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Boyd Robertson (Convener), Reader in Gaelic and Deputy Head of Curricular Studies Department at the University of Strathclyde. His research interests
include Gaelic in education, and the development and impact of
Gaelic-medium education. He has a keen interest in corpus planning,
and is actively involved in Gaelic lexicography, having co-produced a new Gaelic dictionary to accompany the Teach Yourself Gaelic (2003) course. He is at work on a compilation of Gaelic idiomatic
usages. |
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Thomas Owen Clancy (Vice-Convener),
Professor of Celtic at the University of Glasgow. Professor
Clancy’s
research interests include the development of Christianity in
early medieval Scotland; the poetry of early medieval Scotland;
Medieval Gaelic narrative, especially Christian literature; Scottish
place-names and saints’ dedications; Medieval Welsh narrative;
and the northern Britons. |
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Norman Gillies, Director
of Sabhal Mòr
Ostaig UHI. Professor Gillies has played a major role in the
development of Sabhal Mòr Ostaig into an internationally
known centre for the study of Gaelic. He has
played a major role in the establishment of the UHI Millennium
Institute and is currently involved in Cànan Ltd, the
Gaelic Television Training Trust, Ionad Chaluim Chille Ìle
and the Lèirsinn Research Centre. |
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Susan Manning, Director
of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and
Grierson Professor of English Literature at the University
of Edinburgh. Her primary
research interests lie in the fields of the Scottish Enlightenment
and in Scottish-American literary relations. She is a Board Member
and Past President of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies
Society. Ongoing research projects include a new Edinburgh University
Press series on “Transatlantic
Literatures”, a major study of Character, and the development
of interdisciplinary methodologies. |
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Colm Ó Baoill, Emeritus Professor of
Celtic, University of Aberdeen. He has research interests
in both Irish and Scottish Gaelic language and literature,
including Scottish Gaelic verse of the period 1600-1730, 17th-19th
century Irish verse, Scottish Gaelic manuscripts, the Scots-Gaelic
interface and comparative study of Irish and Scottish Gaelic.
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Professor William Gillies, Professor of Celtic
at the University of Edinburgh. He has extensive research interests,
including the Gaelic of the Middle Ages, the Book of the Dean
of Lismore, and the Books of Clanranald, of which he is completing
a major edition. His contribution to Gaelic dialectology is most
evident in his role in the successful completion and publication
of the Survey of the Gaelic Dialects of Scotland (1994-7). As
Project Manager from 1994-2001, he led the Dictionary of the
Older Scottish Tongue project to its successful conclusion. |
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Professor Donald Meek, Professor of Scottish
and Gaelic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His research
experience covers many aspects of Celtic Studies, focusing on
Scottish Gaelic language, literature and history. Research areas
include the Middle Ages, with reference to the Book of the Dean
of Lismore, which shares a linguistic frontier with Scots; the
development of classical Scottish Gaelic within Biblical texts;
hymnology; and nineteenth and twentieth century Gaelic literature.
From 1973-9, he worked as Assistant Editor on the Historical
Dictionary of Scottish Gaelic project at the University of Glasgow. |
