In May this year, Professor Arthur McIvor of the University of Strathclyde was successful in securing funding to deliver training through our Spring into Methods programme,jointly funded wit the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities. The proposal was to deliver Advanced Oral History Theory and Practice training to PhD students from both Social Science and Arts and Humanities disciplines. Here, Lorna Barton, a PGR Training Assistant and facilitator of the workshop gives a detailed account of the training.
Case Study: The PhD intern making an impact on banks’ response to financial abuse
Jenn Glinski, an ESRC-funded student researching economic abuse partnered with the Royal Bank of Scotland through the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science’s Innovation Internships Scheme to look at how banks can better respond to financial abuse.
Case Study: PhD internship delivers first UK-wide study of demand for old-age care
Target Fund Managers collaborated with SGSSS through its Innovation Internships Scheme to recruit a PhD researcher to help the company understand what the ageing population will mean for the residential care sector.
Case study: Cristina Denk-FloreaThis case study was originally published by UKRI. Please click here to view it on their website. Cristina is a second year PhD student at the University of Glasgow’s Institute of Psychology and Neuroscience. Her research is funded by the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS), an Economic and Social Research Council-funded Doctoral Training […]
Blog: PhD ‘Must-knows’ from attending the Big Data Centre for Environment and Health (BERTHA) Summer School – By Katie Riddoch
In August, SGSSS funded two ESRC Researchers to participate in the first annual summer school of the Aarhus University Big Data Centre for Environment and Health (BERTHA). This five day course on the theme of Personalised Sensors introduced a small group of PhDs and Post Docs to the application of state-of-the-art research using personalised sensors to measure environmental exposures, fitness, health, and wellbeing. The course also provided an excellent opportunity to understand the responsibility and ethical considerations in research involving protection of personal data and the involvement of participants in campaigns or fieldwork.
Here, Katie Riddoch, a 2nd Year Doctoral Student at the University of Glasgow (Social Brain in Action Lab, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology) funded by an ESRC Industrial Strategy Studentship, shares her reflections on the experience.
