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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Aahh, the holidays… (?)
June to September: Three long months with nothing to do, because there’s no teaching. So we lock up our offices with a “Back in September” sign and fly off to exotic places, or we stay here and catch up with our neglected hobbies of baking, knitting and gardening. Aahhh… If only that were true. Here’s […]
On Deafhood Space
by Steve Emery [English version] Last week, I went to Paddy Ladd’s lecture. He was talking about “Deafhood – A Pedagogy”, which was about theories of teaching Deaf children. It was really interesting, but there was one part of his lecture that really got me thinking, when he was talking about “Wounded Space”, which […]
Looking for participants for anti-racism and anti-discrimination research project
A few months ago we posted some information on a new research project in LINCS on how racist hate crimes are communicatively constructed. The project is called RADAR – Regulating AntiDiscrimination and AntiRacism – JUST/2013/FRAC/AG/6271. It brings together 9 partners from 6 countries and it is funded by the European Commission Directorate General for Justice. The overall aim […]
Intensive Interpreting Practice – Easter Course 2015 !
In April this year Heriot-Watt University will be running an Intensive Interpreting Practice CPD course. The course is designed for: Interpreting students who are in the middle of their training and wish to improve both their English skills and their Interpreting skills. Professional interpreters who would like to improve their English, either with the intention of making it […]
3rd Edinburgh Interpreting Research Summer School!
The 3rd Edinburgh Interpreting Research Summer School (EIRSS) will take place from 22 – 26 June 2015 ! EIRSS 2015 offers intensive research training for existing and future scholars in any field of Interpreting and will include lectures from our Guest Speaker Claudia Monacelli as well as leading Heriot-Watt Speakers, including Professor Ian Mason. It will be […]
2015 call for PhD Scholarships in LINCS!
LINCS is now offering two School of Management and Languages (SML) Scholarships and one Professorial Scholarship for the next academic year, commencing September 2015! SML scholarships available: 2 The term of the Scholarships is three years. Successful candidates will be expected to make a contribution to activities in the Department in return for a fee-waiver, a maintenance […]
LINCS research officially declared 'pure dead brilliant'
by Graham Turner If you’re a wee bit geeky about higher education, like some of the staff of LINCS, you will have been holding your breath just after midnight on the morning of 18th December. You weren’t? What can I say? I guess you just had to be there. What was the fuss about? It […]
Who's who in BSL at Heriot-Watt University
Welcome to the 4th BSL blog on lifelinlincs After the last three weeks where you have seen discussion of sign language-related topics, in the blog for this week we thought we would take the opportunity to do a profile of the BSL team at Heriot-Watt University – a who’s who of the ten members of […]