Wilson McLeod

Professor of Gaelic

Celtic and Scottish Studies
School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3623
Email: W.McLeod@ed.ac.uk
Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile

Street: Room 4.35
50 George Square
City: Edinburgh
Post code: EH8 9LD

Biography

Qualifications

BA (Haverford), JD (Harvard), MSc, PhD (Edinburgh)

Responsibilities & affiliations

Main administrative duties

Director of Research, Celtic & Scottish Studies
Course Organiser for Introduction to Gaelic Language and Culture, Gaelic 1A and Linguistics and the Gaelic Language

Teaching & PhD supervision

Undergraduate teaching

Postgraduate teaching

Open to PhD supervision enquiries?

Yes

Current PhD students supervised

Adam Dahmer: Language revitalisation and Gaelic tertiary education

Róisín McKelvey: The role of language in UK migration policy

Kirstie MacLeod: ‘A’ togail na Gàidhlig’: Gaelic in families with young children

Bobbie Nolan: Language and identity among Irish migrants in San Francisco, Philadelphia and London, 1850-1920

Ben Ó Ceallaigh: The Irish economic crisis and the sociolinguistic vitality of Gaeltacht regions 2008-2016

Alastair Scouller: The Gaelic dialect of Colonsay

Charles Wilson: A comparative study of morphosyntactic structures in modern Scottish Gaelic

Research

Research summary

language policy and planning issues in Scotland and internationally;
language legislation and language rights;
the cultural politics of Scottish and Irish Gaelic literature from the late medieval period to the present day.

Publications

The nature of minority languages : Insights from Scotland (14 pages) 13 Feb 2019 In: Multilingua, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 141-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2018-0034
Contribution to journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
Stiùireadh Gràmair LEACAG (27 pages) Aug 2018
Book/Report › Commissioned report (Published)
Leasachadh Corpas na Gàidhlig : Work Stream 4: LEACAG Project Assessment (70 pages) Aug 2018
Book/Report › Commissioned report (Published)
New speakers of Gaelic : A historical and policy perspective (18 pages) Nov 2018
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published)
New Speakers of Gaelic from Outside the UK (60 pages) May 2017
Book/Report › Commissioned report (Published)
Dialectal diversity in contemporary Gaelic : Perceptions, discourses and responses (29 pages) 3 Mar 2017
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published)
Leasachadh Corpas na Gàidhlig (LEACAG) – Work stream 2.1 : Consultation with professional users to identify key grammatical issues (41 pages) 2017
Book/Report › Commissioned report (Accepted/In press)
Gaelic in contemporary Scotland : Contradictions, challenges and strategies (23 pages) 1 Nov 2016
Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published)
Identity, accent aim, and motivation in second language users : New Scottish Gaelic speakers’ use of phonetic variation (27 pages) 8 Jun 2016 In: Journal of Sociolinguistics, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 164-191
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)
Early years immersion : Learning from children’s playroom experiences 1 Jun 2016 In: Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Education
Contribution to journal › Article (Published)

This article was published on Jul 15, 2019