At my MSc graduation, 2017, posing outside
the Dugald Stewart Building (home of PPLS)
Teaching
I've been delivering teaching, both as a tutor (TA) and lecturer, at the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences (PPLS; University of Edinburgh) since 2018.
Since Autumn 2023, I am Programme Director of the MSc English Language programme at PPLS.
Courses taught at PPLS
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
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
Supervision
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 Molineaux2023 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 Murata2022–23 Beth Grant: "Public attitudes towards a Standard Scots orthography"
Other teaching experience
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)