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 […]
Tag: research
Foundation Students do Real Research
by Olwyn Alexander Teaching English for Academic Purposes (EAP) is about more than developing students’ English language and study skills; it also involves Academic Purposes, i.e. research and scholarship. I’ve been interested for some time in ways to develop the research capability of students with an intermediate level of English proficiency (CEFR B1, IELTS […]
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2016 – how accessible was it to Deaf people?
by Michael Richardson This blog-post is based on an article to be published in the October 2016 edition of the British Deaf News, and is reproduced here with their kind permission. As I write, the final day of the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe is drawing to a close. During a three-and-a-half week period there […]
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) […]
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 […]
LifeinLINCS in Top 25 Language Professional blogs!
The results from the bab.la competition are out and LifeinLINCS is at the Top 25 Language Professional Blogs (out of 1,000 nominees and 100 language resources!) and Top 100 Language Lovers Blog ! These accomplishments will soon feature as “badges” in our pages. We would like to thank our readers as well as staff and students in LINCS […]
Why Interpreting Studies needs Silo Breakers
by Jonathan Downie Academics are as much followers of fashion as any lover of Dior or Calvin Klein. Sure, it might not be the latest fragrances or the newest haute couture but research tends to be concentrated around a few themes. In Interpreting Studies, the 70s and 80s were the age of cognitive research, mostly […]
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” […]
RADAR Workshop: From Hate Speech to Hate Communication
“From hate speech to hate communication: How racism is produced and reflected through communicative practices” Free training workshop 16th and 17th June 2016 George Davies Lecture Theatre, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh RADAR – Regulating AntiDiscrimination and AntiRacism (Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Programme JUST/2013/FRAC/AG/6271) is an EU-funded programme that brings together nine partners from six countries. […]