SLIPWAY is the Postgraduate Research blog for the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
Slipway highlights the original and innovative research being undertaken by our postgraduate researchers, highlighting both their individual projects and broader issues around research methodologies and approaches, interdisciplinarity, ethics, and engagement. It also foregrounds our HASS postgraduate research culture, and some of the exciting events and training opportunities that our PGRs are involved in.
The name comes from Exeter’s close maritime connections: a slipway is a ramp by which vessels can enter the water. Year by year our postgraduate research students launch their brilliant ideas and deep lived experience into the world. This blog allows them to document all that happens as they head down the ‘slipway’.
PGRs from HASS disciplines at the University of Exeter are warmly invited to pitch us your blog ideas at HASSblog[at]exeter.ac.uk
Your 2026 editor:
Ruth Moore
Ruth is a final year PhD Creative Writing student from Oxford. Her research examines the ways in which contemporary childrenās authors are using time-playful fiction, particularly in relation to telling stories out of archival silence. The creative element of her PhD project is a āmiddle gradeā childrenās novel which takes place in Falmouth in the present day and 1944. Her MA in Creative Writing was at Oxford Brookes University; she also holds an MA in Applied Theatre from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and has worked in theatre and in project management in higher education and the voluntary sector.
With editorial input from:
Jo Sutherst
Jo, a part-time distance PhD student from the Forest of Dean, explores how selfies impact identity creation on social media and the narrative techniques artists use to craft their identities. With a background in professional photography, her research builds on her MA project āFractured Identities.ā She also coordinates the PGR Study Space group at Exeter University, fostering a collaborative environment for postgraduate researchersā advancement.