Meet a few of our alumni and find out what they have to say about their PhD experience and what they are doing now.
Alexandra Chiriac
Putting the Peripheral Centre Stage: Performing Modernism in Interbellum Bucharest 1924-1934Â (University of St Andrews | AHRC DTP | 2019)
Amy Tait Westwell
Radical Ideas of Political Practice in 1780s and 1790s Britain (University of St Andrews | AHRC DTP | 2020)
Andrew McDiarmid
‘For want of Scots projects’: The Scottish Financial Revolution, 1688-1727 (University of Dundee | AHRC DTP | 2019)
Anna Talley
Design, Information Disorder and the American Mediasphere (University of Edinburgh/Edinburgh College of Art | AHRC DTP | 2025)
Carlotta Moro
Faith and Feminism: Mysticism, Theology and the Bible in the Works of Moderata Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella (University of St Andrews & University of Edinburgh | AHRC DTP | 2024)
Catherine Bateson
The Culture and Sentiments of Irish American Civil War Songs (University of Edinburgh | AHRC DTP | 2018)
Christian Ferlaino
Confluences: Folk Wisdom in Contemporary Music (University of Edinburgh | AHRC DTP | 2018)
Christina Neuwirth
Women of Words: Gender Equality in 21st Century Scottish Book Publishing (University of Stirling, University of Glasgow & Scottish Book Trust | AHRC CDA | 2023)
Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman
Novel Reading and Self-Improvement in Scotland, c.1800–37 (University of Stirling | AHRC DTP | 2025)
Consuelo Martino
Remembering Republican Leaders, Constructing Imperial Lives: Suetonius and the Dawn of the Roman Empire (University of St Andrews | AHRC DTP | 2021)
Diljeet Kaur Bhachu
Facilitating musical learning in Scottish Primary Schools (University of Edinburgh | AHRC DTP | 2019)
Ebba Strutzenbladh
Agency, Legal Participation, and the Negotiation of Bonds: Elite Women and the Law in Aberdeen and North-East Scotland, c.1420–c.1570 (University of Aberdeen | 2025)
Elena Romero-Passerin
Public botanic gardens and the early institutionalisation of science – Edinburgh, Florence, and Pisa in the second half of the eighteenth century (University of St Andrews | AHRC DTP | 2021)
Emanuela Romeo
The ‘Difficult’ Resistance in Piedmont: Conflict and Co-operation between Partisans in the Province of Turin (University of Strathclyde | AHRC DTP | 2025)
Fiona Dakin
Illustration, Interpretation, and Invention: 151 Years of Visual-Arts Adaptations of the Poetic Works of Charles Baudelaire (University of St Andrews | AHRC DTP | 2020)
Hannah Kaarina Yoken
Nordic transnational feminist activism: the new women’s movements in Finland, Sweden and Denmark, 1960s-1990s (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP | 2021)
Hannah Laurens
Artists’ Moving Image in Scotland: Production, Circulation, Reception, 1970–2021 (Glasgow School of Art | AHRC DTP | 2022)
Harry Robert Wilson
Affective Intentionalities: Practising Performance with Roland Barthes’ Camera Ludica (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP | 2018)
Holly Young
Shore life: The contribution of marine molluscs to Iron Age subsistence and social life in Northern Scotland (University of the Highlands and Island | 2026)
James Fox
Meanings and uses of numeracy in Scotland and northern England, c.1660–c.1800 (University of St Andrews | AHRC DTP | 2024)
Joanna Leidenhag
Mind Matters: Towards the Incorporation of Panpsychism from Analytic Philosophy of Mind within the Doctrine of Creation (University of Edinburgh | AHRC DTP | 2019)
Joe Nockels
Making the Past Readable: A Study of the Impact of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) on Libraries and Their Users (University of Edinburgh & University of Glasgow | AHRC CDA | 2025)
Joseph Bowen
Why More Than What Happens Matters: Robust Rights and Harmless Wronging (University of St Andrews | AHRC DTP | 2020)
Kerr Castle
Comfort TV: considering everyday television use as a mode of self-care (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP | 2019)
Laura Beattie
The Politics of Community in Shakespeare’s Comic Commonwealths (University of Edinburgh | AHRC DTP | 2018)
Leone Pecorini Goodall
Sons and Daughters of the Caliphate: Succession Politics in the Marwanid and early Abbasid family (64-216/684-831) (University of Edinburgh | 2023)
Lili Scott Lintott
The Grief of the Kings of England, 1154-1216 (University of St Andrews | AHRC DTP | 2024)
Lindsay Middleton
The Technical Recipe: A Formal Analysis of Nineteenth-century Food Writing (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP | 2023)
Lisa Bastian
Attitudes First: Rationality Attributions and the Normativity of Rationality (University of St Andrews | AHRC DTP | 2020)
Lorna Hill
Bloody Women: A critical-creative examination of how female protagonists have transformed contemporary Scottish and Nordic crime fiction (University of Stirling | AHRC DTP | 2018)
Louise Creechan
Unwriting Victorian Illiteracy (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP | 2020)
Luca Ottonello
An archaeological emotive study through point & click archaeogaming (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP | 2024)
Lucie Whitmore
Fashion Narratives of the First World War (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP | 2019)
Marcus Jack
Artists’ Moving Image in Scotland: Production, Circulation, Reception, 1970–2021 (Glasgow School of Art | AHRC DTP | 2022)
Marjan Asi
Obeying the (Unjust) Ruler: Tracing a political ideology in the Hadith corpus (University of Edinburgh | AHRC DTP | 2022)
Martin Cathcart Fröden
We make spaces and spaces make us: An exploration through creative writing of the relationship between literature and carceral spaces (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP | 2019)
Meemi Matero
Rethinking Parenting Leave, Sexual Division of Labour, and Substantive Equality: A Transformative EU Parenting Leave Model (University of Strathclyde | AHRC DTP | 2025)
Nia Clark
‘[N]ew connections strung out over time’: a study of Liz Lochhead’s poetry and drama from 1972–2016 (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP | 2021)
Paul Malgrati
Robert Burns in Scottish Politics (1914-2014) (University of St Andrews | AHRC DTP | 2020)
Rob St John
Exploded Scales, Island Imaginaries: The New Landscape in Art and Geography (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP | 2021)
Robert Fell
Nackian Narratives: Storytelling and Ideology within Scotland’s Traveller Communities (University of Edinburgh | AHRC DTP | 2022)
Ross Cameron
Reimagining the Balkans: Negotiating Modernity and Nationhood in British Travel Writing about Southeastern Europe, 1875-1914 (University of Glasgow | 2024)
Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan
Rhetorical effects in illness writing: A coherence-based approach (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP | 2020)
Stefan Andreas Drechsler
Making manuscripts at Helgafell in the fourteenth century (University of Aberdeen | AHRC DTP | 2018)
Tessa Buddle
Utopia on Tour: exploring a generative relationship between dramaturgy, devising, touring, and utopia (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP | 2020)
Vlad Butucea
Queer Digital Performance (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP | 2022)