by Michael Richardson This blog-post is based on an article to be published in the October 2016 edition of the British Deaf News, and is reproduced here with their kind permission. As I write, the final day of the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe is drawing to a close. During a three-and-a-half week period there […]
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New academic year starting!
With RADAR workshops, Critical Link 8, EIRSS, performing at the Fringe and the Applied Languages and Interpreting Summer School, our summer this year was busy but fun. The “holidays” have traditionally been a creative time in terms of research and impact. Now Welcome week is here and the campus is buzzing with newly […]
The Translating the Deaf Self project: Where are we now?
By Zoë McWhinney and Jemina Napier On behalf of the whole Translating the Deaf Self project team Click here to see a BSL version of the blog presented by Zoë. As you may have seen in the earlier blogpost in March 2016, members of the Centre for Translation & Interpreting Studies Scotland at Heriot-Watt University (Jemina Napier and Robert Skinner) […]
LINCS 2nd in Scotland and in top 10 UK for student satisfaction!
When deciding on which university to go to, it is important to see what students who are studying your chosen courses think. There are various unofficial online forums and other sources where people discuss their experience in a particular university or course, but nothing is as reliable as the annual National Student Satisfaction survey (NSS). The […]
When dealing with the police, deaf people are at a major disadvantage
by Jemina Napier This article was originally published in The Conversation by Jemina Napier, Professor and Chair of Intercultural Communication, Heriot-Watt University. Jemina Napier has received co-funding for JUSTISIGNS through the European Commission’s Leonardo Da Vinci Lifelong Learning programme, and from the UK arts and humanities research council. When dealing with the police, deaf people are […]
Heriot-Watt and University of North Florida Cultural and Linguistic Exchange
by Stacey Webb For a BSL version of this post, please click here I have been working in collaboration with Dr. Suzanne Ehrlich from the University of North Florida (UNF) on a linguistic and cultural exchange opportunity between some of our respective interpreting students. The project was designed to provide an expansive experience in our […]
LINCS BSL team rock at Critical Link 8
by Stacey Webb Over the past year, Christine Wilson and the rest of the organising committee have been planning Critical Link 8 (CL8), which was hosted at Heriot-Watt University 29-June – 1 July, with pre-conference activities on 27-28 June. Therefore, the Monday after the SML graduation, Heriot-Watt staff and student volunteers were busy ensuring the success of […]
1st cohort of graduates of Undergraduate BSL programme!
by Stacey Webb June has been an exciting month for the BSL section within LINCS: graduations, conferences and student visitors that have kept us very busy! Assistant Professor in BSL Stacey Webb will be reporting on these in the next few weeks. First up – graduations! For the BSL version of this post, please click here […]
LifeinLINCS in Top 25 Language Professional blogs!
The results from the bab.la competition are out and LifeinLINCS is at the Top 25 Language Professional Blogs (out of 1,000 nominees and 100 language resources!) and Top 100 Language Lovers Blog ! These accomplishments will soon feature as “badges” in our pages. We would like to thank our readers as well as staff and students in LINCS […]
LINCS students win prestigious scholarship
by Kendra Jaudzin Four undergraduate students from LINCS were successful in their application for a competitive scholarship offered by the German Academic Exchange Service, ‘Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst’ (DAAD) !! The scholarships will enable Sophie Adlington (Year 2), Ashton Murrel, Martin Rawlings and Anna Krajewski (all Year 1) to attend a 4-week-summer university course this summer at a German university […]