ESRC CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF DEAFNESS, COGNITION AND LANGUAGE - PHASE II 2011 TO 2016

Title	DCAL, the first 10 years
Description	Exhibition illustrating 10 years of DCAL's acheivements
Type Of Art	Artistic/Creative Exhibition
Year Produced	2015
Impact	Showcased highlights of 10 years of DCAL's activities

Title	Discover UCL for D/deaf and hard of hearing students
Description	Video with participant interviews
Type Of Art	Film/Video/Animation
Year Produced	2016
Impact	To early to comment on recruitment. Popular on social media
URL	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPiuJnIAyhM&feature=youtu.be

Title	Gjuha e Shenjave Kosovare 1
Description	A video dictionary of the sign language of the Republic of Kosovo, to accompany the book 'Gjuha e Shenjave Kosovare 1'.
Type Of Art	Film/Video/Animation
Year Produced	2012
Impact	This has become an essential reference for Deaf people, teachers of deaf children, trainee sign language interpreters, and others concerned with communication with the Deaf in Kosovo

Title	History of BSL online exhibtion catalogue
Description	A bespoke online resource enabling the Deaf community full access to their cultural history in their own language (BSL).
Type Of Art	Artistic/Creative Exhibition
Year Produced	2013
Impact	This online catalogue has not only facilitated wider dissemination but preserved for posterity, a unique cultural resource for an underserved community.
URL	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/bslhistory

Title	What is sign language?
Description	The UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience ran a 'Brains on Films' competition, which gave neuroscientists the chance to make a short film about their research. "What is sign language?" was a runner up in the competition
Type Of Art	Film/Video/Animation
Year Produced	2011
Impact	N/A
URL	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZV6YZdRYwY

Title	set of 25 animated holographic BSL signing cards
Description	Set of 25 animated BSL signing cards. When you tilt the cards up and down they display an animation of the word, whilst the back of the cards give an interesting related fact about BSL.
Type Of Art	Artefact (including digital)
Year Produced	2011
Impact	These have proved popular and have sold well to adult and child learners of BSL and to members of the Deaf community
URL	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/online_shop

Description	Clinical As a direct result of DCAL research, the NHS established the first neuropsychology clinic for Deaf patients who use British Sign Language within the Cognitive Disorders clinic at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN). By developing services for this under-researched group, NHS provision has become accessible for the first time. The permanent status of this clinic with NHS funding has now been confirmed and represents a remarkable achievement in the current funding climate. In addition, DCAL-associated researchers provide assessment of literacy, dyslexia, and developmental language disorders for deaf children at the Roberta Williams Assessment Clinic. Research in this area has also demonstrated the extent of the previously unmet demand for clinical services for this excluded population; the cost benefit of service provision; and the developing influence of this work on UK government policy. Access to Higher Education Deaf people are hugely under-represented within Higher Education across the UK. DCAL has aimed to address this by leading on UCL-level Widening Participation initiatives related to deafness. The most significant of these and unique to UCL is the Discover UCL Summer School for D/deaf and Hard of Hearing Students, a residential programme for Year 11 and 12 students, now in its 8th year and being extended to a 4-day programme. The Russell group publication on Access has presents this programme as a case study of good practice, and the University of Edinburgh is seeking to copy our model through a collaborative link. The Summer School has measurable impact: 29% of attendees (2014-18) went on to HE. We are also expanding the programme this year to include a ½ day event for parents to equip those without experience of HE with practical information to help them support their deaf teens' preparation for university. DCAL Assessment Portal The DCAL Assessment Portal (https://dcalportal.org) is a unique on-line resource, providing on-line access to assessments of cognition, speechreading and language developed at DCAL. The Portal currently comprises 7 language assessments (BSL and English) and two batteries for testing for acquired cognitive and language impairment in users of BSL (for aphasia following stroke and for dementia). The website allows professionals concerned with developmental and clinical assessment of deaf children and adults to use our tests and norms. Since its inception in 2014 it has had over 300 users, including researchers and professional practitioners such as teachers, educational psychologists, clinical psychologists and speech & language therapists; and we have also worked to meet international demand for adaptations of these tools for assessment of cognition and language to users of other sign languages. Current collaborations include government agencies, clinical service providers and universities in Australia, Austria, Canada, Croatia, Germany, Greece, and Hong Kong and New Zealand. On-Line Courses. In 2015, DCAL obtained UCL Seed Funding (£10K) for development of an on-line self-directed deaf awareness course, targeted at professionals working with or providing services to deaf people. Further funding (£12K) has enabled the creation of a suite of on-line deaf awareness courses targeted at healthcare professionals. These courses have now been accredited by the Royal College of Nursing, British Academy of Audiology, Royal College of Physicians, and Royal College of General Practitioners, which will ensure uptake and impact on access and attitudes towards deaf people using health care and social care services. We are currently developing an on-line deaf awareness toolkit for teachers which will be available in 2021. Language Resources BSL SignBank is an invaluable reference for teaching/learning of BSL which is clear from its presence on social media. This is particularly true for Facebook and Twitter (#bslsignbank) where deaf BSL signers and BSL learners regularly use, comment on and refer to BSL SignBank as a trusted resource. There are countless mentions and discussions of BSL SignBank on the Facebook groups "BSL - British Sign Language" and "BSL and Linguistics Teachers, Assessors & Researchers", the members of both of which are predominantly BSL teachers, learners and interpreters. Education DCAL's developmental research has been published and presented in non-academic forums, including hosting of our reports on the National Deaf Children's Society website, which has enabled us to inform parents of the research findings in an accessible format, and we have used practitioner journals, such as the Bulletin of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, and the Journal of the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf to communicate our research. In particular, our research on early interaction, language and cognition - and on deafness and the brain - has provided an evidence base for the design of early intervention programmes and policies regarding early use of signed and spoken language. We have also established a collaborative relationship with a pair of schools ( a school for deaf children and a school for hearing children co-located on the same site) to explore interaction between the children of the two schools and two provide training and support for the staff. Consultancy. DCAL staff are providing consultancy and expertise to the Department for Education, designing the planned GCSE in British Sign Language for England; DCAL staff are also advising the Welsh Government's Curriculum for Wales BSL guidance group in the creation of new curricula for deaf and hearing learners of BSL. Funding for impact activities In 2019, we applied for and received an ESRC DCAL Legacy grant which has enabled us to further maximise impact potential in four key areas: public relations activities in relation to media, policy-makers, practitioners and community; further development of our CPD programme for professionals, including the Deaf workforce, in education, health and social care; enhancements to the DCAL Assessment Portal; and development of our summer school programme for deaf and hearing students, to build research capacity in deafness, cognition and language research. Conferences, seminars and symposia. We have held a number of conferences, including a highly successful deaf community-focussed conference in November 2019 which celebrated 40 years of research on BSL. With the additional organisational support provided by legacy funding, we will look to run a minimum of two additional conferences over the 5 years of funding, including a symposium in November 2021 celebrating 15 years since DCAL was founded.
First Year Of Impact	2012
Sector	Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Healthcare,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections
Impact Types	Cultural Societal Policy & public services

Description	Case for specialist neurology services for Deaf people made to the Prescribed Specialised Services Advisory Group's (PSSAG) which makes recommendations to Government Ministers
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review

Description	Conclusions of UNESCO International Conference on Language
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL	http://icl.jsjyt.gov.cn/intro_en.php

Description	Contribution to UCL's Disability Chartermark application as part of self-assessment team
Geographic Reach	Local/Municipal/Regional
Policy Influence Type	Membership of a guideline committee

Description	DCAL Research Skills Summer School
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	This summer school for research students examined linguistic, psycholinguistic and neuroscience approaches to the research area of language of deaf people. It attracted research students from Europe, Africa and beyond.
URL	https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/study/short-and-online-courses/research-skills-summer-school

Description	Deaf Awareness: Working and Communicating Well with Deaf People
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact	The course is aimed at anyone who may come in contact with deaf people or people with hearing loss and wishes to have a deeper understanding of the issues faced by this group, communicate effectively and provide better services.

Description	Impact case study
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	UCL research has underpinned the development of resources and services for Deaf patients who use British Sign Language, including the establishment of the first neurology clinic for this group. Resources are shared with healthcare professionals and Deaf communities around the world and the research has also influenced UK government policy. Older woman with hearing aid Early identification, accessible information and 'living well with dementia' are key aims of the Government's dementia strategy. However, in the absence of cognitive assessments in British Sign Language (BSL), Deaf people do not have equal access to NHS neurology services. In conjunction with limited recognition of the nature of their impairments and poor communication between clinical staff, patients and carers, this absence of appropriate assessment tools means that neurological impairments, including dementia, are typically diagnosed late in deaf patients, or not at all, with adverse consequences for their access to medication, rehabilitation and care planning. Work within the UCL Deafness Cognition & Language Research Centre (DCAL) has helped redress some of these imbalances in access to diagnostic assessment among BSL users with acquired neurological conditions. Building on early studies at City University to explore aphasia and apraxia in signers with stroke, the team has worked since 2005 on the production of a series of case studies of motor impairments in signers. These provided important insights including, for example, a refutation of the idea that palilalia (the delayed repetition of words or phrases) relates specifically - and exclusively - to speech. The team has also explored the manifestations of voice hallucinations in deaf people with schizophrenia, providing novel insights into the nature of subvocal thought and sensory feedback loops. After decades of frustrating experiences with the NHS, just two appointments at a specialist deaf cognitive disorders clinic and my mother finally received a diagnosis that explains her perplexing health problems. A survey of NHS neurological services conducted by members of the DCAL team (funded by the Wellcome Trust) found that, among Deaf people, referrals to speech and language therapy services following stroke occurred at only about 20% of the rate of referrals for hearing patients. It seems likely that those affected by other acquired neurological and neuropsychiatric conditions, such as head injury, progressive neurological diseases and schizophrenia, are subject to a similar experience. In 2010 the Centre initiated a joint project to help tackle this problem by improving early diagnosis and management among Deaf people who use BSL. Funded by the Alzheimer's Society, the project was conducted in collaboration with the University of Manchester, City University London and Royal Association for Deaf People. The UCL team focused particularly on the Older Healthy Deaf Brain, producing a profile of normal cognitive ageing within the Deaf Community. This profile was subsequently used to develop the first ever standardised cognitive and language screening tests designed to assist diagnosis of acquired neurological impairments in sign language users, and the tests have since been made available to clinicians and researchers working with deaf people with developmental and acquired impairments. Used in conjunction with brain scans, they allow confident diagnosis of dementia and other acquired neurological impairments in Deaf people at an early stage of cognitive impairment. This faster and more accurate diagnosis allows more timely access to services which, in turn, support better health outcomes and reduced NHS and local authority care service costs. The tests are administered at the specialist Cognitive Disorders Clinic at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in Queens Square in the first-ever monthly neurological clinic for deaf signers, set up in 2011 to help maximise the utility of the newly designed tests. Deaf BSL users presenting with acquired cognitive difficulties are referred to the clinic from all parts of the UK for assessment of dementia or other neurodegenerative disorders. The clinic, which is the first service of its kind anywhere in the world, allows NHS clinical services to offer assessment leading to appropriate interventions and services. As such, it represents a significant step towards reducing wider healthcare inequalities for deaf people in the UK. This positive effect has been compounded by the use both of the UCL DCAL research and of data obtained through the clinic as a springboard for UK policy development. The team has, for example, prepared briefing documents for the government in order to allow the inclusion of Deaf people with dementia in the development of the equalities action plan with respect to the National Dementia Strategy (Deaf People with Dementia, 2010). The All Party Parliamentary Group in Deafness has also agreed to support joint proposals on health and social care developed by UCL DCAL in collaboration with Action on Hearing Loss. A joint report was launched in March 2013 to press for the creation of permanent services for this population.
URL	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/impact/case-study-repository/neuropsychological-assessments-for-the-deaf

Description	Lancet Commission on Culture and Health http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ S0140-6736(14)61603-2
Geographic Reach	Multiple continents/international
Policy Influence Type	Participation in a guidance/advisory committee

Description	Languages in the UK: a call for action
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Membership of a guideline committee

Description	The delivery of public service interpreting in the 21st century
Geographic Reach	National
Policy Influence Type	Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact	Invited submission to Public Accounts Select Committee The was a written submission invited by Margaret Hodge MP in her role as Chair of the Public Accounts Committee. The written submission was a position paper on the delivery of Public Service Interpreting in the 21st Century. This responded to the enquiry into the failings of the contract of the MOJ with ALS for spoken and sign language interpreting.

Description	(EASIER) - Intelligent Automatic Sign Language Translation
Amount	€ 3,991,591 (EUR)
Funding ID	101016982
Organisation	European Commission
Sector	Public
Country	European Union (EU)
Start	01/2021
End	12/2023

Description	Australian Irish Sign Language Documentation Project
Amount	$3,100 (AUD)
Organisation	John Wallis Foundation
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	Australia
Start	08/2014
End	08/2015

Description	Australian Irish Sign Language: a minority sign language within a larger sign language community - Endangered Languages Documentation Project, Endangered Languages Archive
Amount	£4,031 (GBP)
Funding ID	Grant number SG0320
Organisation	School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London)
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2014
End	08/2015

Description	Automated Diagnostic Toolkit for dementia screening in ageing deaf users of British Sign Language
Amount	£65,173 (GBP)
Funding ID	RPGF1802\37
Organisation	The Dunhill Medical Trust
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2018
End	03/2020

Description	BSL Timeline exhibition
Amount	£1,600 (GBP)
Organisation	University College London
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	02/2014
End	07/2014

Description	Beacon Bursary Grant
Amount	£1,500 (GBP)
Organisation	University College London
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2011
End	12/2012

Description	Beacon bursary
Amount	£1,500 (GBP)
Organisation	University College London
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2011
End	12/2012

Description	Brain lateralisation of speech and language production
Amount	£90,009 (GBP)
Funding ID	ES/S011838/1
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2018
End	10/2021

Description	British Academy Special Awards
Amount	£149,500 (GBP)
Organisation	The British Academy
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2016
End	02/2018

Description	Broadening Participation of Deaf Students in Sign Language Research
Amount	$34,000 (USD)
Organisation	National Science Foundation (NSF)
Sector	Public
Country	United States
Start	05/2013
End	12/2013

Description	Can Speechreading Training Enhance Reading Proficiency in Hearing Children?
Amount	£100,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	1474670
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2014
End	09/2018

Description	Consultancy
Amount	£5,350 (GBP)
Organisation	Transport for London
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2016
End	02/2017

Description	Coordination and scalar implicature in British Sign Language: a corpus-led pragmatic study
Amount	£20,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	2055585
Organisation	Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2018
End	09/2022

Description	DCAL Halloween Workshop at Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children
Amount	£500 (GBP)
Organisation	University College London
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2012
End	10/2013

Description	DEAFLI - Deaf literacy.
Amount	£48,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	538750-LLP-1-2013-1-ES-GRUNDTVIG-GMP
Organisation	European Commission
Sector	Public
Country	European Union (EU)
Start	01/2014
End	12/2016

Description	Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre: ESRC Legacy Centre
Amount	£101,843 (GBP)
Funding ID	ES/T001461/1
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	11/2019
End	10/2024

Description	Dementia and neighbourhoods
Amount	£37,783 (GBP)
Organisation	Research Councils UK (RCUK)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2014
End	08/2017

Description	Describing sociolinguistic variation in verb directionality in British Sign Language: A corpus-based study
Amount	£199,639 (GBP)
Funding ID	ES/K003364/1
Organisation	Research Councils UK (RCUK)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	12/2012
End	05/2014

Description	Developing neuropsychological tests for the identification of cognitive disorders in older deaf users of British Sign Language
Amount	£15,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	572:UCL:JA
Organisation	Action on Hearing Loss
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	05/2012
End	01/2015

Description	Digging into Data Challenge
Amount	£100,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	Digging into Signs
Organisation	Jisc
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	05/2014
End	05/2015

Description	Digging into signs: Developing standard annotation practices for cross-linguistic quantitative analysis of sign language data
Amount	£124,965 (GBP)
Organisation	Research Councils UK (RCUK)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	04/2014
End	04/2015

Description	Discretionary funds for supervising MSc students
Amount	£735 (GBP)
Organisation	University College London
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2013
End	09/2014

Description	ESRC Festival of Social Science
Amount	£600 (GBP)
Funding ID	8108834
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	11/2015
End	11/2015

Description	ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme
Amount	£90,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	Project Number: 549104 Award Number: 177601
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2018
End	09/2020

Description	ESRC festival of social science on Executive Function
Amount	£2,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	05/2012
End	12/2012

Description	Early Career Research Participation Support TISLR
Amount	£5,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Sieratzki Family Charitable Trust
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	05/2013
End	07/2013

Description	Endangered Languages Documentation Project
Amount	£4,031 (GBP)
Organisation	School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London)
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2014
End	08/2015

Description	ExTOL: End to End Translation of British Sign Language
Amount	£971,921 (GBP)
Funding ID	EP/R03298X/1
Organisation	Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	06/2018
End	06/2022

Description	Experimental Psychology Society (EPS) funding
Amount	£3,500 (GBP)
Organisation	Experimental Psychology Society (EPS)
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2012
End	12/2012

Description	Exploring Language and Literacy Outcomes in Deaf Children and Adults
Amount	£90,592 (GBP)
Funding ID	ES/T009152/1
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2019
End	09/2020

Description	Festival of social science debate and workshops : executive functions
Amount	£2,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	05/2012
End	12/2012

Description	From natural to conventional word order: iconicity, simplicity and the mechanisms of linguistic evolution
Amount	£512,664 (GBP)
Funding ID	ES/R011869/1
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	06/2019
End	12/2021

Description	Gesture use in people with aphasia
Amount	£70,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	R171/0710
Organisation	The Dunhill Medical Trust
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	12/2011
End	12/2012

Description	Grundtvig Lifelong Learning Programme
Amount	€ 379,400 (EUR)
Organisation	Erasmus +
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2013
End	12/2016

Description	History of BSL exhibtion - HLF
Amount	£10,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Heritage Lottery Fund
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	05/2013
End	11/2013

Description	Jiangsu Normal University collaborative funding
Amount	£69,279 (GBP)
Organisation	Jiangsu Normal University
Sector	Academic/University
Country	China
Start	11/2015
End	03/2016

Description	Knowledge Exchange and Innovation Funding
Amount	£10,000 (GBP)
Organisation	University College London
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	12/2017
End	10/2018

Description	Legacy Centre Grant
Amount	£100,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	ES/T001461/1
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2019
End	08/2024

Description	Leverhulme Research Fellowship
Amount	£45,000 (GBP)
Organisation	The Leverhulme Trust
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2011
End	12/2012

Description	MRC Studentship
Amount	£62,706 (GBP)
Organisation	Medical Research Council (MRC)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2011
End	09/2014

Description	Making sense from the hands and mouth : multimodal integration in spoken and signed languages
Amount	£156,077 (GBP)
Funding ID	ES/K001337/1
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2013
End	06/2015

Description	Marie Curie Individual Fellowship
Amount	€ 195,455 (EUR)
Organisation	European Union
Sector	Public
Country	European Union (EU)
Start	08/2016
End	08/2018

Description	Mechanisms of reading development in deaf children
Amount	£1,580,335 (GBP)
Funding ID	220291/Z/20/Z
Organisation	Wellcome Trust
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2020
End	09/2025

Description	New languages seen with new eyes: evidence for the emergence of grammar in signed languages using new methodologies and technologies
Amount	£3,100 (GBP)
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2010
End	12/2013

Description	Online data capture in BSL
Amount	£3,199 (GBP)
Organisation	National Strategic Directorate for e-Social Science (NSDeSS)
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	02/2012
End	08/2013

Description	Online data capture workshop
Amount	£3,199 (GBP)
Organisation	Research Councils UK (RCUK)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	02/2012
End	07/2012

Description	Overcoming obstacles to the early identification of dementia in the signing Deaf community
Amount	£250,452 (GBP)
Funding ID	119
Organisation	Alzheimer's Society
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2010
End	12/2013

Description	Overseas Institutional Visit Scheme
Amount	£3,500 (GBP)
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	06/2014
End	08/2014

Description	Research Grants Scheme
Amount	6,000,000 ₽ (RUB)
Organisation	Russian Academy of Sciences
Sector	Public
Country	Russian Federation
Start	01/2016
End	12/2018

Description	Research on Neuroscience and Language
Amount	6,000,000 ₽ (RUB)
Organisation	Russian Academy of Sciences
Sector	Public
Country	Russian Federation
Start	03/2016
End	03/2019

Description	Sign language learning in hearing adults. Leverhulme,
Amount	£120,000 (GBP)
Organisation	The Leverhulme Trust
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2016
End	03/2018

Description	SignLearnSpeak
Amount	£213,406 (GBP)
Funding ID	275946 - SignLearnSpeak
Organisation	European Commission
Sector	Public
Country	European Union (EU)
Start	07/2011
End	08/2014

Description	Signs of Science
Amount	£11,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Institute of Physics (IOP)
Sector	Learned Society
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2013
End	02/2014

Description	Special Awards Scheme
Amount	£150,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	SCHU01
Organisation	The British Academy
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2016
End	09/2017

Description	Staff mobility for training
Amount	€ 1,115 (EUR)
Organisation	Erasmus +
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2014
End	11/2014

Description	TISLR Conference - comunication support
Amount	£5,000 (GBP)
Organisation	University College London
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	05/2013
End	11/2013

Description	The Brent Early Language Development Project
Amount	£13,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Brent Local Education Authority
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2012
End	08/2013

Description	The History of BSL Exhibition
Amount	£4,750 (GBP)
Organisation	Research Councils UK (RCUK)
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2013
End	12/2014

Description	The History of BSL Exhibition (HLF Funding)
Amount	£10,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Heritage Lottery Fund
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2013
End	12/2013

Description	The Role of Affect in Learning Abstract Concepts
Amount	£124,600 (GBP)
Organisation	Nuffield Foundation
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2012
End	12/2014

Description	The modulatory effect of dopamine on speech perception - a potential intervention therapy for successful cochlear implantation
Amount	£14,675 (GBP)
Funding ID	598:UCL:VC
Organisation	Action on Hearing Loss
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	03/2013
End	03/2014

Description	The role of lexical retrieval in a signed language -Evidence from phonological fluency tasks in BSL
Amount	£9,908 (GBP)
Organisation	The British Academy
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	06/2013
End	06/2015

Description	The role of visual speech perception (lipreading) in developing phonological representations in young hearing children with poor phonological skills
Amount	£89,221 (GBP)
Funding ID	ES/T00911X/1
Organisation	Economic and Social Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	United Kingdom
Start	09/2019
End	09/2020

Description	Travel Grant
Amount	£800 (GBP)
Organisation	Guarantors of Brain
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2015
End	09/2015

Description	UCL Life Learning
Amount	£10,000 (GBP)
Organisation	University College London
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	02/2015
End	07/2015

Description	UCL beacon bursary for public engagement
Amount	£1,500 (GBP)
Organisation	University College London
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	01/2011
End	12/2012

Description	UCL/IoE Strategic Partinership research fund
Amount	£15,000 (GBP)
Organisation	University College London
Sector	Academic/University
Country	United Kingdom
Start	08/2013
End	04/2014

Description	Understanding the mechanisms of multimodal communication in deaf children with cochlear implants - awarded to Carly Anderson
Amount	£300,000 (GBP)
Organisation	Wellcome Trust
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	06/2021
End	06/2026

Description	University of Manchester subcontract
Amount	£13,745 (GBP)
Organisation	Alzheimer's Society
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	11/2015
End	02/2016

Description	Using deafness as a model system to inform literacy intervention and neurobiological models of language
Amount	£1,100,000 (GBP)
Funding ID	100229/Z/12/Z
Organisation	Wellcome Trust
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	04/2013
End	07/2018

Description	When do gestures become linguistic? Understanding the gesture-language interface through a corpus-based study of pointing signs in sign languages
Amount	$345,000 (AUD)
Organisation	Australian Research Council
Sector	Public
Country	Australia
Start	05/2014
End	05/2015

Description	Working memory for sign and speech
Amount	£151,543 (GBP)
Organisation	Linkoping University
Sector	Academic/University
Country	Sweden
Start	06/2012
End	07/2013

Description	equipment grant for Nigerian Sign Language project
Amount	£3,850 (GBP)
Organisation	British Nigeria Educational Trust
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
Country	United Kingdom
Start	07/2015

Title	BSL Assessment Portal
Description	The DCAL Assessment Portal provides on-line access to a collection of assessments of cognition, speech and language developed at DCAL. The website allows professionals concerned with developmental and clinical assessment of deaf children and adults to use our tests and norms. Additionally, the tests are available for use by researchers both within and outside DCAL. Data from the on-line tests are used to develop and update norms for these populations and provide opportunities for secondary data analysis.
Type Of Material	Model of mechanisms or symptoms - human
Year Produced	2015
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	We have already had numerous requests for assistance in adapting and translating the on-line assessment tools for use with other sign languages in Europe, China and the Americas. Several have already been completed and are currently being used by researchers in other countries as well as in the UK
URL	https://dcalportal.org

Title	BSL SignBank
Description	BSL SignBank: A lexical database and dictionary of British Sign Language (First Edition)
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2014
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Use of the resource by students, teachers, interpreters, researchers.
URL	http://bslsignbank.ucl.ac.uk

Title	BSL Signbank
Description	On-line dictionary of British Sign Language The current version of BSL SignBank (last updated mid-2015) includes over 2500 signs from roughly 12 hours (50,000 sign tokens) from the BSL Corpus conversation data from Bristol, Birmingham, London and Manchester, and from the "What's your sign" task from all 249 signers from Belfast, Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Glasgow, London, Manchester, and Newcastle. As more work on the BSL Corpus continues, future updates will include more signs from more regions and more tasks in the BSL Corpus. We also aim to include new proposed signs from the deaf community where appropriate. A mobile app is under development which will enable learners to practice signs and compare their production to the sign model
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2014
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	BSL SignBank is already in wide use as a reference for research and teaching/learning of BSL and for linguistics more generally.
URL	http://bslsignbank.ucl.ac.uk/

Title	British sign language corpus project : a corpus of digital video data of British sign language 2008-2011 (first edition)
Description	British Sign Language video data online
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2011
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	Approx 15/year requests for user licenses for access restricted part of BSL Corpus. Wide use of open access data as confirmed by feedback from community via email and social media. Partial annotations available since 2014.
URL	http://www.bslcorpusproject.org

Title	DCAL Research Data Archive
Description	The DCAL Research Data Archive holds the data outputs of the UCL Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre. The vast majority of research studies on language and cognition are based on languages which are spoken and heard. DCAL's research provides a unique perspective on language and thought by placing sign languages and Deaf people in the centre of our understanding of language and communication. DCAL's research since 2006 has contributed substantially to the recognition that deafness is an important model for exploring questions in linguistics, cognitive sciences and neuroscience. All metadata for the projects in this archive is openly available. Some data is restricted to named researchers.
Type Of Material	Database/Collection of data
Year Produced	2017
Provided To Others?	Yes
Impact	This archive provides access to DCAL's research data, metadata, stimuli, etc for use and reuse by other researchers. It is expected to be widely used by researchers not only in the fields of deafness and sign language research but also in psychology, development, neuroscience, and linguistics more generally.
URL	https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/digital-collections/collections/dcal

Description	Ayady Deaf Centre
Organisation	Ayady Deaf Centre
Country	United Arab Emirates
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	A centre for Deaf children and their families in the United Arab Emirates
Start Year	2013

Description	British Sign Language Recognition - The Way Ahead
Organisation	British Deaf Association
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	An evening seminar on British Sign Language recognition and the strategies for recognising the linguistic human rights of the British Deaf Community in legislation
Start Year	2012

Description	Clinical consultancy
Organisation	National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Hospitals
PI Contribution	Providing clinical neuropsychology expertise to the Cognitive Disorders Clinic for Deaf patients at National Hospital for Neurology and Neuropsychology
Start Year	2012

Description	Clinical consultation at National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Organisation	National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Hospitals
PI Contribution	Clinical work is conducted in the Cognitive Disorders Clinic, allowing deaf patients for the first time to be accurately assessed using new BSL tests of cognition, language and memory, enabling diagnoses of neurodegenerative conditions and brain injuries. Consultant: Dr Joanna Atkinson Dates: March 2012- March 2013 Monthly clinic
Start Year	2012

Description	Co-Investigator on Research Grant from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), ExTOL: End to End Translation of British Sign Language
Organisation	University College London
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Kearsy Cormier as Co-Investigator on Research Grant from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), ExTOL: End to End Translation of British Sign Language. PI: Richard Bowden (U-Surrey); Co-investigators: Bencie Woll (UCL), Andrew Zisserman (U-Oxford). Total £1,195,431 fEC.
Collaborator Contribution	Kearsy Cormier as Co-Investigator on Research Grant from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), ExTOL: End to End Translation of British Sign Language. PI: Richard Bowden (U-Surrey); Co-investigators: Bencie Woll (UCL), Andrew Zisserman (U-Oxford). Total £1,195,431 fEC.
Impact	In progress
Start Year	2018

Description	Co-Investigator on Research Grant from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), ExTOL: End to End Translation of British Sign Language
Organisation	University of Oxford
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Kearsy Cormier as Co-Investigator on Research Grant from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), ExTOL: End to End Translation of British Sign Language. PI: Richard Bowden (U-Surrey); Co-investigators: Bencie Woll (UCL), Andrew Zisserman (U-Oxford). Total £1,195,431 fEC.
Collaborator Contribution	Kearsy Cormier as Co-Investigator on Research Grant from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), ExTOL: End to End Translation of British Sign Language. PI: Richard Bowden (U-Surrey); Co-investigators: Bencie Woll (UCL), Andrew Zisserman (U-Oxford). Total £1,195,431 fEC.
Impact	In progress
Start Year	2018

Description	Co-Investigator on Research Grant from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), ExTOL: End to End Translation of British Sign Language
Organisation	University of Surrey
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Kearsy Cormier as Co-Investigator on Research Grant from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), ExTOL: End to End Translation of British Sign Language. PI: Richard Bowden (U-Surrey); Co-investigators: Bencie Woll (UCL), Andrew Zisserman (U-Oxford). Total £1,195,431 fEC.
Collaborator Contribution	Kearsy Cormier as Co-Investigator on Research Grant from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), ExTOL: End to End Translation of British Sign Language. PI: Richard Bowden (U-Surrey); Co-investigators: Bencie Woll (UCL), Andrew Zisserman (U-Oxford). Total £1,195,431 fEC.
Impact	In progress
Start Year	2018

Description	Collaboration with Moscow State Linguistics University
Organisation	Moscow State Linguistics University
Country	Russian Federation
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	We have provided intensive training for Russian sign language interpreting students. This has in turn led to a 3-year joint research project, funded by the Russian Academy of Sciences
Collaborator Contribution	Provision of funds for training students; costs of planning visits to Moscow, lead on submission of research proposal to Russian Academy
Impact	Research project will start in April 2016. Collaboration involves linguists and neuroscientists.
Start Year	2014

Description	Collaboration with Wellcome Trust Hearing the Voice Research Centre at Durham University
Organisation	Durham University
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Working together to study inner speech, inner sign and voice hallucinations in sensory impaired (deaf and blind) groups. I provide expertise in deafness, blindness, sign language, neuropsychology and voice-hallucinations.
Collaborator Contribution	Expertise in psychosis, phenomenology and voice hearing.
Impact	Project and grant collaborations
Start Year	2016

Description	Collaboration with the Institute of Education and the UCL Ear Institute
Organisation	University College London
Department	Ear Institute
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Consultantcy, test development and data collection for two projects investigating the impact of music classes on deaf and hearing children's language, communication skills and cogntive development.
Collaborator Contribution	The collaboration began after the projects were already funded and established - partners were responsible for the recruitment of participants/schools and carrying out the musical interventions.
Impact	No formal outputs have yet been generated, research is ongoing.
Start Year	2016

Description	Collaboration with the Institute of Education and the UCL Ear Institute
Organisation	University College London
Department	Institute of Education (IOE)
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Consultantcy, test development and data collection for two projects investigating the impact of music classes on deaf and hearing children's language, communication skills and cogntive development.
Collaborator Contribution	The collaboration began after the projects were already funded and established - partners were responsible for the recruitment of participants/schools and carrying out the musical interventions.
Impact	No formal outputs have yet been generated, research is ongoing.
Start Year	2016

Description	Collaborative Agreement to facilitate research on cognitive neural mechanisms of sign language and cross-cultural and cross-lingusitic comparison
Organisation	Jiangsu Normal University
Country	China
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Visits to China to support research there on cognitive neural mechanisms of sign language and cross-cultural and cross-linguistic comparison.
Collaborator Contribution	Funding for visits of DCAL staff to China; funding for post-doctoral researchers to spend periods of time at Jiangsu Normal University or at DCAL
Impact	Presentation at International Conference on Language, Suzhou, June 2014
Start Year	2013

Description	Communication interventions with pre-school deaf children
Organisation	University College London
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Expert reviewer for Project: Communication Interventions with Pre-school Deaf Children (coordinator Rachel Rees). University College London.
Start Year	2012

Description	Consortium on Language Assymetry
Organisation	Bangor University
Department	School of Healthcare Sciences
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	The Consortium on Language Asymmetry (COLA) is a group of research teams united by an interest in understanding language lateralisation in the brain. It was set up in 2018 with the aims of sharing knowledge, data and materials, and conducting collaborative experiments. The universities involved are: University of Oxford, University College London, University of Lincoln, University of Essex, University of Western Australia, Lancaster University, University of Athens.
Collaborator Contribution	The team from UCL, including myself, have contributed to this consortium in terms of designing research questions, experimental studies, data collection, data analysis.
Impact	A Registered Report outlining out planned study has been accepted by Cortex (no DOI as yet).
Start Year	2018

Description	Consortium on Language Assymetry
Organisation	Lancaster University
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	The Consortium on Language Asymmetry (COLA) is a group of research teams united by an interest in understanding language lateralisation in the brain. It was set up in 2018 with the aims of sharing knowledge, data and materials, and conducting collaborative experiments. The universities involved are: University of Oxford, University College London, University of Lincoln, University of Essex, University of Western Australia, Lancaster University, University of Athens.
Collaborator Contribution	The team from UCL, including myself, have contributed to this consortium in terms of designing research questions, experimental studies, data collection, data analysis.
Impact	A Registered Report outlining out planned study has been accepted by Cortex (no DOI as yet).
Start Year	2018

Description	Consortium on Language Assymetry
Organisation	University of Lincoln
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	The Consortium on Language Asymmetry (COLA) is a group of research teams united by an interest in understanding language lateralisation in the brain. It was set up in 2018 with the aims of sharing knowledge, data and materials, and conducting collaborative experiments. The universities involved are: University of Oxford, University College London, University of Lincoln, University of Essex, University of Western Australia, Lancaster University, University of Athens.
Collaborator Contribution	The team from UCL, including myself, have contributed to this consortium in terms of designing research questions, experimental studies, data collection, data analysis.
Impact	A Registered Report outlining out planned study has been accepted by Cortex (no DOI as yet).
Start Year	2018

Description	Consortium on Language Assymetry
Organisation	University of Oxford
Department	Department of Experimental Psychology
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	The Consortium on Language Asymmetry (COLA) is a group of research teams united by an interest in understanding language lateralisation in the brain. It was set up in 2018 with the aims of sharing knowledge, data and materials, and conducting collaborative experiments. The universities involved are: University of Oxford, University College London, University of Lincoln, University of Essex, University of Western Australia, Lancaster University, University of Athens.
Collaborator Contribution	The team from UCL, including myself, have contributed to this consortium in terms of designing research questions, experimental studies, data collection, data analysis.
Impact	A Registered Report outlining out planned study has been accepted by Cortex (no DOI as yet).
Start Year	2018

Description	Consultancy as international expert to provide advice for Educating Deaf Children website
Organisation	Rochester Institute of Technology
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	K Cormier Sought as international expert to provide advice for Educating Deaf Children, support site hosted by Rochester Institute of Technology, National Technical Institute for the Deaf (USA) for parents and educators of deaf and hard-of-hearing children
Collaborator Contribution	K Cormier Sought as international expert to provide advice for Educating Deaf Children, support site hosted by Rochester Institute of Technology, National Technical Institute for the Deaf (USA) for parents and educators of deaf and hard-of-hearing children
Impact	http://www.rit.edu/ntid/educatingdeafchildren/?p=1151
Start Year	2014

Description	Consultancy re possible collaboration with British Library
Organisation	The British Library
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Meeting with KC and JF, with Jonathan Robinson and Simone Bacchini, social science curators at British Library
Start Year	2013

Description	Consultant as expert on linguistic aspects of sign languages, for Gamelab UK on sign language animation
Organisation	Gamelab UK
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	K Cormier Sought as expert to consult for Gamelab UK on a new animations for deaf and hearing children including characters using British Sign Language and American Sign Language. Provided advice on linguistic wellformedness and problems of animated characters' signing and how this integrated with sound and speech.
Collaborator Contribution	K Cormier Sought as expert to consult for Gamelab UK on a new animations for deaf and hearing children including characters using British Sign Language and American Sign Language. Provided advice on linguistic wellformedness and problems of animated characters' signing and how this integrated with sound and speech.
Impact	Still active. Animated cartoons will be available on various media.
Start Year	2018

Description	Consultation about adaptation of BSL sentence reproduction test into Swiss-German sign language
Organisation	University of Applied Sciences for Special Needs Education Zurich
Country	Switzerland
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Consultation with Tobias Haug, University of Applied Sciences for Special Needs Education Zurich, about adaptation of BSL Sentence Reproduction Test into Swiss-German Sign Language
Start Year	2012

Description	Consultation about creation of Finnish Sign Language corpus
Organisation	University of Jyvaskyla
Country	Finland
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Consultation with Ritva Takkinen, University of Jyväskylä, about creation of Finnish Sign Language corpus
Start Year	2012

Description	Consultation about creation of Moroccan Sign Language corpus
Organisation	National School of Mineral Industry
Country	Morocco
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Consultation with Abdelhadi Soudi, Head of the interdisciplinary research team "Mathematics-Computer Science and Linguistics", Ecole Nationale de l'Industrie Minérale, Rabat, Morocco
Start Year	2013

Description	Consultation about creation of historical corpus of American Sign Language
Organisation	University of Connecticut
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Consultation with Ted Supalla, University of Connecticut about creation of historical corpus of American Sign Language
Start Year	2012

Description	Consultation about phonological change in sign languages
Organisation	Mason Perkins Deafness Fund (MPDF)
Country	Italy
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	Consultation with Elena Radutzky, Mason Perkins Deafness Fund, Rome, Italy
Start Year	2013

Description	Consultation about sign language documentation at borders of Brazil, Uraguay, Argentina
Organisation	Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel)
Country	Brazil
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Consultation with Tatiana Lebedeff, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil
Start Year	2013

Description	Consultation about sign language machine translation techology in Brazil
Organisation	New Scientist
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Private
PI Contribution	Consultation with Niall Firth, New Scientist magazine
Start Year	2013

Description	Consultation about use of BSL corpus data for improvement of sign language recognition technology
Organisation	University of Aberdeen
Department	Department of Computing Science
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Consultation with Ernesto Compatangelo, Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen about use of BSL Corpus data to improve Portable Sign Language Translator (http://www.technabling.co.uk/pslt)
Start Year	2012

Description	Consultation about use of BSL corpus data for improvement of sign language recognition technology
Organisation	University of Sheffield
Department	Department of Computer Science
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Consultation with Trevor Cohn, Dept of Computer Science, University of Sheffield about use of BSL Corpus data for work on automatic machine translation
Start Year	2012

Description	Consultation on language and gesture in sign language and multimodal corpora
Organisation	University of Nottingham
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Consultation with Svenja Adolphs, Professor of English Language and Linguistics, Nottingham University
Start Year	2013

Description	Creation of Indian Sign Language corpus
Organisation	Central Institute of Indian Languages
Country	India
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Consultation with Amaresh Gopalakrishnan, Central Institute of Indian Languages, about creation of Indian Sign Language corpus
Start Year	2012

Description	DEAFLI Grundtvig Project
Organisation	Institute of the Deaf of Turin
Country	Italy
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Part of an EU-funded Grundtvig project, developing materials for improving English literacy skills of British deaf people
Collaborator Contribution	Developing materials for improving literacy skills of Deaf Austrians, Catalonians, and Italians
Impact	No outcomes yet
Start Year	2013

Description	DEAFLI Grundtvig Project
Organisation	University of Barcelona
Department	APRELS (Deafness, Communication and Learning),
Country	Spain
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Part of an EU-funded Grundtvig project, developing materials for improving English literacy skills of British deaf people
Collaborator Contribution	Developing materials for improving literacy skills of Deaf Austrians, Catalonians, and Italians
Impact	No outcomes yet
Start Year	2013

Description	DEAFLI Grundtvig Project
Organisation	University of Klagenfurt
Country	Austria
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Part of an EU-funded Grundtvig project, developing materials for improving English literacy skills of British deaf people
Collaborator Contribution	Developing materials for improving literacy skills of Deaf Austrians, Catalonians, and Italians
Impact	No outcomes yet
Start Year	2013

Description	Documenting all the BSL signs relating to specific theatre terminology
Organisation	Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Department	The Technical Theatre BSL Project
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Robert Adam was asked to be a consultant on this project to see how the theatre signs appear in the BSL Corpus Project so as not to duplicate both databases.
Start Year	2012

Description	Email advice and consultancy on appropriate assessment and services where a deaf person has developed cognitive impairment or memory problems
Organisation	University College London
Department	Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Email advice and consultancy provided to over 80 professionals, families and individuals where a deaf person has developed cognitive impairment or memory problems. Difficulties range from dementia, stroke to dyspraxia and dyslexia. I provided advice on appropriate assessment and services. This shows that further research is desperately needed to develop clinical services in the field of neurology and neuropsychology.
Start Year	2011

Description	European COST action SignGram : unraveling the grammars of European sign languages : pathways to full citizenship of deaf signers and to the protection of their linguistic heritage
Organisation	European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)
Department	Unraveling the Grammars of European Sign Language
Country	European Union (EU)
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Member of European COST action SignGram: Unraveling the grammars of European sign languages: pathways to full citizenship of deaf signers and to the protection of their linguistic heritage. http://parles.upf.edu/en/content/cost-signgram
Start Year	2011

Description	European COST program Bi-SLI : language impairment in a multilingual society
Organisation	European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST)
Department	Language Impairment in Multilingual Society
Country	European Union (EU)
Sector	Public
PI Contribution	Member of European COST program Bi-SLI: Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: http://www.bi-sli.org/
Start Year	2010

Description	Funded expert collaborator on ERC Starter Grant to Dr. Jennifer Culbertson, "Syntax Shaped by Cognition"
Organisation	University of Edinburgh
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Kearsy Cormier as funded expert collaborator on ERC Starter Grant to Dr. Jennifer Culbertson, "Syntax Shaped by Cognition", 2018-2023
Collaborator Contribution	Kearsy Cormier as funded expert collaborator on ERC Starter Grant to Dr. Jennifer Culbertson, "Syntax Shaped by Cognition", 2018-2023
Impact	In progress
Start Year	2018

Description	How does language affect perception : data from colour perception in signed and spoken language
Organisation	South China Normal University
Department	Department of Psychology
Country	China
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Research collaboration funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
Start Year	2012

Description	Invited Advisor for research project at City University
Organisation	City, University of London
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Nuffield funded research project ?Reading and Dyslexia in Deaf Children II: The Special Case of Deaf Children Who Sign?;
Collaborator Contribution	Advice on design of study, in particular assessment and data collection from deaf children who use British Sign Language
Impact	Multi-disciplinary: speech & language therapy, developmental psychology, education
Start Year	2013

Description	K Cormier as funded expert collaborator on ERC Starter Grant to Dr. Jennifer Culbertson, "Syntax Shaped by Cognition"
Organisation	University of Edinburgh
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	K Cormier at DCAL/ UCL is funded expert collaborator on European Research Council Starter Grant to Dr. Jennifer Culbertson, "Syntax Shaped by Cognition", advising on the silent gesture part of the project.
Collaborator Contribution	The European Research Council Starter Grant award was to PI Dr. Jennifer Culbertson at University of Edinburgh, "Syntax Shaped by Cognition"
Impact	Project runs 2018-02-01 to 2023-01-31
Start Year	2018

Description	Karen Emmorey (Vigliocco named co-I on NIH grant by Emmorey)
Organisation	San Deigo State University
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Vigliocco was Co-I on a research grant by Emmorey funded by NIH to carry out a TMS study of iconicity
Collaborator Contribution	Emmorey's grant paid for consumables and RA time
Impact	A manuscript reporting the results of the experiment is about to be submitted
Start Year	2012

Description	Language development for NDCS train the trainers project.
Organisation	NDCS National Deaf Children's Society
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Charity/Non Profit
PI Contribution	On going work on training professionals to work with deaf children and families
Start Year	2013

Description	Lexical-semantic organization in American Sign Language by Deaf native signers
Organisation	University of Texas at Austin
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	International Collaboration with Dr Richard Meier, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin The goal of this collaboration is to investigate the depth of semantic knowledge in American Sign Language (ASL) by deaf native signers, using a repeated meaning association paradigm.
Start Year	2011

Description	Partner investigator on Research Grant from Australian Research Council (ARC), "When do gestures become linguistic?"
Organisation	Macquarie University
Country	Australia
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Kearsy Cormier as Partner investigator on Research Grant from Australian Research Council (ARC), "When do gestures become linguistic? Understanding the gesture-language interface through a corpus-based study of pointing signs in signed languages" Chief Investigators: Trevor Johnston (Macquarie-U, Sydney), Adam Schembri (La Trobe-U, Melbourne); Partner Investigator: Onno Crasborn (Radboud-U, Nijmegen, Netherlands). ASD$345,000.
Collaborator Contribution	Partner investigator on Research Grant from Australian Research Council (ARC), "When do gestures become linguistic? Understanding the gesture-language interface through a corpus-based study of pointing signs in signed languages" Chief Investigators: Trevor Johnston (Macquarie-U, Sydney), Adam Schembri (La Trobe-U, Melbourne); Partner Investigator: Onno Crasborn (Radboud-U, Nijmegen, Netherlands). ASD$345,000.
Impact	in progress
Start Year	2014

Description	Partner investigator on Research Grant from Australian Research Council (ARC), "When do gestures become linguistic?"
Organisation	Radboud University Nijmegen
Country	Netherlands
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Kearsy Cormier as Partner investigator on Research Grant from Australian Research Council (ARC), "When do gestures become linguistic? Understanding the gesture-language interface through a corpus-based study of pointing signs in signed languages" Chief Investigators: Trevor Johnston (Macquarie-U, Sydney), Adam Schembri (La Trobe-U, Melbourne); Partner Investigator: Onno Crasborn (Radboud-U, Nijmegen, Netherlands). ASD$345,000.
Collaborator Contribution	Partner investigator on Research Grant from Australian Research Council (ARC), "When do gestures become linguistic? Understanding the gesture-language interface through a corpus-based study of pointing signs in signed languages" Chief Investigators: Trevor Johnston (Macquarie-U, Sydney), Adam Schembri (La Trobe-U, Melbourne); Partner Investigator: Onno Crasborn (Radboud-U, Nijmegen, Netherlands). ASD$345,000.
Impact	in progress
Start Year	2014

Description	Partner investigator on Research Grant from Australian Research Council (ARC), "When do gestures become linguistic?"
Organisation	University of Birmingham
Country	United Kingdom
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Kearsy Cormier as Partner investigator on Research Grant from Australian Research Council (ARC), "When do gestures become linguistic? Understanding the gesture-language interface through a corpus-based study of pointing signs in signed languages" Chief Investigators: Trevor Johnston (Macquarie-U, Sydney), Adam Schembri (La Trobe-U, Melbourne); Partner Investigator: Onno Crasborn (Radboud-U, Nijmegen, Netherlands). ASD$345,000.
Collaborator Contribution	Partner investigator on Research Grant from Australian Research Council (ARC), "When do gestures become linguistic? Understanding the gesture-language interface through a corpus-based study of pointing signs in signed languages" Chief Investigators: Trevor Johnston (Macquarie-U, Sydney), Adam Schembri (La Trobe-U, Melbourne); Partner Investigator: Onno Crasborn (Radboud-U, Nijmegen, Netherlands). ASD$345,000.
Impact	in progress
Start Year	2014

Description	Partnership between DCAL and ARC CCD, Macquarie University, Australia to develop analysis software for fTCD.
Organisation	Australian Research Council
Department	ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders
Country	Australia
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	Payne contributed to the new artifact rejection steps of the analysis software. She was responsible for checking the code with existing data collected from past projects.
Collaborator Contribution	Badcock wrote the code for the analysis software and provided in depth training to Payne on developing analysis software using MATLAB.
Impact	During a 6 week research visit (summer 2014) Badcock and Payne made significant progress in developing version 3 of the specialist analysis software, used to analyse fTCD data (dopOSCCI). This is an improvement on the previous version of dopOSCCI, allowing users to visualize each step of processing the fTCD signal and includes a more sophisticated method for noise reduction. A working version of this software is being tested by Badcock, Payne and researchers using fTCD at the University of South Australia, Adelaide and will be used in publications currently in preparation.
Start Year	2014

Description	UCL-MRRI
Organisation	Moss Rehabilitation Hospital
Country	United States
Sector	Hospitals
PI Contribution	GV started a collaboration with Drs Laurel Buxbaum and Myrna Schwartz at Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute concerning the multimodal communication of people with aphasia and apraxia.
Collaborator Contribution	Dr Buxbaum and Schwartz bring expertise on aphasia and apraxia as well as access to patients. A grant application (Buxbaum, PI; Vigliocco co-I) has been submitted to NIH.
Impact	No major output yet.
Start Year	2016

Description	Using mediated learning experiences to inform deaf children's organization of their signed and spoken language systems
Organisation	University of Texas at Austin
Country	United States
Sector	Academic/University
PI Contribution	International collaboration with Dr Elizabeth Pena, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Texas at Austin, USA Goal of this collaboration is to provide a model for assessment of vocabulary knowledge in American Sign Language (ASL) within the framework of dynamic language assessment and discuss the notion of child modifiability in response to scripted mediated learning experience (MLE) sessions.
Start Year	2011

Title	STAR - speechreading training and reading
Description	Computerised speechreading (lipreading) training programme for young deaf children.
Type	Products with applications outside of medicine
Current Stage Of Development	Initial development
Year Development Stage Completed	2019
Development Status	Under active development/distribution
Impact	speechreading training led to improvements in speechreading and phonological skills in deaf children.
URL	http://star-demo.research.sc/

Title	Specialist memory clinic for British Sign Language community
Description	specialist memory clinic (based in London) for the diagnosis of dementia in members of the deaf community, taking referrals from all over the UK, and using diagnostic tools specially developed for signers with acquired neurological impairments
Type	Health and Social Care Services
Current Stage Of Development	Early clinical assessment
Year Development Stage Completed	2013
Development Status	Actively seeking support
Impact	Collaborations to develop comparable diagnostic tools for Deaf people in other countries
URL	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/clinical

Description	"Deaf Awareness Day" at Roding Primary School, Redbridge.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Awareness of DCAL's activities amongst parents of deaf children and other professionals, and promotion of UCL's summer school programme for deaf students Contacts made for potential future collaborations and people were interested in taking part in future research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015

Description	'Deaf and dementia' project call for volunteers
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Deaf clinical psychologist Dr.Joanna Atkinson introduces the 'Deaf and Dementia' project to a group of 800 holidaying pensioners at the annual England Deaf Darby and Joan event in Lowestoft. Interviewing 150 of this healthy group of Deaf people is the first stage of the research project, involving 3 leading British universities. The project will look at how Deaf people are affected by dementia. Deaf community so individuals can be diagnosed early and accordingly supported. 250 people volunteeered to take part in the research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2010

Description	'Fake' Mandela interpreter claims schizophrenic episode
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	'Fake' Mandela interpreter claims schizophrenic episode Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	'Fake' interpreter at Mandela memorial claims to have exposed system
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://www.newsfiber.com/p/s/h?v=EuRHwrpflhk0%3D+DZFpIBMOuDk%3D 'Fake' interpreter at Mandela memorial claims to have exposed system
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	'Zulu sign language? There's no such thing': expert reacts to 'fake' Nelson Mandela memorial interpreter
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/nelson-mandela/10511040/Zulu-sign-language-Theres-no-such-thing-expert-reacts-to-fake-Nelson-Mandela-memorial-interpreter.html 'Zulu sign language? There's no such thing': expert reacts to 'fake' Nelson Mandela memorial interpreter
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	2 languages = 2 brains, 2 minds and 2 cultures?
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	Yes
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	ESRC Festival of Social Science event. discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	40th anniversary celebration of the first BSL Workshop
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	DCAL with the British Deaf Association and Heriot-Watt University is organised a one-day event public engagement event that has been supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as a part of the Festival of Social Sciences. 150 people attended which consisted of talks and a panel which took questions from the audience which sparked questions and discussion. DCAL also recruited additional participants for our research database.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/news/2019/aug/hold-date

Description	@dcal_ucl : The fantastic History of #BSL free exhibition opens TODAY!! 2-25 July 2013, at #UCL North Cloisters! http://t.co/bKtuJzOJE0
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	DCAL's exhibition advertised online at: http://inagist.com/all/352049432000348161/ link accessed 11.7.13 Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013
URL	http://inagist.com/all/352049432000348161/

Description	A basic introduction to the linguistics of BSL: Bradford, England
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Workshop delivered to British Sign Language teachers BSL tutors had an improved understanding of BSL linguistics and there were some informal requests for further training.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	A minority sign language community within a majority sign language community. Gallaudet University Department of ASL and Deaf Studies. Washington DC, USA, 1st April 2014
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Participants in your research and patient groups
Results and Impact	Discussion after the presentation Discussion with academics with a specific interest in this area (Black ASL, ISL in South Africa)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	A sign of where you're from? BDN article
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	"A sign of where you're from?" Research article by Rose Stamp, Adam Schembri, Bronwen Evans, Kearsy Cormier, featuring research on accommodation in BSL, British Deaf News, April 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015

Description	Addressing hearing loss services 'could save £28m'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://www.hsj.co.uk/addressing-hearing-loss-services-could-save-28m/5058257.article#.UvJqtCSBTAI Greater knowledge among the Deaf and Hearing Community
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013
URL	http://www.hsj.co.uk/addressing-hearing-loss-services-could-save-28m/5058257.article#.UvJqtCSBTAI

Description	Advertisement for Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research (TISLR) Conference 11
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	DCAL's TISLR conference was advertised online at: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/26470/theoretical-issues-in-sign-language-research-%28tislr%29-conference-11.aspx?dm_i=XZA,1N3D8,4OC31U,5QF0B,1 link accessed 11.7.13 Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013
URL	http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/26470/theoretical-issues-in-sign-language-research-%28t...

Description	An investigation into deaf children's vocabulary development in BSL
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Talk delivered at event supported under the Beacons for Public Engagement programme - funded by UK councils, Research Councils UK and the Wellcome Trust as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	Analysing deaf children's communication in sign
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Talk to Yorkshire Deaf children's services. 30.1.2009 Discussion with families/professionals
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2009

Description	Are deaf children with autism spectrum disorder impaired when using emotional and linguistic facial expressions in British Sign Language?
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation given to members of the Applied Psychology and Deafness Special Interest group Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	Arriving at conventions in language acquisition: perspectives from child signers.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Talk at a meeting about sign and spoken language comparisons n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Article - DCAL What do they do? By terptree
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Expanded the knowledge of the reader to understand what DCAL does and what our aims are
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://terptree.co.uk/deaf-people/dcal-what-do-they-do/

Description	Article about DCAL research: Sign language dialects "in decline"
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Article sparked questions and discussion about Sign language dialects Public became more aware of Sign language dialects and that users of British Sign Language (BSL) are being faced with unprecedented change in their language, with some loss of regional variations in signs, and a gap between the older and younger generations emerging.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.hearingtimes.co.uk/Community/1645/Sign%20language%20dialects%20%E2%80%9Cin%20decline%E2%8...

Description	Article about Discover UCL: A Summer School for D/deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Article advertising the BSL summer school Deaf students bacame more ware of coursesavailable with UCL and DCAL
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.accessprofessions.com/partners/university-college-london/discover-ucl

Description	Article about the reults of Research Carried out by DCAL. First evidence that synaesthesia gives colour to sign language
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Article about the results of Research Carried out by DCAL. First evidence that synaesthesia gives colour to sign language Made a wider audience aware of DCAL and the research carried out,
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://allthingslinguistic.com/post/147014428482/first-evidence-that-synaesthesia-gives-colour-to

Description	Article in British Association of Teachers of the Deaf Magazine. Rowley K, Dumbrill H and MacSweeney M The brain needs language. March 2019
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Article in British Association of Teachers of the Deaf Magazine. Rowley K, Dumbrill H and MacSweeney M The brain needs language. March 2019 Kate Rowley, Hilary Dumbrill and Mairéad MacSweeney stress the importance of early language acquisition for cognitive development and explain how to ensure this happens
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019

Description	Article in British Deaf News about the work being done in DCAL to increase knowledge about language difficulties among sign language users
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Article in British Deaf News about the work being done in DCAL to increase knowledge about language difficulties among sign language users. Audience reported a change in views. More awareness among deaf community and practitioners
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Article in British Deaf News mentioning DCAL winning an award for 'Most significant research contribution to Deaf studies' at the Royal Association for Deaf 175th Birthday Honours Awards Ceremony
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Article in British Deaf News mentioning DCAL winning an award for 'Most significant research contribution to Deaf studies' at the Royal Association for Deaf 175th Birthday Honours Awards Ceremony. Deaf community more aware of DCAL and the research work it does and the impact it has
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Article in Hearing Times mentioning DCAL winning an award for 'Most significant research contribution to Deaf studies' at the Royal Association for Deaf 175th Birthday Honours Awards Ceremony
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Article in Hearing Times mentioning DCAL winning an award for 'Most significant research contribution to Deaf studies' at the Royal Association for Deaf 175th Birthday Honours Awards Ceremony. Help auidence to be more aware of DCAL and the reseach done at DCAL.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.hearingtimes.co.uk/video/82827/Deaf%20community%20champions%20celebrated%20at%20RAD%20175...

Description	Article on Limping Chicken Website - Launch of the DCAL Portal
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Article on Limping Chicken Website - Launch of the DCAL Portal Increased the knowledge of DCAL and the research and work we carry out.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://limpingchicken.com/2016/06/07/deaf-news-new-online-resource-provides-huge-leap-forward-in-dea...

Description	Article on Limping Chicken Website- New study casts light on synaesthesia among signed language users
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Increased knowledge of the research carried out by DCAL.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://limpingchicken.com/2016/07/20/deaf-news-new-study-casts-light-on-synaesthesia-among-signed-la...

Description	Article: New UCL deaf awareness training in tune with latest Health Commission recommendations
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Article influenced public about a need for Deaf Awareness online training. Audience reported a change in views. Greater awareness of the need for Deaf Awareness training especially for Heath Care professionals.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lifelearning/latest-announcements/deaf-awareness-training-health-commission-rec...

Description	Assessing Interpreter Aptitude
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Undergraduate students
Results and Impact	A lecture to spoken language and sign language interpreting students at Moscow Linguistics University group of Russian interpreting students came for a study attachment
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	Assessing early sign language development
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited presentation at Hot topics in bilingual education for students with hearing loss. Victorian Deaf Education Institute, Melbourne, 4 September 2012. N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Assessing interpreter aptitude
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited presentation at Interpreter Training Network Symposium, Adelaide 26 August 2012. continuing contact and collaboration with Australian interpreters
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Assessment Gap for Deaf Children
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://www.primarytimes.net/parent_times_education_assessment_gap_deaf_children.php Assessment Gap for Deaf Children
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Assessment and feedback in the digital age
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Type Of Presentation	workshop facilitator
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	A one day workshop funded by the HEA to focus on the use of digital technologies when training interpreters and post qualification continuing professional development. n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	BATOD: The Preschool Language and Literacy Study
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	An article on the progress of the The Preschool Language and Literacy Study and recruitment of further participants for the study.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020

Description	BATOD: UCL's Summer School 2020
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Natasha Wilcock and Manjula Patrick summarise this year's event for Years 11 and 12 students, unique to UCL, that aims to redress the balance by equipping deaf students for university life. Although usually a residential event, this year the programme was rationalised to fit in with resources and limitations of technology; balancing the amount of online material (hosted on UCL's existing virtual learning infrastructure) that could be self-directed, with the logistics of running numerous live person-to-person interactive elements using MS Teams.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.batod.org.uk/information/batod-association-magazine-2021/

Description	BBC See Hear - Stroke in Deaf Community and parliamentary launch of consultation on deafness and long term conditions
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	National broadcast on BBC See Hear Greater knowledge among the Deaf community.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	BBC See Hear, featuring British Sign Language Corpus
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Interviewee for BBC See Hear, featuring British Sign Language Corpus, 28 May 2014. Aired on BBC early 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	BBC2 See Hear Series 32 Episode 30
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Dcal staff (Bencie Woll) interviewed Audience reported a change in their views
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013
URL	http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01q98w3

Description	BBC2 See Hear Series 33 Episode 3
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	DCAL staff (Joanna Atkinson intervied). http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s0s89 First broadcast on BBC 2. Deaf public became more aware of our research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013
URL	http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s0s89

Description	BBC2 See Hear Series 33 Episode 6
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	DCAL staff interviewed. Television programme showing some 1920s film footage of the first known record of BSL in the UK, telling of the economic downturn of that time, when many deaf people didn't have jobs. DCAL at the University College of London has discovered this unusual footage which was handed in to them. Upon viewing this footage, it revealed how BSL was used over ninety years ago - around 1927 or 1928 - just after the 'General Strike', when a lot of people were out of work. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p019x905 Greater knowledge among the Deaf community
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	BBC2 See Hear Series 33, Episode 19
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	DCAL staff interviewed. TV programme deaf public became more aware of our research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	BBC2 See Hear Special Episode on 'The deaf brain'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Dcal staff (Mairead MacSweeney) interviewed greater knowledge among Deaf community
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	BSL Bake-off
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Fun bake-off event using the 11th anniversary of the recognition of BSL as an official language in the UK to raise deaf awareness and publicise DCAL's research Approx 60 people visited DCAL and took part in the event. Funds raised from cake sales were donated to a local Deaf school.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	BSL Corpus ten year celebration event. 3 November, 2018. DCAL.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	On Saturday 3 November, DCAL hosted the BSL Corpus 10-year celebration event. This public event was hosted live in central London and simultaneously live streamed online to viewers in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. DCAL invited every single person who has been involved in the creation and development of the BSL Corpus over the past ten years: fieldworkers, language consultants, researchers, teachers, community members, visiting scholars and more. Anyone who is interested in BSL and signed language linguistics was also invited and welcome to attend. Half of the day was about disseminating research findings - what has been learned over the years from doing research using the BSL Corpus and also the related BSL Signbank dictionary. The other half of the day showcased people from across the UK who have been using the BSL Corpus and/or BSL SignBank for reasons other than research, especially for BSL teaching and/or interpreter training. The main language of the event was BSL, with over 100 Deaf and hearing BSL signers attend in person, with another 200+ people watching online. The event was fully accessible with voice interpretation from BSL into English and live English captions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018
URL	https://bslcorpusproject.org/events/bsl-corpus-10-year-celebration/

Description	BSL Flash Mob
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Part of the annual Bloomsbury Festival, which this year had "Language" as its theme. A flash mob was organised to introduce those attending the day's events to British Sign Language, with a 5 minute lesson given by one of the DCAL staff.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	BSL Linguistics for BSL tutors, DCAL CPD 18 April 2015
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	BSL Linguistics for BSL tutors. Workshop delivered with Robert Adam as part of DCAL's Continuing Professional Development programme for teachers of BSL, 18 April 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015

Description	BSL Linguistics for Interpreters, Cit Lit workshop, K Cormier
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	BSL Linguistics for Interpreters. One day training workshop at City Lit, London, 12 April 2014. N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	BSL SignBank is the First British Sign Language Dictionary Based on Actual Use
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Kearsy Cormier as interviewee for "BSL SignBank is the First British Sign Language Dictionary Based on Actual Use," featuring BSL SignBank. News item on Shiny Shiny, mainstream technology website for women, 26 September 2014. http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2014/09/signbank-bsl-dictionary.html
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2014/09/signbank-bsl-dictionary.html

Description	BSL SignBank is the first British Sign Language dictionary based on actual use
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	ShinyShiny article about BSL SignBank Greater knowledge among the Deaf community
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2014/09/signbank-bsl-dictionary.html

Description	BSL SignBank, a 'living' British Sign Language dictionary, is launched online
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Kearsy Cormier as interviewee for "Deaf News: BSL SignBank, a 'living' British Sign Language dictionary, is launched online", featuring BSL SignBank. Limping Chicken (world-leading deaf blog), 7 October 2014. http://limpingchicken.com/2014/10/07/deaf-news-bsl-signbank-a-living-british-sign-language-dictionary-is-launched-online/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://limpingchicken.com/2014/10/07/deaf-news-bsl-signbank-a-living-british-sign-language-dictionar...

Description	BSL SignBank: The first usage-based sign language dictionary
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	"BSL SignBank: The first usage-based sign language dictionary", featuring BSL SignBank. News item in Hearing Times, national newspaper for deaf and hard-of-hearing, 30 September 2014, http://www.hearingtimes.co.uk/News/21961/BSL%20SignBank-%20The%20first%20usage-based%20sign%20language%20dictionary
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.hearingtimes.co.uk/News/21961/BSL%20SignBank-%20The%20first%20usage-based%20sign%20langua...

Description	BSL cognitive tests and cognitive disorders clinic for deaf people
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Workshop presentation for Applied Psychology Special Interest Group in Deafness - a workshop for clinical psychologists working with deaf people requests for information about referrals and screening tools
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	BSL grammaticality judgement task, K Cormier, DCAL Roadshow, 2011
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Participants in your research and patient groups
Results and Impact	Talk delivered at DCAL Roadshow event supported under the Beacons for Public Engagement programme - funded by UK councils, Research Councils UK and the Wellcome Trust as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011
URL	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/public-engagement/roadshow

Description	BSL linguistics revision for BSL tutors
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Workshop delivered to British Sign Language teachers BSL tutors asked for more workshops and training.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2010

Description	BSL sociolinguistics
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Talk about deaf issues at sociolinguistics workshop at Andrea's School of BSL N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	BSLBT Zoom - 'This is I. Remember me.' National broadcast 16th February 2015
Form Of Engagement Activity	A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	BSLBT Zoom - 'This is I. Remember me.' National broadcast 16th February 2015 One in three people will develop dementia, but many Deaf people don't know enough about it. This is I, Remember Me explores whether there should be more information in BSL and also features interviews with Deaf experts on dementia and Alzheimer's disease. On the right-hand side of this page, you can watch the behind the scenes film. This film was made by Jack Smallwood as part of the BSL Zone's Zoom 2014 filmmaking scheme, produced by Neath Films. Watch this programme online here on the BSL Zone from 8am on Monday morning or watch it on TV at the following dates and times: Film 4 at 8am on Monday 16th February Community Channel at 2pm on Tuesday 17th February Community Channel at 7.30pm on Thursday 19th February Community Channel at 7.30am on Saturday 21st February
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.bslzone.co.uk/latest/online-and-tv-next-week-i-remember-me/

Description	Barriers to identification of dementia in deaf people
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Invited lecture at workshop on Dementia and Deafness organised by University of Cologne. Contributed to German government thinktank on services for deaf people with dementia Influence on German government policy
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	Basic linguistics of British Sign Language: Cardiff, Wales
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	An introductory workshop for British Sign Language tutors, which introduces the linguistics of BSL and disseminates current research knowledge. BSL tutors had an improved understanding of BSL linguistics and there were some informal requests for further training.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2010

Description	Basic linguistics of British Sign Language: London, England
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	An introductory workshop for British Sign Language tutors, which introduces the linguistics of BSL and disseminates current research knowledge. BSL tutors had an improved understanding of BSL linguistics and there were some informal requests for further training.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Basic linguistics of British Sign Language: London, England
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	An introductory workshop for British Sign Language tutors, which introduces the linguistics of BSL and disseminates current research knowledge. BSL tutors had an improved understanding of BSL linguistics and there were some informal requests for further training.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	Bilingualism and how to assess early language development
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited presentation at Adelaide Association of Teachers of the Deaf, Adelaide 25 August 2012. N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Bilingualism and the deaf brain
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited presentation at Hot topics in bilingual education for students with hearing loss. Victorian Deaf Education Institute, Melbourne, 3 September 2012. further collaboration with Australians in test development
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Bilingualism and the deaf brain
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited presentation at National Symposium on Sign Bilingual Education. Renwick College, Sydney, 30 August 2012. N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	British Sign Language corpus project : documenting and describing variation in BSL, J Fenlon et al., DCAL Roadshow
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Participants in your research and patient groups
Results and Impact	DCAL roadshow at Belfast Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011
URL	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/public-engagement/roadshow

Description	British Sign Language corpus project, A Schembri, Invited talk, JASLSI, Kyoto
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited presentation at Japanese Association of Sign Language Interpreters, Kyoto, Japan Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	British Sign Language corpus project, A Schembri, Invited talk, JFD, Tokyo
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited presentation at the Japanese Federation of the Deaf, Tokyo, Japan Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	British Sign Language corpus project, A Schembri, Invited talk, NCSLE, Kyoto
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited presentation at National Centre of Sign Language Education, Kyoto, Japan Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	British Sign Language corpus project, A Schembri, Invited talk, NII, Tokyo
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited presentation at National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	British Sign Language recognition : the way ahead
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Participants in your research and patient groups
Results and Impact	A lecture on the linguistic, neuroscientific, psycholinguistic, historical and cultural research that has been undertaken which will greatly assist the Deaf community in securing linguistic human rights under British legislation. This workshop led to the establishment of a BSL Recognition working party and the commissioning of a discussion paper on the legal, educational, social and access aspects of BSL recognition.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013
URL	http://www.bda.org.uk/News/112

Description	Call for joined up care for people with hearing loss and dementia
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/caresupport/professionals-providers/developments/April-2013.html Call for joined up care for people with hearing loss and dementia
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Categorical perception and production of handling handshapes in British Sign Language (BSL), Zed Sevcikova, ISGS 2010
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Best Paper Award N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2010
URL	http://www.isgs2010.de/PDF/Book%20of%20Abstracts-ISGS2010.pdf

Description	Categorical vs. gradient properties of handling constructions in British Sign Language, Zed Sevcikova
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Poster presentation at the first PsychoLinguistics in the South East (PsyLingSE) workshop, 5 March 2010 N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2010
URL	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chc/CHCevents/psylingse

Description	Categorical vs. gradient properties of handling signs in British Sign Language, Deaf Day 2010
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Participants in your research and patient groups
Results and Impact	Poster presentation at DCAL Deaf Day, 2010 N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2010
URL	http://www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk/documents/DOD2010_Programme.pdf

Description	Categorical vs. gradient properties of handling signs in British Sign Language, Zed Sevcikova, DCAL Roadshow
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Participants in your research and patient groups
Results and Impact	Poster presentation delivered at DCAL Roadshow event supported under the Beacons for Public Engagement programme - funded by UK councils, Research Councils UK and the Wellcome Trust as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011
URL	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/public-engagement/roadshow

Description	Changes in British Sign Language (BSL) : the effects of dialect contact, increased mobility and political correctness on lexical variation
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Invited seminar presentation. Paper presented at the University of Glasgow, Research Seminars in English Language. October 6th 2011. N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	Children's sensitivity to iconic sign-to-world mappings: an eye-tracking study of British Sign Language.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Participants in your research and patient groups
Results and Impact	raised awareness of the audience na
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.iascl2014.org

Description	Cognition and language influences on deaf children's learning.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Talk to Chinese academics and professionals about deaf children's cognition n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Cognitive assessment and the cognitive disorders clinic for users of British Sign Language
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited presentation Cognitive Assessment and the Cognitive Disorders Clinic for users of British Sign Language. Dementia and Hearing Loss Advanced Seminar. Royal Surrey County Hospital 30 May 2012. Referrals of signers for cognitive assessments
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Cognitive benefits of language learning
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Supporters
Results and Impact	A poster introducing our new British Academy funded project was presented at the British Academy Summer Soiree
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Collaboration between art and research
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	A presentation about sign language in collaboration with a multi-modal interactive art exhibition in Rome.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Come along to the British Sign Language Exhibition
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	DCAL's exhibition advertised online at: http://www.swlstg-tr.nhs.uk/news-and-media/news/come-along-to-the-british-sign-language-exhibition/ link accessed 11.7.13 Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013
URL	http://www.swlstg-tr.nhs.uk/news-and-media/news/come-along-to-the-british-sign-language-exhibition/

Description	Communication with deaf isolates : language and gesture
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Invited presentation at Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 11 September 2012 N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Communications, principles, and special methods : deaf people in courts and tribunals
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Training session for judges Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	Comparing early sign language vocabulary development in three groups : deaf and hearing children of deaf parents, and deaf children of hearing parents
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Invited presentation. Comparing early sign language vocabulary development in three groups: Deaf and hearing children of deaf parents, and deaf children of hearing parents. Multimodality and Language Learning Workshop, Max Planck Institute Nijmegen, 14-15 June 2012. assessment tool has been widely adopted
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Constructed action in British, American and Mexican sign languages, DCAL Deaf Open Day 2010
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Participants in your research and patient groups
Results and Impact	Talk delivered at event supported under the Beacons for Public Engagement programme - funded by UK councils, Research Councils UK and the Wellcome Trust as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science. N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2010,2011
URL	https://www.ucl.ac.uk/public-engagement/documents/whatispublicengagement/01_PE_research_and_teaching...

Description	Contribution to BBC article "Why are we learning languages in a closed world"?
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Contributed to an article in BBC Worklife - Education addressing reasons for an increase in interest in language learning during lockdown.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2021
URL	https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20201230-why-are-we-learning-languages-in-a-closed-world

Description	Controversy over 'fake' sign language interpreter at Mandela memorial
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://cir.ca/news/mandela-interpreter-called-fraud Controversy over 'fake' sign language interpreter at Mandela memorial
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Corrections and clarifications
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Correction about Guardian article about BSL Corpus Project published 8 October 2012, mentioning misrepresentation of the BSL Corpus Project and of Gwilym Morris (spokesperson for DCAL) The Guardian
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013
URL	http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2012/dec/23/corrections-and-clarifications?INTCMP=SRCH

Description	Course on the Genetics and Neurobiology of Language (Cold Spring Harbor, New York)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Meeting fellow graduate student researchers in a small group led to stimulating discussions and academic relationships being formed. We were lucky enough to have lectures and discussions in a small group of ~20 from world experts in the field. Impact on presentation and discussion confidence. Initiated relationships between students from different fields of the language/brain sciences.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011,2014
URL	http://theleadingstrand.cshl.edu/Course/media/2014/C-LANGUAGE

Description	Creating a sign language corpus
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Broadcast in Japan on television programme, The life as a Deaf and the life as a Hard-of-Hearing person. Features the BSL Corpus Project Deaf public beacame more aware of our research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Current Research on BSL
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Invited talk to members of two deaf organisations Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	DCAL (Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	DCAL exhibited at the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project Open Day, 9 May 2012, part of Endangered Languages Week 2012 - Language, Performance and Culture, 3-11 May 2012 http://www.hrelp.org/events/elw2012/display.html http://www.hrelp.org/events/elw2012/display.html
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012
URL	http://www.hrelp.org/events/elw2012/display.html

Description	DCAL - the first 10 years
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	A day of talks, interactive activities, an exhibition, 'Ten Years of Deafness Cognition and Language Research at UCL' highlighting DCAL's achievements an early evening social and much more to celebrate the first 10 years of DCAL and look to the future. Attendees included deaf and hearing researchers from around the world, policy makers, the media, members of Deaf Communities, educators, communication support professionals and those with an interest in British Sign Language (BSL).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015

Description	DCAL 10 year Celebration: Article in Limping Chicken about the DCALs top ten achievements
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	The article increased knowledge of the public of the importance of DCAL and what has been achieved Deaf community more aware of DCALs achievements and involvement over the last 10 years and the impact DCAL has had.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://limpingchicken.com/2015/11/17/dcal-as-dcal-celebrates-its-10th-anniversary-here-are-the-centr...

Description	DCAL 2019 Christmas Newsletter
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	DCAL's 2019 Christmas Newsletter was sent to a mail list over over 1000 members of the public, practitioners and policy influencers to inform people of our research updates.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/dcal-newsletters/2019-dcal-christmas-newletter

Description	DCAL 2020 Christmas Newsletter
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	DCAL's 2020 Christmas Newsletter was sent to a mail list over over 1000 members of the public, practitioners and policy influencers to inform people of our research updates.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/dcal-newsletters/2020-dcal-christmas-newsletter

Description	DCAL Deaf roadshow
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Study participants or study members
Results and Impact	A roadshow of workshops visiting six cities in the UK (Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol and Belfast) to disseminate to the Deaf Community research being undertaken at DCAL. This was funded by UCL Beacons for Public Engagement and the British Sign Language Corpus Project. N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	DCAL Deaf roadshow
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Participants in your research and patient groups
Results and Impact	A roadshow of workshops visiting six cities in the UK (Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol and Belfast) to disseminate to the Deaf Community research being undertaken at DCAL. n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	DCAL Deaf roadshow
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Participants in your research and patient groups
Results and Impact	A roadshow of workshops visiting six cities in the UK (Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester, Glasgow, Bristol and Belfast) to disseminate to the Deaf Community research being undertaken at DCAL. This was funded by UCL Beacons for Public Engagement and the British Sign Language Corpus Project. n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	DCAL centre 10 year celebtration. Public engagement demonstrating research and findings to the public (UCL, London)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Attendees included members of the public and members of the deaf community, researchers and other professionals. Hands-on experience of assesment tests were available to all and the impact of the findings of our research discussed. Poster presentations also provided a chance for discussion of work into executive function in deaf children and how to potentially improve EF skills in deaf children in a practical way in schools.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/dcal-news/DCAL_10years

Description	DCAL e-Newsletter Issue 12
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Electronic newsletter produced by DCAL. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/documents/newsletter12 dissemination
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	DCAL e-newsletter + History of BSL Exhibition
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	The Peterborough and District Deaf Children's society featured DCAL's newsletter and exhibition. http://www.pddcs.co.uk/2013/06/dcal-e-newsletter-history-of-bsl.html link accessed 11.7.13 Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	DCAL eNewsletter
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	BSL version of DCAL Newsletter May 2013 n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013
URL	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/dcal-newsletters/newsletter12

Description	DCAL mentioned in the UCL Provost's View: Championing a culture where Disabled people can thrive
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	increased enquiries from students and staff regarding DCAL Auidence was more aware of DCAL and its development of new postgraduate programmes in Sign Language and Deaf Studies, as well as interpreting and translation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/staff/staff-news/1215/03122015-provosts-view-championing-a-culture-where-...

Description	DCAL newsletter Issue 11
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	DCAL eNewsletter, internally produced. Issue 12 published October 2012. dissemination
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012
URL	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/documents/newsletter11

Description	Daily News Article in New Scientiest linking to DCAL research and results - First evidence that synaesthesia gives colour to sign language
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Daily News Article in New Scientiest linking to DCAL research and results - First evidence that synaesthesia gives colour to sign language Increased knowledge of DCAL research and brought DCAL to a wider audience
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	https://www.newscientist.com/article/2095783-first-evidence-that-synaesthesia-gives-colour-to-sign-l...

Description	Deaf Education Conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	A one day research dissemination event aimed at teachers of deaf children featuring speech-reading, language and cognitive underpinnings of deaf children's learning. World-leading researchers, teachers and policy makers discuss the future of education for deaf children.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015

Description	Deaf News: London's DCAL centre casts doubt on 'fake' signer's claims of schizophrenic signing
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://limpingchicken.com/2013/12/13/fake-interpreter-dcal/ Deaf News: London's DCAL centre casts doubt on 'fake' signer's claims of schizophrenic signing
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Deaf News: Researchers find that regional variations of BSL are in decline
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Dr Cormier interviewed about BSL Corpus - Limping Chicken website Deaf public became more aware of our research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://limpingchicken.com/2014/04/24/deaf-news-researchers-find-that-regional-variations-of-bsl-are-...

Description	Deaf black or black Deaf?
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Bencie Woll speaks about how black people in the deaf community identify themselves. Greater knowledge among the Deaf community
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	Deaf children development conference
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	DCAL is six and half years old now, we have carried out a lot of research and we want to share it with you. How much do you know about us? How much does our research inform your work with deaf children? Are you interested in what else we are planning to do in the next four years? Then come along to our one day research update and discussion conference at City University, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB at 9.30am - 4.30pm. We will be explaining our findings from our past research in an accessible and relevant way with suggestions for practice and policy making. We will be chairing a question and answer session with leading experts and asking you your opinion and advice on what we should be doing in the future. Plus we will have information stalls, interesting research demonstrations, freebies and lots more to do and find out about! Amongst some of our invited speakers will be Sue Archbold from the Ear Foundation, Gwen Carr from the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme, Hilary Sutherland a Deaf Research Consultant, Ian Noon Head of Policy and Research for the National Deaf Children's Society, Brigitte Francois a Director from SignVideo, Robin Ash a Community Development Team Manager for the British Deaf Association, Ros Herman Senior Lecturer in Deafness and Hearing Impairment at City University and other experts. Simonetta Agnello-Hornby President of the Special Education Needs and Disability Court and a noted international lawyer and author will be chairing a 'Question Time' session with our speakers. debate
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Deaf children's acquisition of theory of mind
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Invited lecture at the University of Texas at Austin, Dpt of Communication Science & Disorders - CSD 293E 7-COG/LING FND OF LANG DEV/DIS (Sheng), Feb 7th, 2012 questions
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Deaf interpreters
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation given to Japanese Deaf interpreters As with other workshops during this trip to Japan I have since been asked to collaborate on an edited book and to present again on topics such as Deaf interpreters and bilingualism in Japan.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	Deaf interpreters and deafhood
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	A lecture which reviewed research into Deaf translators (Adam, Carty and Stone, 2012) and how the principles of Deafhood (Ladd, 2003) can be used as a theoretical framework for this research. As with other presentations during this trip to Japan, I was asked to collaborate in an edited book, and have been asked back to Japan to present workshops on bilingualism.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Deaf interpreters in a team (for the European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	A three-day workshop in association with the European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters, which looked at the theoretical and practical aspects of Deaf and hearing interpreters co-working together in a team. The workshop content was published in a book chapter (in a volume about Deaf Interpreters published by Gallaudet University Press) and made accessible to Deaf people around the world.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2010,2012

Description	Deaf people and interpreters working together: Glasgow, Scotland
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Workshop given to apprentice British Sign Language interpreters One of the presenters (Robert Adam) was asked by NRCPD to be involved with the interpreter accreditation for Scottish interpreters.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2010

Description	Deaf people in the UK
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Presentation given to the East Tokyo region of the Japanese Federation of the Deaf N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	Deaf people with dementia : communication strategies
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Health professionals
Results and Impact	Deaf people with Dementia : Communication Strategies. Primary Health Conference, Birmingham 24 May 2012 N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Deaf people with dementia: assessing cognition and language in the older Deaf community
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation about current DCAL research to a mixed audience of professionals working with deaf people, academics, research students, members of the Deaf community Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	Deaf people with dementia: assessing cognition and language in the older Deaf community. Centre for Public Health, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Queens University Belfast. 26 November, 2013.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Large audience of Deaf people, professionals working with the older Deaf population. Collaboration with Ireland on developing Irish Sign Language version of BSL cognitive screen; collaboration with new Alzheimers Society project in Northern Ireland
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	Deaf volunteers take part in a project to develop a diagnostic test for doctors to determine the early onset of dementia in deaf people
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Series 30 Episode 23 See Hear joins a group of deaf volunteers taking part in a project to develop a diagnostic test for doctors to determine the early onset of dementia in deaf people. National BBC broadcast. Led to many enquiries for further information and assistance
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2010
URL	http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/seehear/2010/11/wednesday_24th_of_november_bbc_1.html

Description	Deaf with Dementia Project
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Participants in your research or patient groups
Results and Impact	We drafted an article for the British Deaf News for deaf audiences, updating them with latest findings from the project and future directions. Newsletter
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Deaf with Dementia Project testing day and feedback on results
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Participants in your research and patient groups
Results and Impact	A group of 15 Deaf participants were invited to a Saturday event at DCAL and asked to participate in research, they were given information about findings and the project to date and a networking lunch was provided. n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Deaf with dementia project
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Invited talk to older deaf people at the Jewish Deaf Association increase in research volunteers
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	Deaf with dementia symposium, World Congress on Mental Health and Deafness, Belfast
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	The symposium presented ongoing research on deaf people with dementia, including social and cognitive issues. There was extensive discussion following the event. A number of requests for collaboration in developing comparable projects and tools in other countries
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Deafness and Long-term Health Conditions
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact	Parliamentary launch of publication: Joining-Up: why people with hearing loss or deafness would benefit from an intergrated response to long-term health condition; support of MPs for long-term funding of specialist national neuro service for deaf people
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Deafness and ageing: the challenge of dementia
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Health professionals
Results and Impact	Invited lecture on the findings of the Deaf with dementia project n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Deafness and cognition
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Invited speaker at the Léonard Project lecture series. 6th December 2010 n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2010
URL	http://anr-leonard.ens-lyon.fr/

Description	Deafness and dementia
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Workshop organised by the German Federal Ministry of Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth 15 March, 2013 Berlin. Sharing of our research with German policy-makers in order to assist them to develop their own services Sharing of our research with German policy-makers in order to assist them to develop their own services
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	Deafness and dementia project
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Participants in your research or patient groups
Results and Impact	Deafness and dementia project presentation day for Deaf Dutch exchange group Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Deafness and dementia project
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation at Deaf Practitioner meeting, Sussex County Hospital, Brighton. Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Deafness, cognition and language
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Talk to members of Manchester Deaf Community. Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	Departmental seminar (ARC CCD, MacQuarie University, Sydney, Australia)
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Good feedback on task design from attendees. None that I'm aware of.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Developmental disorders in sign language
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Invited presentation at Amsterdam Centre for Language and Communication, University of Amsterdam 15 November 2012 requests for more talks
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Developmental disorders in sign language : insights into modality and language impairment
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Invited presentation at Centre for Child Development and Child Neurology, ICH, London 10 October 2012 N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Diagnosing dementia in deaf people
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Expert interview. Broadcast programme about DCAL work in establishing the first Cognitive Disorders for Deaf people in the UK Deaf public beacme more aware of our research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Digging into Signs Workshop: Developing Annotation Standards for Sign Language Corpora
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Cormier, Kearsy & Onno Crasborn. Digging into Signs Workshop: Developing Annotation Standards for Sign Language Corpora. Workshop organised at UCL, 30-31 March 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.bslcorpusproject.org/events/digging-workshop/

Description	Digiti lingua: a celebration of British Sign Language and Deaf Culture
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	A public lecture celebrating British Sign Language and Deaf Culture. http://royalsociety.org/events/2013/BSL/ n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	Discover UCL Summer School for Deaf students (UCL, UK)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	I helped the group of young adults with one of their evening activities. The workshop gave students the ability to see what studying at UCL might be like and the kinds of resources on offer for deaf students. I became much more interested in widening participation in universities in general.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015

Description	Discover UCL Summer School for deaf and hard of hearing students (2016)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Widening participation summer school targeted at deaf and heard of hearing year 11 and 12 students.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/study/discover-ucl-summer-school

Description	Discover UCL summer school for D/deaf and hard of hearing students
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Article: The Discover UCL Summer School, which was developed and run in partnership with UCL Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL) and the Deaf Education Advocacy Fellowship (DEAF), gave 20 Year 11 and 12 pupils a taste of student life in London. Deaf students became more aware of the training available at DCAL and UCL
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0814/180814-discover-ucl-summer-school

Description	Discover UCL summer school for D/deaf and hard of hearing students (2014)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	20 Deaf/deaf and hard of hearing year 11 and 12 students from around the UK attended a 3-day residential summer school organised by DCAL and the UCL widening participation team. This was the first summer school of its type provided by a UK university and aimed at encouraging Deaf/deaf students to apply to UCL. Overwhelmingly positive feedback from participants have resulted in UCL deciding to run the summer school again. Early indications are that two participants have already applied to UCL for the 2015-16 intake. UCL will now run this summer school again in 2015.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0814/180814-discover-ucl-summer-school

Description	Discover UCL summer school for D/deaf and hard of hearing students (2015)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Widening participation summer school aimed at young deaf people. To inform them about preparation for university. Summer school ran in August 2015, too early to realise significant impact.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/dcal-news/news_release_summer_school

Description	Discover UCL: A Summer School for D/deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Article: Discover UCL: A Summer School for D/deaf and Hard of Hearing Students. Sent in email newsletter with link to website article. UCOD email newsletter Deaf public became more aware of us
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://deafcouncil.org.uk/2014/05/20/discover-ucl-a-summer-school-for-ddeaf-and-hard-of-hearing-stud...

Description	Discussion -Discussant for Multimodality and Language Learning Workshop MPI
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Invited speaker. Discussant for Multimodality and Language Learning Workshop MPI share findings
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	Discussion on effects of language deprivation
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Commentary on film about language deprivation Discussion of A Life Without Words (Una vida sin palabras) - film screening Discussion of A Life Without Words (Una vida sin palabras) - film screening
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	Dissociating Cognitive and sensory neural plasticity. Lecture for the Department of Neuroscience of Language, Jiangsu Normal University, Xuzhou, China, 18 November 2013.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Students are studying neuroscience of sign language. This provided them with state of the art information on research in this field and stimulated significant discussion Several post-docs have applied to spend one or more terms at DCAL
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	Dissociating cognitive and sensory neural plasticity
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Presentation of recent DCAL neuroscience research n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Diversity across sign languages and spoken languages - implications for language universals (a response to Evans & Levinson, 2009), A Schembri
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Invited lecture at University of Western Sydney, Australia N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	Diversity of visual languages
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	An exhibition organised by UCL's Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre, as part of UCL's Diversity Month 2013 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/equalities/exhibition.php http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/equalities/exhibition.php
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013
URL	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/equalities/exhibition.php

Description	Do we agree on the roles, knowledge and skills set of a deaf interpreter?
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Workshop given at the Association of Sign Language Interpreters conference - Developing the Interpreter: developing the profession. This workshop was printed in the proceedings of the conference, and Deaf people have subsequently been able to qualify as interpreters in the UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2010

Description	Do you know what I know? : investigating the robustness of deaf children's vocabulary knowledge in sign language
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Invited research talk at the Department of Deaf Studies, School of Education, Boston University, USA, November 2011 questions
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	Doctor Manjula's Prescription - A History of British Sign Language
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	DCAL organised an exhibition, details of which appeared on this blog: http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/events/2013/07/11/doctor-manjulas-prescription-a-history-of-british-sign-language/ dissemination
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	Dr Velia Cardin, seminar, A cognitive role for the auditory cortex of deaf individuals
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Increased knowledge of research and work carried out by DCAL and the importance of this.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.hearing.nihr.ac.uk/seminars/seminar/a-cognitive-role-for-the-auditory-cortex-of-deaf-indi...

Description	Dr. Mairéad MacSweeney Keynote Lecture, March 2017, International Conference on Teaching Deaf Learners, Amsterdam
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Dr. Mairéad MacSweeney Keynote Lecture, March 2017, International Conference on Teaching Deaf Learners, Amsterdam Using cognitive neuroscience to inform educational interventions with deaf children: a randomised controlled trial of speechreading training
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017
URL	http://www.kentalis.nl/Teaching-Deaf-Learners/TDL-2017/Conference-program

Description	Dr. Mairéad MacSweeney Keynote lecture: Society for the Neurobiology of Language Annual Meeting. London, August 17-20th 2016
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	University College London Dr. Mairéad MacSweeney is a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow at the University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience where she leads the Visual Communication group. She is also a Co-Director of the UCL Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre. She explores how the brain processes language through primarily visual means including reading, gesture, lipreading and sign language. Much of her research focusses on people who were born profoundly deaf. INSIGHTS INTO THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE PROCESSING FROM DEAFNESS AND SIGN LANGUAGE Thursday, August 18, 2016, 9:00 - 10:00 am, Logan Hall Chair: Greig de Zubicaray, Queensland University of Technology The study of the neurobiology of language has, until recently, focussed primarily on auditory speech. In this talk I will consider how research with people born deaf can provide a unique perspective into the neural basis of language processing. First, signed languages can be used as tools to determine the neural systems involved in processing language, regardless of whether it is seen or heard. I will review the current literature which suggests that the neural systems supporting signed and spoken language are very similar, both involving a predominantly left-lateralised perisylvian network. Yet they are not identical. Many recent studies highlight subtle differences between sign and speech processing. These findings have consequences for developing models of language processing that can be applied to all languages. Second, examining how spoken languages, and representations of spoken languages, are processed in the absence of auditory input (e.g., lipreading/ reading) provides unique insights into the influence of altered sensory experience on language processing. This research can help establish, for example, the role of auditory information in learning to read and may inform models of reading development. Findings from this field further our understanding of how the brain processes language under conditions of altered sensory experience. Importantly however, it also encourages and stimulates the application of a wider, multimodal view of language and communication to the broader hearing population.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.neurolang.org/programs/SNL_2016_Program_Download.pdf

Description	Dr. Mairéad MacSweeney: Audio-visual Speech and Language Learning/ Processing workshop, Barcelona, November 2016
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	https://eventum.upf.edu/event_detail/5747/speakers/workshop-on-audiovisual-speech-processing-and-language-learning.html Mairead MacSweeney Title: The relationship between speechreading and reading in deaf children Speechreading (lipreading) is the ability to understand speech in the absence of sound. For most deaf people, speechreading is the primary route to access spoken language. Longitudinal studies have provided evidence for the importance of speechreading (lipreading) as a predictor of variance in reading outcomes in deaf children (Kyle and Harris, 2010; 2011). On the basis of our previous behavioural and neuroimaging research we propose that speechreading provides deaf children with visual information about the sublexical structure of spoken English and that this information helps deaf children to establish amodal phonological representations of speech which they can bring to the task of learning to read. We have previously found that deaf adults but not deaf children outperform their hearing peers on tests of speechreading (Kyle et al., 2013; Mohammed et al., 2006). This pattern of results suggests that increased experience of understanding silent speech leads to improvements in speechreading ability, and therefore raises the possibility that speechreading ability can be trained. In this talk I will present the background data to support this model. I will also present the preliminary results from a randomised controlled trial in which we tested the influence of computerised speechreading training on reading development in young deaf children.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	https://eventum.upf.edu/event_detail/5747/speakers/workshop-on-audiovisual-speech-processing-and-lan...

Description	Dr. Mairéad MacSweeney: Presentation to Specialist Speech and Language Therapists, Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital - 22nd June 2016
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Dr. Mairéad MacSweeney: Presentation to Specialist Speech and Language Therapists, Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital - 22nd June 2016
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Dr. Mairéad MacSweeney: Workshop on Multimodal Multilingual Outcomes in Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children. Stockholm, Sweden, 13-15th June 2016
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Speechreading training and reading: A randomized controlled trial in young deaf children Mairead MacSweeney (University College London)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.ling.su.se/om-oss/evenemang/workshops-och-konferenser/programme-multimodal-multilingual-o...

Description	Dr. Mairéad MacSweeney:Using neuroimaging data to inform educational interventions for deaf children. Invited Seminar presentation to the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, 10th March 2016
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Dr. Mairéad MacSweeney:Using neuroimaging data to inform educational interventions for deaf children. Invited Seminar presentation to the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, 10th March 2016
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016

Description	Dynamic assessment of deaf children's vocabulary knowledge
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Workshop for speech language therapists Discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	E-books for deaf children about coronavirus, in British Sign Language
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	DCAL in collaboration with Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children produced four e-books for deaf children about coronavirus, in British Sign Language. This was an initiative started by the RISE books project in the US, led by Donna Jo Napoli and Gene Mirus. Their team did these books (and others) for American Sign Language, and then invited DCAL and others from many countries to sign the books in other sign languages - https://riseebooks.wixsite.com/access/copy-of-coronavirus-stories. These books are incredibly valuable for deaf children whose first or preferred language is British Sign Language (BSL) - providing them with access to crucial information about what coronavirus is, in a way that's directly accessible to them.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://riseebooks.wixsite.com/access/copy-of-coronavirus-stories

Description	ESRC Press coverage update 21-07-2016 - DCAL, Unusual Condition Lets People See Sign Language in Colors
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Highlighted in the ESRC Press coverage update 21-07-2016 Unusual Condition Lets People See Sign Language in Colors People who use sign language can experience synesthesia, a condition that mixes the senses, for example, allowing some to see letters as colours. ESRC's insight: Article cites the ESRC-funded Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre See it on Scoop.it, via ESRC press coverage This increased knowledge of DCAL and the research we do
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2016
URL	http://www.livescience.com/55450-synesthesia-documented-in-sign-language.html

Description	Early communication in families with deaf children
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	• Invited speaker. Early communication in families with deaf children. Trinity College Dublin. 30.5.2011. discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	Early exposure to BSL. BATOD magazine, 2013
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Early exposure to BSL. British Association of Teachers of the Deaf magazine, January 2013:19. (10) N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Early interaction and the development of deaf children's social awareness/skills
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation at a 'Assessing deaf children's BSL : the challenges and opportunities; event. Discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2010

Description	Educating deaf children in multicultural Britain
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Research article in The British Deaf News: The British Deaf Association is the largest organisation of Deaf people in the UK that is run by Deaf people. We represent the British Sign Language community, which is united by shared experiences, history and, most importantly, by language. We celebrate Deaf Culture, Deaf Identity and British Sign Language. n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	Els trastorns del llenguatge: què podem aprendre de les llengües de signes
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	50 students attended a research talk Generated interest in topic
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	Emerging bilingual bimodals and cross-modality interference
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Presentation given at University of York on 25th October 2010 Debates
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2010

Description	England deaf Darby and Joan event (EDDJ)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Participants in your research and patient groups
Results and Impact	Attendance at an annual event to feedback our research findings and increase public engagement, we filmed participants and asked them for feedback on previous research. n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	England's regional sign language dialects 'in decline'
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	K Cormier, interviewee for "England's regional sign language dialects 'in decline'", featuring British Sign Language Corpus. BBC News England, 24 April 2014. N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-27053639

Description	Errors on hands and mouth in British Sign Language : dissociating articulatory channels in the lexicon?
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Led to requests for further information requests for collaboration
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2010
URL	http://bilingualism.bangor.ac.uk/seminars/documents/DAVIDVINSONErrorsonthehandsandmouthinBSL.doc

Description	European Society for Mental Health and Deafness (Clinical Psychologists) meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited keynote presentation on assessing language and cognition in older signers: moving beyond the BSL Cognitive Screening Test. This has led to research collaborations with 3rd sector organisations in the UK and internationally, including adaptations of the screening tools we have developed for use with other sign languages in Europe
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2018

Description	Everything you wanted to know about research but were too afraid to ask. Keynote, SL2Hub-DC conference, Gallaudet University, Washington DC, USA, 28th March 2014.
Form Of Engagement Activity	A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Discussion with graduate students (both Deaf and hearing) about sign language research Discussions on sign language research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Evolution of BSL
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	Broadcast: Presenter Ramon Woolfe on his personal journey to find out how BSL has evolved over time. http://www.bslzone.co.uk/bsl-zone/evolution-of-bsl/?subs=subs Broadcast shown periodically on various channels at various times and online. For further information see: http://www.bslzone.co.uk/ Greater knowledge among the Deaf community
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012
URL	http://www.bslzone.co.uk/bsl-zone/evolution-of-bsl

Description	Evolution of BSL
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Documentary on the Evolution of BSL - Interview with staff member Jordan Felon regarding the DCAL BSL corpus Deaf public became more aware of our research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.bslzone.co.uk/watch/evolution-bsl/?subs=subs

Description	Executive Function in deaf children
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	An online article about DCAL's research http://www.batod.org.uk/index.php?id=/resources/research/dcal-march13.htm
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Executive function in Deaf children
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Participants in your research or patient groups
Results and Impact	Poster and presentation to DCAL's advisory board at one of the committee meetings Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Executive function in deaf children
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	Yes
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Presentation as part of the ESRC festival of social science: Executive memory and childhood communication difficulties event. debate
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	Executive function in deaf children : advisory committee meeting
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	An organised event for parents, teachers, speech and language therapists, researchers and other individuals working with deaf children - with a presentation about the project and opportunity to discuss the project with a question and answer session. set agenda for project
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	Executive function, language and learning in deaf children.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.)
Part Of Official Scheme?	Yes
Type Of Presentation	paper presentation
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Ideas were discussed and shared. Dissemination of findings.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015

Description	Expert reaction to Mandela interpreter
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-mandela-interpreter/ Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	Expression of perspective, location and motion in British Sign Language : evidence from deaf children : project update to parents and teachers 2010, K Cormier
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Participants in your research and patient groups
Results and Impact	Talk delivered to teachers. N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	Expression of perspective, location and motion in British Sign Language : evidence from deaf children : project update to parents and teachers 2010, K Cormier
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Participants in your research and patient groups
Results and Impact	Talk delivered to teachers. N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	Expression of reference with constructed action in British sign language narratives, SOAS 2010, K Cormier
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Departmental seminar series N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2010
URL	http://www.hrelp.org/events/seminars/seminars2009.html

Description	Faculty of Brain Sciences Newsletter - mentions Discover UCL Summer School for D/deaf and Hard of Hearing students
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Beign mentioned in the newsletter made public more aware of the Discover UCL Summer School for D/deaf and Hard of Hearing students and the work we carry out at DCAL Public became more aware of DCAL and our research and the engagement activities we run within UCL
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015
URL	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/widening-participation/activities/summer-schools/discover-...

Description	Fake Interpreter Busted At Mandela Memorial
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://www.zimeye.org/fake-interpreter-at-mandela-memorial-national-disgrace/ Fake Interpreter Busted At Mandela Memorial
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Fake Mandela Interpreter - another angle...
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	https://www.facebook.com/DeafinateTraining?ref=stream Fake Mandela Interpreter - another angle...
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Fake interpreter at Mandela funeral
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://www.proz.com/forum/interpreting/261136-fake_interpreter_at_mandela_funeral-page2.html Fake interpreter at Mandela funeral
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Fake sign interpreter blames mental illness
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20131213/NEWS04/312139955/1006/NEWS Fake sign interpreter blames mental illness
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Fake sign language interpreter at Mandela funeral claims to be schizophrenic
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://www.lusakatimes.com/2013/12/13/fake-sign-language-interpreter-mandela-funeral-claims-schizophrenic/ Fake sign language interpreter at Mandela funeral claims to be schizophrenic
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Fake sign language interpreter at Mandela memorial says he hallucinated, "saw angels"
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://www.news889.com/2013/12/11/south-africas-deaf-federation-says-man-signing-on-stage-for-mandela-memorial-was-a-fake/ Fake sign language interpreter at Mandela memorial says he hallucinated, "saw angels"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Fake signer at Mandela event says he hallucinated
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20131212/af--mandela-interpreter/?utm_hp_ref=world&ir=world Fake signer at Mandela event says he hallucinated
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Fake signer at Mandela event says he hallucinated
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	DCAL staff quoted in an online news article http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/DAAL3PQ03 http://www.breitbart.com
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Fake signer at Mandela event says he hallucinated
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/fake-signer-mandela-event-says-he-hallucinated Fake signer at Mandela event says he hallucinated
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Fake signer at Mandela event says he hallucinated
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://bigstory.ap.org/article/interpreter-mandela-event-i-was-hallucinating Fake signer at Mandela event says he hallucinated
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Fake signer at Mandela event says he hallucinated
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/DAAL3PQ03 Fake signer at Mandela event says he hallucinated
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Fake signer at Nelson Mandela event says he hallucinated
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?section=newsmakers&xfile=data/newsmakers/2013/December/newsmakers_December17.xml Fake signer at Nelson Mandela event says he hallucinated
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Family sign language - resources and delivery
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Workshops delivered to people who work with deaf children and families Early communication curriculum developed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2010,2011,2012,2013

Description	FamilySign Training Days?
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://events.ndcs.org.uk/index.php?ref=E527A5982D3F4F FamilySign Training Days?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Fingerspelling - the alphabet on your hands
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	https://www.connecttosupport.org/s4s/NewsArticleCmsContext/View/0fc8b564-04b5-4cbf-9ce7-a1b000e93903?Page=1 Fingerspelling - the alphabet on your hands
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Fingerspelling - the alphabet on your hands
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22294204 Fingerspelling - the alphabet on your hands
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Forschung als Grundlage zur besseren Kooperation zwischen Praxis und Hochschulen
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Invited Workshop at the Annual Conference of the Association of German Speech Language Pathologists, Burg Feuerstein, Germany. November 2011. English title: Research as foundation for an improved collaboration between academia and professionals debate
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	Four DCAL briefing documents on dementia and need for specialist services
Form Of Engagement Activity	A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	DCAL Briefing sheets with information for public and press DCAL Briefing: The need for a specialist national neurology service for deaf people http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/dcal-news/dcal-brief Impact UCL Case Study: Creating neuropsychological assessments and services for Deaf patients with neurological impairments http://www.ucl.ac.uk/impact/case-study-repository/neuropsychological-assessments-for-the-deaf - DCAL Briefing: Deaf with dementia, from misdiagnosis and isolation to a future of good practice, UCL. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/documents/dwd-brief DCAL Briefing: Deaf with Dementia Project, UCL. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/projects/tabs/deaf_with_dementia DCAL Newsletter: Cognitive Disorders Clinic, UCL. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/documents/dcal_newsletter_10
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011,2012,2013,2014,2015
URL	http://www.ucl.ac.uk/impact/case-study-repository/neuropsychological-assessments-for-the-

Description	From corpus to lexical database to online dictionary : issues in annotation of the BSL corpus and the development of BSL SignBank, LREC 2012
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Poster presented at the 5th Workshop on the representation and processing of sign languages: Interactions between corpus and lexicon [workshop part of 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation]. N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	From gesture to sign : conventionalization of spatial expressions
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	2nd Nijmegen Gesture Center (NGC) Spring Workshop: Language Evolution in our Hand. Exchange of information with gesture researchers led to collaborations
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2010

Description	From hand to mouth: a dialogue between spoken language and signed language research
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Nathalie Plüss, Tanya Denmark & Joanna Atkinson, Poster title: Differences in digit span performance between deaf signers and hearing speakers persist with age Conference: From hand to mouth: a dialogue between spoken language and signed language research (http://www.hand-to-mouth.uzh.ch/index_de.html) The conference takes place from September 5 to 7, 2013 at the University of Zurich, Binzmuehlestrasse 14, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland. Researchers became more aware of our research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013,2014
URL	http://www.hand-to-mouth.uzh.ch/index_de.html

Description	Functional transcranial Doppler sonography for language research
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Participants in your research or patient groups
Results and Impact	A talk given to staff and students at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	Functional transcranial Doppler sonography for language research
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	This was a presentation to the Oxford Study of Children's Communication Impairments. They use the same functional ultrasound technology in their research group and the presentation of my doctoral research facilitated a discussion between PhD students, principal investigators, and research assistants about issues in analysis and data collection quality.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015

Description	Further linguistics for BSL tutors
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	A workshop for British Sign Language tutors, which updates them on the linguistics of BSL and disseminates current research knowledge. BSL tutors had an improved understanding of BSL linguistics and there were some informal requests for further training.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Further linguistics for BSL tutors
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Workshop delivered to British Sign Language teachers BSL tutors had an improved understanding of BSL linguistics and there were some informal requests for further training.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Further linguistics for sign language tutors
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	A workshop for British Sign Language tutors, which updates them on the linguistics of BSL and disseminates current research knowledge. BSL tutors had an improved understanding of BSL linguistics and there were some informal requests for further training.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Gary Morgan Deaf Learners National Conference Workshop Facilitator
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://deafunity.org/2013/04/gary-morgan-deaf-learners-national-conference-workshop-facilitator/ Gary Morgan Deaf Learners National Conference Workshop Facilitator
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Handedness and Cerebral Lateralisation:Looking at Signing, Fingerspelling and Gesture skills in Deaf Signers and Signers with Stroke in British Sign Language (BSL)
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Netherlands Institute for Advanced Science - Workshop on Handedness and Language. N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	Handedness and lateralisation in sign language studies from the 1960s to the present day
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Review and Presentation of DCAL research on typical and atypical signers N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2013

Description	Handling handshapes in BSL and gesture, Z Sevcikova
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Invited speaker lecture as part of the Language and Cognition weekly seminar group at the Psychology department. N/A
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	Hope for Deaf people with dementia
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	An online article about DCAL's research (http://royaldeaf.org.uk/newsid_60/Hope_for_Deaf_people_with_dementia) featuring a link to DCAL's Briefing Sheet on dementia http://royaldeaf.org.uk/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Hot off the press: New DCAL paper on lexical variation and change in BSL in PLOS ONE
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	This paper presents results from a corpus-based study investigating lexical variation in BSL. An earlier study investigating variation in BSL numeral signs found that younger signers were using a decreasing variety of regionally distinct variants, suggesting that levelling may be taking place. Here, we report findings from a larger investigation looking at regional lexical variants for colours, countries, numbers and UK placenames elicited as part of the BSL Corpus Project. Age, school location and language background were significant predictors of lexical variation, with younger signers using a more levelled variety. This change appears to be happening faster in particular sub-groups of the deaf community (e.g., signers from hearing families). Also, we find that for the names of some UK cities, signers from outside the region use a different sign than those who live in the region. Authours: Rose Stamp, Adam Schembri, Jordan Fenlon, Ramas Rentelis, Bencie Woll & Kearsy Cormier Deaf public and researchers became more aware of our research
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014
URL	http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0094053

Description	How British Sign Language developed its own dialects, The Conversation.
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Schembri A, Cormier K. 2019. How British Sign Language developed its own dialects. The Conversation, 5 March 2019. https://theconversation.com/how-british-sign-language-developed-its-own-dialects-112445
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://theconversation.com/how-british-sign-language-developed-its-own-dialects-112445

Description	How British Sign Language developed its own dialects, The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/how-british-sign-language-developed-its-own-dialects-112445
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	Schembri A, Cormier K. 2019. How British Sign Language developed its own dialects. The Conversation, 5 March 2019. https://theconversation.com/how-british-sign-language-developed-its-own-dialects-112445
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2019
URL	https://theconversation.com/how-british-sign-language-developed-its-own-dialects-112445

Description	How do hearing adults learn a sign language?
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	Yes
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Public/other audiences
Results and Impact	This was a dissemination talk in which I explained the findings of my research in which I focus on how adults with a spoken language are capable of learning a visual language. Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	How do we get children reading?
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Presentation at Centre for Educational Neuroscience event Section not completed
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	How do you read a language you can't hear? : insights from neuroimaging studies of deaf adults
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Psychology Departmental Seminar, Bangor University, 24th February 2011 debate
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	How do you read a language you can't hear? : insights from neuroimaging studies with deaf adults
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Departmental seminar presentation at The Computational, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Laboratory, The Hammersmith Hospital. 31st January 2012 discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	How do you read a language you can't hear? : insights from neuroimaging studies with deaf adults
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Talk given at a Speech Science Forum meeting, held at Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, UCL. discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2010

Description	How do you read a language you can't hear? : insights from neuroimaging studies with deaf adults
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Departmental seminar presentation - Psychology Departmental seminar, Birmingham University, 4th March 2011 discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	How do you read a language you can't hear? : insights from neuroimaging studies with deaf adults
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Regional
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Talk given at UCL Psychology department CPB seminar series discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2010
URL	https://pyrus.ccs.bbk.ac.uk/pipermail/psy_department/2010-September/000195.html

Description	How do you read a language you can't hear? Insights from neuroimaging studies of deaf adults
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Psychology Department seminar, University of Warwick discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	How do you read a language you can't hear? Insights from neuroimaging studies of deaf adults
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	psychology Departmental seminar , University of Warwick, 27th February, 2014 discsussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	How to become a researcher/research assistant
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Presentation given at a careers event at a deaf school 14th February 2011. Presentation included information and guidance on being a research assistant n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	Iconicity and coherence : the expression of spatial information in sign language discourse
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Talk given at the "4th Sign Linguistics Workshop" contacts with young researchers in other countries
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2008

Description	Iconicity and multimodality in language evolution and development
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Seminar, Department of Psychology, Glasgow Univeristy
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2017

Description	Iconicity as a general property of language
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Vigliocco G. (2012, January). Iconicity as a general property of language. Talk presented at the "What if..." workshop. edited journal issue
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Identifying cognitive disorder and dementia in users of sign languages : moving away from spoken language tests
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Poster presentation. Experimental Psychology Society workshop, 'What If The study of language started from the investigation of signed, rather than spoken languages?' Special journal issue
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	Identifying dementia in deaf users of British sign language
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Health professionals
Results and Impact	Invited lecture at Dementia Research Centre, UCL Institute of Neurology n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	Impact on Real Lives- DCAL The First 10 Years
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	At the Deafness, Cognition and Language Centre celebration last November, Dr Jo Atkinson spoke movingly about how the centre had changed the lives of deaf people, including her own. After a long journey during which she was told that deaf people couldn't become psychologists, Atkinson qualified at the age of 31. Her interest was in the area of brain disorders - strokes, dementia, specific language impairments. But she hit upon a major barrier: a lack of information on what a health deaf brain looks like. In order to make a diagnosis of a brain disorder, one must first understand how a healthy brain works and with no profile of the health deaf brain, Atkinson would be unable to investigate deaf brain disorders. The first step was identifying the features of the healthy deaf brain and the profile of those with dementia. Atkinson and her team set about building up a profile of a healthy deaf brain by testing over 400 deaf people at a variety of places such as deaf clubs and holiday camps. This was used to identify a range of brain disorders that would previously have gone unnoticed or have been attributed to "deafness". DCAL also set up a monthly neuropsychology clinic and it was at this clinic that Atkinson met Lydia Handscomb, who passed away last year. Lydia arrived at the clinic in 2005 in despair, saying she wished she could have a new brain as she felt hers didn't work well. Armed with knowledge of how a healthy deaf brain works, Atkinson was able to identify through tests on Lydia that something was way off the scale - she could only recognise faces and objects face-on. Once they were turned to the side, she couldn't identify them at all. An MRI later, Atkinson discovered to her astonishment that the part of the brain which deals with eye processing was MISSING in Lydia's case. In other words, she was largely unable to make sense of what she was seeing. A particular issue for someone who is a sign language user. The incredible thing is this part of her brain had almost certainly been missing since she had meningitis when she was a child during World War 2 - while she had 200-300 NHS tests over her lifetime no one had picked up on this. A hearing person with this condition would be very sensitive to sound - in Lydia's case it was light and vibration she was sensitive to, a crucial difference and perhaps one reason why none of her previous doctors had recognised the issue. Lydia's son Darren Townsend-Handscomb, an English-BSL interpreter, took to the stage to tell his mother's story: after becoming ill with meningitis Lydia became deaf and her physical health was never fully restored. She often collapsed from exhaustion, was highly sensitive to flashing lights and her struggle to recognise people she knew left her often feeling embarrassed. She saw many many doctors over her life in an increasingly desperate attempt to find out what was wrong: among the diagnoses give were post-traumatic stress disorder, M.E. and even plain attention-seeking - Handscomb was an actress after all. After she was hit by a motorbike, the symptoms worsened - a fog descended and wouldn't go away. It was at this point she went to DCAL and met Atkinson's team. "For 60 years she had issues but no explanation. She met doctors and nurses who were kind but ignorant about deaf people. "Darren said. "Then she arrived at DCAL. It was the first time in my mother's life that she was assessed by a deaf person, by someone who could sign." Even though she was told there was no treatment when she finally got her diagnosis, after a period of depression as she came to terms with this knowledge, she was "able to start living": "The last five years of her life were vastly improved and for that, I thank the Cognitive Disorders Clinic."
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015

Description	Imposter interpreter at Mandela service blames hallucinations
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://www.freelancestar.com/2013-12-13/articles/24837/imposter-interpreter-at-mandela-service-blames-hallucinations/ Imposter interpreter at Mandela service blames hallucinations
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	In the hands of babes : the future of sign languages
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Postgraduate students
Results and Impact	Invited speaker presentation at SOAS festival on minority and endangered languages. n/a
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2012

Description	In the news: Hot Fingers! Sign language speed championships
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://www.socialscienceforschools.org.uk/news/news-2013/April-2013.aspx In the news: Hot Fingers! Sign language speed championships
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	In2Science
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Schools
Results and Impact	Volunteered as a mentor for In2Science, 2020. Due to COVID19 this was online in 2020. In2scienceUK empowers young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to achieve their potential through life changing opportunities that give them insights into STEM careers and research and boosts their skills and confidence.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://in2scienceuk.org/

Description	Indie Beedie: Disability History Month Newsletter
Form Of Engagement Activity	Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other audiences
Results and Impact	Indie Beedie took part in a Newsletter for Disability History Month where she discussed intersectionality, deafness in the workplace and disability equity.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2020
URL	https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=__test_email__&u=4d8a82fe167a8f84d4c39f126&id=a454463118

Description	Infant theory of mind development : the early importance of access to conversation
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.)
Results and Impact	Invited speaker at Departmental Seminar Series at the Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London. 21st October 2010 Questions
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011
URL	http://www.gold.ac.uk/psychology/seminar-abstracts/

Description	Interferentie van gesticulaties bij volwassenen die een gebarentaal leren?
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Article at the newsletter from the Dutch national association of language teachers. English title : Interference of gesture in adults learning a sign language? discussion
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2011

Description	International Sign workshop. Gallaudet University Interpreting Service (GIS), Gallaudet University
Form Of Engagement Activity	A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	Local
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	Discussion with both Deaf and hearing interpreters about international sign Interest in Deaf interpreter research/language contact research from professional practitioners
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	International Workshop on dementia assessment
Form Of Engagement Activity	Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme?	Yes
Type Of Presentation	keynote/invited speaker
Geographic Reach	International
Primary Audience	Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact	We held a very successful international workshop with 21 attendees from UK, Norway, Finland, Netherlands, France, Italy, Belgium and Ireland. There was much interest in our online tests on the DCAL portal and interest in future collaboration on Europe-wide EU funded projects. We have been invited to Lille to discuss future collaborations to roll out the tests in other European countries in June 2016. New ideas were shared.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2015,2016

Description	Interpreter at Mandela Event: I Was Hallucinating
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://www.wdio.com/article/stories/s3241318.shtml Interpreter at Mandela Event: I Was Hallucinating
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Interpreter at Mandela event: I was hallucinating
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://www.pottsmerc.com/general-news/20131212/interpreter-at-mandela-event-i-was-hallucinating Interpreter at Mandela event: I was hallucinating
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014

Description	Interpreter at Mandela event: I was hallucinating
Form Of Engagement Activity	A magazine, newsletter or online publication
Part Of Official Scheme?	No
Geographic Reach	National
Primary Audience	Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact	http://www.bramptonguardian.com/news-story/4265019-mandela-ceremony-interpreter-called-a-fake-/ Interpreter at Mandela event: I was hallucinating
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity	2014