Here you can find a list of my publications, talks, and academic honours.

Education

• currently enrolled in PhD Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh
• MSc Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, with distinction (2019)
• MA (Hons) Mediaeval History, University of St Andrews, 1st class (2017)

Conference and Seminar Papers

• “‘They Didnae Care What They Sung’: Women and the Transmission of ‘The Ball o Kirriemuir’ in the Herring Industry”, New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland, Women’s History Scotland, Glasgow (2025)
• “Recovering the Songs of Herring Gutters: Lessons from Scotland”, International Congress of Celtic Studies XVII, Utrecht (2023)
• “Irish and Scottish Song Exchange in the Scottish Herring Industry”, As I Roved Out: Traditional Songs, Singers and Collections of Britain, Ireland and Beyond, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance (2022)
• “‘They Soon Had Us Singing in Their Language’: The Macaronic Songs of Gaelic-Speaking Herring Gutters”, Celtic and Scottish Studies Seminar, University of Edinburgh (2021)
• “The Missing Herring Gutters in Gaelic Song Scholarship”, British Forum for Ethnomusicology and Royal Music Association Research Students’ Conference, University of Cambridge (2021)
• “Songs of the Herring Gutters: An Overlooked Genre of Gaelic Song”, Celtic Students Conference (2020)
• “Cross Slabs, Cists, and Cill-Names: The Early Medieval Church in the East Neuk of Fife”, Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (2019)
• “Cross Slabs, Cists, and Cill-Names: The Early Medieval Church in the East Neuk of Fife”, Pictish Arts Society, Cupar (2017)
• “Research and engagement partnership”, Connecting Scotland’s Sounds, Glasgow (2016)

Publications

• “‘Tam o’ Shanter ‘s Geansaidh Snàith’: The Innovative Work Songs of Gaelic-Speaking Herring Gutters”, Scottish Studies 39 (2022)

Public Lectures and Podcasts

• “Letters by Midnight,” The Cloak and Dagger Podcast (2025)
• “Gaelic Songs and the Herring Gutters,” World Gaelic Week, Moray (2025)
• “We Sang to Stop Ourselves From Crying: Women’s Work Song in the Scottish Herring Industry”, World Science Fiction Convention, Glasgow (2024)
• “Gaelic Songs in Fife and the Herring Gutters”, World Gaelic Week, Anstruther (2024, 2025)
• “Gut-Along, Sing-Along: Gaelic Working Songs Community Workshop”, World Gaelic Week, Scottish Fisheries Museum, Anstruther (2024)
• “Intangible Cultural Heritage”, Critical Conversations podcast, Museums of the University of St Andrews (2023)
• “Little Rhymes in the Manx: Music and Herring Workers in the Isle of Man”, annual Ian O’ Leary lecture, Yn Chruinnaght (2022)
• “Disability Identity and Connections to Research” panelist, Summer Speaker Series, Disabled Academic Collective (2022)
• “Song and Dance in the Lives of Herring Gutters”, Guts Galore!, Scottish Fisheries Museum (2022)
• “Women of 1000 AD”, AskHistorians Podcast (2022)
• “”I Sometimes Think We Sang to Stop Ourselves from Crying”: Singing at Work Among Herring Gutters and Packers”, Traditional Song Forum (2022)
• “Gaelic and Jamaican” panelist, International Mother Language Day, Digital History (2021)
• “Gaelic Work Songs with Meg Hyland”, AskHistorians Podcast (2021)
• “Women of 1000”, Middle Ages for Educators (2020)
• “Gaelic Herring Gutters’ Songs”, Anster Nicht In (2020)
• “Women of the One Thousand”, Speaking with Joy (2020)
• “The Gaelic Songs of Herring Gutters”, Previously… Scotland’s History Festival (2019)
• “Gaelic Songs of the Herring Lassies”, Scottish Fisheries Museum (2019)
• “Memories of Scottish Fishing Music”, Crail History Society (2017)
• “Memories of Scottish Fishing Music”, Anster Nichts (2016)
• “A Cran of Songs: Memories of Scottish Fishing Music”, Scottish Fisheries Museum (2016)

Awards

• HistoryExtra’s 30 Under 30 (2024)
• McCaig Trust award (2024)
• British Forum for Ethnomusicology Fieldwork Grant (2021)
• Moray Endowment Fund award (2020)
• McCaig Trust award (2020)
• LLC Masters Scholarship (2018)
• Institute of Scottish Historical Research Senior Honours Dissertation Prize (2017)
• John Adamson Honey Prize in Mediaeval History (2017)
• Samuel Rutherford Prize in Scottish History (2017)
• Principal’s Scholarship for Academic Excellence (2017)
• Connecting Scotland’s Sounds grant (2016)
• University Scholarship for Research and Leadership (2016)
• Abertay Student Prize in Scottish History (2016)
• Dr Robert Mackie Prize in Scottish History (2016)
• Mediaeval History Third Year Prize (2016)
• Cedric Thorpe Davies Award in Music (2015)
• James McGlashan Scott Memorial Prize in Church History (2015)
• School of History Bookprize (2015)
• Saltire Award for volunteering (2014)
• Warch Scholarship (2012)
• Wisconsin’s Academic Excellence Scholarship (2012)