Graduate employability is excellent for Celtic and Gaelic. The Gaelic professional world, in particular, has robustly withstood the recessions and is still very much a growth area. Our graduates are generally in very high demand, and the range of subjects we teach – coupled with our practice-based, experience-driven approach – equip students admirably for the job market. We maintain links with employers, government bodies and other organisations with a history of employing our graduates, and we use these links to inform and improve our courses on a continuing basis. Graduates of our three degrees find themselves in a wide range of interesting, exciting and challenging careers, and often find themselves uniquely mobile and flexible in comparison with graduates of other kinds of disciplines.
Our Recent Graduates
The students who graduated in 2010 and 2011 are, among other things, currently:
- studying for a Master’s in Creative Writing
- studying for a Master’s in Strategic Studies
- studying for several PhDs, both in Aberdeen and also internationally
- working in art, design and digital production
- training to be an army officer
- working for Comunn nam Pàrant
- working for Iomairt Loch Abair
- tutoring with Ùlpan
- publishing a novel
- teaching in our own Department
- travelling in Asia
- studying librarianship
- training to be teachers.
Our recent postgraduate students include:
- Dr Lindsay Milligan Dombrowski, who is now a lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland
- Ashley Powell, who is now the University’s Gaelic Development and Policy Officer
- Dr Pía Coira, author of By Poetic Authority: The Rhetoric of Panegyric in Gaelic Poetry of Scotland to C.1700
