SSW is delighted to partner with Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH) to host a PhD researcher to spend up to three months on residency at SSW exploring Regenerative Materials and Community Knowledge within Arts Practice.
We are continuing to develop our work in this area and are seeking to support a PhD residency for an artist/researcher to collaborate with SSW and our local community through the Community Making Space Programme, exploring the potentials of working with locally grown, regenerative materials.
Through the residency, we are interested in better understanding how:
- regenerative materials are being used by artists, makers and communities across the globe
- growing and working with these materials positively impacts community regeneration, empowerment, wellbeing and economies.
- this provides an avenue to rethink material value and agency – understanding materials as active participants within the work
- provide a space for the transferal of community knowledge of the land within localised geographies
- we can develop evaluative methods that helps us to better understand the impact of this work within both our local community and wider environment
- the impact of colonisation and extraction has formed contemporary material practice. Can this work help us reimagine how contemporary art is made within the climate crisis.
The programme is open to arts and humanities PhD students in Scotland, regardless of funding source. Any doctoral researcher that meets the following criteria can apply for this residency:
- You are registered at a SGSAH member HEI;
- You are in 2nd or early in your 3rd year (full time equivalent) at 1 October 2025*;
- You are studying an arts and humanities discipline. The AHRC’s subject coverage is here;
- You are eligible to work in the UK;
- You have not already undertaken an internship or residency through SGSAH’s programme.
To find out more and apply, click here to visit the SGSAH website.
Please contact admin@sgsah.ac.uk if you have any queries.
Deadline for applications: Friday 31st October 2025, 5pm, via the SMA Application Portal
