Meet a few of our alumni and find out what they have to say about their PhD experience and what they are doing now.
Alborz Dianat
Philip Morton Shand and British-European Exchanges in Architecture, 1925-39. | University of Edinburgh
Alexandra Chiriac
Putting the Peripheral Centre Stage: Performing Modernism in Interbellum Bucharest 1924-1934 (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)
Ankna Arockiam
Exploring the musical, cultural and social identities of young Indians learning Western classical music (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
Ann Gillian Chu
A Democracy by Any Other Name: Christian Perspectives of Civic and Faith Identity under Non-Democratic Governments Based on Church Discussions in Post-Umbrella Movement Hong Kong. (University of St Andrews)
Anna Talley
Design, Information Disorder and the American Mediasphere (University of Edinburgh/Edinburgh College of Art | AHRC DTP | 2025)
Anna Talley
Design, Information Disorder and the American Mediasphere. (University of Edinburgh)
Blaine Kenneally
Intentionality from structure: a non-relational account of the constitution of phenomenal intentionality (University of the West of Scotland)
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)
Carlotta Moro
Faith and Feminism: Mysticism, Theology and the Bible in the Works of Moderata Fonte and Lucrezia Marinella (University of St Andrews)
Catherine Bateson
The Culture and Sentiments of Irish American Civil War Songs (University of Edinburgh | AHRC DTP | 2018)
Cheryl Canning
Exploring the information needs and seeking behaviours of adult male prisoners in Scotland (University of Strathclyde)
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)
Dobrochna Futro
Translanguaging art: Multilingual practices of contemporary artists and their implications for language pedagogy. | University of Glasgow.
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)
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)
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)
Emanuela Romeo
“The ‘Difficult’ Resistance in Piedmont:Conflict and Co-operation between Partisans in the Province of Turin” (University of Strathclyde)
Enrico Galvagni
Voluntarism and Virtue in Hume’s Moral Philosophy. | University of St Andrews.
Ewan Wilson
‘A New Archaic Avant-Garde?’: Tradition and Experimentation in the Neo-Mediaeval Cinema of Terry Gilliam, Derek Jarman, and John Boorman. | University of Dundee.
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)
Hilary Clydesdale
Secrecy, Surveillance and Counterintelligence in the Prose Fiction of Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson (University of Edinburgh).
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)
Holly Young
“Shore life: The contribution of marine molluscs to Iron Age subsistence and social life in Northern Scotland”. (University of the Highlands and Islands)
James Fox
Meanings and uses of numeracy in Scotland and northern England, c.1660–c.1800 (University of St Andrews | AHRC DTP | 2024)
Jennifer Thatcher
The lives of the interview: the development of the artist interview in twentieth-century Britain and the United States. | University of Edinburgh (AHRC DTP)
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)
Kate Wilson
Current living places and future utopias: community writing in Glasgow 1967 – 1990. | University of Strathclyde
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)
Lauren Baker
Unconventional Blooms: The Influence of the Craft Scotland Programme of Opportunities on the Development of Craft Practitioner Entrepreneurial Identities. | University of Dundee (AHRC CDA)
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)
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)
Lili Scott Lintott
The Grief of the Kings of England, 1154-1216 (University of St Andrews | AHRC DTP | 2024)
Lili Scott Lintott
The Grief of the Kings of England, 1154-1216. (University of St Andrews)
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)
Lynn Genevieve
An Autoethnographic Inquiry into the Sources of Inspiration for a Feminist, Fantasy Novel: a Druid Author’s Experience (University of Glasgow)
Maike Dinger
A myth of popular participation? Discourse and the politics of representation in the 2014 Scottish independence referendum. | University of Stirling.
Marcus Jack
Artists’ Moving Image in Scotland: Production, Circulation, Reception, 1970–2021 (Glasgow School of Art | AHRC DTP | 2022)
Maria Sledmere
Hypercritique: towards a lyric architecture for the anthropocene. | University of Glasgow
Marjan Asi
Obeying the (Unjust) Ruler: Tracing a political ideology in the Hadith corpus (University of Edinburgh | AHRC DTP | 2022)
Marjan Asi
Obeying the (Unjust) Ruler: Tracing a Political Ideology in the Hadith Corpus. | University of Edinburgh.
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)
Matthew Ylitalo
The Dundee Arctic trade, 1858-1922 : people, connections and spaces on the peripheries. | University of St Andrews.
Meemi Matero
Rethinking Parenting Leave, Sexual Division of Labour, and Substantive Equality: A Transformative EU Parenting Leave Model (University of Strathclyde | AHRC DTP | 2025)
Meemi Matero
Rethinking Parenting Leave, Sexual Division of Labour, and Substantive Equality: A Transformative EU Parenting Leave Model. (University of Strathclyde)
Mila Daskalova
Printing and periodical culture in the nineteenth-century asylum. | University of Strathclyde (AHRC DTP)
Naomi Pearce
Every Contact Leaves A Trace: A Forensic Feminist Investigation into Women Administrators, Gentrification and the Artist Studio. | University of Edinburgh
Negar Ebrahimi
Spatial Narratives of Happiness in Everyday Environments (University of Edinburgh)
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)
Nicky Haire
“How can you have music therapy without humour?!”: a phenomenologically informed arts-based reflexive study exploring humour in music therapy with persons living with dementia. | University of Edinburgh
Nikki Kane
Making Art and Making a Living: The role of festivals in contemporary arts careers. | University of Edinburgh.
Nuam Hatzaw
Towards a Pneumatology of In-betweenness: The Experiences of 1.5 Generation Migrant Zomi Women in Europe in Conversation With Asian American Perspectives. | University of Edinburgh.
Paul Malgrati
Robert Burns in Scottish Politics (1914-2014) (University of St Andrews | AHRC DTP | 2020)
Paul Michael Henry
Excuse Me I am Expanding: Butoh Dance as an Embodied Method for Experience and Expressing Ecological Selfhoods (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
Ren Garden
Sound of Violent Images / Violence of Sound Images: Pulling apart Tom and Jerry (The Glasgow School of Art)
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 Cameron
Reimagining the Balkans: Negotiating Modernity and Nationhood in British Travel Writing about Southeastern Europe, 1875-1914. (University of Glasgow)
Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan
Rhetorical effects in illness writing: A coherence-based approach (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP | 2020)
Sarah Thomson
A Transformational Conservative? Constructing Ronald Reagan’s Political Legacy, 1984-93. | University of Edinburgh.
Simon Whitehead
Stitching soft matter – Sensate Ecologies of Touch and Affect (University of Glasgow)
Stefan Andreas Drechsler
Making manuscripts at Helgafell in the fourteenth century (University of Aberdeen | AHRC DTP | 2018)
Steven Harvie
‘Gleaming with history-in-darkness’: An Archival Exploration of Muriel Spark’s Fiction from Poetics to Publishing (University of Glasgow)
Tessa Buddle
Utopia on Tour: exploring a generative relationship between dramaturgy, devising, touring, and utopia (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP | 2020)
Tiffany Bale
Staying, remaining and surviving: Researching women’s costume careers in UK film and television. | University of Glasgow.
Vlad Butucea
Queer Digital Performance (University of Glasgow | AHRC DTP | 2022)