1. Studentship Competition 2019
SGSAH AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership
Studentship Competition 2019

2. SGSAH World’s first national Graduate School for the Arts & Humanities
What is the SGSAH?
World’s first national Graduate School for the Arts & Humanities
Opening up Scotland’s resources to enhance doctoral training for members’ students
16 HEIs plus more than 30 non-academic founding supporters
1, 750 doctoral researchers in Arts and Humanities

3. SGSAH Members

4. What is available?
SGSAH enhances and adds value to your institution’s training – with focus on A&H
Funding for cohort training
Paid internships
Research Residencies
Methods
Careers
Annual Summer School

5. Putting Knowledge into Action (Big Lottery, SCVO, Evaluation Support Scotland)
Medical Humanities Network
The Art & Craft of Editing
Researching Trauma in the Arts & Humanities
The Art & Science of Research
SGSAH Writing Retreat
A Creative Enlightenment: Strategies and Skills for Creative Careers
SURCAS (Scottish Universities Research Collections Associates Scheme)
Spring into Methods
Internships
21st Century Book Historian
Heritage Careers Day
SGSAH Blog
Summer School

6. Cohort Development Funding
Innovative Doctoral Training Events
Maximum amount available £2500
3 HEIs & at least10 participants
Three deadlines a year

7. Some CDF examples…
21st Century Book Historian: archives, bibliography, reading
Technical Skills for Textual Editing
The Literary Self: from Antiquity to the Digital Age
Research Blogging in the Arts & Humanities
Introduction to QGIS for Arts & Humanities students
Negotiating Academic careers
Outreach and Impact in Philosophy
Returning to Academic Writing

8. Internships

10. Training Spring into Methods
8 workshops x 2.5 days
Delivered by academics across AH/SS
Open to A&H & SS doctoral researchers
Participatory Action Research
Longitudinal Analysis
Feminist Research
Discourse Analysis
Oral History
Co-Design and Co-Creation
Text Mining
Conflict-Affected Settings

11. SGSAH Summer School 40+ workshops Guest speakers Doctoral Showcase
How to write a journal article
Podcasting in academia; using Apps to support your writing
Integrity and Ethics for Arts & Humanities;
REF 2021
BBC
Peer Review
Dealing with Data
Guest speakers
Doctoral Showcase
SGSAH Summer School

12. What do students say?
“The whole thing was brilliant and extremely useful”
attendee at training in feminism and art history
“Fantastic to speak to different researchers from all over Scotland”
exhibitor at SGSAH doctoral impact showcase

13. SGSAH AHRC DTP Aberdeen Dundee Edinburgh Glasgow Glasgow School of Art
RCS
St Andrews
Stirling
Strathclyde
UHI

14. Our Aims
We will work together to nurture and inspire a future generation of enlightened leaders committed to generating and mobilising new insights across scholarly, professional and public communities.
Our doctoral graduates will be capable, caring, ethical & reflective professionals.
They will be alert to their influence and impact as knowledge makers, co-creators and connectors and guided in their actions by what we stand for: Respect, Integrity, Creativity, and Collaboration.
They will be champions for arts and humanities research, demonstrating through their work the value of arts and humanities to society, industry and other disciplines.

15. SGSAH AHRC DTP Studentships
offer
Parameters
3½ years of funding (stipend and fees or fees-only depending on eligibility)
Best research environment and supervisory team for you and your project
Core SGSAH DTP training provision (required)
Additional skills development opportunities (optional)
Access to SGSAH’s activities
Competition across Scotland
Approx. 60 studentships awarded per annum
No quotas of studentships to DTP HEI members or to disciplines

16. training Partnership KE Hubs Individual Skills Collective Cohort
Foundation Professional
Core Leadership
Specialist Discipline+ Catalysts
training

17. Foundation
Management
Data
Ethics

18. Second-language learning Conference attendance
Individual
Visiting Doctoral Researcher
Specialist training
Second-language learning
Knowledge Exchange & Impact
Conference attendance
It’s a great opportunity to explore career options outside of academia and experience something different from PhD research.

19. Cohort Development Funding Networks Interdisciplinary conferences
Collective
Cohort Development Funding
Networks
Interdisciplinary conferences

20. Core SGSAH DTP Leadership Programme
Year 1: Gathering
DTP Induction
Group/Team work
Careers
Equality & Diversity
Summer School
Year 2: Sharing
Wellbeing
Interdisciplinary Practices
Entrepreneurial learning
Year 3: Advancing
KE & Impact
Intercultural Training
Career pathways
Year 4: Delivering
Publishing
Fellowships
Grant writing
SGSAH DTP Leadership Programme
It’s been a fantastic opportunity to get to know the other members of the cohort, to share ideas, fears and build relations. (Doctoral Researcher, DTP)

21. Partnership Citizenship, Culture and Ethics Creative Economies
Heritage

22. specialist Disciplinary+ Catalysts Archaeology and Classics
Creative Arts and Design
Cultural and Museum Studies
History
Law
Linguistics
Media
Modern Languages
Philosophy
Scottish & English Literature
Theology & Religious Studies
specialist

23. SGSAH DTP requirements
Attendance at Leadership Programme across all four years
Annual Summer School
SGSAH AHRC DTP Symposium
Discipline+ Catalyst
Interdisciplinary Incubator
KE Hub
Annual Progress Review

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