Biography
Colin Williams joined the VHI as Senior Research Associate in 2018. He is Honorary Professor, in the School of Welsh, Cardiff University, where he previously was a Research Professor in Sociolinguistic, and a Visiting Fellow of St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge. In April 2000 the National Assembly for Wales appointed him to be a member of the Welsh Language Board, a post he held until 2011. In May 2013 he was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. He is an Honorary Professor of Celtic Studies at the University of Aberdeen, and at the University of the Highlands and Islands.
Research
- Minority Rights, Official Language Strategies and Policy, Multilingual Jurisdictions
- Peace and Reconstruction in Post-Conflict Societies
Publications
Key publications:
- (with Siv Sandberg and P. Ó Flatharta), From Act to Action: Implementing Language Legislation in Finland, Ireland and Wales, Fiontar, Dublin City University, 2014, p. 71.
- Williams, C. 2013. Minority language promotion, protection and regulation: the mask of piety. Language and Globalization. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Williams, C. 2013. Linguistic minorities in democratic context (2nd ed.). Language and Globilisation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
- Christian Witness and Non-Violent Principles of Nationalism, in K. Gerner, R. Johannsson, K-G. Karlsson, K. Nystrom and K. Salomon (eds), Stat, Nation, Konflikt, Bra Bocker, Lund, 1996, pp. 343-394
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