Chapter 3 – Policy Implications for Gaelic - University of Edinburgh

Section 2 – Research and Postgraduate Study
Actions Lead Timescale
The University will promote research on Gaelic through its support for the
department of Celtic & Scottish Studies and a regular series of research
dissemination events, including the annual Soillse seminar series and Friday
Research Seminar series in Celtic & Scottish Studies and the Rannsachadh na
Gàidhlig conference in 2014.
Celtic & Scottish Studies Immediate
The University will support and promote its specialist archives of Gaelic material,
including the School of Scottish Studies Archives and the Carmichael-Watson
Collection in the Main Library.
The University will offer two four-year fees-only MSc/PhD studentships in Gaelic
language, literature and culture, one beginning in 2013 and one in 2014.
Within the terms of its formal policy on the use of Gaelic in assessed work,
adopted in 2009, postgraduate theses and dissertations submitted for
assessment and examination may be presented in Gaelic.
College of Humanities
and Social Science
Main Library
School of Literatures,
Language and Cultures
Academic Registry
September 2013
September 2013
Immediate
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