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 […]
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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 […]
Moving Languages – English application launch !
Moving Languages – English application launch Friday 8th June 2018, 18:00 – 20:00 Esmée Fairbairn building Lecture theatre – EF26 Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton Campus Edinburgh The Moving Languages application constitutes an EU-funded project designed to help new migrants learn the host language(s) and familiarise themselves with culture-specific vocabulary. A user-friendly, versatile and comprehensive app, it also […]
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 […]
Studying languages : wise or unwise ?
by Fanny Chouc Conflicting information has recently been released in the press over the career benefits of studying languages, with the Telegraph grabbing headings with a bold statement according to which “Languages graduates are now the least employable in Britain”, according to an ONS survey, while the BBC published data from the Institute for Fiscal […]
Call for papers CIUTI 2018 ! Translation and interpreting in an era of demographic and technological change
The Centre for Translation & Interpreting Studies in Scotland (CTISS) at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh is delighted to announce an international conference on Translation and interpreting in an era of demographic and technological change, to be held in Edinburgh on 30 and 31 May 2018. Open to all, the conference immediately follows the members-only […]