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Views of a lush landscape in hues of green, orange, and brown, during autumn. Through ferns and bracken, there is the hills of the Cowal Peninsula.

Bartelijntje Buys

Bartelijntje Buys is a field biologist with the University of Ghent, Belgium. Her research – involving bears, wolves, ground squirrels, birds, chimpanzees, cetaceans, and marine nematodes – explores how ecology, behavioural biology, policy and conservation interact with each other. She believes in the resilience of nature, of which humans play a part. She respects the […]

Open Residency

Shailini Vinod

Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities

Piers Blaikie

Piers Blaikie is Emeritus Professor at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia. He has had forty years of teaching and researching in India, Nepal and central Africa, mainly on environmental issues such as forestry, participation in local management and national parks. He was born and has lived in Scotland for 25 years […]

Jerwood Creative Catalysts

Nigel Dower

Nigel Dower is Honorary Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland where he taught for most of the period 1967-2004 and he is a visiting professor at institutions in America and Iceland.  He was President of the International Development Ethics Association from 2002 to 2006 and he now acts as an academic […]

Jerwood Creative Catalysts

Anne Glover

Professor Anne Glover was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland on August 1 2006. Her role is to further enhance Scotland’s reputation as a science nation. Professor Glover holds a Personal Chair of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Aberdeen, and has honorary positions at the Rowett and Macaulay Institutes. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal […]

Ann Glover

Richard Baxstrom

Richard Baxstrom is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology with an affiliation with Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Houses in Motion: The Experience of Place and the Problem of Belief in Urban Malaysia (Stanford University Press 2008). With Todd Meyers, he is also the co-editor of anthropologies (Creative Capitalism […]

Jerwood Creative Catalysts

Matthew Floyd

This year, the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities are continuing to support their arts & humanities PhD students (based across 17 Scottish institutions) with residencies for creative practice, working with Cove Park to provide dedicated creative time, space, and freedom to develop their doctoral work within a supportive and inspiring context. Matthew Floyd […]

Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities

Elaine Webster, Katie Boyle & Saskia Vermeylen

This micro residency connects academics from across a number of research groups working across areas of human rights law, intergenerational social and environmental justice, Indigenous and traditional inland and coastal communities, human rights defenders, Indigenous labour and land rights, care-centred approaches, and multi-species justice, all with some focus on arts-based practice. A small group of […]

Art and Humanity for Human Rights & Socio-Ecological Justice

Niamh Gordon

Niamh Gordon (she/her) is a writer and interdisciplinary researcher. She has an MA in Prose Fiction from the University of East Anglia, and is currently studying for a PhD in Creative Writing and Narrative Studies at the University of Glasgow, where she has taught courses on poetry and poetics, experimental writing, and writing the body. […]

Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities

Janine Mitchell

Janine Mitchell is a final year Doctoral Researcher. She has a Master of Research in Humanities from the University of Stirling. Her practice-led doctoral research project is focused on Central and Southern Africa and the creation of biographical narratives. She received the Scottish Universities Research Collection Associate Scheme Award for the development of the Mackay […]

Open Residency

Sandrine Colard

Sandrine Colard is Assistant Professor of Art History at Rutgers-Newark University in the United States, and curator-at-large at the Kanal-Pompidou Museum in Brussels. She holds a doctorate from Columbia University (2016), and she is a historian of African, modern and contemporary arts, as well as a historian of photography. Her research has been published internationally […]

Open Residency

Virginia Grose

Virginia Grose is the Head of Fashion at the University of Westminster – School of Arts with a background in fashion and product development in the UK fashion industry. Having worked many years with Courtaulds Testiles on many fashion product times, Virginia developed an interest in cashmere knitwear. She has worked closely with textile and […]

Open Residency