Katherine Forsyth BA MA PhD FSAScot is Professor of Celtic Studies at the University of Glasgow and the UK Principal Investigator of UK–Ireland Collaboration in Digital Humanities with Maynooth University colleagues: OG(H)AM: Harnessing digital technologies to transform understanding of ogham writing, from the 4th century to the 21st (funded by UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Irish Research Council, 2021-25), and Co-Investigator for the AHRC-funded project Iona’s Namescapes: Placenames and their dynamics in Iona and its environs (2020-2025).

She has an expert research interest in text as material culture, within wider history and culture of the Celtic-speaking peoples in the first millennium AD, Gaelic history of Glasgow, and Celtic board-games, and published extensively in these areas. From 2016 until its end in 2023, was Director of the AHRC’s Centre for Doctoral Training in Celtic Languages.

A Fellow of the Society, Katherine was a council member from 1998 to 2001, has published with the Society, lectured, spoken at several events and as a previous member (and formerly Chair) of the National Committee for Carved Stones in Scotland, was a co-author of the thematic Scottish Archaeological Research Framework Future Thinking on Carved Stones in Scotland.