Katy West first joined the Glasgow School of Art staff in 2008 and is currently CSC Academic Coordinator. She is Visiting Lecturer in Design History Theory, lecturing on subjects relating to curating, craft and design, and supervising dissertation and thesis writing. She has previously lectured within Product Design.

She has experience as an Independent Curator specialising in craft and design subjects. Research outputs include exhibitions, conferences, commissioning projects, live curated projects outwith the gallery space, touring programmes, organising local and overseas residencies, research by design.

Concurrent to her teaching and curatorial practice Katy West has specialist studio expertise as a designer for ceramics, working under Katy West Design, in collaboration with ceramic production facilities to produce her own work that researches and references ceramic history.

Her training includes a Batchelor of Arts from Glasgow School of Art (1999) in ceramic design and a Masters of Arts from the Royal College of