Teaching

Current (2025–26 academic year)

• Pre-honours

LEL1A History and Variation (2 weeks)

• Honours/MSc

Scots and Scottish English  History; Features: Morphosyntax and lexis; Language Planning (3 weeks)

History of Scots  Course Convenor, majority of teaching (8 weeks)

Historical Linguistics Lexical and Semantic Change; Morphological change; Morpho-syntactic change; Contact and convergence (4 weeks)

Introduction to Syntax (MSc only) Tutoring

Past

Course Organiser

• 2023–24: History of Scots  

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

Lecturer

• 2024–25: LEL1A History and Variation (3 weeks)
  Scots and Scottish English  Features: Syntax; Modern and Urban Scots; Language Planning (3 weeks)

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

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

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

Tutor/TA

• 2021-22: LEL2A

• 2020-21: LEL2A, LEL2C 

• 2019-20: LEL2A

• 2018-19: LEL1A, LEL2C 

MPhil

• 2022–2024 Emily Gough. "Investigating spelling change and anglicization in Scots correspondence."
  With Warren Maguire (lead) and Ben Molineaux

MSc (taught) dissertation

• 2026 Katja Budich: Project investigating semantic change in kinship terms in the history of English
  Brooke Maffitt: Project investigating variation and change in T/V pronouns in Early Modern English
  Kota Kawaguchi: Project investigating negation in Early Scots
  With Linda van Bergen

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

Undergraduate dissertation

• 2025-26 Amanda Medrzykowski:  "Accent Discrimination in the United States Supreme Court "
  With Christian Ilbury
  James Beaumont: "Semantic Classifications of Old Norse Loanwords in Insular Scots"

• 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"

In 2026, I will be teaching a course on Historical Linguistics at the LOT summer school in Groningen. More info here.

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)