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 […]
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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 […]
IndyLan Newsletter – January 2020
Welcome to the first 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 […]
The INCS in LINCS 2019-2020
LINCS stands for Languages and INterCultural Studies and our core purpose is to create multilingual, multicultural, global citizens. To achieve this, the “INCS” in LINCS also specialises in Cultural Studies such as living cultural heritage, intercultural dialogue, migrant identities and intercultural communication. Our Cultural Studies section manages the cultural studies courses and programmes we deliver. Courses include Global Heritage, Cross-Cultural perspectives on […]
InterTrainE project – October 2019 newsletter
One year on, and our team grew by two members! Kate Sailer from CLP gave a birth to a boy in May 2019 and Kalli Rodopoulou from EELI also gave birth to a boy in July 2019. Congratulations to both! For the rest of us, it’s business as usual. The 3rd InterTrainE partners’ meeting took […]
Language exchanges made simple
LINCS is glad to announce that this academic year (2019-20), a Language Tandem app will be running after the huge success and very positive feedback received last year. This app is intended to get Heriot-Watt students (and staff, if they so wish) in touch so that they can practice their languages. Language Tandem App – what is […]
LINCS teaching mobility at Hanoi University (HANU)
By Ramon Inglada Between August 18-25, Ramon Inglada, Assistant Professor in Spanish and Translation Technologies in LINCS, had the priviledge of carrying out a teaching mobility in Vietnam, at Hanoi University (HANU), under the framework of the Marco Polo international cooperation programme between Asian and European universities. During his stay in Vietnam, Ramon, who is […]
Intercultural Research Centre Symposium 2019
By Katerina Strani and Chiara Cocco After the successful event in 2016, it was time to hold another Intercultural Research Centre (IRC) Symposium this year, themed “Scotland at a Crossroads – Heritage past and futures”. This was the IRC’s flagship research event, in which we investigated the challenges faced by Scotland in the light of recent political […]
DESIGNS Project : Wrapping up
By Audrey Cameron & Jemina Napier May 2019 In this blogpost, Jemina Napier and Audrey Cameron provide an update on the work that has been done on the DESIGNS project (promoting access in employment for deaf sign language users in Europe) since our last blog/vlog in October 2018. The project is coming to an end […]