Margery Palmer McCulloch

[2] She was also an elected member of Council of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies and served as Convener of the Association's Publications Board, as well as being co-editor of the Scottish Literary Review.

She contributed to literary and cultural programmes on BBC Radio and articles to newspapers and journals, including The Herald, The Scotsman and The Times Literary Supplement.

[3][2][4] In 1999, Dr McCulloch discovered a poem by Hugh MacDiarmid which had been lost for 60 years.

News of the poem's discovery was welcomed in the literary world.

Dr McCulloch made the discovery whilst researching the archives of Catherine Carswell, a novelist and critic.