In February 2023, Gary Quinn, from the BSL section of LINCS, attended the Sign Neologisms workshop in Athens, Greece, to present an e-poster about the BSL Glossary Project on workflow and ethics. This workshop focussed on how signs develop for new terms in European countries. It brought together many different specialists working on lexical gaps […]
Month: March 2023
Roundtable on starting work in the audiovisual translation industry
Hybrid event: 30 March 2023 at 02.30 BST Are you interested in a language career, but don’t have a foreign language up your sleeve? Are you a talented bilingual or multilingual, but not sure what to do with those amazing talents? Are you a cinephile who dreams of rubbing shoulders with films directors and script […]
Silent Harm Project Launch – Domestic Abuse Questionnaire
By Jemina Napier & Lucy Clark This blogpost is a translation from a vlogpost generated in British Sign Language (BSL): https://youtu.be/b0PgPzxVjvI In this v/blogpost Jemina Napier and Lucy Clark from the SIGNS@HWU team in the Centre of Translation & Interpreting Studies in Scotland (CTISS) at Heriot-Watt University discuss an exciting new project. You may have […]
Another LINCS graduate joins the European Institutions
LINCS is delighted to celebrate the success of former student Erika Kadlçikova, who recently joined the Council of European Union as a full-time Czech translator. Erika joined the Languages and Intercultural Studies department in 2015. A native-speaker of Czech, she was keen to consolidate her already excellent English and was able to make the most […]
Heriot-Watt summer school dates announced
The Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies at Heriot-Watt University is delighted to announce our 2023 Summer School in Translation and Interpreting, both online and in person at our Edinburgh campus. All the details are given below, including links to the detailed description of each CPD course on Eventbrite. If you have any questions, please get […]