By Audrey Cameron Click here to see this blogpost in British Sign Language. After our initial blogpost about the new DESIGNS: Deaf people in employment project in January 2017, which gave an overview of the project and talked about the kick-off event in Dublin, we have since held a community information event at Heriot-Watt University […]
Tag: Sign language
Congress of the International Federation of Translators & Interpreters, Brisbane, Australia, August 2017
by Jemina Napier <Click here to see the blog post in International Sign> Recently I went to Australia as I had been invited as a keynote speaker at the International Federation of Translators & Interpreters (FIT) world congress in Brisbane. This was a historic moment at the FIT congress, as it was the first time […]
LINCS hosts mega-conference on Innovations in Deaf Studies
by Annelies Kusters In late 2016, I got the idea to organise a small (!) book launch when I realised that I could gather at least five of the authors of “Innovations in Deaf Studies: The Role of Deaf Scholars” together at the same time and place. At that time, I could never have […]
DESIGNS: Employment in Deaf signing communities
by Jemina Napier Click here to see post in BSL. On 12th and 13th January 2017, the kick-off meeting for the DESIGNs project (Deaf Employment for Sign Language Users in the EU) took place in Dublin, Ireland. The 30-month project is modeled on the recently completed Justisigns project, which was funded through the European Commission’s […]
The Translating the Deaf Self project: Wrapping up and what’s next?
By Jemina Napier, Alys Young, Rosemary Oram, Robert Skinner & Noel O’Connell Click here to see a BSL version of the blog, presented by Rosemary Oram. In two previous LifeinLINCS blog posts in March 2016 and August 2016, we have provided an overview of our Translating the Deaf Self project. The AHRC Translating Cultures research innovation […]
Heriot-Watt University BSL interpreting placements 2016-2017
By Jemina Napier <Click here to see this blog post in BSL> Our first cohort of students from the BSL/English interpreting 4-year undergraduate programme graduated in June 2016. Most of the graduates have registered with either the Scottish Association of Sign Language Interpreters (SASLI) or the National Registers of Communication Professionals with working with Deaf […]
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) […]
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 […]
Heriot-Watt University BSL interpreting and community placements
By Jemina Napier <Click here to see this blog post in BSL> As many people in the Scottish Deaf community and BSL/English interpreting profession will know, this year is the first time that we have a group BSL/English interpreting students completing their final year of studying in a 4-year undergraduate programme. This is the […]
Sign Language in Action
by Jemina Napier Click here to see this blog in International Sign, British Sign Language or Irish Sign Language Sign Language in Action is a new book just published by Palgrave as part of the Research & Practice in Applied Linguistics series. The book is co-authored by Jemina Napier and Lorraine Leeson, who both have […]