The Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies (LINCS) welcomed EU staff Interpreter Joanne O’Donnell for a two-day visit on Thursday 26th and Friday 27th September, as part of a long-standing cooperation with the EU Commission’s Conference Interpreting Organisation and Training Department, known as DGI SCIC. Joanne, a LINCS alumna herself, attended a number of MSc […]
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efsli 2024 conference
International Sign version of this blogpost: https://youtu.be/IjrHNaW-w8Q By Jemina Napier. I was lucky enough to be supported by the Department of Languages & Intercultural Studies (LINCS) and the Centre for Translation & Interpreting Studies in Scotland (CTISS) to attend the 2024 conference of the European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters (efsli). The conference took place […]
Edinburgh’s Spanish Film Festival
The Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival (ESFF) is back from October 3rd to 26th, 2024, bringing the latest showcase of contemporary Spanish cinema to audiences across Scotland. We are delighted to announce that, for the ninth consecutive year, the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies (LINCS) will be a Major Sponsor of the ESFF. LINCs is contributing to this event […]
Workshop: Machine Translation Post-Editing with a focus on metaphor
Sat 8 June: 1-day training workshop on metaphor in MTPE The Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies is offering a 1-day training workshop on metaphor in Machine Translation Post-Editing. This is a hybrid event, so you can either attend on the Heriot-Watt Edinburgh campus or join us online. The workshop is free of charge as […]
STEM Sign Language Summit
Gary Quinn from LINCS attended this event at Gallaudet University in Washington DC I’m excited to share some news with you. Last week, I had the opportunity to deliver a keynote presentation alongside Dr. Audrey Cameron from the University of Edinburgh at the inaugural Global STEM Sign Language Summit held at Gallaudet University in Washington […]
Bridging the Gap: Heriot-Watt ventures down south
Jemina Napier, Manako Yabe, Suji Sahasrabude & Karolien Gebruers See here for BSL version: https://youtu.be/gFdCJbsFZmc This v/blogpost is about the experiences of several members of the SIGNS@HWU team in the Department of Languages & Intercultural Studies at Heriot-Watt University, who travelled down south from Edinburgh in Scotland to the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in […]
Career networking opportunities for LINCS students
This week, LINCS students on the MSc Interpreting programmes will have 3 fantastic opportunities to expand their professional horizons: 1. The annual event ‘Starting Work as Translator or Interpreter’ organised by our Career Liaison Officer for LINCS, Fanny Chouc. This is a mix of formal online sessions, where professionals give talks on their own experience […]
ToFIE – Tools for Inclusive Education
The “Tools for Inclusive Education” project (Erasmus+ 2020-2022) aims at providing educators with knowledge and skills in the fields of specific learning disorders, promote their professional development and supply them with tools they can apply in their daily work. A special interest lies in higher education students not studying in their first language. Aligned with […]
EUMASLI 2023 – Thessaloniki, Greece – 13 & 14 September 2023
At LINCS we offer a MSc in Sign Language Interpreting – often called the EUMASLI course – the EU Master in Sign Language Interpreting in association with our partners: Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences in Germany and Humak University of Applied Sciences in Finland. We have just finished our fourth iteration of this course to […]
SILENT HARM: Empowering Deaf Women Surviving Domestic Violence Post-Covid:
An Inclusive approach to resilience & recovery in rural areas By Jemina Napier & Lucy Clark, Heriot-Watt University Lorraine Leeson & Lianne Quigley, Trinity College Dublin Summary of this blogpost in BSL and ISL with subtitles and spoken English interpretation: https://youtu.be/6jEt19I1WFY Background This project was funded through a Royal Society of Edinburgh-Royal Irish Academy Scotland-Ireland […]