Claire Squires
@clairesquires.bsky.social
Director of SGSAH. Professor of Publishing Studies at Stirling. Ullapoolist. 50% of Blaire Squiscoll. She/Her.
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Please behold my @sgsah.bsky.social leaving cake! 🎂 😍 🥂
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What's the Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research?
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
The Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research - by Professor Claire Squires | SAHA: The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance
A joint initiative of Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
What's the Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research?
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
What's the Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research?
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
The Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research - by Professor Claire Squires | SAHA: The Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance
A joint initiative of Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.
saha.scot
December 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
What's the Value of Early Career Arts & Humanities Research?
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
I wrote about this for the @sahavoice.bsky.social blog, drawing on my experience as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social over the past few years saha.scot/the-value-of...
I'm very soon stepping down (after a 6-year secondment) from my role as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social aka the Best Job in Scotland possibly The World.
If you get the SGSAH newsletter, you'll already have received my seasonal message... Please give it a read! 1/ mailchi.mp/sgsah/newsle...
If you get the SGSAH newsletter, you'll already have received my seasonal message... Please give it a read! 1/ mailchi.mp/sgsah/newsle...
SGSAH December Newsletter 2025
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December 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I'm very soon stepping down (after a 6-year secondment) from my role as Director of @sgsah.bsky.social aka the Best Job in Scotland possibly The World.
If you get the SGSAH newsletter, you'll already have received my seasonal message... Please give it a read! 1/ mailchi.mp/sgsah/newsle...
If you get the SGSAH newsletter, you'll already have received my seasonal message... Please give it a read! 1/ mailchi.mp/sgsah/newsle...
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📚 New SGSAH Blog Post 📚
Dr @smgthomson.bsky.social looks back on her path from SGSAH-funded PhD to Curator at @natlibscot.bsky.social — a candid, inspiring journey through post-PhD possibilities and heritage careers.
Read it here: sgsahblog.com/2025/12/09/l...
Dr @smgthomson.bsky.social looks back on her path from SGSAH-funded PhD to Curator at @natlibscot.bsky.social — a candid, inspiring journey through post-PhD possibilities and heritage careers.
Read it here: sgsahblog.com/2025/12/09/l...
Looking Back: My Research Path to Becoming a Curator at the National Library of Scotland
Following their presentation at the SGSAH Welcome Event 2025, guest blogger Dr Sarah Mackay shares their journey from a SGSAH-funded PhD to becoming a library curator.
sgsahblog.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:40 AM
📚 New SGSAH Blog Post 📚
Dr @smgthomson.bsky.social looks back on her path from SGSAH-funded PhD to Curator at @natlibscot.bsky.social — a candid, inspiring journey through post-PhD possibilities and heritage careers.
Read it here: sgsahblog.com/2025/12/09/l...
Dr @smgthomson.bsky.social looks back on her path from SGSAH-funded PhD to Curator at @natlibscot.bsky.social — a candid, inspiring journey through post-PhD possibilities and heritage careers.
Read it here: sgsahblog.com/2025/12/09/l...
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Books are like children in one important way - both take a village to raise.
Thank you to my village, all over the world, who have helped me along the way. None of this could have happened without you.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
Thank you to my village, all over the world, who have helped me along the way. None of this could have happened without you.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
A Cultural History of Vertigo
The first interdisciplinary history of vertigo, this book covers medical accounts from antiquity to the present, testimonies of lived experience, and literary a…
www.bloomsbury.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Books are like children in one important way - both take a village to raise.
Thank you to my village, all over the world, who have helped me along the way. None of this could have happened without you.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
Thank you to my village, all over the world, who have helped me along the way. None of this could have happened without you.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/cultural-...
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We’re sharing our festive card a little early this year — thank you to our wonderful community for all you’ve brought to 2025, and extra special thanks to @clairesquires.bsky.social for her leadership in her final year as Director.
Wishing you all rest, joy and a bright start to the year ahead. 💫
Wishing you all rest, joy and a bright start to the year ahead. 💫
December 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
We’re sharing our festive card a little early this year — thank you to our wonderful community for all you’ve brought to 2025, and extra special thanks to @clairesquires.bsky.social for her leadership in her final year as Director.
Wishing you all rest, joy and a bright start to the year ahead. 💫
Wishing you all rest, joy and a bright start to the year ahead. 💫
Please behold my @sgsah.bsky.social leaving cake! 🎂 😍 🥂
December 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Please behold my @sgsah.bsky.social leaving cake! 🎂 😍 🥂
Another platform reminded me it was 4 years ago today that my article on my Covid reading with books called 'Highland Fling' was published by @asls.org.uk - a genre (largely) having the same plot as the film A Castle for Christmas. You can check it out here 1/ muse.jhu.edu/article/840121
Project MUSE - Highland Flings and CAN CANs: Dances with Recommendation Culture
muse.jhu.edu
December 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Another platform reminded me it was 4 years ago today that my article on my Covid reading with books called 'Highland Fling' was published by @asls.org.uk - a genre (largely) having the same plot as the film A Castle for Christmas. You can check it out here 1/ muse.jhu.edu/article/840121
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🎣 New SGSAH Blog Post 🎣
Guest blogger Marie-Chantal Hamrock shares their research-based artistic practice, exploring maritime cultures in Aberdeen, Peterhead and Fraserburgh.
Read it here ➡️ sgsahblog.com/2025/12/02/s...
Guest blogger Marie-Chantal Hamrock shares their research-based artistic practice, exploring maritime cultures in Aberdeen, Peterhead and Fraserburgh.
Read it here ➡️ sgsahblog.com/2025/12/02/s...
Slippery Realities: Researching Scotland’s Fishing Industry through Speculative Fiction
Guest blogger Marie-Chantal Hamrock shares their research-based artistic practice, exploring maritime cultures in Aberdeen, Peterhead and Fraserburgh.
sgsahblog.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🎣 New SGSAH Blog Post 🎣
Guest blogger Marie-Chantal Hamrock shares their research-based artistic practice, exploring maritime cultures in Aberdeen, Peterhead and Fraserburgh.
Read it here ➡️ sgsahblog.com/2025/12/02/s...
Guest blogger Marie-Chantal Hamrock shares their research-based artistic practice, exploring maritime cultures in Aberdeen, Peterhead and Fraserburgh.
Read it here ➡️ sgsahblog.com/2025/12/02/s...
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Nominations are open for the newly-founded Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize, administered by the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature and awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. £300 prize.
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Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize
The Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize is awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. Founded in 2025, the prize is open to book-length wor…
ucsl-scotland.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Nominations are open for the newly-founded Scottish Literary Studies Book Prize, administered by the Universities Committee for Scottish Literature and awarded biennially to an outstanding work of scholarship in the field of Scottish literary studies. £300 prize.
ucsl-scotland.com/scottish-lit...
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(EN) To know more about my PhD research, you can now visit my research profile on the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) website! @sgsah.bsky.social #zooarchaeology #academia #phd #archaeology
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Kariane Bourgault - SGSAH Research
Living and Dying Together: a multi-species and biomolecular approach to understanding animal-human relationships during the Iron Age in Scotland. | University of the Highlands and Islands (AHRC CDA)
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November 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
(EN) To know more about my PhD research, you can now visit my research profile on the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH) website! @sgsah.bsky.social #zooarchaeology #academia #phd #archaeology
sgsahresearch.com/portfolio/ka...
sgsahresearch.com/portfolio/ka...
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I’ll be editing a special issue of Publishing Research Quarterly on environmental sustainability and book publishing. The call for papers is out now. Please share if you have relevant networks!
Call for papers: Publishing Research Quarterly – Environmental Sustainability and Book Publishing
Hi everyone, I’m excited to share the call for papers for a special issue of the international academic journal Publishing Research Quarterly on the topic of environmental sustainability and …
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November 13, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I’ll be editing a special issue of Publishing Research Quarterly on environmental sustainability and book publishing. The call for papers is out now. Please share if you have relevant networks!
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🌿 New on the SGSAH Blog!
Guest writer Anna Stacey reflects on an Environmental Humanities film screening of Living Proof: A Climate Story (2021)— exploring nostalgia, climate storytelling, and the power of art in imagining sustainable futures.
Read it here ➡️ sgsahblog.com/2025/11/25/l...
Guest writer Anna Stacey reflects on an Environmental Humanities film screening of Living Proof: A Climate Story (2021)— exploring nostalgia, climate storytelling, and the power of art in imagining sustainable futures.
Read it here ➡️ sgsahblog.com/2025/11/25/l...
Looking Back to Look Forward: Conversations on Living Proof: A Climate Story (2021) at the University of Edinburgh
In the first post of the ecologies strand, guest blogger Anna Stacey reflects on an Environmental Humanities Film Screening in partnership with Dr. Emily Munro and the National Library of Scotland.
sgsahblog.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
🌿 New on the SGSAH Blog!
Guest writer Anna Stacey reflects on an Environmental Humanities film screening of Living Proof: A Climate Story (2021)— exploring nostalgia, climate storytelling, and the power of art in imagining sustainable futures.
Read it here ➡️ sgsahblog.com/2025/11/25/l...
Guest writer Anna Stacey reflects on an Environmental Humanities film screening of Living Proof: A Climate Story (2021)— exploring nostalgia, climate storytelling, and the power of art in imagining sustainable futures.
Read it here ➡️ sgsahblog.com/2025/11/25/l...
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🚀 Calling all Arts & Humanities PhDs in Scotland – join our Transkribathon!
Learn the basics of Transkribus with experts Dario Kampkaspar & Kevin Kuck.
Demos, hands-on practice + space to work on your own project.
📅 3 Dec 2025
🎟️ Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transkriba...
Learn the basics of Transkribus with experts Dario Kampkaspar & Kevin Kuck.
Demos, hands-on practice + space to work on your own project.
📅 3 Dec 2025
🎟️ Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transkriba...
Transkribathon (SGSAH Linguistics+ Catalyst training)
Join us for a full-day session introducing Transkribus, the AI-powered tool for handwritten and printed text recognition!
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November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
🚀 Calling all Arts & Humanities PhDs in Scotland – join our Transkribathon!
Learn the basics of Transkribus with experts Dario Kampkaspar & Kevin Kuck.
Demos, hands-on practice + space to work on your own project.
📅 3 Dec 2025
🎟️ Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transkriba...
Learn the basics of Transkribus with experts Dario Kampkaspar & Kevin Kuck.
Demos, hands-on practice + space to work on your own project.
📅 3 Dec 2025
🎟️ Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/transkriba...
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'What if the protagonist of a novel was not a single person but a couple?'
A gay working-class couple of genius artists (who also happen to be Very Handsome).
Grateful to Lara Feigel for this thoughtful review of the Two Roberts.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
A gay working-class couple of genius artists (who also happen to be Very Handsome).
Grateful to Lara Feigel for this thoughtful review of the Two Roberts.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
The Two Roberts by Damian Barr review – lost story of a gay art duo
The lives of Scottish artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, who found love and fame and lost it all, are vividly reimagined
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
'What if the protagonist of a novel was not a single person but a couple?'
A gay working-class couple of genius artists (who also happen to be Very Handsome).
Grateful to Lara Feigel for this thoughtful review of the Two Roberts.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
A gay working-class couple of genius artists (who also happen to be Very Handsome).
Grateful to Lara Feigel for this thoughtful review of the Two Roberts.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
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PALESTINE - 1: @britishlibrary.bsky.social TOMORROW!
🎟️ tickets.bl.uk/3914/3915
📅 25 Nov 7-8:30pm
📍 Pigott Theatre, London
Writers Selma Dabbagh & Anwar Hamed, & editor Basma Ghalayini explore the themes & voices within this ambitious anthology of Palestinian fiction.
🎟️ tickets.bl.uk/3914/3915
📅 25 Nov 7-8:30pm
📍 Pigott Theatre, London
Writers Selma Dabbagh & Anwar Hamed, & editor Basma Ghalayini explore the themes & voices within this ambitious anthology of Palestinian fiction.
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
PALESTINE - 1: @britishlibrary.bsky.social TOMORROW!
🎟️ tickets.bl.uk/3914/3915
📅 25 Nov 7-8:30pm
📍 Pigott Theatre, London
Writers Selma Dabbagh & Anwar Hamed, & editor Basma Ghalayini explore the themes & voices within this ambitious anthology of Palestinian fiction.
🎟️ tickets.bl.uk/3914/3915
📅 25 Nov 7-8:30pm
📍 Pigott Theatre, London
Writers Selma Dabbagh & Anwar Hamed, & editor Basma Ghalayini explore the themes & voices within this ambitious anthology of Palestinian fiction.
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Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Waterstones often articulates itself as an antidote to Amazon; but this behaviour would suggest they’re far from the side of angels bsky.app/profile/argo...
November 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Waterstones often articulates itself as an antidote to Amazon; but this behaviour would suggest they’re far from the side of angels bsky.app/profile/argo...
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What a privilege to be among the final contributing authors for @sapiens.org. This piece grows out of my Earth fellowship in Orkney, Scotland, exploring deep-time human–seal relations.
Grateful for the chance to share it and keen to hear what you think. www.sapiens.org/culture/seal...
Grateful for the chance to share it and keen to hear what you think. www.sapiens.org/culture/seal...
Connections and Conflicts With Seals in a Scottish Archipelago
An environmental archaeologist investigates deep-time, mythical, and contemporary relations between seals and Orkney Islanders.
www.sapiens.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
What a privilege to be among the final contributing authors for @sapiens.org. This piece grows out of my Earth fellowship in Orkney, Scotland, exploring deep-time human–seal relations.
Grateful for the chance to share it and keen to hear what you think. www.sapiens.org/culture/seal...
Grateful for the chance to share it and keen to hear what you think. www.sapiens.org/culture/seal...
Very much enjoyed reading @isanchezprado.bsky.social’s TACO during a very cold week in Scotland - took me straight back to these ones* from Villa’s Tacos in Grand Central Market on a hot summer’s day in LA
*no idea where they sit on the authentic/inauthentic continuum but they were very colourful!
*no idea where they sit on the authentic/inauthentic continuum but they were very colourful!
November 21, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Very much enjoyed reading @isanchezprado.bsky.social’s TACO during a very cold week in Scotland - took me straight back to these ones* from Villa’s Tacos in Grand Central Market on a hot summer’s day in LA
*no idea where they sit on the authentic/inauthentic continuum but they were very colourful!
*no idea where they sit on the authentic/inauthentic continuum but they were very colourful!
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It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴❄️🧊
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www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
November 21, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴❄️🧊
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
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Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Kathleen Stock has written an article against "abortion permissiveness". She claims abortion requires "justification" saying the state should limit "unacceptable decision-making" by women about their own bodies.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
This is who anti-trans activists proclaim as the feminist thought leaders of our time.
ANNOUNCING: PUBLISHER NOT FOUND - our final book and the 404 Ink Bursary, coming 2026.
We will be launching the bursary with an initial £3,000 pledged from us towards small press projects. We are also publishing PUBLISHER NOT FOUND, a behind the scenes look at 404.
www.404ink.com/blog/publish...
We will be launching the bursary with an initial £3,000 pledged from us towards small press projects. We are also publishing PUBLISHER NOT FOUND, a behind the scenes look at 404.
www.404ink.com/blog/publish...
404 Ink co-founders launch new book and industry fundraiser for small presses — 404 Ink
404 Ink to publish one final book as part of small press fundraiser, launching in 2026.
www.404ink.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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ANNOUNCING: PUBLISHER NOT FOUND - our final book and the 404 Ink Bursary, coming 2026.
We will be launching the bursary with an initial £3,000 pledged from us towards small press projects. We are also publishing PUBLISHER NOT FOUND, a behind the scenes look at 404.
www.404ink.com/blog/publish...
We will be launching the bursary with an initial £3,000 pledged from us towards small press projects. We are also publishing PUBLISHER NOT FOUND, a behind the scenes look at 404.
www.404ink.com/blog/publish...
404 Ink co-founders launch new book and industry fundraiser for small presses — 404 Ink
404 Ink to publish one final book as part of small press fundraiser, launching in 2026.
www.404ink.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:02 AM
ANNOUNCING: PUBLISHER NOT FOUND - our final book and the 404 Ink Bursary, coming 2026.
We will be launching the bursary with an initial £3,000 pledged from us towards small press projects. We are also publishing PUBLISHER NOT FOUND, a behind the scenes look at 404.
www.404ink.com/blog/publish...
We will be launching the bursary with an initial £3,000 pledged from us towards small press projects. We are also publishing PUBLISHER NOT FOUND, a behind the scenes look at 404.
www.404ink.com/blog/publish...