Project Title: Scottish gang culture memoir in practice as research and an exploration of traumatic lived experience in contemporary Scottish literature in critical study
HEIs: University of St Andrews and University of Strathclyde
Supervisors and HEIs:
Dr Rodge Glass, University of Strathclyde.
Dr Andrew Meehan, University of Strathclyde.
Dr Joanna Kopaczyk, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow.
About Graeme’s Research
This work will be an autobiographical writing on Scottish gang culture in practice as research. It will be written in West Central Scots dialect and focused within North Lanarkshire in the 2000s. Its critical component will consider trauma as a thematic connective tissue between contemporary Scottish writings; and how it is explored and represented through language. The UK Trauma Council defines trauma as ‘the way that some distressing events are so extreme or intense that they overwhelm a person’s ability to cope, resulting in lasting negative impact’. Trauma is acknowledged as a complex psychological phenomenon with a variety of causes and manifestations. This work is not a scientific psychological examination but will consider trauma as a common theme within literary works and how these experiences are recounted and expressed through literary craft of contemporary Scottish writings.
CONNECT WITH GRAEME
E-mail: graeme.armstrong@strath.ac.uk
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