Thrilled and humbled to share that "All the world is our stage: primary pupils never lost in translanguaging" has been funded by @uofglasgow.bsky.social *Chancellor's Fund* to compare the #Gaelic and #Catalan Medium #Education systems 🚀🛸

#Bilingualism #Multilingualism #Translanguaging #Research

The deadline to apply for a BritishSpanish Society Scholarship in 2025 has been EXTENDED to 20 June 2025. Full details on how to apply are available here 👉 www.britishspanishsociety.org/scholarships/

#BritishSpanishSociety #scholarship #research #PhD #doctorate #academia #Spain #Spanish

Cultural Awareness, the benefits of the multilingual brain and how languages play a crucial role in social mobility, enhance personal mobility and increase work opportunity 2/2

#Gaelic #English #LanguagesforBusiness #CulturalAwareness #Brexit #PostBrexit #ModernLanguages #Erasmus

Q&A chaired by @uofglasgow.bsky.social School of Modern Languages and Cultures HoS Prof. Stephen Forcer: Baroness Coussins, Jennifer McHarrie @bordnagaidhlig.bsky.social, and Jaclyn McKie, Isle of Arran Distillers discussing some of the important issues they approached during their presentations 1/2

Myth: "If everyone speaks #English anyway, what’s the point of making an effort? In the 21st century, En is not enough. *Speaking only EN is as much of a disadvantage as speaking no EN.* Only 6% of the world’s population are native EN speakers & 75% speak no English at all". @uofgculture.bsky.social

At the stunning Glasgow University Union Debating Chamber for the @uofglasgow.bsky.social School of Modern Languages and Cultures event ' #Languages and #Cultures in the 21st Century'. Fascinated by Baroness Jean Coussins keynote, esp. myth busting👇 @uofgartshums.bsky.social

Shedler’s work on 'healthy psychological functioning' brilliantly captures the essence of mental well-being and what it means to thrive through meaningful relationships, personal growth, and self-awareness 🙌
@jonathanshedler.bsky.social

Had to share it 😂😂😂 #HappyNewYear #Happy2025

#Philosophers at #Christmas:

#Kant is dutifully merry; #Nietzsche killed Santa; #Marx sees oppression in the mulled wine; #Smith trusts the market; #Aristotle missed the brief, and #Descartes is merry because he thinks he is.

***Who are you at the Christmas party?***

#academia #philosophy

Listen to Mike Orlov, Jihn Worne and Sarah Robertson from#NRPSI #CIOL and #ITI respectively offering evidence at the Public Services Committee 👉 parliamentlive.tv/event/index/... #1nt #interpreting #interpreters #PublicServiceInterpreting #CourtInterpreting #t9n #xl8 #WorkingConditions

So excited about our #SERA_ECR session (Thu 23Nov) We'll discus our trajectories & lived experiences with, I hope, many #SERApeople! 'Building communities', what does it mean for you? Come chat to us #SERAConference #ScotEdChat #WomenEdScotland #UKEdChat #EarlyCareerResearchers #Academia #Research