Alumni Development

SGSAH has funded hundreds of PhD projects since its inception in 2014 and our alumni are making an impact in their chosen fields all over the world.

We want to maintain relationships with our global network of graduates and connect our community, in order to:

• Help celebrate and promote the achievements of SGSAH alumni • Invite alumni to contribute to SGSAH training and events for current students and potentially give them an avenue to keep engaged with the community • Create links for potential future ideas and collaborations • Facilitate evolving contacts and networking, anywhere in the world

To aid this, profiles for all the SGSAH-funded cohort of PhD researchers are now being added to SGSAH Research (sgsahresearch.com), forming a dynamic, accessible and visual online alumni showcase. We hope this will help us to keep in touch with our alumni and potentially collaborate in the future. We have also recently established a new alumni networking resource on LinkedIn; if you’re one of our alumni or current PhD researchers please do connect with us there! Achievements from our alumni in 2021-22 include:

• Dr Vlad Butucea (University of Glasgow, 20172022) was co-writer for the National Theatre of

Scotland’s 2022 performance, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Later in 2022, Vlad wrote Silkworm, which won both the 2022

Scotsman Fringe First Award and the Assembly

Art Award • Dr Alexandra Chiriac (University of St Andrews, 2015-2019) has been awarded the Leonard A.

Lauder Research Fellowship for Modern Art at the

Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York • Dr Louise Creechan (University of Glasgow, 2014-2020) was announced as one of the BBC/

AHRC 2022 New Generation Thinkers. She is currently working on a monograph based on her thesis, Unwriting Victorian Illiteracies: Questioning the Primary of Literary in Nineteenth Century

Literature and Culture, and hosts the regular interdisciplinary academic/comedy podcast LOL

MY PRAXIS • Dr Lorna Hill (University of Stirling, 2014-2018) has recently been appointed as Artist-in-Residence with Luminate and Erskine Care Homes, and was also the first Storyteller-in-Residence for 2022’s

Fringe by the Sea Festival • Dr Andrew McDiarmid (University of Dundee, 2015-2019) has been awarded a Saltire Early Career

Fellowship from the Royal Society of Edinburgh for a project at Dundee and University College Dublin, entitled Urban Development, Temperance, and

Funerals: A Study of the Tontine in Ireland, 1750-1850