Janine Mitchell
This year, the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities are supporting 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. Janine Mitchell is a […]
Nacim Pak-Shiraz
Professor Nacim Pak-Shiraz is Personal Chair of Cinema and Iran at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on cinema and visual culture in the Middle East, particularly Iran. She has published in the fields of visual cultures, gender, and the engagement of religion and film, including Shi‘i Islam in Iranian Cinema: Religion and Spirituality […]
Cindy Holmes
Dr. Cindy Holmes is a queer, cisgender, white settler of Scottish and Irish ancestry who lives in the unceded territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ people, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Victoria. Her interdisciplinary, community-engaged, arts-based, and collaborative research explores connections […]
Chinasa Vivian Ezugha
Assistant Arts Professor of Live Art/Art as Social Practice Chinasa Vivian Ezugha is a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter. Her interdisciplinary practice spans Live Art, film, and drawing, questioning her identity as a Black woman living in England. Her works have been presented at SPILL Festival (2018), Performance Space (2018), In Between Time Festival […]
Corinne Baulcomb, Joana Ferreira, Alex Lemery, Seb O’Connor
This special residency involves tutors and students from the MSc Ecological Economics programme at the University of Edinburgh and Scotland’s Rural College. Developed in collaboration with Cove Park, this residency includes facilitated artist-led creative workshops. Ecological Economics is an interdisciplinary field that has emerged over the past half a century to critically examine how our economic […]
Flo Fitzgerald-Allsopp
Flo Fitzgerald-Allsopp is a creative producer, curatorial assistant and PhD researcher in the field of contemporary art and performance. Working closely and creatively with artists and arts organisations, she has delivered a diverse range of international collaborative projects across live performance, visual art and video. She is currently undertaking a Techne funded PhD with the […]
Molly Farrell
Molly C Farrell (they/them) is a writer and researcher based at Glasgow University, where they teach and occasionally lecture. Their current doctoral thesis considers codes in sapphic modernisms between 1895 and 1928. During their residency at Cove Park, they will be reflecting on and writing a practice research essay about their SGSAH-funded survivor-led project ‘Matters […]
Anna Rhodes, Anna Reid & Milja Tuomivaara
Fascinated by microscopic landscapes, collaborators Anna Rhodes, Anna Reid & Milja Tuomivaara are developing a series of micro publications to explore topics such as sediments, moss and the miniature worlds contained in rock pools. Spanning out from micro: species, materiality and topographies we pose and explore macroscale concerns. Our micro residency at Cove Park will […]
Ellie Bush
Ellie Bush is an artist and practice-based PhD student at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. She is interested in how art-based approaches can examine and amplify animal and plant temporalities specific to British rainforest ecologies and how more-than-human time is experienced in varying embodied and sensed ways. As an artist she has exhibited […]
Matthew Lear
Matthew Lear is a PhD candidate in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh where his research on ‘Repurposed Poetics and Anthropocene Time’ is funded by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership. He holds an MPhil in Criticism & Culture from the University of Cambridge and is an active […]
Adam Frank
Adam Frank is a first-year Philosophy PhD student at the University of Dundee. His research explores how practices of attentiveness in everyday life and academic research methods can lead to, but also limit, more sensitive ways of valuing and knowing the more-than-human world. In particular, he is working on developing a pedagogy that will facilitate […]
Felix Clarke
Felix Clarke is a PhD researcher in Human Geography at the University of Edinburgh whose work is concerned with human/non-human animal relations. He is particularly interested in the political ecology of biodiversity conservation in the global north. His current work focuses on the cultural, political, social and ecological implications of wildlife reintroductions as a conservation […]