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Meet our graduates: Francisca Da Silveira

31 May, 2023

Working full time as a playwright, Francisca Da Silveira has held two year-long fellowships and had…

Meet our graduates: Lynn Houmdi (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies)

22 May, 2023Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Meet our graduates Postgraduate

Twenty years after her first degree, Lynn completed an award-winning MSc and now drives forward…

Meet our graduates: Laurie Motherwell

11 May, 2023

An award-winning playwright and screenwriter, Laurie studied with us between 2010 and 2015,…

And... action! Film students launch new magazine

26 April, 2023Film and Intermediality Life at LLC Postgraduate

Film students Niamh and Yvonne take us behind the scenes of their new student-led magazine, The…

In memoriam: Paul Dundas

17 April, 2023

Julian Ward reflects on the passing of our friend and colleague Paul Dundas, Sanskrit expert and…

What’s it like to co-organise an international conference?

17 April, 2023

Tsz Ho (Brian) Wong, an East Asian Studies PhD candidate, tells us about working with the Hong Kong…

Thriving in Scotland’s culture - Professor of Gaelic honoured for contribution to Public Life

11 April, 2023

Wilson McLeod talks about his Saltire Society honour, one of six Fletcher of Saltoun Awards given…

Meet our graduates: Damian Platt MBE (Italian and Spanish)

10 April, 2023European Languages and Cultures Italian Meet our graduates Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Undergraduate

We talk to the author of “Nothing by Accident: Brazil on the Edge” about how studying languages at…

Thinking creatively – from studying to studio

10 April, 2023Celtic and Scottish Studies English and Scottish Literature Life at LLC Undergraduate

We talk to Scottish Ethnology and English Literature student Hector Shaw about combining university…

Àidh, Robot - researchers develop first ASR system for Scottish Gaelic

10 April, 2023Celtic and Scottish Studies Research

Will Lamb outlines what Automatic Speech Recognition means for the future of Scotland’s Gaelic…