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

Saul Farrell (School of History, Classics and Archaeology): The social, cultural and Ideological contribution of the Gaelic League to the ‘imagined community’ of the Irish nation-state, 1893-1922

Lisa MacDonald (Moray House School of Education): An t-ionnsachadh bòidheach: exploring intentionality in Gaelic 0-5 education

Niamh Nic Leoid: Code-switching in young Irish speakers in the Gaeltacht

Chris Oates: Social usage of Gaelic in Glasgow and its capacity to support Gaelic revitalisation

Ann Thirkell (Moray House School of Education): A study of the pedagogical approaches used by Gaelic-medium primary teachers to develop Gaelic language in Gaelic-medium education

Edit Wenelius: Prepositional relative clause constructions in Scottish Gaelic: Variation and motivation

Charles Wilson: Geolinguistic variation in Hebridean Gaelic: The case of nominal morphology

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

Classifying Gaelic-medium education: Language use in pre-school, primary school and secondary school settings (24 pages) 9 Jan 2020
Research output: › Conference contribution (Accepted/In press)
Conceptions and discourses of linguistic justice: Some illustrations from the Scottish context 2 Dec 2019 In: Sociolinguistica, vol. 33, pp. 45-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/soci-2019-0004
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
The nature of minority languages: Insights from Scotland (14 pages) 13 Feb 2019 In: Multilingua, vol. 38, pp. 141-154
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2018-0034
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)
New speakers of Gaelic: A historical and policy perspective (15 pages) Nov 2018
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published)
Leasachadh Corpas na Gàidhlig: Work Stream 4: LEACAG Project Assessment (70 pages) Aug 2018
Research output: › Commissioned report (Published)
Stiùireadh Gràmair LEACAG (27 pages) Aug 2018
Research output: › Commissioned report (Published)
New Speakers of Gaelic from Outside the UK (60 pages) May 2017
Research output: › Commissioned report (Published)
Dialectal diversity in contemporary Gaelic: Perceptions, discourses and responses (29 pages) 3 Mar 2017
Research output: › 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
Research output: › Commissioned report (Accepted/In press)
Gaelic in contemporary Scotland: Contradictions, challenges and strategies (23 pages) 1 Nov 2016
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published)

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This article was published on 26 Oct, 2020