Welcoming our new SGSSS Student Reps

Student Representatives have an important part to play in the SGSSS by representing the interests of social science PhD students at their own institutions and making their voices heard. Being a Rep is a great way to engage with students from other universities, interact with a range of professionals and academics at SGSSS events and […]

‘Urban Life, The Untold Dimension of Happiness’

We are indeed aware of some spatial forces behind our actions, or for that matter, inactions. No one has ever doubted how doors enable us to move through, a possibility that a solid wall robs us from. In fact, we are so intrinsically adapted to architectural manipulations, no one is shrinking from how decisive architecture […]

New Doctoral Training Centre for Artificial Intelligence to enhance training opportunities for PhDs

SGSSS is thrilled to be partnering with a new Centre for Doctoral Training aimed at developing the next generation of experts in artificial social intelligence.   The UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Social Intelligent Artificial Agents (SOCIAL) brings together researchers from the University of Glasgow’s Schools of Computing Science and Psychology and the Institute […]

Business Skills Boosted

A pilot training programme designed for social science PhD students to build skills and confidence for working with and engaging industry has successfully completed. SGSSS designed the programme in partnership with colleagues at the universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, working with the training provider Skillfluence, who delivered three workshops over four days between October […]