by Steve Emery [English version] Last week, I went to Paddy Ladd’s lecture. He was talking about “Deafhood – A Pedagogy”, which was about theories of teaching Deaf children. It was really interesting, but there was one part of his lecture that really got me thinking, when he was talking about “Wounded Space”, which […]
Month: June 2015
Viral Signs
by Graham Turner We’ve had the ‘fake interpreter’ at Nelson Mandela’s funeral in Johannesburg. We’ve had successive mayors of New York (Bloomberg and de Blasio) and the Premier of Queensland supposedly being upstaged by their interpreters while making announcements about a hurricane, an epidemic and a cyclone. You might be forgiven for wondering if a […]
Stop Hiding Your Work
by Jonathan Downie Recently, I attended the Engaging Research Day at Heriot-Watt University. Not only did I get to take home a nice certificate and hear Graham Turner scoop first place (I’ll beat him next year) but I got to hear stories of how academics of all stripes are going out and interacting with the […]