1st cohort of graduates of Undergraduate BSL programme!

by Stacey Webb June has been an exciting month for the BSL section within LINCS: graduations, conferences and student visitors that have kept us very busy!  Assistant Professor in BSL Stacey Webb will be reporting on these in the next few weeks. First up – graduations! For the BSL version of this post, please click here […]


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EIRSS 2016 programme updated!

This year’s Edinburgh Interpreting Research Summer School (EIRSS) is taking place on 04 – 08 July 2016, right after Critical Link 8. We are delighted to have Daniel Gile as our guest speaker again this year. Professor Gile was also our guest speaker in the inaugural EIRSS in 2013. The EIRSS is designed to offer intensive research […]


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Justisigns Translation workshop

 By Jemina Napier                            Click here to see a version of this blogpost in BSL.   As part of the Justisigns project, which is funded through the European Commission Lifelong Learning Programme, a masterclass was run in November 2015 jointly between the Heriot-Watt University BSL/Justisigns team and Police Scotland and included CID/police interview […]


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Translating the Deaf Self: An update

  By Jemina Napier   Click here to see a BSL version of the blog   Members of Centre for Translation & Interpreting Studies Scotland (Jemina Napier and Robert Skinner) are working in collaboration with researchers from the Social Research with Deaf People (SORD) group at the University of Manchester (Alys Young and Rosemary Oram) […]


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Heriot-Watt University BSL interpreting and community placements

By Jemina Napier  <Click here to see this blog post in BSL>   As many people in the Scottish Deaf community and BSL/English interpreting profession will know, this year is the first time that we have a group BSL/English interpreting students completing their final year of studying in a 4-year undergraduate programme. This is the […]


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New CPD courses in LINCS!

We are really excited to announce two new CPD courses in LINCS. In addition to the already successful Easter and Summer Schools in Interpreting, we are now offering a 1-day training workshop on Interpreters and Translators as Entrepreneurs in March and a CAT Tools series in April. This year’s Easter School comprises 1 week of […]


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Sign Language in Action

by Jemina Napier Click here to see this blog in International Sign, British Sign Language or Irish Sign Language Sign Language in Action is a new book just published by Palgrave as part of the Research & Practice in Applied Linguistics series. The book is co-authored by Jemina Napier and Lorraine Leeson, who both have […]


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InDialog in Berlin

By Stacey Webb 19-21 November 2015 if you were looking for Ursula Böser, Jemina Napier, Stacey Webb, Eloisa Monteoliva Garcia or Yvonne Waddell you wouldn’t have found them around Heriot-Watt campus or anywhere in Edinburgh, as this lot was deep ‘in dialogue’ in Berlin Germany! The InDialog conference, “Community Interpreting In Dialogue With Technology” was […]


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Signposting Professional Practice: Intercultural Communication and Interpretation

Everyone was there. LINCS staff from all sections, students, colleagues from universities all over the UK, Heads of Schools, Vice-Principals, technicians, photographers, interpreters, representatives from Deaf organisations, Deaf friends. A little girl with long blonde hair was laughing and signing happily with her grandparents, who were all dressed to the nines for the occasion. It […]


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