This project focuses on the question of what can we do to make sure interpreting involving signed languages is good in all health consultations. MEDISIGNS has a particular aim of showing what effective co-operation means and how it happens through partnership between professionals and patients. MEDISIGNS aims to help spread good quality interpreting throughout the health service. Everyone benefits when interpreting works well. Doctors make smarter diagnoses. Patients get better. And no-one gets sued.
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.
