Meet our previous featured researchers and explore their research projects in more detail.
Adam Nasser Benmakhlouf
Attempts To Locate the Body Are Continuing: a practice-based experimental enquiry moving towards a hybrid creative-critical register and syntax capable of being utilised in service of forming writerly responses to artist workshopping activity, recognising this form of output as an integral artistic practice, medium and output of undercommoning within contemporary art institutions. (University of Dundee; DJCAD | SGSAH)
Adriana Alcaraz Sánchez
Objectless sleep experiences: A phenomenological examination of a rare group of conscious experiences (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP)
Alana McPake
‘Make-do and mend’ to ‘Reduce, reuse, recycle’: Attitudes towards clothing production and consumption in postwar Britain. (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP)
Alexander Murray-Gibbons
‘A Tradition at Risk? A comparative study of vernacular thatching traditions in the Highlands and Islands as a contribution to safeguarding as Intangible Cultural Heritage’ (University of the Highlands and Islands | AHRC CDA)
Aline Hernández
Exposing Atrocity. Representation and Counter-representation of (Trans)Feminicide Violence in Mexico, 1994-2022 (University of St Andrews | AHRC DTP)
Amber Ward
Towards a cultural history of deindustrialisation in Central Fife (University of St Andrews | AHRC DTP)
Anand Ranjan
Digital Hinduism: The Appification and Outsourcing of Devotion in India. | University of Edinburgh (AHRC DTP)
Anna McEwan
Gendered citizenship and women’s relationship to systems of social care: Investigating the GDR’s Frauenparadies, 1971-1990 (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP)
Ash Charlton
‘Slavery and Race in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1768-1860): A Text Mining Approach’ (University of Edinburgh | AHRC CDA)
Ashley Brown
Fraternity, feuds, and the academic bubble: masculinities present at Scottish universities between 1560 and 1610.
Bilyana Palankasova
‘From curatorial methods to institutional transformation: value generation at festivals of art and digital culture’ (University of Glasgow & University of Edinburgh | AHRC CDA)
Calum Eccleston
“Die to Self”: A practice-led investigation of the unseen in the Alastair MacLennan Archive (University of Dundee | AHRC CDA)
Cameron Taylor
Neolithic Narratives: examining storytelling methodologies, tools, and technologies for enriching visitor engagement with prehistory. | University of the Highlands and Islands.
Catriona Schofield
The Literature House in the Digital Age: New Directions for Literary Heritage. (University of Edinburgh & Edinburgh Napier University | AHRC DTP)
Cecilia Mazzocchio
‘Siena and the Wider World: Reframing the City’s Art Through Global Exchanges (1300 – 1492)’ (University of St. Andrews)
Ebba Strutzenbladh
Women, Law and Landed Networks in the North-East of Scotland, c.1450–c. 1560 (University of Aberdeen) | AHRC DTP)
Eleanor Capaldi
‘How can the the use of digitised images of artwork facilitate polyvocality of interpretation online?’ (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP)
Emily Hay
The ‘Quenis awne hand’: Self-presentation in the Poetry and Correspondence of Mary Queen of Scots, 1567-1587. (University of Glasgow)
Gonca Yalcin
Practicing Alternative Historiographies: Contemporary Material Performance Practices in Turkey, Lebanon and Iran (University of Glasgow)
Hanneke Booij
Investigating resilience, sustainability, and creative futures for small heritage organisations with a social purpose (University of Stirling & Glasgow Building Preservation Trust | AHRC DTP)
Isabella Shields
The Reparative Possibilities of Critique: Contemporary American Women’s Life-Writing and the Culture Wars. University of Edinburgh (AHRC DTP)
James Barrowman
Counterfooting the Conjuring of a Ghaist: James Wedderburn’s Lost Plays (University of Dundee | AHRC DTP)
Jenny MacLeod
‘An art in which women are destined to excel’: Scottish Women Etchers of the Etching Revival, 1880-1930 (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP)
Katie McClure
Synthetic Caledon textile dyes: development of analytical protocols for identification and colour preservation in heritage collections (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP)
Laura MacDonald
‘Archiving Agnes Owens: Asserting the Marginal Voice’ (University of Strathclyde | AHRC CDA)
Levi Sean Tippett
Sound Archives for Football Memories: Exploring Innovations in the use of the Scottish Football Museum Archive for Older People (University of Stirling | AHRC DTP)
Lewis Wood
Precarious queers and queer precarity: cross-cultural literary responses to AIDS from David Wojnarowicz to CAConrad. (University of Edinburgh; University of St Andrews | SGSAH / AHRC DTP)
Lori Delaney
Performing Breast Cancer Stories: Disrupting Narratives and Constructing Selves. (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP)
Luca Ottonello
The unwritten presence of emotions in archaeological research and their future in archaeo-gaming. (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP)
Lucy MacKenzie Howie
‘Disability, Sexuality and the Politics of Representation: Photography in 1980s-1990s Britain’ (University of St. Andrews | AHRC DTP)
Mahtab Karami
Comparative Gendered Aesthetics in Contemporary Afghan painting (post 1970). (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD), University of Dundee | SGSAH / AHRC DTP)
Maitrayee Roychoudhury
‘From Brighton to Bombay: Mobility and the Nineteenth-Century Female Detective’ (University of St Andrews | AHRC DTP)
Nat Paterson
Léopold Chauveau (1870-1940), Monstrous Diversity, and Widening Access (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP)
Nicola Torch
Field Migration the Publishing Ecosystem in the Digital Age (University of Stirling) | AHRC DTP
Paddi Alice Benson
Residency (Mis)navigating island Topoi (Vittore Branca International Centre for the Study of Italian Culture with the Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice | SGSAH Visiting Doctoral Research Fund)
Sam Cheney
“Sounds Exotic”: British Perceptions and Representations of Chinese Musicality, 1860 – 1939 (University of Edinburgh | AHRC DTP)
Sasha de Buyl
Re/Writing the Trace: Unearthing trans futures in trans pasts | University of Glasgow (AHRC DTP)
Steven Harvie
“I really like to mutilate the margins”: Behind the Scenes of Writing and Publishing in the Muriel Spark Archive (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP)
Sue John
‘Satire and Suffragettes: Women’s Rights in Everyday Material Culture in Britain, 1900-1930’ (University of Glasgow | AHRC CDA)
Suzy Roan
The Shape of Birth: Languages of Birthing Embodiment in the Storying of Contemporary Home Birth in the UK (The Glasgow School of Art | AHRC DTP)
Tom Hanson
‘Conflicted Memory: the Challenge of Representing the Troubles’ (University of Glasgow & University of Strathclyde | AHRC DTP)
Tullia Fraser
Shaping Taste, Building Knowledge: Collecting China in Scotland in the Early Twentieth Century (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP)