by Fanny Chouc LINCS and Career Services teamed up again to hold the annual SWATI (Starting Work as a Translator or Interpreter) event on campus, for the 6th year running, on Saturday 13th February. The one hundred or so places were booked in no time, and despite the snowy weather, Lecture Theatre 3 filled up […]
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Heriot-Watt University BSL interpreting and community placements
By Jemina Napier <Click here to see this blog post in BSL> As many people in the Scottish Deaf community and BSL/English interpreting profession will know, this year is the first time that we have a group BSL/English interpreting students completing their final year of studying in a 4-year undergraduate programme. This is the […]
New CPD courses in LINCS!
We are really excited to announce two new CPD courses in LINCS. In addition to the already successful Easter and Summer Schools in Interpreting, we are now offering a 1-day training workshop on Interpreters and Translators as Entrepreneurs in March and a CAT Tools series in April. This year’s Easter School comprises 1 week of […]
New plurilingual pathways for integration: Immigrants and language learning in the 21st Century” – Heriot-Watt University, 26th & 27th May 2016
Congratulations to Nicola Bermingham (Heriot-Watt University, Dept. LINCS) and Gwennan Higham (Cardiff University) for their success in the BAAL/Cambridge University Press 2015-2016 seminar competition. The seminar, entitled “New plurilingual pathways for integration: Immigrants and language learning in the 21st Century”, will be held in Heriot-Watt University on 26th and 27th May 2016. This event will […]
Sign Language in Action
by Jemina Napier Click here to see this blog in International Sign, British Sign Language or Irish Sign Language Sign Language in Action is a new book just published by Palgrave as part of the Research & Practice in Applied Linguistics series. The book is co-authored by Jemina Napier and Lorraine Leeson, who both have […]
InDialog in Berlin
By Stacey Webb 19-21 November 2015 if you were looking for Ursula Böser, Jemina Napier, Stacey Webb, Eloisa Monteoliva Garcia or Yvonne Waddell you wouldn’t have found them around Heriot-Watt campus or anywhere in Edinburgh, as this lot was deep ‘in dialogue’ in Berlin Germany! The InDialog conference, “Community Interpreting In Dialogue With Technology” was […]
A taste of the real thing
by Fanny Chouc Heriot-Watt’s interpreting students were given a great opportunity to apply their skills to a real-life setting thanks to Heriot-Watt Engage. They interpreted for the Illuminations event, which was held on campus on Wednesday 02 December to mark the end of the UN Year of Light. As part of this event, Professor Jim Al-Khalili gave a fascinating […]
Intangible Heritage: Why should we care?
Prof Mairead Nic Craith on why we should care about ICH @ TEDx Heriot-Watt
Translating Cultures and the Mediation of Indigenous Rights in Peru
While we were all busy teaching, marking papers, setting exams, attending conferences and writing papers, Dr Raquel de Pedro Ricoy spent part of the first semester in the jungle. Literally. Raquel is working on an AHRC-funded project entitled “Translating Cultures and the Mediation of Indigenous Rights in Peru” with Prof. Rosaleen Howard (Newcastle University) and […]
EU study on Public Service Translation in Cross-Border Healthcare is out!
After 10 months of non-stop work, we are delighted to announce that an EU study on Public Service Translation in Cross Border Healthcare, led by Prof Claudia V. Angelelli is published. The Report, commissioned by the Directorate-General for Translation, responds to an increasing interest in the role of language provision and information access in cross-border healthcare. Linguistic […]