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Dr Katya Krylova - Published Chapter
Congratulations to Dr Katya Krylova who has had a chapter published in a new revised edition of the ‘Bachmann Handbuch’, a prestigious handbook on the famous postwar Austrian poet and writer Ingeborg Bachmann, edited by Monika Albrecht and Dirk Göttsche and published by Metzler Verlag (in German). Dr Krylova’s contribution...
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Dr Frances Wilkins - Research Blog
Frances Wilkins, lecturer in Ethnomusicology at the Elphinstone Institute, has recently published a blog on her ongoing research into sacred singing traditions of the West Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland. The research, funded by a Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant, explores the meaning of sacred song to community members...
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Dr Elisabeth Anderson - Published Article
Congratulations to Dr Elisabeth Anderson for her recent article, "Reading the world's liveliness: animist ecologies in Indigenous knowledges, new materialism and women's writing", in the journal Feminist Modernist Studies. This article was included in a special issue of the journal, focused on feminist ecocriticism (vol 3:2, 2020), which can be accessed...
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Dr Silvia Casini - Forthcoming Publication
Congratulations to Dr Silvia Casini for her forthcoming book chapter, "What Counts as Data and for Whom?: The Role of the Modest Witness in Art-Science Collaboration", in the Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies. Dr Casini's chapter opens this edited collection which showcases the work of both scholars and practitioners...
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Published Article - "Three Wheels on my Wagon"
Congratualtions to one of our PGR students, Jane Hughes, who has recently publshed their first article titled "Three Wheels on my Wagon" in the life writing journal Taylor and Francis. Jane describes the article as a reflective essay following her mother’s sudden death last September, and an attempty to share family memories through...
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Walter Scott Research Centre - Curated MOOC
The Walter Scott Research Centre will be running a fully curated version of its MOOC Walter Scott; The Man Behind the Monument from 17 August 2020. Developed in partnership with Abbotsford, Scott's home in the Scottish Borders, this free on-line course showcases the work of the Centre and introduces learners...
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Andrew Gordon and Alasdair Hunter present "A Merry Note"
Andrew Gordon and Alasdair Hunter present "A Merry Note”, an online performance exploring correspondence in times of separation, isolation and absence, as explored through the lens of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost and other contemporary sources. This virtual event will be the first screening of a performance made with Scottish actors under lockdown and...
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John Reid Trust Scheme 1959
Scholarship opportunity for final year undergraduate students.
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New King's Studentship
Scholarships available for academic year 2020/21
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Walter Scott: The Man Behind the Monument - Free Online Course
Future Learn are now providing a free online course for those interested in learning more about Sir Walter Scott. Discover the writer, collector and cultural icon who remains one of Scotland’s most enduring literary legends. Walter Scott is one of Scotland’s most significant figures and is famous around the world. On this course, you’ll...