The best reads about PhD life. Meets twice each semester. Image PhD Book Club meets 3:30-5pm on Fridays every six weeks, with Revd Dr Harriet Harris (a PhD veteran!). Open to all PhD students, we’ll read books that cast light on the trials, tribulations, and mundanities of PhD life, offering perspective and inspiration for the time ahead. Past books have included Educated, by Tara Westover, Night Waking, by Sarah Moss, and On Beauty, by Zadie Smith.Read more about PhD Book Club in this blog post by Harriet and Kitty for Teaching Matters. Our next PhD Book Club will take place 3.30-5pm, Friday 4 October, Team Area Chaplaincy Centre, and we will be joined by the author Dr Glen Cousquer, who will speak with us about his new book Wild Places, Wild Encounters: Exploring Edinburgh's Living Landscape (2024), published by Whittles.Glen Cousquer is a Writer, Photographer, International Mountain Leader and Veterinary Surgeon who actively uses narrative and photography to help individuals, communities and organisations understand, explore and reimagine their relationship(s) with the more than human world and nature. You can view photos from the book on Glen’s Photography Facebook Page.Glen lectures in One Health and Conservation Medicine at the University of Edinburgh; these postgraduate MSc programmes support health care professionals in developing ecological approaches to the many health care challenges we face in today’s world. He is passionate about reconnecting us with nature for the good of our minds, souls and planet. A bonus about Glen’s latest book is that it shows us how to connect with the wild in our own university city of Edinburgh, keeping us sane in our studies!The Chaplaincy is buying in copies of Glen’s book for you to borrow. To collect a copy, please contact Sebastian at Chaplaincy.Assistant@ed.ac.ukGlen will also have a small number of copies of the book for sale if you would like to purchase them directly. This article was published on 2024-06-24
