Grace Wright is currently a SGSAH-funded PhD student at the University of Glasgow. She explores women’s participation in nineteenth-century land agitation in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Her research work, which grew out of participation in ATLAS Art’s School of Plural Futures programme and volunteer work at the Skye and Lochalsh Archive Centre, aims to recentre the voices and actions of women, analysing their participation in the different modes of resistance utilised against the oppressive and exploitative system of land management through a series of local studies. Within this, she emphasises the voices of the agitators themselves, prioritising oral histories and Gaelic sources where these are available.

Born and raised in the Isle of Skye, she is also interested in how these histories have shaped and continue to influence land and housing politics in Scotland today. Her current work aims to build on these themes, exploring options for sustainable tourism which engages with the marginalised and radical histories of Skye.