Current Student Research

Our current postgraduate research students include:

Janet MacDonald
Thesis title: 'Iona's Local Associations in Argyll and the Isles, 1203-1561' (Ph.D.)  Supervisor(s): Professor Thomas Clancy & Dr Martin MacGregor

Simon Innes
Thesis title: 'Leantainn cràbhach na h-Òighe Moire air a' Ghàidhealtachd sna meadhan-aoisean' (Ph.D.)  Supervisor(s): Professor Thomas Clancy & Professor Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh

Julia Kuhns
Thesis title: 'The Early Modern irish recension of Oidheadh Con Culainn and Laoidh na gCeann: text transmission and manuscript tradition' (Ph.D.)  Supervisor(s): Professor Thomas Clancy & Professor Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh

Stuart Harris-Logan
'Nuair a bha Gàidhlig aig na hEòin: The Art and Artifice of Avifaunal Mimesis in Gaelic Oral Culture from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day' (M.Phil. (Research))  Supervisor(s): Professor Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh & Dr Michel Byrne

Stephen Digney
Thesis title: 'Early Medieval Settlement, Routeways, and Contacts in the Forth Valley: a focus on the Church' (Ph.D.)  Supervisor(s): Professor Thomas Clancy & Professor Stephen Driscoll

Sarah Erskine
Thesis title: 'The Relic Cult of St Patrick through the Ninth to Twelfth Centuries in its Irish and European Contexts' (Ph.D.)  Supervisor(s): Professor Thomas Clancy & Dr Marilyn Dunn

Guto Rhys
Thesis title: 'P-Celtic in Northern Britain, the Evidence of Place-names' (Ph.D.)  Supervisor(s): Professor Thomas Clancy & Professor Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh

Joina MacDonald
Thesis title: 'Bàrdachd na Hearadh' (Ph.D.)  Supervisor(s): Dr Sheila Kidd & Professor Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh

Peter McNiven
Thesis title: 'Gaelic place-names and the social history of Gaelic speakers in Menteith before 1300' (Ph.D.)  Supervisor(s): Professor Thomas Clancy & Dr Simon Taylor

Cassie Smith-Christmas
Code-Switching and Maintenance Strategies in a Gaelic Language Shift Situation.  Supervisor: Professor Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh and Dr Jane Stuart-Smith, Dept of English Language