Professor Christina Young is Director of the Kelvin Centre for Conservation and Cultural Heritage Research at the University of Glasgow. Before joining the University of Glasgow in 2017, Christina was a Reader at the Courtauld Institute of Art in the Conservation of Easel Paintings and Conservation Science. Prior to that she was Leverhulme Fellow at Tate and a visiting scholar at the Getty Conservation Institute. Christina teaches and conducts technical art history, conservation and conservation science. Her recent research has been focused the history of British scene painters and their materials. This research relies heavily on the use of archives in many forms and on the development of oral history archives.