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As we begin preparations for the new academic year, we like to highlight all of the fantastic activity across our community over the last 12 months. Head over to our Year in Review page to read all about SGSSS, our partners, our students, and the wider social science community across Scotland during 2025/26. The post Our 2025/26 Year in Review first appeared on Scottish Graduate School of Social…
The Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS) worked with the Scottish Government to lead a policy event series in Autumn 2025 designed to further strengthen links and collaboration between social science PhD researchers, supervisors and policymakers. Discussion groups of students, policy makers and academics at the SGSSS and Scottish Government policy event The series […] The post SGSSS…
Congratulations to Emma Margaret Currie, SRUC and Elle Scott, University of Glasgow – SGSSS Impact Competition 2026 winners The SGSSS Impact Competition celebrates “the demonstrable contribution that excellent research makes to society and the economy”. PhD researchers submit examples of the impact that they have created, or plan to create, through their work. The finalists […] The post…
The Scottish Graduate School of Social Science is delighted to announce the launch of the supervisor-led ADR UK Studentship Competition 2026/27 ADR UK, in collaboration with ESRC, are looking to fund up to 30 new PhD studentships focused on quantitative research using linked administrative data. SGSSS may apply to host up to five studentships, and […] The post Launch of the ADR UK Supervisor-led…
The SGSSS Impact Competition 2026 final shortlist is now live for public vote! The SGSSS Impact Competition aims to champion a culture of creating meaningful impact across the SGSSS student community and to the wider public. Discover how our finalists are generating impact through their research and cast your vote in the SGSSS Impact Competition 2026. (Link opens […] The post SGSSS Impact…
Dear SGSSS PhD students At SGSSS, incorporating the PGR voice is central to our governance process. With that in mind, we are delighted to introduce ourselves: the new SGSSS Student Engagement Team – five Associate Officers who are at different stages of study across our member institutions: https://www.sgsss.ac.uk/about-us/student-engagement/ Members of the team are: Clara Seyfried […] The post…
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. The post Generative AI and the social science PhD: A summary report of participatory research conducted in the United Kingdom first appeared on Scottish Graduate School of Social Science .
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 […] The post SGSSS…
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 […] The post SGSSS…
The 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 […] The post Doctoral…
