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Professor Rob Dunbar wins the RSE Sir Walter Scott Medal | Literatures, Languages & Cultures | Literatures Languages and Culture We speak to the medallist and his students about his work promoting and protecting minority languages.

“Meal do naidheachd!” to Rob Dunbar who has won the RSE Sir Walter Scott Medal for his work on language policy, literature and culture. We spoke to students Elizabeth and Chris about the man behind the medal: llc.ed.ac.uk/news/professor-rob-dunba...

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Martin Rowson on the Caerphilly byelection – cartoon Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth says his party’s win was more than just a rejection of immigration-obsessed Reform or rudderless Labour

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Dol fodha na grèine ann am Muile

Saor-là 🌅

The Scottish Languages Act: opportunities and challenges The Scottish Languages Act passed unanimously by the Scottish Parliament this week is the most important language legislation for Gaelic in twenty years and the first ever for the Scots language. T…

My analysis of the Scottish Languages Act 2025, passed unanimously by the Scottish Parliament this week. It mostly deals with Gaelic but also makes some provision for Scots.It's a complex,incrementalist measure whose significance will only become clear over time
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/06/20/t...

New Gaelic Speakers in Nova Scotia and Scotland - Edinburgh University Press Blog Stuart Dunmore on his own motivations for researching new Gaelic speakers, and the incredible places and experiences this led to.

Blog beag a sgrìobh mi do @edinburghup.bsky.social / Wee blog post about my recent book (softback out shortly, OA e-book available now 🔓)

📢 The Discursive Construction of Migrant Identities co-edited with @drsimongoodman.bsky.social & Stuart Dunmore

Very proud of this collection in which we have tried to shift assumptions around whose perspective we should analyse 1/4

Venus and the Moon over Edinburgh on a winter’s evening

A’ Ghealach agus a caraid

Thank you @karlykehoe.bsky.social! My copies only just arrived so this was good work :D

New speakers - people learning and reclaiming a language - are key to any language revitalization movement. 🌱

Understanding what motivates people to reclaim and learn their languages is an important part of revitalization work. A new book explores these issues in Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic):

Àrdachadh susbainteach sa bhuidseat airson na Gàidhlig agus cultair. Toiseach tòiseachaidh air slighe nas cinntiche air adhart.

A welcome, meaningful increase in SG budget for #Gaelic and culture and a good start from Kate Forbes and Angus Robertson towards a more certain future.

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Seiminear aig Sabhal Mòr Ostaig bho chionn ghoirid mun chunntas-shluaigh agus Bile nan Cànan Albannach - le Iain Mac an Tàilleir, Kate Forbes agus mi-fhìn

Tha an clàradh slàn a-nis ri fhaicinn air seanail YouTube SMO:
youtu.pulse.ly/3xj5ttfmpm

Looking south across The Meadows, under a covering of snow.

Good morning from Edinburgh…

One People, Two Places YouTube video by Historic Environment Scotland

An important part of our SSHRC-CRSH - UKRI One people, Two Places (#CapeBreton Island and Western Highlands & Islands of #Scotland) project is public engagement. Historic Environment Scotland has provided this recording of my talk in #Edinburgh this past September. youtu.be/9G13sx52_7o?...

Let it snow! ❄️❄️❄️ First Quad looking so pretty as the first snowfall off the year arrives in Oxford. #jesuscollegeoxford #snowday

📢 Co-edited book: New approaches to language and identity in contexts of migration and diaspora
Fabulous sociolinguistics work coming out of the Approaches to Migration, Language & Identity conference hosted at University of Sussex
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

Latha (brèagha) geamhradail an Obar Dheathain 🥶