Posts in September 2020

Dr Samantha May is a lecturer in the department of Politics and International Relations.  She completed her AHRC funded doctorate at the University of Aberdeen in 2011 on Islamist ideologies and practices. Dr May has also been awarded multiple awards in the annual Principal's Excellence Awards, including Best Undergraduate…

Matthew Lee is an AHRC-funded PhD student supervised by staff at the University of Aberdeen and the National Library of Scotland. His PhD research focusses on Scottish writers who visited the Caribbean and wrote about their experiences of slavery. As part of the project, he spent three months at the National…

Dr Eloise Grey graduated with a PhD in Scottish History from Aberdeen during lockdown 2020. In this blog post she considers the history of the emotional responses of white British people to slavery and their  colonial past and proposes that we, as white Scots and Brits, learn to live…

Everyone must have experienced some low moments in their lives, but that is normal. However, few things might have pushed some of us to fall deeper into an empty, dark place, where hope seemed like a myth.

I lost one of my best friends many years ago. He passed away…