Future burns bright via new online resource
The Centre for Robert Burns Studies at the University of Glasgow have launched a new website to connect the thousands of Burns enthusiasts around the world. The website is one of the first developments from the £1.1 million funded Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) grant funded project, ' Editing Burns for the 21st Century', which was awarded to the University of Glasgow's Centre for Robert Burns Studies in January 2011. The website is one strand of a much wider project to produce a multi-volume edition of Robert Burns's work and build awareness around the Bard for future generations. The project is expected to take 15 years to complete. Professor Gerard Carruthers, co-Director of the University of Glasgow's Centre for Robert Burns Studies, said: "With ever-increasing information and digital media at our fingertips, the new website is a place where the wider Burnsian interest group and the public, together with Glasgow University Academics, can harness the global interest in Robert Burns. We hope this will lead to further discussion of the Bard and his works; the conversation can now become very exciting." The project team also hope the website will encourage the wider global community of Burns scholars and enthusiasts to contribute to the project by bringing fresh perspectives and new leads, as well as encourage serious discussion about the scholarly and popular treatment of Robert Burns. The news website will initially host a range of rich and digital media including social media feeds containing information about the project and blog posts written by members of the project team.
