LINCS is now offering two School of Management and Languages (SML) Scholarships and one Professorial Scholarship for the next academic year, commencing September 2015! SML scholarships available: 2 The term of the Scholarships is three years. Successful candidates will be expected to make a contribution to activities in the Department in return for a fee-waiver, a maintenance […]
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Upcoming EdSign Lectures
Tuesday, 3rd March 2015, 6.30pm – 8.00pm [Title to be confirmed] Frankie McLean Paterson’s Land LG34, Moray House, School of Education, University of Edinburgh Tuesday, 14th April 2015, 6.30pm – 8.00pm Toward Normative Ethics in Community Interpreting: Moral Reasoning and Moral Discourse Robyn Dean Paterson’s Land LG34, Moray House, School of Education, University of Edinburgh […]
IRC Seminars 2014/15 Semester 2
The Intercultural Research Centre seminar series for semester 2 has now be finalised! 17 February 2015 – 4.30 pm [MBG20] Dr Neringa Liubinienė Center of Social Anthropology, Vytautas Magnus University Kaunass, Lithuania Being a Transmigrant in the Contemporary World: Lithuanian Migrants’ Quests for Identity 18 February 2015 – 3.30 pm [EM336] Dr Kathryn Burnett School […]
Collaboration and innovation to explore sign language brokering experiences
by Jemina Napier Click here to see this post in British Sign Language Previous blogs have reported how I am conducting research on experiences of language brokering in the Deaf community, which looks at the communication support that both deaf and hearing PDFs (People from Deaf Families) give to their deaf parents to communicate with hearing […]
Call for Papers! 7th International Conference of Hispanic Linguistics @ Heriot-Watt
by Nicola Bermingham This year, Heriot-Watt will be holding the 7th International Conference of Hispanic Linguistics (27th – 29th March 2015). The title for this year’s conference is Spanish in Contact – new times, new spaces and new speakers. The conference will bring together scholars from around the world who are working with Spanish and […]
How do you teach note-taking for consecutive interpreting?
It’s one of those ‘how long is a piece of string’ questions. Consecutive interpreting involves listening to a speech delivered in one language in front of an international audience, taking notes and then giving the same speech in another language, making sure it is as close to the original as possible in terms of content, […]
Sign Language Interpreting on Chinese television: Some progress and much to expect
by Xiao Zhao From November 15th, 2014, Qixia television station in Nanjing, Jiangsu province started to provide sign language interpreting in the weekly news programme Xiao Rui Shuo Xin Wen (Xiao Rui (name of the hearing news presenter) Presents the News). The programme received immediate applause from the deaf community all over the country and […]
LINCS research officially declared 'pure dead brilliant'
by Graham Turner If you’re a wee bit geeky about higher education, like some of the staff of LINCS, you will have been holding your breath just after midnight on the morning of 18th December. You weren’t? What can I say? I guess you just had to be there. What was the fuss about? It […]
Ethnology Crossroads
Reporting back from Ethnology Crossroads Conference by Prof. Máiread Nic Craith, Anna Koryczan and Cristina Clopot Ethnology Crossroads was a two-day conference organized by the European Ethnological Research Centre in collaboration with the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, held on December 5-6th in Edinburgh. The aim was to assess the current state of ethnology in Scotland but […]
Welcome to the new LINCS blog!
Well, it’s not exactly new, but it’s had a bit of a face-lift. We may change a few more pictures and make minor aesthetic changes, but the content and purpose of the blog will still remain the same. The most important change that will take place next week is the change of our domain name. […]