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 […]
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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 […]
Another virtual class with DG SCIC !
by Fanny Chouc LINCS held a virtual class in cooperation with the Directorate General for Interpretation on Friday 17th November. This EU institution, familiarly known as SCIC, runs all the interpreting services of the EU Commission, and cooperates with universities which specialize in conference interpreting. LINCS managed to secure this prestigious type of cooperation for […]
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 […]
MacFarlane Prize 2017 for Dr Emma Hill !
LINCS and IRC graduate Dr Emma Hill has won the prestigious 2017 MacFarlane Prize for the most outstanding contribution to the research of the University. Emma (pictured here with her supervisors, Prof. Máiréad Nic Craith and Dr Katerina Strani), is the first ever recipient of the prize from any department in the School of Social Sciences. […]
DESIGNS project update
By Audrey Cameron Click here to see this blogpost in British Sign Language. After our initial blogpost about the new DESIGNS: Deaf people in employment project in January 2017, which gave an overview of the project and talked about the kick-off event in Dublin, we have since held a community information event at Heriot-Watt University […]
LINCS interpreters at the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival
by Josemari Conde and Ramon Inglada As the curtain falls on the 2017 Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival (ESFF), it is time to look back at 10 days of great films, fine Spanish food and interesting Q&A sessions with actors, directors and producers. It is also a good time to celebrate yet another successful collaboration between […]