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SIGNS@HWU is a group of researchers who focus on sign language studies and Deaf Studies. We are situated in the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies, Heriot-Watt University. SIGNS@HWU was established as a cluster of the Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies in Scotland, to profile the world-leading interdisciplinary research being conducted at Heriot-Watt University.
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Projects

audism
brokering
BSL (Scotland) Act 2015
BSL linguistics
BSL teaching
business/employment
census
cochlear implants
CODA
deaf academics
deaf interpreters
deaf space
deaf students
Deaf Studies as profession
deaf youth
demographics
equality, diversity, inclusion
gender
home
identity
International Sign
interpreting - (mental) health
interpreting - justice system
interpreting - theatre
interpreting - training
interpreting - video-mediated
interpreting - work place
language attitudes/ideologies
migration/refugees
mobilities
political participation
queer
religion
sign language interpreting profession
sign language literature
sign language technologies
sign multilingualism
signing in the family
signing on TV
social media
tourism
translation
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Deaf people’s interactions through and with technologies (2023-2027)
 
Using non-manual features (NMF) to check alignment in BSL pragmatics
 
Exploring interpreting services from a systemic lens
 
Cross-signing in Japan and the UK (2022-2024)
 
Using BSL translated children’s stories to introduce hearing parents with Deaf children to Deaf culture and BSL
 
International Sign: Practices and politics
 
Fostering deaf youths’ identities through participatory research methods
 
The lived experiences of Deaf Indian women who migrated to London
 
EDI Caucus (EDICa)
 
Deaf feminist activism on social media
 
Preferences of Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing, and Hearing University Students and Staff Members for AI-Mediated Communication Technology
 
Sign LOUD: Perspectives on domestic abuse and communication issues and the impact on deaf families
 
Deaf lesbian spaces and networks in London
 
International Sign conference interpreting and gender: An intersectional exploration of interpreters’ and deaf professionals’ experiences
 
Evaluating and improving the quality of experience for sign language accessible TV sport
 
Political activism within deaf organisations and deaf communities
 
Multiliteracies, participation and agency of deaf and hard of hearing young people using Finnish sign language
 
Deaf business owners’ experiences of and strategies in navigating an audist normative structured labour market in Denmark
 
The lived experiences of deaf people in Kakuma Refugee Camp
 
Approximately there: Positioning video-mediated interpreting in police settings (completed 2020)
 
Interpreting for Mental Health Act Assessments (INforMHAA) (2021-2022)
 
Professional Ugandan Sign Language Interpreting Services: Evaluating an Academic Training Programme and Identifying Challenges in Practice (2018)
 
Sign Language Interpreter Space: A phenomenological case study of interpreted theatre
 
Justisigns 2: Empowering Victims of Gender-Based Violence (2020-2022)
 
Unmasking health inequalities: A critical ethnographic study of deaf people’s experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland and the United Kingdom
 
Tracking shifts in attitudes and development of multilingual identities (2019-2020)
 
Deaf Employment for Sign Language Users in the EU (DESIGNS) (2017-2019)
 
Deaf BSL users’ preferences for watching television (2022-2023)
 
Translating the Deaf Self (2014-2018)
 
Enhancing the Role of Deaf Faculty Members: International Comparison
 
SILENT HARM: Empowering Deaf Women Surviving Domestic Abuse Post-Covid: An Inclusive approach to resilience & recovery in rural areas
 
Improving the communication between deaf and hard-of-hearing persons and the EU institutions (INSIGN) (2014-2015)
 
Interpreting and Justice (Justisigns) (2013-2016)
 
Sign language brokering (2012-2018)
 
Deaf tourism in Bali
 
Co-Interpreting speeches from French to French Belgian Sign Language
 
Deaf women’s experiences with communication in maternity care
 
Deaf mobilities across international borders: Visualising intersectionality and translanguaging (MobileDeaf) (2017-2023)
 
Intralingual Interpreting in the courtroom: An ethnographic study of Deaf interpreters’s perceptions of their role and positioning (completed 2021)
 
Decision making in the deaf interpreting field: An exploration of how deaf interpreters exercise professional autonomy with particular focus on source text delivery
 
A demographic snapshot of the sign language translator & interpreter profession in the UK (2021)
 
How does the sitcom “Small World” reflect linguistic diversity in the British Deaf Community? (2018-2019)
 
Exploring family sign language policy in mixed deaf-hearing families (2018-2020)
 
Deaf jurors
 
Exploring the possibility of a Master in Applied Deaf Studies (MADS) (2022-2024)
 
Discursive manifestations around identity construction of Costa Rican deaf signers as a linguistic and cultural community: 1960-2020
 
MEDISIGNS: Interpreting in health situations (2010-2012)
 
A narrative exploration of deaf Singapore Sign Language (SgSL) instructors’ identity construction
 
Planning for the National BSL Plan (2015-2016)
 
Scotland’s Democratic Deaficit: A model signing parliament (2019-2020)
 
Assistive technologies for deaf people in Jordan
 
Seeing Signing Living: From Demographic Deaficit to Census Consensus (2021)
 
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