Karen Mailley-Watt has an MA Joint (Hons) and an MLitt in Decorative Arts & Design History from the University of Glasgow. Until October 2016 Karen was the Heritage & Outreach Officer for Glasgow City Heritage Trust and was the head organiser for the Glasgow’s Gilded Age Project. She is a Trustee and advisor to the Scottish Stained Glass Symposium & Trust, and helped to establish Scotland’s first on-line stained glass database. She is currently an SGSAH ARCS funded PhD Candidate at the University of Glasgow & The Glasgow School of Art.