
The Centre for Robert Burns Studies
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Est. 2007 @UofGlasgow for the development of research, scholarship and teaching in the area of Robert Burns (1759-96). @QAPrizes winner 2023.
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It's nearly #BurnsNight! 🏴 UofG’s UofG Chapel Choir perform 'Blyth hae I been on yon hill' - a piece Burns said was ‘one of the finest songs I ever made in my life’. Enjoy this beautiful tribute to Scotland’s National Bard 🎶 The Centre for Robert Burns Studies UofG Arts & Humanities Brand Scotland 🏴

Robert Burns declared this ‘one of the finest songs I ever made in my life; and, besides, is composed on a young lady, positively the most beautiful, lovely woman in the world’. Wonderful from UofG Chapel Choir. #BurnsNight UK Government Scotland

Ahead of #BurnsNight, I am in my house watching the crazy weather & listening in again to the 2022 White House History podcast on US President Lincoln, his love for Robert Burns & Scotland. The podcast features University of Glasgow The Centre for Robert Burns Studies MP whitehousehistory.org/the-white-hous…


Exciting research developments on Burns and the Environment will be supported by a University of Glasgow PhD studentship in recognition of the The Queen Elizabeth Prizes for Education Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Robert Burns Studies 2023-25! 👀Read about it ⬇️. UofG Arts & Humanities Anton Muscatelli

This year & every year the scholarship of colleagues University of Glasgow The Centre for Robert Burns Studies has helped gain a better understanding of Scotland’s national bard & this research has been recognised by The Queen Elizabeth Prizes for Education, the highest national Honour awarded in Higher Education 💻 gla.ac.uk/schools/critic…

We hope everyone has a braw #BurnsNight2025 🏴 📸 Our team at UofG Alumni University of Glasgow wonderful Burns Supper last week. #burnssupper #burnsnight2025


For #BurnsNight2025 here’s a Museums in the Metaverse 3D model of a beautiful nineteenth-century Mauchline Ware Ink Blotter. Featuring Burns Cottage, Brig o’ Doon & lines from ‘Rantin’, Rovin’ Robin’. Curate this & many other treasures in your own XR museum, from Spring 2025. Coming soon! 🤩

What a stunning 3D model from our collections by Museums in the Metaverse. This object represents so many The Centre for Robert Burns Studies research interests. From paper, ink & manuscript authenticity to commemoration, tourism & cultural heritage. Can’t wait to share this meticulous detail in XR from spring 2025!




Pleased to have represented University of Glasgow following the award of the Queen’s Anniversary Prize to The Centre for Robert Burns Studies. Delighted to see Museums in the Metaverse featured as a case study of innovation in Creative Technologies. Neil McDonnell MP Maria Economou UofG Arts & Humanities

Our Director Pauline Mackay will be taking part in ‘ARC Conversations’ next Tuesday! Come along to hear more about innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to Burns Studies 👩💻 #robertburns #scottishliterature Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow




Pauline Mackay outlines the newest The Centre for Robert Burns Studies project in UofGARC today Gerard Carruthers Kenny MacAskill



Now at work continuously in the coming months to get the 3 vols of Burn's Correspondence to go to Oxford Academic 1000s of manuscripts & other materials gone over by our team The Centre for Robert Burns Studies Loose ends to tie up beginning on Tues with my visit to Birthplace Museum
