We are delighted to present a report of SGSSS research which investigated Scottish social science PhD students’ practices, opinions and needs when it comes to generative AI.
SGSSS Mentoring Programme 2026 Launches at RSE
The SGSSS Mentoring Programme, in partnership with the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), launched on January 28th in Edinburgh. The programme connects PhD researchers to RSE Fellows or SGSSS PhD Alumni with a variety of professional experience in academia, the public, private, or non-profit sectors. Open to all social science PhD students in Scotland in their third year […]
SGSSS Launches New Podcast On Interdisciplinarity: When Disciplines Meet
When Disciplines Meet is SGSSS’s new podcast series, launched in January 2026, exploring interdisciplinarity as it relates to the grand challenges that the social science research sector continues to contend with. Listeners can access all five episodes on the SGSSS website or through their usual podcast platform. When Disciplines Meet is hosted by interdisciplinary researcher […]
Doctoral Education at the Heart of Scotland’s Research FutureThe Scottish Graduate School of Social Science welcomes the renewed strategic direction for UK Research and Innovation and their commitment to ensuring that research and innovation underpin a thriving knowledge economy. Doctoral education is central to achieving these ambitions and sustaining the health and diversity of this pipeline is essential to Scotland’s and the UK’s […]
SGSSS 2024/25 Year in Review
At the end of a successful year, SGSSS has produced our Year in Review report for 2024/25. This report highlights the wide range of training, cohort development events, collaboration opportunities, interdisciplinary working and knowledge exchange activities delivered in collaboration with our HEIs and other partners. The report also features the hard work of our students, […]
