This project focuses on best practices for sign language interpreters and professionals (e.g., police, healthcare workers, counsellors, refuge workers) to work together in supporting communication needs of deaf women who have experienced domestic or sexual abuse or gender-based violence.

Project report: SILENT HARM A review of service provision for survivors of gender-based violence

Documentary film (17 minutes): https://vimeo.com/805673530

Publication:

Napier, J., Clark, L., Leeson, L. & Quigley, L. (2024). “I faced so many barriers”: Access to support for deaf female survivors of domestic violence in the UK. Just. Journal of Language Rights & Minorities, Revista de Drets Lingü.stics i Minories 3(1), 97-141. https://doi.org/10.7203/Just.3.27933.

Glossary: Justisigns 2 BSL Glossary of terms related to gender-based violence.

Deaf women’s safety event 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdMFva-Bq8M

vlog 1: https://lifeinlincs.site.hw.ac.uk/2021/08/31/justisigns-2-project/

vlog 2: https://lifeinlincs.site.hw.ac.uk/2022/05/04/justisigns-2-project-2/

vlog 3: https://lifeinlincs.site.hw.ac.uk/2022/10/26/lifeinlincs-vlogpost-october-2021/

vlog 4: https://lifeinlincs.site.hw.ac.uk/2023/01/26/wrapping-up-the-justisigns-2-project/