Kate McGregor

Kate McGregor is a doctoral candidate in Scottish History at the University of St Andrews. Her thesis, supervised by Dr Amy Blakeway and Professor Michael Brown, examines foreign policy and diplomacy during the personal rule of James V, King of Scots (1528-1542). Kate's doctorate is fully funded by the Ewan and Christine Brown Postgraduate Scholarship in the Arts and Humanities. After completing her undergraduate degree in Modern History, with First Class Honours, at the University of St Andrews in 2020, she undertook a MPhil in Early Modern History at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, supervised by Professor Clare Jackson.

A peer-reviewed article by Kate on notaries and their clients in late medieval St Andrews was recently published in the journal Scottish Archives. This article arose from Kate’s work as a Research Assistant for the Burnwynd Trust on a project investigating notaries in the St Andrews Burgh Records. To support this project Kate was awarded the Burnwynd Trust's St Andrews Local History Foundation Bursary in June 2022. Kate is also contributing to 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), with a chapter on Anglo-Scottish maritime encounters during the personal rule of James V (1528-1542).

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 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 a Postgraduate Member of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the Scottish Medievalists and of the Institute of Scottish Historical Research.

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