Kate McGregor

Kate McGregor began her PhD in Scottish History at the University of St Andrews in September 2021, under the supervision of Dr Amy Blakeway and Professor Michael Brown. Her thesis examines foreign policy and diplomacy during the personal rule of James V, King of Scots (1528-1542), for which she is fully funded by the Ewan and Christine Brown Postgraduate Scholarship in the Arts and Humanities.

Kate has a successfully peer-reviewed article on notaries and their clients in late medieval St Andrews awaiting publication with the journal Scottish Archives. She is also contributing an upcoming volume entitled Scotland and England, c.1300 to 1603: War, Diplomacy and Power, edited by Andy King, Jenny McHugh and Gordon McKelvie (Brepols: Forthcoming). 

In addition to her PhD research and publication work, Kate is an undergraduate tutor on modules including MO1007 The Early Modern Western World (c.1450-c.1770) and ME1006 The Kingdom of the Scots (c.900-1707). She was a Research Assistant on a project investigating notaries in St Andrews from 1466-1560, supervised by the University of St Andrews Library’s Special Collection’s Senior Archivist Mrs Rachel Hart and by Professor Michael Brown. To support this project Kate was awarded the Burnwynd Trust's St Andrews Local History Foundation Bursary in June 2022. She was also previously a Website and Blog Editor for the Northern Early Modern Network, a peer network for early modern scholars across the UK and beyond; and an editor for Cambridge's Doing History in Public blog.

Kate is currently based at The Strathmartine Centre in St Andrews.