HISTORIAN, RESEARCHER, AND HEritage CONSULTANT BASED in scotland.

Heritage Services

  • Designing heritage activities to meet the desired criteria for funding bodies.
  • Writing funding applications.
  • Delivery heritage and outreach projects.
  • Project management
  • Research & Interpretation
  • Writing for online or publication
  • Data recording
  • Community engagement

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History Research Heritage

Helping museums, archives and community groups uncover hidden histories and secure funding for heritage projects.

Dr Karen Mailley is an academic and heritage professional who has worked in the museum and heritage sector(s) for over a decade. She specialises in heritage outreach and engagement with a community focus using archives, material culture and feminist and intersectional methodologies as the core foundation of her work. She is a Scottish Representative for GEM.

Karen’s main research focus is related to gender and the built environment in Scotland since 1880. She has been published in The Scottish Society for Art HistoryThe Decorative Arts Society JournalDecorating Dissidence, EPOCH Magazine, The Bottle Imp and Historic Environment Scotland.

RESEARCH

The Glasgow Society of Lady Artists

Find out more about Karen’s research into the Glasgow Society. The Glasgow Society of Lady Artists (GSLA) was established by eight students of The Glasgow School of Art in 1882 and owned a club house at 5 Blythswood Square.

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