Teaching

Current (2024-25 academic year)

• Pre-honours

LEL1A History and Variation (3 weeks)

• Honours/MSc

Scots and Scottish English  Features: Syntax; Variation and Change in Urban Scots; Language Planning (3 weeks)

I will be on maternity leave for the spring semester of the 24/25 academic year.

Past

Course Organiser

• 2022-23: Dialects of English in Britain and Ireland 

• 2023-24: History of Scots  

Lecturer

• 2018-19: LEL2C Scots and Scottish Standard English (1 week)

• 2021-22: Scots and Scottish English Variation and Change in Urban Scots; Scots language planning (2 weeks)

• 2022-23: LEL1A History and Variation (2 weeks)
  LEL2C Dialects and Dialectology; Scots and Scottish Standard English (2 weeks)
  Dialects of English in Britain and Ireland Introduction to dialectology (1 week),
  Dialectal features (2 lectures)
  Scots and Scottish English Variation and Change in Urban Scots (1 week)

• 2023-24: LEL1A History and Variation (2 weeks)
  Scots and Scottish English History; Features: Syntax and lexis; Language Planning (3 weeks)
  LEL2C Scots and Scottish Standard English (1 week)
  History of Scots Majority of teaching (8 weeks)

Tutor/TA

• 2018-19: LEL1A, LEL2C 

• 2019-20: LEL2A

• 2020-21: LEL2A, LEL2C 

• 2021-22: LEL2A

MPhil

• 2022–2024 Emily Gough. Project investigating the role of gender in changes occurring during the anglicisation of Scots
  With Warren Maguire (lead) and Ben Molineaux

MSc (taught) dissertation

• 2024 Lauryssa Toews:  "Drawing A Border Line on the Page: Dialectal Considerations between Northern Middle English and Older Scots within The Brus and the Cursor Mundi texts"
  With Ben Molineaux

• 2023 Danielle Fox: "A Microparametric Analysis of Double Modal Constructions in Scots"

• 2023 Ilse de Wit.  "Translatit intae Scots:  A study on the Origins of Lexis in Translated Scots Texts"
  With Ben Molineaux

Undergraduate dissertation

• 2023-24 Charlotte Baskerville: "'that's broken English, ye ken son' – A study on sociolinguisitic attitudes surrounding Scots in the classroom"
  Delphine Contet. Project investigating presuppositions and ideology in Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

• 2022–23 Beth Grant: "Public attitudes towards a Standard Scots orthography"

I have a TESOL and TEFL certificate, and taught English in Sri Lanka, July-August 2015.

In 2011-13, and 2016-17, I worked as a substitute teacher at a Swedish secondary school, covering a wide range of subject areas but most frequently Swedish, English, Spanish, Social/Human Sciences (incl. History, Religion, Political Science)