JUSTISIGNS 2 project:

Development of a BSL glossary of key terms related to domestic, sexual and gender-based violence By Jemina Napier See link to this blogpost in British Sign Language (BSL): https://youtu.be/Wj4yYgccVhw In this v/blogpost Jemina Napier from the SIGNS@HWU team in the Centre of Translation & Interpreting Studies in Scotland (CTISS) at Heriot-Watt University provides an overview […]


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दुभाषिया की मध्यस्थता मानसिक स्वास्थ्य अधिनियम आकलन (INForMHAA)

परियोजना प्रगति अद्यतन संख्या।2 – Jemina Napier यह वी/ब्लॉगपोस्ट बीएसएल, अंग्रेजी, स्पेनिश, फ्रेंच और हिंदी में उपलब्ध है BSL: https://youtu.be/Q4bjGhdApfw यह वी/ब्लॉगपोस्ट,  INforMHAA प्रोजेक्ट टीम की ओर से इस परियोजना पर अब तक की गई शोध का विवरण है। पहले वी/ब्लॉगपोस्ट ने परियोजना के लक्ष्यों और प्रमुख कारणों की जानकारी प्रदान की है।  इसमें हमारे […]


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Projet INforMHAA: évaluations de la santé mentale menées en vertu de la loi sur la santé mentale par l’intermédiaire d’interprètes

Rapport d’activités – Jemina Napier Ce v/blogpost est en disponible en BSL, anglais, espagnol, français et hindi BSL: https://youtu.be/Q4bjGhdApfw Dans cet article, l’équipe INforMHAA vous fournit une mise à jour des progrès accomplis jusqu’à présent. Notre premier post a présenté une vue d’ensemble du projet : les objectifs, les phases principales du cycle de vie du […]


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Proyecto INForMHAA: evaluaciones de salud mental llevadas a cabo de conformidad con la Ley de Salud Mental mediadas por intérpretes

Informe de actividad – Jemina Napier Esta v/blogpost está disponible en BSL, inglés, español, francés e hindi BSL: https://youtu.be/Q4bjGhdApfw En esta entrada del (video-)blog, las integrantes del grupo de investigación INForMHAA compartimos algunos de los últimos avances de nuestro trabajo. En la primera entrada del (video-)blog del proyecto INForMHAA, ofrecimos una descripción general del proyecto […]


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Interpreters for Mental Health Act Assessments (INForMHAA)

Project progress update no. 2 – Jemina Napier This v/blogpost is available in BSL, English, Spanish, French and Hindi BSL: https://youtu.be/Q4bjGhdApfw This v/blogpost is an update from the INforMHAA project team on our progress on the project to date. The first v/blogpost gave an overview of the project and our goals, the planned key phases […]


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INterpreter-mediated Mental Health Act Assessments (INForMHAA)

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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Bridging the Gap 5: Academics and community engagement

by Annelies Kusters, Jordan Fenlon and Jemina Napier   In the weekend of 25-26 November 2017, the fifth Bridging the Gap (BtG) conference was hosted at Heriot-Watt University. The aim of this conference series is to work towards bridging two gaps: first, the gap between academics (involved in Deaf Studies and sign language research) and […]


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LINCS hosts mega-conference on Innovations in Deaf Studies

by Annelies Kusters   In late 2016, I got the idea to organise a small (!) book launch when I realised that I could gather at least five of the authors of “Innovations in Deaf Studies: The Role of Deaf Scholars” together at the same time and place. At that time, I could never have […]


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BSL-team goes USA

by Emmy Kauling, Jemina Napier, Svenja Wurm, Heather Mole and Rob Skinner For a BSL version of this post, please click here Last month, the Heriot-Watt BSL-team was well represented at the 2017 Interpretation and Translation Research Symposium at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., in the States: Prof Jemina Napier, Dr Svenja Wurm, and three […]


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Heriot-Watt BSL team wins Guardian University Award !

  Impact is notoriously difficult to quantify in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. How can researchers really *prove* that their work has led to a change in policy, social attitudes or people’s lives in general? And how can this change be measured and evaluated? In the case of the LINCS BSL team, this is pretty […]


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