Dr Alasdair C. Whyte is a singer-performer-writer from the Hebridean island of Muile ~ Mull in Scotland. He has recorded his own songs and traditional songs on a number of albums, including a solo album (Las, 2012), three albums with the band WHYTE (Maim, 2021; Tairm, 2019; Fairich, 2016), songs with Niteworks (A’ Ghrian, 2022; NW, 2015) and the recent EP Òrain Teonaidh Chailein (2024). His debut book of original and traditional prose and poetry, Maim-slè, was nominated for the Donald Meek Non-Fiction prize at the 2022 Gaelic Literature awards and he was the lead writer/actor in the related theatre production MAIM (2020). His most recent book, Glasgow’s Gaelic Place-Names, was published with Birlinn in 2023. He was named Gaelic Ambassador of the Year by The Scottish Government in 2019 and named on the Saltire Society’s Inaugural 40 Under 40 List in 2023. He holds a full-time lectureship in Celtic Onomastics at the University of Glasgow.