Dr. Cassie Smith-Christmas is a Lecturer in Childrens Studies. Her research focuses on the intersection of the family and society, particularly within thesociolinguistic sub-field known asFamily Language Policy, and especially on childrens agency in language revitalisation.She is currently a SFI-IRC Pathways awardee for her project Gaeltacht Families and Multilingualism (GAELFAM), which centres on families living in Gaeltacht areas who speak a language in addition toother than Irish or English in the home. This follows on other funded research fellowships and projects, including aMarie Skodowska-Curie Action project (a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:languagefamiliessociety.wordpress.comLanguage, Families, and Society LaFS; Grant No.794800); the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage(with Orlaith Ruiséal;a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:folklife.si.edusmileirishgaeilgeAn Nasc Idir an Teanga agus an Pobal i gCorca DhuibhneThe Intersection of Language and Community in Corca Dhuibhne ); an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland postdoctoral fellowship (The Challenges of Minority Language Maintenance: Family Language Policy in Scotland and Ireland; GOIPD2016644); as well as research fellowship at the Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, and Soillse, the interuniversity Scottish Gaelic research network, at the University of the Highlands and IslandsCassies Public - No restrictionations include a monograph a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:www.palgrave.comgpbook9781137521804#aboutBookFamily Language Policy: Maintaining an Endangered Language in the Home (Palgrave, 2016), which continued her work on three generations of Gaelic-speaking family on the Isle of Skye undertaken as part of her PhD thesis (University of Glasgow, 2012). She is also co-editor of two volumes, a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:edinburghuniversitypress.combook-gaelic-in-contemporary-scotland.html#:~:text=The%20Revitalisation%20of%20an%20Endangered%20Language amp;text=The%20number%20of%20young%20people,sets%20out%20to%20explore%20why.Gaelic in Contemporary Scotland:The Revitalisation of an Endangered Language (University of Edinburgh Press, 2018) and a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:www.palgrave.comgpbook9781137575579New Speakers of Minority Languages: Linguistic Ideologies and Practices a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:www.palgrave.comgpbook9781137575579 (Palgrave, 2018).She has taught a number of courses and workshops on different aspects of language and social life, as well as research methods courses, including NVivo software training.She was also an invited lecturer for the MultiLing Winter School at the University of Oslo and a guest lecturer in an Erasmus+ exchange at the Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III, as well as an invited guest researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

Multilingualism; Language Shift and Maintenance; Family Language Policy; Minority Language Issues; Code-Switching; Language and Migration; New Speaker Issues; Pragmatics; Conversational Analysis