Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
Description
Soillse is a research collaboration, originally established between founding members – the University of the Highlands and Islands, the University of Aberdeen, the University of Edinburgh and the University of Glasgow – to provide a much enhanced research capacity to inform public policy towards the maintenance and revitalisation of Gaelic language and culture. It has since expanded to include representatives from Glasgow Caledonian University, Heriot-Watt University, the University of Strathclyde, and the University of the West of Scotland.
The challenging objectives that have been set for Soillse to produce world-class research outputs can only be achieved if full cooperation exists between all of the partners that are participating in the project. A central research objective of Soillse is to develop a meaningful partnership with the Gaelic communities of Scotland and elsewhere.
Soillse represents the largest ever investment in Gaelic language related research and is a unique pooling of resources by the academic institutions that are involved. Following its first phase of support for PhD studentships and research fellowships around the original network, the Scottish Funding Council has granted support from December 2017 for continued network co-ordination and project development for a period of five years.