Dr Caitriana Nicholson (MSci, PhD, MSc)

Research Assistant

Biography

Background

I am Gaelic Research Assistant on the project "Multilingualism and Religious Experience", funded by The Templeton Foundation.

In previous research I worked in the field of experimental particle physics, including postdoctoral research at the University of Glasgow and at the University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. From 2014-2018 I worked for the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, as editor for the particle and nuclear physics journal Chinese Physics C, and from 2021-2024 I was Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes at Zhejiang University International Campus, Zhejiang, China.

Qualifications

M.Sci. (Hons.) Physics, University of Glasgow, 2002

Ph.D. Experimental Particle Physics, University of Glasgow, 2006

M.Sc. (Distinction) Science & Religion, University of Edinburgh, 2020

Research summary

I have broad research interests in science & religion, especially in relation to culture, language and literature.

Current research interests

The project "Multilingualism and Religious Experience", funded by The Templeton Foundation, seeks to examine the relationship between language, religious experience and ethics among bilingual (or multilingual) speakers of Gaelic/English and Polish/English. My role focuses on speakers of Scottish Gaelic and English.

Past research interests

History of science & religion, especially in the case of Protestant missionaries in China in the late 19th and early 20th century; Distributed data management for high energy physics experiments, including the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN, Switzerland, and the BESIII experiment at the Institute for High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.
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