Major Research Projects

The Centre for Robert Burns Studies and its associates has been research active in the area for a number of years. Further to the AHRC grant recently awarded to support the research required for the first phase of the Oxford University Press edition of the works of Robert Burns, the Centre for Robert Burns Studies research team have also directed the following major funded research projects:

• AHRC Beyond Text -  'Robert Burns: Inventing Tradition and Securing Memory, 1796 - 1909' 
  Director: Prof Murray Pittock

• AHRC - The Global Burns Network 
  Director: Prof Murray Pittock

• Carnegie Research Grant - The Correspondence of James Currie
  Director:  Dr Gerard Carruthers

• AHRC - The Songs of James Hogg
  Co-PI: Dr Kirsteen McCue