Teaching

Current (2026–27 academic year)

• Pre-honours

LEL1A History and Variation

Tutoring

• Honours/MSc

Scots and Scottish English  History; Features: Morphosyntax and lexis

History of Scots  Course Convenor, majority of teaching

Historical Linguistics Lexical and Semantic Change; Morphological change; Morpho-syntactic change; 

Contact and convergence

Past

Course Organiser

• 2023–24, 2025–27: History of Scots  

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

Lecturer

• 2023–24, 2025–27: History of Scots 

• 2022–27: LEL1A History and Variation

• 2021–27: Scots and Scottish English History; Features: Morphosyntax and lexis; Modern and Urban Scots;
  Language Planning

• 2022–23: Dialects of English in Britain and Ireland Introduction to dialectology (1 week),
  Dialectal features (2 lectures)

• 2018–19, 2022–24: LEL2C Scots and Scottish Standard English; Dialects and Dialectology;

Tutor/TA

• 2025-26: Introduction to Syntax

• 2019-22: LEL2A

• 2018-19, 2020-21: LEL2C 

• 2018-19, 2026-27: LEL1A

PhD

• 2026– Dimitri Mitrovic
  With Warren Maguire (lead) and Pavel Iosad

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: "A diachronic study of the development of the lexical field of KINSHIP GROUP TERMINOLOGY in Old and Middle English"
  Brooke Maffitt: "Understanding social factors conditioning pronoun choice: an empirical account of the loss of English thou"
  Kota Kawaguchi: "On 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"

3rd year project

• 2025-26 Ruby Crawford:  "On be-perfect and verb-raising in the Shetland dialect: origin and contemporary usage of morphosyntactic features"

In 2026, I taught 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)