Stacey McGowan Holloway

Dr Stacey McGowan Holloway has a passion for Scotland’s wild places. After working as an NHS clinical physicist and academic, Stacey swapped central London for the Scottish Highlands. She worked in community sport development, a role that covered the entire of Argyll and Bute, before returning to science and the NHS as a radiotherapy physicist and research fellow at the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre. Stacey is a long-distance runner, year-round swimmer, member of the Oban Mountain Rescue Team and founder of the Oban Seals swimming group and Tyndrum 24 ultra-running race. She has written for outdoor magazines including Outdoor Swimmer, Women’s Running and Like the Wind. Alongside her husband Max, an Ocean Physicist at the Scottish Association for Marine Science, Stacey provides support and logistics to endurance athletes. The pair supported Lewis Pugh in his training camp swimming on the Isle of Lewis in 2020 and in Iceland in 2021. She lives in Oban on Scotland’s west coast with her husband and four hens.