Dr Alison Morrison-Low is a retired Principal Curator for Science at National Museums Scotland.
Morrison-Low is a director for the Brisbane Observatory Trust[1] and has been a director for the Northern Lighthouse Heritage Trust, the British Society For The History Of Science and the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses.
[2] In July 2016 she was an invited expert on for "The Invention of Photography", In Our Time, BBC Radio 4.
[3] She won the Saltire Society Research Book Prize in 2005 for "Weights and Measures in Scotland: A European Perspective", and in 2008 the Hans R. Jenemann Foundation's Paul Bunge Prize in 2008 for "Making Scientific Instruments in the Industrial Revolution".
[4][5] In 2018 Morrison-Low became the first female president of the Royal Scottish Society of the Arts.