Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance

07/09/2026

Join us for our next Humanities Summit: Policy, Advocacy and Place - hosted in partnership with the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

This Humanities Summit will bring together colleagues from across the UK to share ideas, approaches and future priorities on the theme of policy, advocacy and place.

Through open discussion and contributions from guest speakers, we will consider how to engage more effectively in regional and devolved policy contexts, and how to develop more strategic place-based approaches to advocating for the value of .

📅 Wednesday, September 16th | 13:30-16:45
📍 Scottish Poetry Library

🔗 Register now: https://saha.scot/humanities-summit-policy-advocacy-and-place/

01/09/2026

🖊️ "The Interactive Map of Burns Suppers Worldwide is a major output of ‘The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention’ project, introduced on the SAHA blog earlier this year, which examines the ways in which the Burns Supper continues to be maintained, but also adapted and reimagined, by communities across the world. The dataset combines events submitted via UofG Centre for Robert Burns Studies global survey of the Burns Supper with events recorded by the project team using publicly available sources."

Read Dr Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman's article on our website

University of Glasgow UofG College of Arts and Humanities Centre for Robert Burns Studies: Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Century

A joint initiative of Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.

21/08/2026

🖊️ "Some years ago I began to use film as a pedagogical tool in teaching an elective class in housing history. It was the 1935 documentary about the slums in the East End of London Housing Problems that had first caught my attention – and subsequently those of my students." writes Professor Johnny Rodger (The Glasgow School of Art )

Read the full article on our website 👇

A joint initiative of Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.

19/08/2026

Subtitles have existed since the beginning of sound film, in the late 1920s. Emma
Dussouchaud-Esclamadon, PhD Scholar in Film Studies at The University of Edinburgh , tells us more about the topic in a new article for our website 👇

A joint initiative of Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.

13/08/2026

Film production has a large carbon footprint.

Research by the BFI estimates that a tentpole film production averages emissions of around 2800 tonnes of CO2. This is equivalent to the emission of more than 600 cars during an entire year. Some film producers estimate that lower budget independent films might still have emissions of between 200 and 500 tonnes of CO2.

Read Dr Itandehui Jansen's article "Exploring Sustainable Materials and Approaches in Film Practice" on our website 👇

A joint initiative of Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.

20/07/2026

✍"How has my understanding of sustainability education changed over time?” asks Dr Qudsia Kalsoom (University of Dundee) in a new reflective piece on our website 👇

A joint initiative of Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.

09/07/2026

On Friday, June 26th, the Scottish Arts and Humanities Alliance (SAHA) unveiled its latest report on the state of languages in Scotland.

The report, titled Languages in a Global Scotland, was produced by SAHA’s Languages Working Group, chaired by Professor Catherine O’Leary, and it argues that languages and intercultural studies are key to the creation of a Global Scotland for the benefit of all.

You can read the document on our website 👇

A joint initiative of Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.

03/07/2026

How do we use modern creative technologies to re-examine history?

US-UK Fulbright Commission Scholar Dr. Victoria Bradbury breaks it down in her exhibition, Threads, hosted at The Glasgow School of Art School of Innovation and Technology in a new guest article for our website.

The body of work bridges the gap between historical text, textiles, the 1697 Paisley witch trials in Renfrewshire and so much more.

Read the full article 👇

A joint initiative of Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.

01/06/2026

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland was recognised by The Hollywood Reporter as one of the '25 Best Drama Schools in the World'.

Find the full article below 👇

A diploma from one of these ace institutions can launch an acting career. Just ask alums like Meryl Streep, Adam Driver and Cynthia Erivo.

25/05/2026

✍ "Scottish studies can now engage more effectively with comparative literary programmes both at home and abroad. Examples are many, but wider participation of our home-grown scholars in such structures as the Scotland in Europe conferences at the University of Warsaw, or the new Scottish studies centre at the Johannes-Gutenberg University of Mainz, is extremely desirable. A further stage is possible, even necessary for Scotland’s intellectual health." writes Tom Hubbard

Read the article on saha.scot 👇

https://saha.scot/scottish-and-international-literary-studies-a-call-for-dialogues-by-tom-hubbard/

A joint initiative of Scottish Higher Education institutions, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities.