£1m AHRC funding for Robert Burns Research

The world renowned Centre for Robert Burns Studies at the University of Glasgow has secured a £1m research grant for Phase 2 of 'Editing Burns for the 21st Century'. The research grant, from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, will fund the next five years of the project, which will focus on Burns' letters and correspondence as well as his poetry. Reacting to the announcement, Professor Gerard Carruthers, General Editor of the Oxford Edition of the works of Robert Burns, said: "This is tremendous news and we are delighted to have had our funding application granted. "The funding means we will complete the entire OUP edition of Burns with full-time research support and a world-class website to serve it. As well as three volumes of Burns Correspondence and two of Poetry we'll also be producing the Oxford Handbook to Robert Burns (forty critical essays based on and around the edition) and web-workshops on editing Burns and on Burns forgery. "This project is fundamental to the understanding of the writings that Burns left behind. Our team will use many more manuscripts, many more print sources and many more items of information than any previous editors.