We are pleased to introduce the SGSAH 2025 Researchers Cohort. To learn more about them and their doctoral theses, click on their names.
Adrija Ghosh
Psychogeography, the Poetics of Jibanananda Das, & the Postcolonial Witness. | University of St Andrews (AHRC DTP)
Aisha Tahir
Scottish Silversmiths in the Caribbean, c.1700–1820. | University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow (AHRC CDA)
Amina Otto
Negotiating Identities in the Insular Viking Zone: The Cultural Impact of Scandinavian Activity from 793 to 1150. | University of Glasgow (AHRC DTP)
Amy Stuart
Reading Teen Grief: Exploring teen perceptions of wellbeing and mental health as impacted by experiences of grief and The Reading Agency’s Reading Well resources. | University of Glasgow (AHRC CDA)
Anna Calonge Cases
On the relation between language and abstract thought: the role of morphological compositionality, logical operators and spatial metaphoric mappings in the origin of abstract concepts. | University of Edinburgh (AHRC DTP)
Aqsa Ashraf
Composing Differences, Imposing Amnesia, Fixing Identities: Scottish Colonial Photography and Communalism in India. | University of St Andrews (AHRC DTP)
Cait Gillespie
Commemorating and erasing memories of Empire in the Scottish landscape, 1707-2007. | University of Edinburgh (AHRC DTP)
Carla J Easton
“I Don’t Want to Go To Heaven”: A (Living) Archival study of Scotland’s Girl Bands and Associated Do-It-Ourselves Cultures. | University of Dundee, University of the West of Scotland (SFC ARCS)
Cecilia Charlton
Scottish Pre-industrial Textiles from the 18-19th Centuries: Repositioning the Significance of Craft Narratives in Histories of Rurality, Migration and Production. | The Glasgow School of Art (AHRC CDA)
Chloe Bramwell
Woven Woolen Textiles and Enslaved Women’s Work: Latin Christendom’s Triangle Trade in the Global Middle Ages. | University of Edinburgh (AHRC DTP)
Chrisyl Wong-Hang-Sun
An Ethnography with Agaleens and the Coconut Plantations of Agalega, Mauritius. | University of Edinburgh (AHRC DTP)
David Luca Lepidi
Plant Perception in the Ancient World. | University of St Andrews (AHRC DTP)
Declan McCann
Dreamy spaces, weird places: A study of English and Scottish dream poetry ca. 1360-1500. | University of St Andrews (AHRC DTP)
Eilidh Catherine Dunlop
Thinking with Angels: Angelology and Epistemology in 17th-Century Britain. | University of Glasgow, University of Stirling (AHRC DTP)
Eleanor Dawson
Women, Sport and the Visual in Scottish Sport History, 1840-1940: Regaining Insights from Scottish Heritage Collections. | Glasgow Caledonian University (SFC ARCS)
Emma Hackney
Sexualised Reappropriation of Non-Nude Social Media Content: Investigating the Knowledge and Experiences of Young People in Scotland. | University of Strathclyde (AHRC DTP)
Fady Ghattas
Merton’s Mystical Encounter: A Case Study in Refashioning Phenomenology for Deeper Insights into Time, Self, and the Ineffable. | University of St Andrews (AHRC DTP)
Felicity MacKenzie
Charles Lyell’s civilising mission, 1816-1865: geology, education, race and progress. | University of Edinburgh (AHRC DTP)
Fletcher James Christian Erskine
The Bucolica of Martius Valerius: A New Textual Edition, Commentary, and Translation. | University of Edinburgh (AHRC DTP)
Hannah Grout
Archiving Anti-Nuclear Scotland: Feminist Archival Imaginaries and Women’s Peace Activism. | University of Strathclyde (AHRC CDA)
Ishbel McFarlane
Performing the life and death of Scotland’s church buildings in the bodies of their people. | Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, University of Glasgow (AHRC DTP)
Ita Ossowska
“Hidden Disease”? Investigating Vitamin D Deficiency and Its Influence on Population Health in Mediaeval/Early Post-Mediaeval Scotland. | University of Edinburgh (AHRC DTP)
Jennifer Volk
Mainlining AI into the Veins”? Library collections as data in the age of Extractive AI Capitalism. | University of Glasgow (AHRC CDA)
Josephine Balfour-Oatts
Eating disorders, disorderly literature: The experimental prose text as a vehicle for reflecting and supporting anorexia nervosa recovery. | University of Edinburgh (AHRC CDA)
Joshua MacRae
The Canmores: A Thematic Study of Dynastic Politics in Scotland and Europe, c.1058-1290. | University of Edinburgh, University of St Andrews (AHRC DTP)
Julia Brunner
Cultivation in Crisis? An archaeobotanical and isotopic study of Bronze Age agriculture in Orkney and Ireland. | University of the Highlands and Islands (AHRC DTP)
Julia Hopkin
Pile textiles of the Viking Age: dressing for weather in an age of ocean exploration and environmental change | University of Glasgow (AHRC DTP)
Kariane Bourgault
Living and Dying Together: a multi-species and biomolecular approach to understanding animal-human relationships during the Iron Age in Scotland. | University of the Highlands and Islands (AHRC CDA)
Karishma Sangtani
Botanical Memory and Imagination in Postcolonial Indian Poetry. | University of Edinburgh (AHRC DTP)
Karl Wennerberg
Constructing the past, Engaging the Present: A Comparative Study of Scotland and Sweden. | University of Aberdeen (AHRC DTP)
Kate Kane
“A New Hero for a New Age”? The memorialisation of Mary, Queen of Scots, in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Scottish literature and culture. | University of Glasgow (AHRC DTP)
Laura Jones-Rivera
“The Cathedral and the Stock Market”: Combining Cultural and Institutional Theories Towards SME Publisher Sustainability. | University of Stirling (AHRC DTP)
Laura Sutherland
Where have you been? Exploring the historical geographies of The Art in Healthcare Collection. | University of Glasgow (AHRC CDA)
Ludovic Brunot
Neo-irredentism and the Fascist past in post-1945 Italy. | University of St Andrews (AHRC DTP)
Lynn van Els
“For All Differently Inclined People” – Identity, Community and Queer Solidarity in Weimar Print Media. | University of Aberdeen (AHRC DTP)
Nava Rizvi
Editing Revolution: Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s “Lotus” and the Quest for a Shared Cultural Identity, 1978-1984. | University of Edinburgh (AHRC DTP)
Niamh Formosa
Collecting Australia: colonial consumption and the display of Australia in Scotland during the long nineteenth century. | University of Aberdeen (AHRC CDA)
Nick Kolobov
A restorative account of the art of Jewish female migration (1656–1858). | University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow (AHRC DTP)
Oliver Greenall
Atomic Pasts and Futures: Nuclear Anxiety in Scottish Literature since 1945. | University of Glasgow (AHRC DTP)
Peter Butler-Way
A Theological Perspective on Elephants. | University of Aberdeen, University of Edinburgh, University of St Andrews (AHRC DTP)
Peter Strachan
Unseen Talent: The impact of Public Service Broadcasting commissioning and production practices on the UK’s Nations film and television freelancers. | Glasgow Caledonian University, University of Glasgow (SFC ARCS)
Polly Bodgener
Out of Site, Out of Mind: Waste Work and Disposal Systems in Art and Literature from the Great Acceleration. | University of Edinburgh (AHRC DTP)
Qiunong Liu
The Strategies of Contemporary Chinese Queer Theatre Production and Its Embodiment of Queerness Under the Conditions of Censorship. | University of Glasgow (AHRC DTP)
Robin Livingstone
Designing with heritage materials for sustainable futures: a practice-based, architectural inquiry. | The Glasgow School of Art, University of Glasgow (AHRC CDA)
Samantha Toyer
Maternal multiplicities: Staging maternal auto/biography as relational identity. | University of Glasgow (AHRC DTP)
Sara Guidi
The Soil of Desire.Reevaluating second-wave Southern Italian Feminist Practices in the Present. | University of Glasgow (AHRC DTP)
Scarlett Croft
Radicalising Ecological Concern: African American eco-poetry 1950s-1980s. | University of Glasgow (AHRC DTP)
Shaimaa Abulebda
Contemporary Palestinian Speculative Fiction in the Anglophone Literary Marketplace. | University of Edinburgh (AHRC CDA)
Sourabh Phadke
Earth-Work as a Relational Practice of Care: A Sensory Ethnography of Material Entanglements. | University of Edinburgh (AHRC DTP)
Tom van den Hurk
“Bottom-shaming”: representing the emotions of penetrated freeborn men in Roman and other ancient Mediterranean cultures (c.300 BCE – 200 CE). | University of Glasgow (AHRC DTP)
Tyler Scott Baxter
Evolving Portrayals of Medieval Irish ‘Ulster Cycle’ Narratives in the Irish and Scottish Revivals, c. 1870–1930. | University of Edinburgh (AHRC DTP)
Valerie Mear
The Book of Job and The Construction of Identity: Exploring Social Experience, Marginalisation, and Suffering. | University of Edinburgh (AHRC DTP)
Victoria Wilson
Reimagining Freedom: Nomadism and Institutionalized Power in Medieval Mongolia. | University of Aberdeen (AHRC DTP)
Wanda Meister
An investigation of the ‘victim’ in current political discourse through a comparative engagement with Christian and Islamic thought. | University of Edinburgh (AHRC DTP)
William Lewis
“Their Dear Brethren of England” Scottish Print for an English Public, 1637 – 1652. | University of Glasgow, University of St Andrews (AHRC DTP)
Yoonha Hwang
Bibliographic Description Practices and the Development of an Institutional Collection: the Signet Library, 1820–1964. | University of Edinburgh (AHRC CDA)