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 […]
Tag: Interpreting
IPCITI returns to Heriot-Watt after 4 years!
by Paola Ruffo The Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies in Scotland (CTISS) at Heriot-Watt hosted the 13th International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI), 9-10 November 2017 IPCITI is an annual postgraduate conference organised by students for students and it marks the consolidation of the collaboration between Dublin City University, Manchester University, the University of […]
LINCS collaboration with the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival
by José María Conde and Ramón Inglada The 2017 Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival (ESFF) starts on Thursday October 5th and will run in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Stirling until October 31st. This is the 4th edition of the festival and LINCS is collaborating with the ESFF once more, this time as a ‘Major Sponsor’: http://www.edinburghspanishfilmfestival.com/sponsors/ This […]
DGI SCIC virtual classes starting in LINCS !
by Fanny Chouc LINCS held its first virtual conference interpreting class in cooperation with SCIC today, with a select group of talented MA and MSc students. Thanks to the support of our AV team, we were able to set up the system used by SCIC to provide pedagogical assistance in interpreting training institutions across Europe. […]
Back to Holyrood
by Fanny Chouc Heriot-Watt MSc interpreting students have been getting a taste of the “real thing” this Thursday and will do so again next Thursday: they’re putting their interpreting skills to the test, during a live parliamentary debate at Scottish Parliament, and they’ll be practicing from the actual interpreting booths of the Scottish Parliament. Thanks […]
Christmas, Interpreting and Scottish Parliament
By Mathilde Guillemet Edinburgh is dressed in its magical gown. It is covered in Christmas decorations, the Christmas market is on and Santa is just round the corner. Could there be a better time to visit? Well, the seven participants that decided to attend our Intensive Interpreting Practice course certainly didn’t think so. For the […]
New academic year starting!
With RADAR workshops, Critical Link 8, EIRSS, performing at the Fringe and the Applied Languages and Interpreting Summer School, our summer this year was busy but fun. The “holidays” have traditionally been a creative time in terms of research and impact. Now Welcome week is here and the campus is buzzing with newly […]
When dealing with the police, deaf people are at a major disadvantage
by Jemina Napier This article was originally published in The Conversation by Jemina Napier, Professor and Chair of Intercultural Communication, Heriot-Watt University. Jemina Napier has received co-funding for JUSTISIGNS through the European Commission’s Leonardo Da Vinci Lifelong Learning programme, and from the UK arts and humanities research council. When dealing with the police, deaf people are […]
LINCS BSL team rock at Critical Link 8
by Stacey Webb Over the past year, Christine Wilson and the rest of the organising committee have been planning Critical Link 8 (CL8), which was hosted at Heriot-Watt University 29-June – 1 July, with pre-conference activities on 27-28 June. Therefore, the Monday after the SML graduation, Heriot-Watt staff and student volunteers were busy ensuring the success of […]
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 […]