“New Speakers, New Language? A pilot study of young Gaelic bilinguals’ language practices”
Studia Celtica Posnaniensia
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Director of the Confucius Institute
Personal Chair
I have been a lecturer in Gaelic since September 2004 and Senior Lecturer since August 2011. I was promoted to Personal Chair in Gaelic in 2019.
I am the Exams Officer for Gaelic and the Programme Coordinator for the Combined Honours in Scottish Studies and Sustained Studies in Arabic, Mandarin and Swedish. I am a Deputy Director of the University of Aberdeen Confucius Institute. I sit on the University's Gaelic Language Plan Advisory Group http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ppg/index.php?id=170&sub=11&top=2
My areas of research include: modern Gaelic literature; the concept of Gaelic identity; the modern Gaelic community; Gaelic drama; language teaching and language planning.
Gaelic drama, modern Gaelic literature, community language planning and adult language acquisition.
I am Co-Director of the Soillse Research Network - a research collaboration between the University of the Highlands and Islands, The University of Aberdeen, Edinburgh University and the University of Glasgow. It has been established to provide a much enhanced research capacity to inform public policy towards the maintenance and revitalisation of gaelic language and culture. www.soillse.ac.uk
I teach Gaelic language across the degree programme and sub-honours introductory courses on Gaelic society and literature. I also teach honours courses on: Modern Gaelic Poetry, Gaelic Dialectology, Modern Irish Language and Language and Identity.
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Studia Celtica Posnaniensia
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Scottish Gaelic Studies, vol. 31, pp. 48-69
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Gaelic in Contemporary Scotland. Marsaili, M., Smith-Christmas, C. (eds.). Edinburgh University Press
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International Journal of Scottish Theatre and Screen, vol. 9, pp. 89–112
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Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen. 184 pages
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Bord na Gaidhlig. 175 pages
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International Companion to Scottish Poetry. Sassi, C. (ed.). Edinburgh University Press, pp. 89-93, 5 pages
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Isle of Skye: Soillse. 61 pages
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