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 she worked on a range of projects including exhibition-preparation, devising packing for international loans and improving storage for archaeological textile fragments. Freelance work has included analysing and recommending future care measures for an embroidered wall hanging for Girlguiding Scotland, and cleaning and mounting a settle hanging for the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow made by Frances MacDonald.

Emma was the Leslie B. Durst Textile Conservation Intern at the National Museums of Scotland (NMS) 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 painted silk flags

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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