The 2025 Ross Roy Prize is awarded to the UofG's Dr Suping Li, for her dissertation ‘”If I have wander’d in those paths”: The reception of Robert Burns in China’.
Completed at the University of Glasgow, this original study examines the full spectrum of Burns’ Chinese reception in translation, criticism and music since the first mention of Burns in an 1877 diary of Liu Xihong (d. 1891), an ambassador of the Qing Dynasty (1636-1912).
The judges praised the winning thesis as a "very thorough and clearly pathbreaking" study. Admiring the project’s incorporation of materials in English, Scots, and Chinese, the panel noted that ‘there is no doubt that the contribution to knowledge and to Scottish Studies in an international context is very high’.
The winner of the Ross Roy Prize receives a cash prize and will be publicly recognised at the Saltire Society’s prestigious Fletcher of Saltoun Awards in December 2025.
Warm congratulations to the winner, their supervisors, and many thanks to our panel of judges.