This February I was back at the PHPUK conference in London. The venue this year was 1 America Square with a historic wall through the middle of one of the rooms. There were three tracks to follow so unfortunately we couldn’t go to all the talks, but managed to cover two thirds. It Depends – […]

1.Introduction: From Looking to Perceiving At the beginning of this semester, my understanding of the countermeasure exhibition is mainly at the level of visual arrangement: selecting works, placing them in space, and creating meaning through sorting. This assumption began to shift during a visit to the SSA 127th Annual Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy, where […]

Project Information Title: Translating Diaspora: Material, Memory and Cultural Hybridity Duration: August 8-14, 2026 Venue: Edinburgh Palette (St Margaret’s House), 151 London Road, Edinburgh EH7 6AE Artists: KV Duong & Will Pham   Curatorial Narrative Text This exhibition focuses on how identity continues to be formed within the contemporary Vietnamese diaspora through the interweaving of migration, […]

1. Introduction My SICP project “Invisible Load: The Boundary Between Gazing and Being Gazed Upon” not only presents women’s invisible experiences within the exhibition but also uses the exhibition as a mechanism of visibility to critically engage with these issues. My approach centers on a female perspective, using various media forms and public programs to […]

I’ve thought about writing this post for awhile because I want to share all of the scholarships I applied for as a Canadian international PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. My goal with this post is to illuminate funding opportunities, and to help other Canadian researchers and potential doctoral students alleviate the financial stress […]

I completed my VIVA in January 2026, and I wrote pretty extensively in a previous post titled How I survived my viva and PhD thesis defence in creative writing about how I prepared. The preparation phase is the most dominant part of the PhD journey. It’s the one we all fear. So, even though I […]