Between 28 and 31 May 2018 the Department of Languages & Intercultural Studies (LINCS) is hosting the 2018 General Assembly and Conference of CIUTI, the Conférence internationale permanente d’instituts universitaires de traducteurs et interprètes, the oldest and most prestigious international association of university institutes with translation and interpretation programmes in the world. LINCS is a […]
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DESIGNS project update May 2018: Access in employment for in deaf people
By Audrey Cameron & Jemina Napier In this blogpost Audrey Cameron and Jemina Napier provide an update on the work that’s been done on the DESIGNS Project (promoting access in employment for deaf people) since our last blog/vlog post in December 2017. Interviews with interpreters working in employment settings and employers have now been […]
Deaf Artists commissioned on Translating the Deaf Self project
Using an innovative approach to re-interpret Deaf Studies and Interpreting research through art, 3 Deaf sign language using artists have been commissioned through Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Follow-on Funding to ‘translate’ the findings of the Translating the Deaf Self project that was initially funded through an AHRC Research Innovation Grant. The […]
Signing up a storm?
Not for the first time, the Eurovision Song Contest has managed to draw attention to language issues in a revealing way. We all know the controversies over the years about countries choosing to sing in English. If you thought that wasn’t happening so much nowadays, the 2017 final featured 42 songs, of which 35 were […]
LINCS post-graduate researchers hold first symposium
Wednesday 25th April was the occasion of the first LINCS PGR Symposium. Over the course of the day, nine post-graduates presented papers to an audience of their peers, lecturers and professors from within the department. Reactions were universally positive, succinctly summarised by this tweet by @HW_LifeinLINCS: Incredibly insightful and thought-provoking presentations. Contributors ranged from […]
Award for human rights scholarship for deaf juror research
I am excited to provide an update on a research project that I have been involved with for the last ten years. The project has focussed on deaf jurors, and whether deaf people can serve as jury members. I initiated the project with law academic, David Spencer, and we examined whether deaf people could […]
LINCS 2nd in Scotland and in top 10 UK for student satisfaction!
When deciding on which university to go to, it is important to see what students who are studying your chosen courses think. There are various unofficial online forums and other sources where people discuss their experience in a particular university or course, but nothing is as reliable as the annual National Student Satisfaction survey (NSS). The […]
LifeinLINCS in Top 25 Language Professional blogs!
The results from the bab.la competition are out and LifeinLINCS is at the Top 25 Language Professional Blogs (out of 1,000 nominees and 100 language resources!) and Top 100 Language Lovers Blog ! These accomplishments will soon feature as “badges” in our pages. We would like to thank our readers as well as staff and students in LINCS […]
Welcome to the new LINCS blog!
Well, it’s not exactly new, but it’s had a bit of a face-lift. We may change a few more pictures and make minor aesthetic changes, but the content and purpose of the blog will still remain the same. The most important change that will take place next week is the change of our domain name. […]
BSL team growing in LINCS
By Jemina Napier and Graham H. Turner In October 2013, Jemina made a post that gave an overview of ‘Who’s who?’ in the BSL team in the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies (LINCS) at Heriot-Watt University. The blog introduced various members of staff and also PhD students whose topics focus on sign language related […]