SLD Staff
Director
Dr Christine Robinson
Email: chris.robinson at scotsdictionaries.org.uk
Dr Robinson became the Director of SLD in 2004. She is an Honorary Fellow of the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences in the University of Edinburgh where she has taught Scots for many years. She is also a visiting lecturer at the University of the Highlands and Islands Millenium Institute and is the author of Scotspeak, a guide to Scots pronunciation aimed at actors and performers. As SLD's Outreach Officer, she visits writers' groups, schools and local community organisations to make presentations on Scots and support its use in the community.
Principal Editor
Ms Marace Dareau
Email: marace.dareau at orange.fr
Ms Dareau, former Editorial Director of DOST, was the first Director of SLD, in 2002, at the inception of the organisation. She is now Principal Editor in charge of the revision of the Concise Scots Dictionary. She is an Editorial Consultant for Faclair na Gàidhlig.
Senior Editor
Ms Pauline Cairns Speitel
Email: pauline.cairns_speitel at scotsdictionaries.org.uk
Ms Speitel began her career in publishing, working with Chambers Publishing in Edinburgh. She moved to the Scottish National Dictionary Association, where she remained for twenty years as lexicographer on all of SNDA's dictionary projects. Ms Speitel works on the revision of the Concise Scots Dictionary, manages the Word Collection, and is also SLD's European Outreach Officer. She directs local lexicographical projects in Leith, and Craigmillar and Niddrie.
Senior Editor
Dr Maggie Scott
Email: maggie.scott at scotsdictionaries.org.uk
Dr Scott joined SLD in 2003, having previously worked for the Oxford English Dictionary and the Historical Thesaurus of English. She is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of English Language at Glasgow University. Dr Scott is an Outreach Officer for SLD and works primarily on the revision of the Concise Scots Dictionary. She writes the regular Scots Word of the Week column for The Herald (available on the website of the Scots Language Centre) and is working with Professor Bill Nicolaisen on his Dictionary of Scottish Place-Names.
Editor
Ms Eileen Finlayson
Email: eileen.finlayson @ scotsdictionaries.org.uk
Ms Finlayson brings twenty-seven years of editorial expertise from working on the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue to SLD. She works primarily on lexicographical projects, but also manages SLD's Membership programme and book acquisitions for SLD's Reading Scheme. Ms Finlayson is responsible for creating and maintaining records for the research gathered through the Reading Scheme, and also maintains a database for the Word Collection as a whole.
Project Developer
Dr Gwen Enstam
Email: gwen.enstam at scotsdictionaries.org.uk
Dr Enstam is Project Developer for SLD and the Association for Scottish Literary Studies. Her responsibilities for SLD focus on editing the members' newsletter, the International Newsletter, and in collaboration with Peter Bell, maintenance of the SLD website. She also assists with fundraising research and applications, and payroll. Dr Enstam and Duncan Jones from ASLS are co-managers of the ASLS-SLD collaborative Scottish Writing Exhibition and joint editors of its associated Scottish Studies ezine, The Bottle Imp; Dr Enstam designs and manages the website for each project. She began working for the SNDA, one of SLD's parent organisations, in 1999.
IT Assistant
Mr Peter Bell
Email: support at scotsdictionaries.org.uk
Mr Bell is studying for his PhD at the Centre for Speech Technology at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a member of the department of Linguistics and English Language. He is in his third year studying speech recognition. Mr Bell is responsible for all IT management at SLD and most recently, for the redesign of SLD's main website.
Board
Convener Professor Christian Kay
Vice Convener Mr James Lonie
Secretary and Treasurer Mr William Mack
Members
Mr William Aitken
Professor Graham Caie
Professor John Corbett
Mr Matthew Fitt
Professor William Gillies
Professor Richard Jonstone
Dr Margaret A. Mackay
Mr Derrick McClure
Dr Rhiannon Purdie
Mr Scott Rae
Ms Liz Small
Advisory Committee
SLD's Advisory Committee was convened in 2002 to provide us with external sources of advice and assistance in as wide a variety of fields as possible. Our members include academics, lawyers, sheriffs, teachers and professional authors, and we appreciate their support throughout the year.
