Eleanor is an affiliated member of the Scottish Oral History Centre, and her current research projects explore Scottish literary magazines from 1950 to 2000 as well as the literary archives and cultural networks of Archie Hind (AHRC-funded).

• postwar Scottish literary and cultural heritage
• Scottish literary archives
• Little magazines and literary archives

Sharon works at the intersection of Translation Studies, Holocaust Studies, Memory Studies, and Museum Studies and is interested in questions about the transmission of memory via translation. She has a keen interest in supervising doctoral projects that explore any aspect of translation in museum and heritage contexts, including:

• museums and heritage sites 'as translations' that mediate the past, present and future through representational choices
• interlingual understandings of those sites 'in translation' where written and audiovisual texts, as well as human guides, function to open up access to wider audiences

Catriona is a historian of childhood, with particular interests in the imperial collections in the Museum of Childhood, Edinburgh, the history of toys and dolls and the history of education. She would be interested in supervising projects on:

• museums of childhood and the material culture of childhood, especially ‘imperial childhoods’, Decolonising imperial museums; 
• museums and memories of children in empire, including British forced migration schemes and residential schooling

As a literary scholar, Jordan is interested in the intersections between fiction and fact in both museums and literary representations of museums, particularly in fantasy and science fiction. Jordan is keen to supervise projects on:

• the use of arts and humanities methodologies in science and history museums
• the literary representation of museums
• the history of museum formation; and questions of widening access to heritage spaces

Yvonne is co-director of the Scottish Oral History Centre at the University of Strathclyde which works with academic and heritage sector partners to promote and facilitate oral history research and practice. Yvonne is keen to supervise projects on:

• industrial heritage
• intangible cultural heritage
• projects that look more broadly at social and cultural history in Scotland or Britain

David has worked on the history of Pan-African cultural festivals, projects seeking to preserve and promote African cinematic heritage, and the recent project ‘White Thinking’ and the failed promise of diversity in Scottish heritage. David would be interested in supervising projects that explore:

• histories of slavery and empire within heritage spaces
• the (de)construction of whiteness in the heritage sector

Charles combines Literary Studies, Linguistics, Anthropology and Philosophy to explore how indigenous literatures engage with questions of cultural memory and biocultural heritage. He would be happy to consider projects in any area of cultural heritage, and has particular expertise in the following areas:

• biocultural heritage (the relationship between cultural and ecological heritage)
• linguistic heritage (e.g., endangered or minority languages)
• intangible heritage (e.g., oral literature, verbal art)
• Indigenous cultural heritage in the Americas

Dr John R. Young has interests in cultural heritage covering various aspects of early modern Scottish History (his field of expertise). His doctoral supervision experience has covered early modern Scottish history, as well as doctoral supervision and project involvement with the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Cody, Wyoming and The Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. He is particularly interested in topics relating to:

• The Covenanting tradition in Scotland's culture heritage and museums
• Scottish migration to Ulster and Ulster Scots cultural heritage in Northern Ireland museums
• the transatlantic dimension of the culture heritage of the Scots and Scots-Irish in colonial North America.

Derek has research interests in the commercialisation of cultural heritage resources and related ethical issues. He is interested in supervising projects which bring together Marketing with relevant Humanities disciplines such as History. Potential topics:

• personal heritage and ancestral tourism in amongst Scottish diaspora visitors (such as but not confined to 'Scots' from the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand)
• production and consumption of ancestral identities amongst diaspora communities in destinations of migration (such as but not confined 'Scots' resident overseas)
• the integration of the cultural heritage of 'the other' within a European context: Ottoman heritage in the Balkans
• return of the 'Noble Savage' construct in the representation of 'indigenous peoples' in museums and other media

Perla’s overarching interest is in the field of cultural heritage informatics, which is an interdisciplinary lens for investigating questions relating to preservation, access, and wellbeing in the domain of tangible and intangible heritage. She would be interested in supervising projects related to:

• digital preservation for libraries, archives, and museums
• digital libraries and repositories
• information practices of marginalised groups
• information practices, traditions, and wellness in heritage routes, from walking pilgrimages to hiking routes and urban walks

In 2027, I will be open to supervising students who are interested in investigating cultural heritage/memory practices in digital contexts and the implications for socio-cultural divisions/cohesion, including but not limited to:

• the effect of algorithms and cultural influencers on heritage and memory practices
• AI and its relation to 'synthetic' and 'authentic' heritage
• AI and its potentials/consequences for the sustainability of intangible heritage
• information behaviour of citizen historians in the age of AI