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Ian A. Olson

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Ian A. Olson is a Scottish author and poet. He was educated at Hillhead High School, Glasgow, then later at Hilton School and Robert Gordon’s College, Aberdeen. He studied medicine at Aberdeen University and his career career largely in medical sciences and education, and handicap in children, took him to England and the Middle East.

He has also had a parallel career in Scottish traditional culture, especially its history and balladry, writing in both popular and academic journals, presenting to the Royal Society of Edinburgh and singing before the Edinburgh International Festival. Editor of the general postgraduate Aberdeen University Review between 1986 and 2000, he persuaded Aberdeen University to create a Chair of Scottish Ethnology [traditional culture]. He is currently Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen, which awarded him an Honorary Doctorate for his careers in medicine and ethnology in 2006.