‘People, Landscape and a Sense of Place’ SYMPOSIUM This year, our IRC Symposium and Ceilidh was a virtual event and hugely successful. We were delighted to welcome guest speakers, vocalists, poets and a wide range of attendees all in keeping with our overarching themes of ‘People, Landscape and a Sense of Place’. A welcome was […]
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The following projects are available: Minority sign languages and sign language contact. (Supervisory team: Dr Robert Adam & Dr Annelies Kusters) For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Robert Adam (r.adam@hw.ac.uk) Syrian identities in the UK. (Supervisory team: Dr Lina Fadel & Dr Katerina Strani)For informal enquiries, please contact Dr Lina Fadel (lina.fadel@hw.ac.uk) Deaf geographies. (Supervisory […]
ITI Webinar by Ramon Inglada (LINCS) on the Thorny Issue of Payment Rates for Machine Translation
Ramon Inglada, Assistant Professor in Spanish and Translation Technologies in the Languages and Intercultural Studies department at Heriot-Watt University, was delighted to accept the invitation from the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI) to talk about the ever complex issue of payment for Machine Translation (MT). This invitation came after a successful presentation on MT […]
InterTrainE Newsletter: February 2021
Welcome to the final newsletter of our Erasmus+ project Intercultural Training for Educators (InterTrainE)! The 2-year project is led by Heriot-Watt University and the Coordinator is Dr Katerina Strani from the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies. InterTrainE course launch Our free online course on Intercultural Training for Educators was officially launched at national events […]
InterTrainE update – our online credit-bearing course is ready!
InterTrainE Newsletter – December 2020 Welcome to the fifth newsletter of our Erasmus+ project Intercultural Training for Educators (InterTrainE)! The 2-year project is led by Heriot-Watt University and the Coordinator is Dr Katerina Strani from the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies. Baby news Congratulations to Alastair Mackie (HWU) who became a Dad in July! […]
IndyLan Project Update! June 2020
Welcome to the second newsletter of our Erasmus+ project Mobile Virtual Learning for Indigenous Languages (IndyLan). The 26-month project (2019-2021) is led by Heriot-Watt University and the Coordinator is Dr Katerina Strani from the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies. IndyLan includes 5 partners from 4 countries (UK, Finland, Norway and Spain) and aims to […]
InterTrainE Newsletter: May 2020
Welcome to the fourth newsletter of our Erasmus+ project Intercultural Training for Educators (InterTrainE). The 26-month project (2018-2020) is led by Heriot-Watt University and the Coordinator is Dr Katerina Strani from the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies. InterTrainE includes 7 partners from 4 countries (UK, Finland, Italy and Greece) and aims to develop an […]
LifeinLINCS blogpost May 2020
DESIGNS project: Promoting access to Employment for deaf people By Audrey Cameron & Jemina Napier See link to this blogpost in British Sign Language (BSL) in two parts: Part 1: https://youtu.be/KSyoDXXICh8 Part 2: https://youtu.be/p0GM0H3hrWI This blogpost is published to coincide with the publication of the DESIGNS research project report. This presentation was originally planned to […]
Sign language interpreting in international conferences & high-level meetings: Pioneering work at Heriot-Watt University
By Jemina Napier Click here to see blogpost in International Sign In December 2019, the Centre for Translation & Interpreting Studies in Scotland and the Heriot-Watt University BSL team (SIGNS@HWU) had the privilege of hosting a curriculum development meeting to discuss a potential pioneering new Masters programme in Sign Language Interpreting in Conferences and High-Level […]
Exchange programme – two weeks in Vietnam!
By Katerina Koukouviki MSc student, Cultural Heritage Management with Tourism In the beginning of October, one of our professors at the MSc in Cultural Heritage Management with Tourism, Ullrich Kockel, informed us during his class that there was an opening for an Erasmus+ exchange programme, called “Marco Polo”. One student would be able to attend […]