Lachlan Gow Munro undertook a Ph.D. in History and Literature at the University of Glasgow, after previously studying History and Political Philosophy at the University of Stirling and London Metropolitan University, where he won the university history prize. In 2015, he was awarded the Tannahill Scholarship to carry out research in Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and he is visiting lecturer at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow.