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 […]
Category: Research
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 […]
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 […]
Making an Impact
by Michael Richardson For the last two and a half years I have been researching the participation of Deaf people in theatre. With only a few months remaining, I am currently writing up my PhD thesis, wondering what I am doing – and often, why I am doing it. Of course, working bilingually in English and […]
Borderland identities
by Kerstin Pfeiffer “Wie, Sie … äh… du weißt nicht wie Snapchat geht?” Three pairs of eyes fix me in complete disbelief. A part of me wants the floor of the rehearsal room to open wide and swallow me there and then. For the third time in less than two hours I am […]
DESIGNS project update – December 2017
By Audrey Cameron & Jemina Napier In this blogpost, Audrey Cameron and Jemina Napier explain what has been happening so far on the DESIGNS project (promoting access in employment for deaf people), since the last update in November 2017. Audrey has just finished interviewing nearly 40 deaf sign language users on their experiences […]
Reporting from 14th ETMU Days conference: ‘Race, Power and Mobilities’
Dr Katerina Strani led a working group on ‘Cross-cultural understandings of Race’ during the 14th ETMU Days conference themed Race, Power and Mobilities, which took place at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland on 26-27 October. The working group was put together to examine cross-cultural understandings of race in the context of increased mobility and migration. […]
Bridging the Gap 5: Academics and community engagement
by Annelies Kusters, Jordan Fenlon and Jemina Napier In the weekend of 25-26 November 2017, the fifth Bridging the Gap (BtG) conference was hosted at Heriot-Watt University. The aim of this conference series is to work towards bridging two gaps: first, the gap between academics (involved in Deaf Studies and sign language research) and […]
IPCITI returns to Heriot-Watt after 4 years!
by Paola Ruffo The Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies in Scotland (CTISS) at Heriot-Watt hosted the 13th International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI), 9-10 November 2017 IPCITI is an annual postgraduate conference organised by students for students and it marks the consolidation of the collaboration between Dublin City University, Manchester University, the University of […]