Historian & Researcher

WHAT’S SHE BEEN UP TAE?

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.

  • Stories Along Great Western Road for Websters Bar & Theatre aims to capture and celebrate the diverse, exciting and sometimes eccentric history of Great Western Road. Got married in the church? Worked in a shop on the road? Live, or lived in the area? Find out more here

  • Recently, Karen has been working with the wonderful Glasgow Building Preservation Trust to research, produce, and narrate a short film for the ‘Skate the City’ project. The film can be found below. Click here to find out more.

  • In 2021 I was awarded the Women’s History Scotland Bursary to undertake research into ‘trick and acrobatic’ skaters in Scotland. Find out more about my research here.

Current Projects