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

Language, Policy and Territory: A Festschrift for Colin H. Williams (433 pages) 8 Jul 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94346-2
Research output: › Book (Published)
The influence of Wales on Gaelic development policy in Scotland (19 pages) 8 Jul 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94346-2_18
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published)
Transmitting Minority Languages: Complementary Reversing Language Shift Strategies (379 pages) 15 Apr 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87910-5
Research output: › Book (Published)
Against exclusionary Gaelic language policy: A response to Ó Giollagáin and Caimbeul (20 pages) 10 Feb 2022 In: Scottish Affairs, vol. 31, pp. 84-103
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/scot.2022.0399
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Gaelic and identity: A response to Iain MacKinnon (20 pages) 10 Feb 2022 In: Scottish Affairs, vol. 31, pp. 64-83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/scot.2022.0398
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation (391 pages) 30 Sep 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80189-2
Research output: › Book (Published)
Cànan & Cultar / Language and Culture: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 10 (280 pages) 10 Jul 2021
Research output: › Book (Published)
Foilsiú, míniú agus aistriú Gaeilge na hAlban in Éirinn (11 pages) 30 Nov 2020 In: ComharTaighde, vol. 6, pp. 1-11
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18669/ct.2020.04
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)
Gaelic in Scotland: Policies, Movements, Ideologies (456 pages) 30 Sep 2020
Research output: › Book (Published)
Classifying Gaelic-medium education: Language use in pre-school, primary school and secondary school settings (24 pages) 7 Sep 2020
Research output: › Conference contribution (Published)

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This article was published on 5 Feb, 2023