Specific responsibility: Curatorial support for technology collections.

Research interest/expertise: Cold War history and material culture, in particular science and technology research and development, civil defence, nuclear energy production and social history of the Cold War in Scotland.

Sarah joined National Museums Scotland as Assistant Curator, Technology in May 2025 and is responsible for providing curatorial support across the Technology Section. Prior to this, Sarah was Research Fellow at National Museums Scotland working on the Materialising the Cold War project. She completed an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership PhD in 2022 with the University of Stirling and National Museums Scotland. Her project ‘Bombers, Bunkers and Badges: The Cold War Materialised in National Museums Scotland’ utilised the collections of National Museums Scotland to examine how ‘Cold War’ meanings have become attached to artefacts in the museum and how influential people and place are in ascribing these meanings. 

Prior to her PhD, Sarah was Collections and Research Manager at The Devil’s Porridge Museum and has a master's degree in Preventive Conservation.