits of digital editing.

This workshop teaches key skills for communicating research through print and broadcast media.

This interactive workshop will focus on the generation of practical policy and intellectual approaches for SGSAH and its PhD research community, in a time of climate emergency.

In this workshop, participants will look at the ways in which citations are used in academic practice and consider how being attentive to who we cite and why we cite them can support a values-led approach to research practice.