Three short films demonstrating the possibilities for visualiser enabled research will be presented by postgraduates researchers. This will be followed by a panel discussion exploring online collections collaboration, sustainable international research models & virtual collections consultation.

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.

In this online session, we explore the psychological and practical ways we can deal with self-doubt: What happens? Why does it happen? and the solutions you can apply to change self-doubt into self-belief.

Excellent presentation skills can be a key to success in your work and career. Learn to articulate your research effectively at meeting and conference presentations.

Online video exhibition from six contemporary European artists at different stages of their careers, daily artists talks, and discussion session on digital curation.

This talk will discuss how the university has changed over the last 18 months, as well as which of these changes are likely to remain. Dr Mark Carrigan from the University of Cambridge will explore what digital scholarship means in practice, as well as offering strategies and techniques to thrive under these conditions.

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

This series of sessions is part of the International Summer School. They will explore how historical ecology approaches can be used to analyse the past of collections and how (historical) collections may provide important answers for current ecological issues now and in the future.

Online video exhibition from six contemporary European artists at different stages of their careers, daily artists talks, and discussion session on digital curation.

This session will introduce some of the principles and practices involved in the important task of editing historical sources, highlighting issues editors need to consider, showing how an awareness of these can enhance understanding of the sources that historians encounter (whether or not they are editing them), and ways in which editing skills are of use in future careers.

This short workshop will encourage researchers in small groups to think about how their work speaks to audiences outside the academy. We will reflect on what we have already learned, or could learn, from engaging in conversations in other industries.

This session is part of the International Summer School programme. It explores Aberdeen's medieval civic records and their historical languages, current digital humanities investigation of this material, and new creative responses through song-writing.

(Recording) If you didn't get the chance to attend the Literature Discipline+ Catalyst event on the 7th May 2021, now is your chance to watch it. This workshop explored the role that heritage institutions can play in research and in the dissemination of research in literary studies.

Heard about this storytelling thing and want to know more? This is the workshop for you. Stories are one of the most effective ways to engage audiences with your work. Research is ripe for finding impactful tales, from personal anecdotes to making the best use of examples, storytelling is an invaluable skill for anyone who wants to present with impact.

This workshop will deliver hands-on experience in close reading analysis of texts, both creative and critical, and provide the space for participants to develop analyses for their own theses.

This session investigates key approaches to mindfulness and creative engagement with museum and gallery collections.

This is an introduction to public engagement giving participants techniques and skills to engage the public with their research. The workshop gives a step by step approach to plan successful engagement and communication. Explore the key ingredients to develop high quality and high impact content and activities that can bring your research to life.

In this online session, we explore the psychological and practical ways we can deal with self-doubt: What happens? Why does it happen? and the solutions you can apply to change self-doubt into self-belief.

Online video exhibition from six contemporary European artists at different stages of their careers, daily artists talks, and discussion session on digital curation.

Online video exhibition from six contemporary European artists at different stages of their careers, daily artists talks, and discussion session on digital curation.

This roundtable will hear from researchers in the arts and humanities from across Scotland whose work informs or functions as activism.

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.

This workshop explores a range of methodological, communicative and ethical challenges associated with research abroad, and offers practical insights into how the modern languages student can best navigate research encounters in intercultural and interlinguistic settings.

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 workshop explores strategies for placing archival and other forms of historical research into conversation with contemporary issues and contexts, focusing on the role of the reflexive researcher.

This workshop is part of the International Summer School programme and aims at providing an insight into the Esperanto movement in the early twentieth century. It will showcase a transnational historical perspective in theory and practice.

This session will introduce students to digital mapping techniques and tools, and how they can be used to disseminate their research.

This session will explore the development of academic voice and the communication of research, providing tools and techniques to improve your practice.

This workshop provides visual mapping techniques to identify value creation from academic research in creative and cultural contexts, which can inform the design and dissemination of meaningful impact.

This session offers an interdisciplinary and in-depth approach to reflecting on migration, encouraging doctoral researchers to develop skills for engaging within and beyond academia.

Getting your work on social media may be easy, but making it popular is more challenging. This workshop takes you through the main social media channels and looks at how to create short, sharp, sharable messages. Discover how to use social media to foster meaningful interactions and share your work with as many people as possible.

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

This workshop is part of the International Summer School programme. It will explore exchanges between Scotland and Europe through the Demarco archives.

Online video exhibition from six contemporary European artists at different stages of their careers, daily artists talks, and discussion session on digital curation.

In Britain today, historical research is under threat: history departments are being closed, historical research projects are being defunded, and historians are being demonised by politicians and newspapers. This talk will outline how this has unfolded, and will make a case for historians responding not by retreating and hoping not to be noticed, but by working to defend their public role.

This presentation and discussion will look at what the law says and what researchers can do to maximise their chances of accessing original sources from the last 100 years and to work ethically and legally with information captured directly from individuals.

This workshop creates a space for sharing notes about techniques to stimulate the 'deep work' that is at the core of academic research.

If you’re interested in international opportunities during your PhD (virtual or in-person, once safe), come have your voice heard at this consultation event!

Working alongside BBC staff, this is a chance to take part in a practical session, pitching your ideas to a BBC Scotland programme commissioner.

In this fast-paced and highly interactive masterclass series we’ll provide a clear overview of how to take your events online.

This workshop discusses the importance popular outreach in archaeology and provides some good examples.

Heard about this storytelling thing and want to know more? This is the workshop for you. Stories are one of the most effective ways to engage audiences with your work. Research is ripe for finding impactful tales, from personal anecdotes to making the best use of examples, storytelling is an invaluable skill for anyone who wants to present with impact.

This workshop will introduce the process of writing a journal article. From targeting a journal and finding topics to developing your arguments and getting to grips with using social media through the process.

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 half-day training session will reflect on the challenges of conducting collaborative research. Drawing on insights from a range of guest speakers the workshop will be divided into three parts, focusing on designing, conducting, and presenting the findings from these types of research projects.

This session considers the extra-textual / haptic / somatic / olfactory / temporal value of using practical re-enactments as a method in research. impact and career pathways.

This workshop is an opportunity to review our own writing habits; to explore and practice writerly techniques that can help use precious writing time more efficiently; to set up realistic and imaginative daily routines; and to analyse when it’s best to ease off and when to press on.

Prospectives 2021 is a one-day symposium highlighting an international selection of work by graduate and PhD students working at the edge of developments in scholarly and practice based work involving digital technologies.

Online video exhibition from six contemporary European artists at different stages of their careers, daily artists talks, and discussion session on digital curation.

An inspiration for the book Problem Spaces was Richard Serra’s claim that ‘Drawing is a verb’. Serra himself draws attention to the relations in which the action that ‘simply acts’ takes place: he describes the list as a series of ‘actions to relate to oneself, material, place, and process’. Problem Spaces tries to describe what this might involve at a time when the epistemic infrastructures in which knowledge is produced are undergoing radical change.  

This is a co-inquiry session, where, using some creative practices we explore our experience of this extraordinary time we’ve lived through. Much has happened in the last 15 months. COVID-19 has had consequences for ourselves, our study and our future work. Some have grieved, some have hibernated, some have renovated, some discovered connections and extended networks. Each placed different demands on us and all are part of the emerging story of living during the pandemic.

This workshop will consider the value of creativity and innovation in heritage practice, and how they can be used for developing community engagement, research impact and career pathways.

Undertaking a pitch for a research grant or fellowship can be daunting. Using the example of a pitch for a Research Council Fellowship, we look at: What elements you need to think about when planning your pitch, How to prepare the pitch itself, How to prepare yourself and more.

Fast paced, intellectually stimulating and highly interactive workshop focusing on creative idea generation; how to recognise possibilities and think with a strategic and creative mind-set. Learn how to think big, spot new research collaborations, solve tricky problems and generate ideas.

In this workshop we’ll read like writers, i.e. unpick the techniques writers use to create different effects; dissect the choices writers make and analyse how and why they make them; and identify writerly ways not just with words but also with punctuation.

This masterclass will explore the question: Are Humanities worth it?

Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o Riches (TAD) is the Nation’s online resource dedicated to the presentation and promotion of audio recordings of Scotland’s cultural heritage including songs, music, history, poetry, traditions and stories collected from across Scotland from the 1930s onwards. This workshop will explore why the material was collected and by whom, and how and why it is of value today.

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

An interactive introduction to the key transferable skills for connecting and communicating with industry and external organisations. Researchers will learn a practical communication framework and tool-set that will make them immediately more effective in industry-centric communications. As a result, participants realise an increased level of confidence, empowering them to pro-actively engage with industry.

Styling by numbers: this session explores the key concepts of AI style transfer and its implications for style transfer and the digital economy.

Online video exhibition from six contemporary European artists at different stages of their careers, daily artists talks, and discussion session on digital curation.

This session explores practice-based methodologies in arts-based research in urban settings, considering issues of interdisciplinarity, participatory practice, inclusion, and ethics.

This pop-up event is hosted in collaboration with the University of Glasgow's College of Arts initiative 'The Dear Green Bothy', aimed at demonstrating the vital role played by arts and humanities research in understanding and addressing climate emergency.

'Who am I when I write?' is a question many researchers ask. Some also wonder how it's possible to have a voice if you can't use 'I'. This workshop explores the concept of 'voice' in academic writing and how confidence and courage are important to self-expression.

This session will explore a brief history of the concepts of race, white privilege and the system of white supremacy and how everyday racism acts to silence, demean, and reinforces inequalities.

A fairly light-hearted look at how to understand and get on with your colleagues!