Professor Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost
Director of Postgraduate Research Studies
- macgiollachriostd@caerdydd.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 9180
- 1.66, John Percival Building
- Welsh speaking
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
Professor Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost is a member of the School's Research Unit on Language, Policy and Planning. He is a native of Ireland and an authority on linguistic minorities and language planning. He has research interests in certain other specific fields. These include the nature of the relationship between language and conflict, from a comparative, European perspective, and, also, language in city contexts. He has a number of publications in the Social Sciences, Human Geography and the Sociology of Language. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Biography
Publications
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I offer the following UG modules:
Cyflwyniad i Hanes yr Iaith [An Introduction to the History of Welsh]
Iaith, Gwleidyddiaeth a Gwrthdaro [Language, Politics and Conflict]
Sosioieithyddiaeth [Sociolinguistics]
I am currently writing up the results of a major project on the office of language commissioner in Canada, Ireland and Wales, sponsored by the ESRC.
http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/ES.J003093.1/read