Lorna J Waite

She attended Garnock Academy, and studied French, German and Latin, as well as the local bard, Robert Burns, whose Scots narrative poem Tam O'Shanter, she recited well at school.

[4] At primary school, she visited New York, and was impressed by the United Nations building, and the idea of world peace, which later prompted her to join the campaign for nuclear disarmament (CND), and being arrested for protesting at Faslane.

Her doctoral thesis, at Duncan Jordanstone College of Art was titled 'Cultural retrieval, land use and post-industrial folk memory: a practice-led response to the destruction of Glengarnock Steelworks'.

Waite presented her work to the society, titled To remain worthy of the land: the Earl of Buchan, the Kirkhill Pillar Project and the re-animation of Scottish cultural history.

[4] On 21 October 2020, Waite was a key speakerat the virtual Scottish Transport & Industry Collections Knowledge Network (STICK) conference on the topic Cultural Retrieval: land use and postindustrial folk memory.