Emma is an emerging textile conservator with an MPhil in Textile Conservation from the University of Glasgow’s Kelvin Centre for Conservation and Cultural Heritage.

She spent her student placement at the Organic Artefacts Conservation Studio at the British Museum, where shee worked on a range of projects from exhibition preparation to devising packing for international loans and improving storage for archaeological textile fragments. Freelance work has included researching an embroidered wall hanging for Girlguiding Scotland, and giving recommendations for its future care and cleaning and mounting a settle hanging by Frances MacDonald for the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow.

Emma was the Leslie B. Durst Textile Conservation Intern at the National Museums of Scotland 2023-24, where she prepared textile objects for the Summer 2024 exhibition, ‘The Cold War in Scotland’ and cared for the museum’s collection of embroidery samplers. She has now been promoted to Assistant Textile Conservator on a fixed-term contract until October 2025, working on the conservation of two large banners.

Emma has an MSc in Community Education. She is working towards an Associateship of the Museums Association (AMA) and is participating in Museums and Galleries Scotland’s anti-oppression learning programme, ‘Museum Activists’.

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