Supporting deaf female victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence By Jemina Napier & Lucy Clark See link to this blogpost in British Sign Language (BSL): Following on from our last v/blogpost, in this v/blogpost Jemina Napier and Lucy Clark from the SIGNS@HWU team in the Centre of Translation & Interpreting Studies in Scotland (CTISS) […]
Tag: culture
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 […]
Moving Languages English Application now live and available!
The Moving Languages English Application launch took place on Friday 8th June at the George Davies Lecture Theatre, Esmée Fairbairn building, Heriot-Watt University. The Moving Languages application is the result of an EU-funded project led by Finnish organisation Learnmera Oy, with LINCS at Heriot-Watt as one of the partners. The app is designed to help new migrants learn […]
Moving Languages – English application launch !
Moving Languages – English application launch Friday 8th June 2018, 18:00 – 20:00 Esmée Fairbairn building Lecture theatre – EF26 Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton Campus Edinburgh The Moving Languages application constitutes an EU-funded project designed to help new migrants learn the host language(s) and familiarise themselves with culture-specific vocabulary. A user-friendly, versatile and comprehensive app, it also […]
Reporting from 14th ETMU Days conference: ‘Race, Power and Mobilities’
Dr Katerina Strani led a working group on ‘Cross-cultural understandings of Race’ during the 14th ETMU Days conference themed Race, Power and Mobilities, which took place at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland on 26-27 October. The working group was put together to examine cross-cultural understandings of race in the context of increased mobility and migration. […]
Moving Languages Newsletter – Summer 2017
by Katerina Strani This newsletter is also available in Finnish, Italian and Swedish. Moving Languages is an Erasmus+ international project with partners in 6 EU countries. In this project, we are developing a mobile application for refugees, migrants and other language learners who have just arrived in their new country in Europe and want to learn […]
59°N – IRC PhD Student based in Orkney
by Cait McCullagh Have you ever had the opportunity to peer at some of the many online depictions of Ptolemy’s 2nd Century AD Geography? You’ll have had to turn your head to one side in order to take in the northern-most extent of Scotland, including the Northern Isles; bent over and squeezed to fit into the realm of what was then […]
Active learning at a World Heritage Site
by Cristina Clopot At the end of November, LINCS students on the Global Heritage course, which is part of the MSc in Cultural Resource Management, went on a visit to the Edinburgh World Heritage Centre. What better way to compliment academic learning than by a discussion with experienced professionals? Luckily enough we live and work […]
The Translating the Deaf Self project: Where are we now?
By Zoë McWhinney and Jemina Napier On behalf of the whole Translating the Deaf Self project team Click here to see a BSL version of the blog presented by Zoë. As you may have seen in the earlier blogpost in March 2016, members of the Centre for Translation & Interpreting Studies Scotland at Heriot-Watt University (Jemina Napier and Robert Skinner) […]
The Manchester terror drill – and why we must stop linking Arabic with fanatics
This article was first published in ‘The Conversation’ https://theconversation.com/uk by Máiréad Nic Craith Greater Manchester Police staged a mock attack featuring a suicide bomber late on the night of Monday May 9. It began at the Trafford Centre shopping complex when a man in black walked into the centre of the main foyer and shouted “Allahu Akbar” […]