{"id":1392,"date":"2012-04-27T13:21:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T13:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2012-04-27T13:21:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T13:21:44","slug":"visiting-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2012\/04\/27\/visiting-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipadio.com\/broadcasts\/GordonWells\/2012\/4\/27\/Island-Voices--60th-phonecast\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1389\" title=\"Rob Dunbar talks about his visit\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/robcu.jpg?w=131\" width=\"131\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/robcu.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/robcu-264x300.jpg 264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/><\/a>Uist welcomed a short visit from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soillse.ac.uk\/\">Soillse<\/a> Director Professor Robert Dunbar this week. During his tour he was able to visit the offices of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ampaipear.org.uk\/\">Am P\u00e0ipear<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sgoillionacleit.org.uk\/\">Sgoil L\u00econacleit<\/a>, as well as speak with Gordon Wells, Island Voices\/Guthan nan Eilean co-ordinator. Originally from Canada, Rob&#8217;s first introduction to learning Gaelic was through teachers from Uist &#8211; and he&#8217;s never looked back!<\/p>\n<p>Here he speaks also about his ambitions for the Soillse research project to engage closely with the local interest in Gaelic &#8211; in education, in the family and the community, and in relation to policy and planning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipadio.com\/broadcasts\/GordonWells\/2012\/4\/27\/Island-Voices--60th-phonecast\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2118\" title=\"Click to listen to Rob Dunbar\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dunbaripadio.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dunbaripadio.jpg 539w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/dunbaripadio-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/roblingland.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1390\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/roblingland.jpg?w=150\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/roblingland.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/roblingland-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/roblingland-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/roblingland-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/roblingland-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/robtext.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1391\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/robtext.jpg?w=150\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/robtext.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/robtext-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/robtext-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/robtext-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/robtext-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Public visibility of the Gaelic language in written form may be one of many factors affecting perceptions of its current state and future prospects. Rob takes an interest in linguistic landscapes, and took the opportunity to gather some examples during his visit. (Click to enlarge.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uist welcomed a short visit from Soillse Director Professor Robert Dunbar this week. During his tour he was able to visit the offices of Am P\u00e0ipear and Sgoil L\u00econacleit, as well as speak with Gordon Wells, Island Voices\/Guthan nan Eilean co-ordinator. Originally from Canada, Rob&#8217;s first introduction to learning Gaelic was through teachers from Uist &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2012\/04\/27\/visiting-professor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Visiting Professor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-community","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}