HISTORIAN, RESEARCHER, AND HERTIAGE 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
• Writing for online or publication
• Data recording
• Community engagement

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.

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 History, The Decorative Arts Society Journal, Decorating Dissidence, EPOCH Magazine, The Bottle Imp and Historic Environment Scotland.

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Heritage Specific Services

Need help with obtaining funding or undertaking research?

Karen has worked as a researcher for many of Scotland’s top heritage bodies including Historic Environment Scotland, The National Trust for Scotland, Glasgow Building Preservation, Four Acres Charitable Trust and Glasgow City Heritage Trust.

Do you have a heritage project and don’t know how to get it funded? Or do you need some research to support your project?

Karen specialises in researching, designing and writing funding applications specifically for heritage projects.