Scheduled Visitors

Special guests will give a brief introduction to themselves and their work, and then be available for a casual conversation

Christina Mackaill

“Christina is a doctor hoping to specialise in Emergency & Space Medicine with a special interest in spaceflight emergencies. She won the woman to watch award at the women of influence awards in 2018 and was one of the Young Women’s Movement (YWCA)’s 30 under 30. She delivers talks to women and girls of various ages to encourage them into a career in STEM, and is a circle member of the first ministers national advisory council on women and girls.”

Ada Oguntodu

”My name is Ada Oguntodu and I am the editor of Noordinaryshe.com, a fashion blog that talks about my personal style and occasionally covers other related topics like beauty, lifestyle and Street style. I originally have a degree in law but with a passion for styling and fashion that truly runs deep, I started noordinaryshe.com in July 2014 to reach out to and inspire women like myself through my quirky and sometimes really odd sense of style. Being able to overcome my fear and doubts and believing in myself and eventually achieving this for me has been a dream come true and safe to say extremely rewarding”

Alys Mumford

Alys is the Communications and Engagement Manager at Engender, Scotland’s feminist policy and advocacy organisation, where she leads on their work to explain and promote work for women’s equality from gender budgeting to public transport. Alys also has a wealth of experience in campaigning and activism including with the Women 5050 campaign, climate justice campaigns, and abortion rights. She lives in Edinburgh with her partner, 2 excellent cats, and a healthy collection of board games.

Theresa Muñoz

Theresa Muñoz is a Canadian poet and academic living in Edinburgh. Her first collection Settle won the Melita Hume Prize for Poetry and her work has appeared in Ambit, Poetry Review, Canadian Literature, A Year Of Scottish Poems, and many other places. In 2018 she won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, and a Muriel Spark Centenary Award to write a sequence on the life, legacy and letters of Muriel Spark.

Morag Smith

Morag Smith is National Development Worker for Glasgow Women’s Library. She studied Literature and Sociology in Glasgow then lived in Germany for some years before returning to Scotland where she worked in community learning and development, adult literacies, creative writing and literature development. She works with GWL’s learning team and a wide range of partner organisations, including libraries, community groups and women’s prison services, to deliver learning and events, and develop access to the library’s unique resources for women of all ages and backgrounds. As a result of her work at GWL and elsewhere, she has an in depth knowledge of Scotland’s bus and rail networks and is passionate about the power of arts, libraries and museums to transform lives.

Lauren Kelly

Lauren Kelly joined Glasgow Women’s Library in 2019 as the organisation’s first Archive Apprentice, working with the LGBTQ+ collections as part of their Glasgow International 2020 project. With a love for queer history and culture as well as other areas of social justice, her work focuses on reorganising and making the archive more accessible. She’s particularly interested in community development and enjoys supporting people to engage when they might otherwise feel intimidated.

Melissa Terras

Melissa Terras is the Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage at the University of Edinburgh‘s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, which she joined in October 2017, leading digital aspects of research within CAHSS at Edinburgh, as well as building digital capacity in the new Edinburgh Futures Institute. Her research focuses on the use of computational techniques to enable research in the arts, humanities, and wider cultural heritage and information environment that would otherwise be impossible. She is a Turing Institute Fellow 2018-2020.

With a background in Classical Art History and English Literature (MA, University of Glasgow), and Computing Science (MSc IT with distinction in Software and Systems, University of Glasgow), her doctorate (Engineering, University of Oxford) examined how to use advanced information engineering technologies to interpret and read Roman texts. Employed at UCL Department of Information Studies from 2003, she was made Honorary Professor of Digital Humanities upon her departure from UCL in 2017, and Honorary Professor in UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, which she directed 2012-2017. Terras was previously Vice Dean of Research in UCL’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities (2014-2017).