Hands Up for Trad’s Women in Music and Culture 2026 list has been announced to celebrate just some of the women working in Scotland.
Launched as part of International Women’s Day 2026, we shine the spotlight on 12 women who all contribute towards Scotland’s cultural landscape through their work. Read the 2026 list here.
Muriel Gray FRSE is one of Scotland’s most distinguished broadcasters, authors and public figures, whose forty-year career has spanned television, journalism, fiction writing and cultural governance. A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art, she first came to prominence as a presenter on Channel 4’s landmark music programme The Tube, and went on to found a television production company that grew into one of the UK’s leading independents. She was the first woman to serve as Rector of the University of Edinburgh and the first female chair of Glasgow School of Art’s board of governors. A published horror novelist and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, she has recently been reappointed as a non-executive director and Member for Scotland on the BBC Board for a further four-year term from January 2026.
Read the Hands Up for Trad’s Women in Music and Culture 2026 List
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