Mum to 3, Head of Research @socantscot. Recent PhD survivor @HeriotWattUni Freelance specialist in archaeological glass, museum collections care & conservation
East Lothian
Joined January 2010
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Come and work with me in the Research Team @socantscot ! We are just about to launch our Finding Futures for Scotland’s Churches project and are looking for a new Community Officer to join us.
#HeritageJobs
WORK WITH US: The Society is looking to hire a Community Officer to help our Research Officer co-ordinate and deliver Finding Futures for Scotland’s Churches, our project with @SChurchesTrust.
Read more and apply before midnight on 13 July: socantscot.org/news/work-wit…
ALT Old church with the text "work with us" in the foreground
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The @socantscot and friends are organising a session at #EAA2025 @archaeologyeaa.bsky.social
#74 Antiquarian Societies, Quo Vadis?
We are looking for contributions that explore the role for antiquarian societies in the 21st century.
e-a-a.org/EAA2025/EAA2025/Pr…
ALT A graphic with the logo for EAA2025 saying Intertwined pasts - 3-6 September EAA Belgrade
An exciting event to support our Building repairs fund at Tarbat Discovery centre.
Dr Victoria Thompson Whitworth : uncovering the origin of the Book of Kells?
🗓 Thursday, 30 January 2025
⏰ 7-8:30 pm
📍 Augustine United Church
🎟 Tickets: tickettailor.com/events/tarb…
The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland has announced the first project to receive a Audrey Henshall Legacy Grant.
We are looking forward to working with @ArchScot & @gmacg_1 on the Scotland’s Earliest Megalithic Monuments project.
socantscot.org/uncategorized…
I currently work with Sustainable Heritage Conservation on a range of environmental monitoring, calibration and advisory projects - so this is exciting news that they are bringing Conserv to Scotland!
🤝 We are very excited to announce our newest partnership in the UK, with Sustainable Heritage Conservation!! Read the full press release here: bit.ly/4eDPckv
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Looking forward to our latest archaeological research framework project getting started with the launch of @SWScot_ARF today!
Hi! Today is the launch of our 3-year project to collate what as archaeologists we know about the past communities of SW Scotland and to explore with the people who live, work, and research in our region what we want to discover in the future.
#HESSupported #ScotArchStrat
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Another paper from my PhD now out there in the wild….
Really enjoyed being back in Switzerland at a conference @Vitromusee in 2021 for the opening of their Glass in Architecture exhibition.
The resulting papers are now published including mine on Scottish window #glass.
ALT A book cover of Glass in architecture from the pre- to the post industrial era - production use and conservation.
A really busy and productive day yesterday at the first @ClydeValley_ARF gathering - looking forward to day 2 @GovanStones #CVARF
Looking forward to the second day of our @ClydeValley_ARF gathering. #CVARF
Yesterday we had a morning of wide ranging talks about recent projects and research in the region followed by an afternoon of lively discussion @UofGArchaeo
ALT A large lecture theatre with an audience listening to a PowerPoint talk
Have wanted to visit here for a long time!
#LordOfTheIsles #Finlaggan
ALT An island in a loch with stone ruins of a church and large hall visible. A wooden bridge leads to the island
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Some old friends - some of the first objects I worked on when I first started @NtlMuseumsScot
Lovely to see them on display and still looking good!
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Pleased to see this new book finally published!
Includes my chapter on the changing origins and trade routes of window glass used in medieval Scotland. #WorldBookDay2024 #BuildingNetworks #Glass
As it's #worldbookday I'm celebrating my new edited book on #medieval #buildings in the @archaeologyEAA Themes series. All info about the book is here - link.springer.com/book/10.10…
ALT Book ‘Building Networks: Exchange of knowledge, ideas and materials kn medieval and post-medieval Europe’
This is great news! Last Thursday was an epic gig @TheBarrowlands .
Slight problem is my work has its AGM every St Andrew’s Day….. 😂
You asked for it so you got it!
We are very pleased to announce that we are adding more headline shows in 2024 & 2025!
Tickets pre sale Monday 10am via a Planet Rock Radio:
planetrock.gigantic.com/the-…
General On sale begins 10am Wednesday 13th myticket.co.uk
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Pleased to see the first part of #SESARF finally out there and live! 🥳
And looking forward to completing the rest of this new resource over the coming months. More updates soon 😀
#HESSupported #ScotArchStrat
SESARF is live!🎉
We are happy to invite you to read the first 3 chapters of the South East Scotland Archaeological Research Framework.
Explore the Landscape & Environment, Palaeolithic & Mesolithic and early medieval chapters at scarf.scot/regional/sesarf/
#HESSupported
ALT A view of the Eildon Hills ©️ ScARF, and the SESARF logos
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This morning @N_T_S Newhailes house calibrating and checking the conservation heating system
#PreventiveConservartion
Check out this year’s TAFAJ journal.
Online and Open Access.
Including my paper based on the talk I gave last year at TAFAC about my research into late medieval stained glass in the region.
@ScotRail the train I was getting from Waverley to Inverness 16:33 - now is stopping at Perth with a replacement bus to Inverness. It the bus just for this train? Are later trains (the 17:33) going all the way by train? I get very travel sick on a bus!! 🤢
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I mean like what?
Like when Galileo was tried by the inquisition for saying the earth moved around the sun?
Was he a bit ‘woke’?
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NEW: Conservatives are safeguarding scientific research from the denial of biology and the steady creep of political correctness.
@michelledonelan announces plans to depoliticise science at #CPC23
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Sat in an airport with a similar tale of inept and bizarrely expensive ways of dealing with late/cancelled services. No common sense and all online chat bots mean I’ve spent more time at an airport than on holiday - and the time I was on holiday had no luggage @British_Airways
I’m not quite sure how to explain what’s happened tonight, because it’s still happening - but here goes…
At 4:40pm I jumped on a train from London to Edinburgh..
It was comfy, it was quiet
In hindsight, too good to last…
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Spoke to @British_Airways assistant and suggested a simple and cheap way to get my luggage home - add it to my partners (who’s flying later this week) luggage allowance FOC - but computer says NO. So we have to pay ££ and add to our other claims we hope to be reimbursed for!
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Long birthday weekend not as relaxing as hoped - after a 15hr delay getting here last week our luggage never made it at all - it’s now arrived at the hotel just as I’m at Montreal airport heading home @British_Airways - poor communication and automated non-help throughout 😡
Lots of activity down at Cockenzie harbour excavating both the railway and salt pans sites.come down and take a look!
@1722waggonway @ELCArchaeology #SdotlandDigs2023
Lots of activity down at Cockenzie harbour excavating both the railway and salt pans sites.come down and take a look!
@1722waggonway @ELCArchaeology #SdotlandDigs2023
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