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 […]
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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 […]
1st English Retour Interpreting Summer School held online
(14 to 16 July 2023) Congratulations to Dr Eloisa Monteoliva and the academic team (Kate Ferguson, Juliette Rutherford, Tania Aitken, Sarah Goulding) for the huge success of the first online version of the English Retour Interpreting Summer School (14 to 16 July 2023). The course was attended by 12 professional interpreters with the following […]
Roundtable on literary translation
This event was held on Friday 9th June, and streamed online via Zoom. It was interpreted live by M.A. and MSc students, with the spoken interpreters working either remotely or on-site in the LINCS interpreting labs. There were 61 registrations for the event, with a mixture of university students and school pupils, and 150 views […]
Transformations in European Societies
By Chiara Cocco and Leri Price In May 2023, members of the IRC visited Berlin to take part in the Transformations in European Societies (TiES) doctoral programme. TiES connects doctoral students and academic staff from selected universities in Scotland, Austria, Croatia, Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Israel, and Denmark through a biannual programme of seminars and presentations. […]
LINCS students go to Brussels!
On the 6th and 7th of June, 11 of our M.A. and MSc students who specialise in conference interpreting were welcomed at the EU Commission by EU interpreters from the Directorate General for Interpretation. This 2-day visit, which LINCS was able to secure thanks to its status as DGI-SCIC university partner, was hosted by Joanne […]
Summer School registrations closing soon – membership discounts
The LINCS Summer school courses are a fantastic opportunity to enhance your interpreting and translation skills, but registrations are closing soon (30 April 2023). Our courses include one 3-day and one 5-day course in interpreting, as well as a 4-day Translation Summer School. For the translation summer school, you can register for the full package […]
BSL Science Signs Workshop at Gallaudet University
Gary Quinn, from the BSL section of LINCS, was invited to give a presentation about BSL Science Signs at the STEM Sign Language Lexicon Founders and Leaders Workshop at Gallaudet University in Washington on 2nd March. This photo of Gary is courtesy of Dr. Erin Moriarty-Harrelson (one of the Mobile Deaf team). The man next to Gary is […]
The annual Multilingual Debate is back on campus!
LINCS hosted its annual multilingual debate on Wednesday 29 March. It was wonderful to be back on campus after an interruption of 3 years, to relaunch this special occasion on site. This annual event has been running for more than twenty years now, and although it was disrupted by the pandemic and had to be held […]