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JUSTISIGNS 2 project

Supporting deaf female victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence By Jemina Napier & Luce Clark See the link to this blogpost in British Sign Language (BSL): In this v/blogpost Jemina Napier and Luce (Lucy) Clark from the SIGNS@HWU team in the Centre of Translation & Interpreting Studies in Scotland (CTISS) at Heriot-Watt University provide […]


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Thoughts on Language, Culture and Migration

By Grace Igbinoke, S5 pupil and Career Ready Intern at the IRC in LINCS I have always loved travelling because I get to see new places and know about new cultures. The even more fun part for me is that when you travel, you get to learn new languages. Languages are jigsaws that you have […]


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IndyLan Newsletter – July 2021

IndyLan Newsletter – July 2021 Welcome to the third 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. The project includes the following 5 partners from 4 countries (UK, […]


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Intercultural Research Centre Symposium and Ceilidh 2021

‘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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Study for a PhD with us ! Apply for a scholarship !

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 […]


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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 […]


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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 […]


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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! […]


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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 […]


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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 […]


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