Steering Committee

The institutional partnership supporting the Dictionary of the Scottish Gaelic Language provides the project with a strong base encompassing all aspects of the Gaelic language community. It includes

• the highly-regarded scholarship of the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow;
• the expertise in teacher education and Gaelic-medium education well-established at the University of Strathclyde; and
• the strong links with the community which Sabhal Mòr Ostaig has forged as a major player in Gaelic language learning and development, coupled with extensive experience in using ICT in all aspects of on-site and distance learning.

The Steering Committee for the Dictionary of the Scottish Gaelic Language consists of

Institutional Representatives

	Boyd Robertson (Convener), Principal of Sabhal Mòr Ostaig UHI.  Professor Robertson’s 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.
	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.
	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.
	Moray Watson, Lecturer in Gaelic, University of Aberdeen. His current research interests are in modern literature and translation studies. Early in his academic life, he completed a Master’s degree on lexicography and simultaneously wrote the children’s dictionary Mo Chiad Fhaclair.
	Mona Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Gaelic, University of Strathclyde.  Her research interests are in Gaelic and Gaelic-medium education.  Also, she played a large part in the establishment of the primary teaching course PGDE(P) with education through the medium of Gaelic between the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) and Strathclyde University.