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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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 […]
Making an Impact
by Michael Richardson For the last two and a half years I have been researching the participation of Deaf people in theatre. With only a few months remaining, I am currently writing up my PhD thesis, wondering what I am doing – and often, why I am doing it. Of course, working bilingually in English and […]
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 […]
17th September 2015: A momentous day for the BSL Community
by Graham Turner On a most extraordinary afternoon last week (17th September 2015, a date to be remembered), it seemed that half of Heriot-Watt’s Department of Languages & Intercultural Studies re-located to the Scottish Parliament for a few hours. Why? It was the Stage 3 (final) reading in the chamber of the British Sign Language […]
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 […]