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LINCS students win prestigious summer school 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 Sarah Coats and Silvia Ramos Gonzalez (Year 2), as well as Carolyn Thomson and Christopher Rix (Year 1) to attend a 4-week summer school […]


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59°N – IRC PhD Student based in Orkney

by Cait McCullagh Have you ever had the opportunity to peer at some of the many online depictions of Ptolemy’s 2nd Century AD Geography?  You’ll have had to turn your head to one side in order to take in the northern-most extent of Scotland, including the Northern Isles; bent over and squeezed to fit into the realm of what was then […]


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Moving Languages Project

A mobile phone is proven to be a crucial tool for newly arrived migrants’ and refugees’ wellbeing and integration into their host country. Dr Katerina Strani from LINCS is leading the UK team of the Moving Languages project. Moving Languages is a 27-month Erasmus+ project (2016-1-FI01-KA204-022678) led by Learnmera Oy in Finland. It has six partners […]


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DESIGNS: Employment in Deaf signing communities

by Jemina Napier Click here to see post in BSL. On 12th and 13th January 2017, the kick-off meeting for the DESIGNs project (Deaf Employment for Sign Language Users in the EU) took place in Dublin, Ireland. The 30-month project is modeled on the recently completed Justisigns project, which was funded through the European Commission’s […]


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Back to Holyrood

by Fanny Chouc Heriot-Watt MSc interpreting students have been getting a taste of the “real thing” this Thursday and will do so again next Thursday: they’re putting their interpreting skills to the test, during a live parliamentary debate at Scottish Parliament, and they’ll be practicing from the actual interpreting booths of the Scottish Parliament. Thanks […]


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The Translating the Deaf Self project: Wrapping up and what’s next?

By Jemina Napier, Alys Young, Rosemary Oram, Robert Skinner & Noel O’Connell Click here to see a BSL version of the blog, presented by Rosemary Oram. In two previous LifeinLINCS blog posts in March 2016 and August 2016, we have provided an overview of our Translating the Deaf Self project. The AHRC Translating Cultures research innovation […]


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Christmas, Interpreting and Scottish Parliament

By Mathilde Guillemet Edinburgh is dressed in its magical gown. It is covered in Christmas decorations, the Christmas market is on and Santa is just round the corner. Could there be a better time to visit? Well, the seven participants that decided to attend our Intensive Interpreting Practice course certainly didn’t think so. For the […]


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Active learning at a World Heritage Site

by Cristina Clopot At the end of November, LINCS students on the Global Heritage course, which is part of the MSc in Cultural Resource Management, went on a visit to the Edinburgh World Heritage Centre. What better way to compliment academic learning than by a discussion with experienced professionals? Luckily enough we live and work […]


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LINCS does music

by Michael Richardson During my secondary school education, I took part in a wide range of musical activities:  musical theatre, orchestral playing and singing in the school choir.  Later as an undergraduate this hobby was to provide a useful refuge from academia, singing as I did in various choral ensembles as well as student opera […]


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New project on BSL Syntax !

Our newest BSL team member Dr Jordan Fenlon has been successful in securing an AHRC grant as a Co-Investigator on a project on BSL syntax. The project aims to document and describe word order and non-manual features in different types of British Sign Language sentences. The project team includes Principal Investigator Kearsy Cormier (University College London) and Co-Investigators Adam […]


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