BAAL 2013 will take place at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland’s inspiring and dynamic capital. This year’s conference is organised by the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies at Heriot-Watt University. 5-7 September 2013. Plenary Speakers Kathryn Woolard, University of California, San Diego Jannis Androutsopoulos, Universität Hamburg Svenja Adolphs, University of Nottingham Conference theme Over […]
Category: Events and News
Upcoming Lecture
We are pleased to announce that Pablo Romero Fresco has agreed to give another presentation here at Heriot-Watt on Tuesday, 12 February, in addition to his Translation Studies seminar contribution at Edinburgh University on Wednesday next week. As part of EdSign, a research/public engagement seminar series, organised in collaboration with Edinburgh University and Queen Margaret […]
Heriot-Watt Goes to Holyrood
Heriot-Watt students doing the MSc in Conference Interpreting got to go to Holyrood – the Scottish Parliament, that is; for some dummy-booth practice. These sessions, organised for small groups of motivated students, take place a few months into their training; at an ideal time to enable them to evaluate their progress and start to get […]
A Year and a Bit of Blogging About Research
On 1st October this year, LifeinLINCS celebrated a year since its launch. Since then we have covered a whole range of topics from subtitling to court interpreting and from getting a career in translation and interpreting to minority language rights and why people would put careers on hold to go and do research. It has […]
Upcoming Event: Language Education Policies for Deaf Children
We are delighted to confirm our next EdSign lecture by Dr John Bosco Conama from Trinity College Dublin, on Tuesday 6 November, 6.30PM, at Deaf Action: Who decides? – Language education policies for Deaf children Selected findings from a comparative analysis of Finnish and Irish policies on signed languages John will talk about comparative language […]
Help us improve BSL recognition in Scotland
In previous posts, we have talked about our interest in minority languages. We are also very proud to have become the first Scottish university to offer a four year undergraduate degree in British Sign Language and Translation or Interpreting. Now, we would like you to help the D/deaf and signing communities in Scotland to go […]
Your Training, Your Way?
In a recent post, we started thinking about the usefulness of translation and interpreting degrees. It was very encouraging to see the response from LifeinLINCS readers. Now, it’s time for your views to take centre stage. A few people here at LINCS would like to run online courses, centred on what you want to learn. […]
Translator Sayings
(in honour of International Translation Day) Here at Heriot-Watt, we love doing cutting edge research but we can also have a bit of fun. On Wednesday, normal service will be resumed with a post on why some of our PhD students chose to do research. But for now, in honour of International Translation Day, here […]
Thank You!
On behalf of the LifeinLINCS team, I would like to send a huge thank you to everyone who has posted, reposted and commented on LifeinLINCS posts recently. I would especially like to thank all those who have contributed to the incredible success of the blog in the past two days. Until Monday, our most successful […]
Freshen up your interpreting this summer
Are you an interpreting student who wants to add an edge to your skills? Are you looking for an introduction to the kinds of interpreting used in today’s market? Do you want to improve your English? If you answered yes to any of these questions, Heriot-Watt has the right course for you. This summer Heriot-Watt […]