John Shaw
Honorary Fellow
- Celtic and Scottish Studies
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Email: J.W.Shaw@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Address
- Street
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50 George Square
- City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Background
- Training in Linguistics and Celtic Studies
- extensive fieldwork on Gaelic oral tradition/folklore on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia
- Gaelic language instructor
- civil servant and Gaelic Development Officer in the Highlands and Islands
- Lecturer in Celtic, King's College, University of Aberdeen.
Qualifications
BA, MA, PhD Harvard University
Research summary
- Gaelic ethnology (oral narrative, song and traditional music)
- social contexts of storytelling and song
- native taxonomies
- emigrant Scottish traditions
- the interface between academic research and language/culture maintenance and development.
Project activity
- Principal Investigator: 'Reconnecting with Gaelic Scotland's Community Traditions: The Legacy of Calum Iain Maclean's Collecting'. AHRC Follow on Funding £95,792. 2012-
- Principal Investigator: ‘A Searchable, Standards Based Catalogue of the Calum Maclean Collection of Gaelic Oral Narrative’. A research project funded by AHRC 2006-2009. Funding: £306,000.
- Principle Investigator for The Calum Maclean Collection Online Catalogue Project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), which aims to make a major collection of material central to Scottish Ethnology available in digital form as an accessible and flexible research resource.The project is based at the School of Scottish Studies in the Department of Scottish and Celtic Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and is partnered with University College, Dublin.
- Tobar an Dualchais/Kist o’ Riches Project. Steering Committee and Advisory Board (a national digitisation project to provide wider access to Gaelic and Scots archived sound recordings. Funding: £2.8 m). 2004-
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Cruinneachadh Chaluim: Field recordings of Gaelic music and song from the Highlands and Islands by Calum Maclean
Research output: › Digital or Visual Products (Published) -
Urine c-peptide creatinine ratio can be used for home monitoring of islet transplant function
(1 page)
In:
Diabetic Medicine, vol. 30, pp. 87-87
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Meeting abstract (Published) -
Quantification of hepatic steatosis before and after intraportal pancreatic islet transplantation
(1 page)
In:
Diabetic Medicine, vol. 30, pp. 59-59
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Meeting abstract (Published) -
SECONDARY MAGNETIZATIONS CAST DOUBT ON EXCEPTIONAL PALEOINTENSITY VALUES FROM THE LOUSETOWN CREEK LAVAS OF NEVADA, USA
(7 pages)
In:
Geophysical Journal International, vol. 101, pp. 251-257
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Comment/debate (Published) -
THE MAGNITUDE OF THE LATE TERTIARY PALEOMAGNETIC FIELD IN ICELAND
(1 page)
In:
Geophysical journal of the royal astronomical society, vol. 81, pp. 323-323
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Meeting abstract (Published) -
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MAGNITUDE AND DIRECTION OF THE GEOMAGNETIC-FIELD DURING THE LATE TERTIARY IN EASTERN ICELAND - REPLY
(2 pages)
In:
Geophysical journal of the royal astronomical society, vol. 80, pp. 558-559
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Letter (Published) -
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MAGNITUDE AND DIRECTION OF THE GEOMAGNETIC-FIELD DURING THE LATE TERTIARY IN EASTERN ICELAND
(15 pages)
In:
Geophysical journal of the royal astronomical society, vol. 76, pp. 637-651
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
FULLY DEFINED PALEOMAGNETIC DATA AND ITS EXPRESSION OF GEOMAGNETIC-FIELD BEHAVIOR
(1 page)
In:
Geophysical journal of the royal astronomical society, vol. 69, pp. 288-288
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Meeting abstract (Published) -
AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE STRENGTH AND ORIENTATION OF THE GEOMAGNETIC DIPOLE DURING THE TERTIARY
(1 page)
In:
Geophysical journal of the royal astronomical society, vol. 65, pp. 258-258
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Meeting abstract (Published)