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

10 April, 2023

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

What’s it like to be a virtual language ambassador?

10 April, 2023

Recent French and Spanish MA (Hons) graduate, Anna, talks us through her final year experience.

What it is like having a writing mentor?

10 April, 2023

We talk to Creative Writing student Tim Tim Cheng about her experience as a mentee of the Roddy…

Breathing new life into fascinating archival footage of Scotland's lifeboats on our wild seas

10 April, 2023

Shona Thomson tells us how the making of her FOCAL Award-shortlisted film is being used on our Film…

Sharing a love of literature with people around the world

10 April, 2023

PhD student in English Literature Carolina Buffoli talks to us about her role as a Teaching…

Judging the James Tait Black Prizes 2021: Aiswarya Jayamohan

10 April, 2023

First year PhD in English Literature candidate Aiswarya Jayamohan talks about their experience as a…

Meet our graduates: Harry Richards

24 March, 2023

Having graduated with an MA in Spanish and History in 2020, filmmaker Harry’s short film SANTI was…

The School of Scottish Studies Archives at 70

11 March, 2023

It’s 70 years since the University began collecting images, stories and voices of unheard Scottish…

Festive festschrifts – graduates edit books in honour of PhD mentors

08 December, 2022

We sit down with Scandinavian Studies graduates Christian Cooijmans and Ian Giles, editors of two…

Meet our graduates: Becky Waterton

07 December, 2022

Deputy Editor of The Local in Sweden, Becky graduated with an MA (Hons) in German and Scandinavian…