Matthew Fitt - About Matthew - PROJECTS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Matthew's projects and achievements over the years:
* The winner of the Outstanding Contribution to Children’s Books Award 2020
* Awarded Doctor of Letters by Abertay University, Dundee - Honorary graduate
* Inducted into the Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame together with James Robertson
* Founder of Scots Hoose
| * | Jordan's New Jaikit - Scots resource for Education Scotland |
| * | Messages & Ginger – author of special Scots Language Guide for athletes at 2011 Lanarkshire International Children’s Games |
| * | Made Honorary Fellow of the Association of Scottish Literary Studies |
| * | Co-founded (with James Robertson) Itchy Coo Books which published 37 titles between 2002 and 2011 |
| * | National Scots Language Development Officer from 2002 to 2011 visiting over one thousand schools and libraries all over Scotland |
| * | Founder of Scots Education Resources |
| * | But n Ben A-Go-Go included in 100 Best Scottish Books of All Time |
| * | The Eejits, a Scots translation of Roald Dahl's 'The Twits', reaches number one in Waterstone's best-seller charts |
| * | Leader of Teacher Training Courses on Scots in education in all Scottish local authorities |
| * | Initiated Professional Recognition for Scots Teaching, a new awards category by General Teaching Council for Scotland |
| * | Member of the Ministerial Scots Language Working Group |
| * | Advisor on Scottish Government Audit of Current Scots Language ProvisionAdvisor on Scottish Government Audit of Current Scots Language Provision |
| * | Established Cross Party Group on the Scots Language Education Sub-Committee |
| * | Developed Network of Scots language Coordinators in Falkirk schools Developed Network of Scots language Coordinators in Falkirk schools |
| * | Author of Scots Language webpages for Learning & Teaching Scotland Knowledge of Language module |
| * | Commissioned by Dundee City to produce Dundonian dialect teaching pack Whar’s Wattie? |
| * | Represented Scots at Endangered Languages Conference at the United Nations in New York |
| * | European Centre for Modern Languages: Scots language representative for EBP-ICI project based at Graz and Lyon |
| * | Vice President of Scottish Committee of European Bureau for Regional and Minority Languages |
| * | Scots expert for Mercator Education, Leeuwarden, Netherlands |
| * | British Council Tour of the Czech Republic |
| * | Poetry Film at Royal Festival Hall, London |
| * | Poetry Film at Hampden National Stadium |
| * | Voyages and Versions international poetry translation project with Scottish Poetry Library |