Are you considering PhD study, and not sure what to look for in a programme or advisor?
Hi, I’m Glaire Anderson (PhD, MIT), Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art at the University of Edinburgh and and Founding Director of the Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections. I'm happy to help.
I have a strategic approach to finding PhD programs and advisors that will support your goals and personal circumstances. In this guide I lead you step-by-step through how to identify, choose, and contact potential graduate school programmes and advisors that will support your interests and aspirations.
Each step is delivered to your inbox, one per day, over 10 consecutive days. Once you've received the complete set you can refer back to each step as often as you like. Do it at your own pace.
Who is this for?
The advice in the guide is based on my two decades as a university professor at top research universities in the US and UK. I draw on my own experiences navigating the grad school search as the first person in my family to pursue a PhD. I wrote it for women, people of colour, and people from minoritised communities, however it will be useful to anyone who wants advice from an experienced academic mentor.
This is the advice I give to my own students, who have gone on to top-ranked research PhD programmes in the US and UK, with competitive funding packages.
About Me
I’m Glaire Anderson (PhD, MIT), Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and Founding Director of the Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections.
I've taught in top research universities in the US and UK for nearly two decades. I'm an award-winning researcher and author of two books (A Bridge to the Sky published by Oxford University Press (2024) and The Islamic Villa in Early Medieval Iberia (Ashgate, 2013).
I'm also a video games and GLAM consultant, and was an historian/art historian for Assassin's Creed Mirage (Ubisoft, 2023).