| Chair: Professor Alex Woolf, University of St Andrews | Alex Woolf is the Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of St Andrews, he has degrees in Medieval History, Medieval English and Archaeology from the University of Sheffield and was awarded a doctorate by portfolio in the subject of “Politics and Identity in Early Medieval Scotland’. He has published widely on topics ranging from Roman Britain to Icelandic literature but is perhaps best known for his book From Pictland to Alba, Scotland 789-1070. He lives in the Howe of Fife. |
| Treasurer: Dr Kate Ash-Irisarri, University of Edinburgh | Research interests: late medieval Scottish literature, politics, historical writing, Anglo-Scottish relations, Scottish book history, theories of memory, and the history of emotions. |
| Secretary: Dr Neil McGuigan, University of St Andrews | Research interests: 8th to 13th centuries, political, ecclesiastical & economic history, historical writing, political mythology, regional history, inequality, the subaltern, disiecta membra. Also, the ‘earldom of Bamburgh’ and Northumbrian matters. |
| Dr Mark A Hall, Perth Museum & Art Gallery | Collections Officer, Perth Museum (Culture Perth & Kinross). Mark’s research interests span the whole medieval period and its material culture, early and late, with particular interests in early medieval/Pictish sculpture, the cult of saints and supernatural engagements and the archaeology of board games. Orcid iD |
| Webmaster: Dr Matthew Hammond, University of Hull | Research interests: social and political history of Scotland between 1000 and 1350; charters, digital prosopography and social network analysis |
| Dr Lucinda H. S. Dean, University of the Highlands and Islands | Research interests cover a range of themes and methodological approaches to late medieval and early modern Scottish history including ritual, liturgy, ceremony, kingship and monarchy, material culture, gender (particularly masculinity), the life cycle (with a keen interest in youth and old age), death and funerary practices, Perth Charterhouse before and after the Reformation, lay piety and patronage (especially impact of the loss of religious foundations after the Reformation), theories around memory and community in association with space and place, and public history (with keen interest in exploring the value and potential of collaboration and co-design of research). |
| Dr Murray Cook, Stirling Council | Dr Murray Cook is Stirling Council’s Archaeologist and is from Leith. He has undertaken numerous excavations across the region and published over 80 books and articles. He won a Stirling’s Provost Award in 2018 for his work for the Council. In March 2025 he was named the winner of the Outstanding Contribution to the City Award at the Stirling Business Awards. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at Stirling University, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, a Member of the Chartered Institute for archaeologist and runs an occasional course as an associate lecturer at Forth Valley College in Stirling, He also co-runs regular training digs open to all under the name Rampart Scotland. His primary two foci are on the history and archaeology of Stirling and and the Scottish settlement patterns and archaeology between 1000 BC and 1000AD. |
The Scottish Medievalists
Society of Scottish Medieval and Renaissance Studies