Pauline Graham
Pauline Graham joined Dictionaries of the Scots Language (DSL) in 2020 as Managing Editor, having previously worked as a publisher for Elsevier and Cambridge University Press.
Maggie Scott
Dr Maggie Scott is the founding contributor of DSL’s Scots Word of the Week. As a former Editor at DSL, she wrote and managed the column from its inception in 2005 until 2008, when she moved to the University of Salford, where she is now Associate Dean Academic in the School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology. Maggie has also published widely on Scots language and literature and has taught Scots and English language and linguistics at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh and what is now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Jeremy Smith
Jeremy Smith is Professor Emeritus in English Language and Linguistics, University of Glasgow, an Honorary Professor, University of St Andrews, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies. Recent publications include Transforming Early English (Cambridge University Press, 2020), and a co-edited collection, Genre in English Medical Writing 1500-1820 (also Cambridge University Press 2022). Current projects include a corpus-based study of English religious discourse, 1380-1800.
Christine Robinson
Dr Chris Robinson served as DSL’s Director from 2004 until her retirement in 2015. She has taught Scots to hundreds of students at a number of Scottish universities and is (co-)author of multiple Scots language titles, including Scotspeak: A Guide to the Pronunciation of Modern Urban Scots and Modren Scots Grammar.
Pauline Cairns Speitel
Pauline Cairns Speitel began her career in Scots dictionaries with the Scottish National Dictionary and worked on many projects with DSL prior to her recent retirement. She was a major contributor to the second edition of our Concise Scots Dictionary (Luath Press, 2017) and both edited and contributed to our 100 Favourite Scots Words (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).