Project update Celia Hulme & Jemina Napier Click here for the blog post in BSL Introduction I am Jemina Napier, from Heriot-Watt University, and I am Celia Hulme, from the University of Manchester, and here we provide an overview of a project that we are both involved in as part of a research team. The […]
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IndyLan updates and app launch events!
The IndyLan project has developed a mobile application that will help speakers of English, Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish to learn Gaelic, Scots, Cornish, Basque, Galician and Northern Saami, all endangered at different degrees. Our project’s educational tool is designed to help users learn some of Europe’s endangered languages and find out about the cultures […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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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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! […]