Molly Ailsa Ingham is a History of Art PhD Candidate funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Her project is a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with National Museums Scotland (NMS) which examines religious material culture produced and used in the centuries following the Scottish Protestant Reformation. Using objects from the NMS collection associated with the practice and performance of religious belief, this research will investigate how material culture can present a more complex picture of religious life in post-Reformation Scotland and complicate traditional narratives of the long association of kirk, state, and national identity.

Molly studied an MA in International Cultural Heritage Management at Durham University in 2020/21. Her dissertation investigated visitor experience in relation to digital heritage during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to this, she completed a BA in English from the University of Cambridge, receiving a First-Class Honours (with Distinction).