I graduated in Master of Letters in Ethnology & Folklore from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland in 2023. I received a commendation for my dissertation on ‘What Makes a Witch a Witch or a Pagan a Pagan? A Modern Day Take on Witchcraft and Paganism‘.
[Buchan Library catalogue]
The modules I studies during the degree included: Objects, Making, and Process; Ethnographic Fieldnotes; Cultural Tourism in Scotland; Oral History; Digital Folklore, Dress and Adornment, Folk Revival | Products, Public Engagement, and Public Folklore.
I also achieved my Bachelor of Arts, with Honours, in History at the University of the Highlands and Islands. During this time I studied: People, protest and power: Themes in Modern British History; Queer Britannia: Gender, Sexuality and Performative Identities in Britain, 1800-1950; A Study of Things: Material Culture
of Medieval and Early Modern Europe’, and The Empire Strikes Back: How the British Empire Shaped Scotland.
Since then, I’ve taken part in the International Society for Ethnology & Folklore Congress (SIEF); an annual event, bringing together scholars from across the globe in the fields of ethnology and folklore, alongside
experts in anthropology and history. And in the Folklore, Ethnology, and Ethnomusicology Conference Aberdeen (FEECA), where I delivered a talk on the insights and findings of my dissertation to an international audience.
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