ESRC CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF DEAFNESS, COGNITION AND LANGUAGE - PHASE II 2011 TO 2016
Lead Research Organisation:
University College London
Department Name: Experimental Psychology
Abstract
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Organisations
- University College London (Lead Research Organisation)
- European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) (Collaboration)
- University of Surrey (Collaboration)
- National School of Mineral Industry (Collaboration)
- University of Connecticut (Collaboration)
- Mason Perkins Deafness Fund (MPDF) (Collaboration)
- Moscow State Linguistics University (Collaboration)
- South China Normal University (Collaboration)
- San Deigo State University (Collaboration)
- University of Jyväskylä (Collaboration)
- Moss Rehabilitation Hospital (Collaboration)
- Rochester Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- Gamelab UK (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN (Collaboration)
- DURHAM UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- University of Sheffield (Collaboration)
- British Deaf Association (Collaboration)
- Jiangsu Normal University (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM (Collaboration)
- NDCS National Deaf Children's Society (Collaboration)
- New Scientist (Collaboration)
- Radboud University Nijmegen (Collaboration)
- University of Barcelona (Collaboration)
- Macquarie University (Collaboration)
- Australian Research Council (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LINCOLN (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- Lancaster University (Collaboration)
- University of Applied Sciences for Special Needs Education Zurich (Collaboration)
- The British Library (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- City, University of London (Collaboration)
- University of Texas at Austin (Collaboration)
- University of Klagenfurt (Collaboration)
- BANGOR UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel) (Collaboration)
- National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (Collaboration)
- Guildhall School of Music & Drama (Collaboration)
- Ayady Deaf Centre (Collaboration)
- Institute of the Deaf of Turin (Collaboration)
- Central Institute of Indian Languages (Collaboration)
Publications
Cormier, K.
(2014)
Directionality in British Sign Language is not obligatory: The importance of corpus data when considering "agreement
in 88th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Denmark T
(2012)
P3-275: Identifying dementia in deaf sign language users
in Alzheimer's & Dementia
Woll B
(2013)
S2-01-02: Deaf With Dementia
in Alzheimer's & Dementia
Cocks N
(2013)
The impact of impaired semantic knowledge on spontaneous iconic gesture production.
in Aphasiology
Hodge G
(2023)
Deaf signing diversity and signed language translations
in Applied Linguistics Review
Vinson DP
Integration of "secondary" information during comprehension: Co-speech gestures and mouth patterns accompanying signs
in Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP) Conference XX 2014 (Poster presentation)
Denmark T
(2016)
Detecting Memory Impairment in Deaf People: A New Test of Verbal Learning and Memory in British Sign Language.
in Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists
Atkinson J
(2015)
Detecting Cognitive Impairment and Dementia in Deaf People: The British Sign Language Cognitive Screening Test.
in Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists
Denmark T
(2016)
Detecting Memory Impairment in Deaf People: A New Test of Verbal Learning and Memory in British Sign Language.
in Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists
Remington A
(2012)
Attentional status of faces for people with autism spectrum disorder.
in Autism : the international journal of research and practice
Adam R
(2011)
Ghostwriting: Deaf translators within the Deaf community
in Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation
Frank SL
(2013)
Reading time data for evaluating broad-coverage models of English sentence processing.
in Behavior research methods
Woll B
(2016)
Let's not forget the role of deafness in sign/speech bilingualism.
in Bilingualism (Cambridge, England)
WOLL B
(2011)
Language impairments in the development of sign: Do they reside in a specific modality or are they modality-independent deficits?
in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
WOLL B
(2018)
The consequences of very late exposure to BSL as an L1
in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
Jones, A
(2014)
The effects of motion and intensity on deaf children's recognition of facial expressions of emotion.
in BPS Developmental Section Conference, Amsterdam
Jones, A
(2014)
Executive function and language in deaf and hearing children.
in BPS Developmental Section Conference, Amsterdam
MacSweeney M
(2015)
What is the function of auditory cortex without auditory input?
in Brain : a journal of neurology
Swaminathan S
(2013)
Motor excitability during visual perception of known and unknown spoken languages.
in Brain and language
Gutierrez-Sigut E
(2015)
Language lateralization of hearing native signers: A functional transcranial Doppler sonography (fTCD) study of speech and sign production.
in Brain and language
Gutierrez-Sigut E
(2016)
Examining the contribution of motor movement and language dominance to increased left lateralization during sign generation in native signers.
in Brain and language
Grosvald M
(2012)
Dissociating linguistic and non-linguistic gesture processing: electrophysiological evidence from American Sign Language.
in Brain and language
Twomey T
(2015)
Identification of the regions involved in phonological assembly using a novel paradigm.
in Brain and language
Gutierrez E
(2012)
Lexical access in American Sign Language: an ERP investigation of effects of semantics and phonology.
in Brain research
Woll B
Improving diagnosis of cognitive disorders in deaf people
in Britain in 2015: Science and Wellbeing
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 | In the 11 years since its founding, DCAL has built a multidisciplinary team of linguists, psychologists and neuroscientists, examining language, cognition and the brain from the unique perspective of deafness and deaf communication. This has encouraged a broad scientific perspective leading to novel discoveries about language and cognition that could not be achieved from working with hearing people alone. The DCAL Centre grant enabled the bringing together a range of complementary scientific approaches and a diverse group of talented D/deaf and hearing researchers, support staff and students with the aims of determing how communication (signed, spoken, written) and cognition are shaped by deafness; and using this information to further educational and clinical practice and to create societal impact. Among key developments have been: to map out the relationships between the channels in which language is used (spoken or signed) and its linguistic structure and how it is processed in the brain; to recognise the importance of iconicity in both spoken and signed language; to understand how early language experience influences cognition across the life span; to describe the structure of British SIgn Language and its community of users; and to understand impairments in sign language as the result of developmental difficulties or illness, including deaf people with stroke or dementia. Throughout DCAL's existence we have been concerned to ensure impact arising from all areas of our research: building capacity by training a new generation of researchers in the field - including researchers who are deaf themselves; providing an evidence base for the design of early intervention programmes for deaf children; on-line data resources such as the BSL Signbank on-line dictionary; the BSL Cognitive Clinic (NHS), in which language and cognitive assessments of deaf people are undertaken; and the DCAL Assessment Portal, which provides on-line access to a broad portfolio of language and cognitive assessments in English and BSL for deaf children and adults. |
Exploitation Route | DCAL will continue as an academic centre at UCL following the end of ESRC Centre funding. The BSL Corpus and BSL Signbank are being widely used by researchers, and teachers and learners of BSL, and the DCAL Assessment Portal provides access for practitioners and researchers to on-line assessments developed in the course of DCAL's work. DCAL researchers continue to develop new research grant applications - and obtain funding - in new collaborations with colleagues elsewhere: at UCL, nationally, and internationally. Recent examples include two new linguistics and social attitudes research projects awarded by ESRC to Dr Kearsy Cormier, and an ERC Senior Award to Professor Gabriella Vigliocco. Dr Joanna Atkinson developed further collaborative research projects with Dr Charles Ferneyhough (Durham) with funding from the Wellcome Trust. Other collaborations are with former DCAL researchers who have moved on to new academic and research positions at other institutions, for example, an ESRC project exploring iconicity in spoken language input to children and a BBSRC grant on language, cognition and the brain. DCAL's research findings are being shared through existing and new collaborations with non-academic partners, including teachers, speech and language therapists, psychologists, and health and social service providers, to ensure an evidence base for practice in these areas, as well as consultancy with the private, public and voluntary sectors. Members of DCAL have extended their cross disciplinary collaborations, for example recent grants to Professor Bencie Woll from the British Academy to explore the cognitive benefits of language learning (including both spoken and signed languages). This researchhas received a great deal of interest from members of Parliament and the DfE, in particular the evidence for cross-curricular benefits of language learning, which in turn has led to new research outside DCAL. Another example is the recent award from EPSRC of a substantial grant in collaboration with vision scientists from Surrey and Oxford to develop new approaches to automated translation of natural BSL discourse into written English |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Education Healthcare Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
URL | http://www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk |
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 |
Title | BSL SignBank: sign language lexical database system |
Description | BSL SignBank is an open access, online lexical database and dictionary of British Sign Language, based on and adapted from Auslan (Australian Sign Language) SignBank. BSL SignBank was the first adaptation of the Auslan system. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Impact | SignBanks for other sign languages are emerging based on the BSL adaptation, including Sign Language of the Netherlands and Finnish Sign Language, with proposals underway for SignBanks in other countries. |
URL | http://bslsignbank.ucl.ac.uk |
Title | DCAL Assessment Portal |
Description | Portal providing access to all DCAL's assessment tools for use with deaf adults and children |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Impact | Much interest from researchers and practitioners in other countries in adapting and translating the assessments;. Very positive response from teachers and speech/language therapists. Many very positive reviews. |
URL | https://dcalportal.org |
Title | Sign Language Receptive Skills Test Site |
Description | Portal to on-line versions of receptive skills tests in British Sign Language, German Sign Language & American Sign Language. Enables on-line testing and storage of data for research and applied purposes |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2014 |
Impact | Demand from researchers and practitioners working with deaf children in other countries for support in developing adaptations for their own languages |
URL | http://www.signlanguagetest.com/ |
Title | Test portal |
Description | This website provides on-line access to assessments of deafness, cognition and language developed through research carried out at the Deafness Cognition and Language (DCAL) research centre including the BSL Cognitive Screening test and BSL Test of Verbal Learning and Memory which was funded by the Alzheimer's Society grant. |
Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Impact | Clinicians and practitioners will be able to access the tests online for use in assessing cognitive disorders and dementia in deaf people that use British Sign Language. This is the first time that such tests have become available nationally for diagnostic use. |
URL | https://dcal.azurewebsites.net/ |
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 |
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.independentmail.com/news/2013/dec/12/interpreter-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://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/national_world&id=9357762 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.columbian.com/news/2013/dec/12/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://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/interpreter-mandela-event-i-hallucinating-5776479 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.durhamregion.com/news-story/4265019-interpreter-for-deaf-at-mandela-event-called-fake/ 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.stowsentry.com/ap%20international/2013/12/12/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.observer-reporter.com/article/20131212/NEWS06/131219728&source=RSS#.UupuYvt7R8E 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.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/interpreter-at-mandela-event-i-was-hallucinating/Content?oid=2648249 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.mississauga.com/news-story/4265019-interpreter-at-mandela-event-i-was-hallucinating/ n/a |
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.cherokeetribune.com/view/full_story/24216855/article-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.tallmadgeexpress.com/ap%20international/2013/12/12/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.nbc-2.com/story/24200241/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.ksla.com/story/24200242/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.detroitnews.com/article/20131212/NATION/312120055 Interpreter at Mandela event: I was hallucinating |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Interpreter at Mandela's memorial '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.3news.co.nz/Interpreter-at-Mandelas-memorial-hallucinating/tabid/417/articleID/324964/Default.aspx Interpreter at Mandela's memorial 'hallucinating' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Interpreter at Nelson Mandela's Memorial (press release) |
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 | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Press release http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/dcal-news/Memorial_Interpeter Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/dcal-news/Memorial_Interpeter |
Description | Interpreter for Mandela event says he was hallucinating, hearing voices |
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://globalnews.ca/news/1025392/interpreter-for-mandela-event-says-he-was-hallucinating-hearing-voices/ Interpreter for Mandela event says he was hallucinating, hearing voices |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Interpreter for 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.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/235528911.html Interpreter for Mandela event: I was hallucinating |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Interpreting and pragmatics - insights from Deaf interpreters' target language focused renderings |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Lecture given whilst on secondment from DCAL, to Gallaudet University as a visiting Professor. I was able to discuss potential collaborations with other researchers in the area of sign language pragmatics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Interview of Kearsy Cormier for The Hub, 2012, on BSL Corpus 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 | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Kearsy Cormier (current British Sign Language Corpus Project leader) featured, was interviewed about the BSL Corpus Project on The Hub programme, series 2 programme 2, on British Sign Language Broadcasting Trust (BSLBT). The programme aired on 12 March 2012. As a followup we were invited to be interviewed by the BBC's See Hear about regional variation in BSL. This will air in 2015. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://www.bslzone.co.uk/bsl-zone/the-hub-2-programme-2/ |
Description | Interview on BBC See Hear |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Interview about the impact of use of video calling in BSL on changes in the language |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Interview on Radio Slovenia abouit sign language and the brain |
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 | Pre-recorded (and then translated into Slovenian) radio interview |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://radioprvi.rtvslo.si/2020/04/mozgani-na-dlani-nevron-pred-mikrofon-187/ |
Description | Interview: Robert Adam, interviewed at the WFD Congress in Istanbul for the Slovenian Deaf TV programme |
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 | I was interviewed at the WFD Congress in Istanbul for the Slovenian Deaf TV programme about Deaf people's linguistic human rights and it was broadcast on the 7th October at 9:15am on TIPK TV. This interview generated discussion and increased knowledge within the Deaf community. Increased knowledge within the Deaf and hearing community regarding Deaf peoples linguistic human rights |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.tipk.si/oddaje/tipkove-minute/tipkove-minute-70-oddaja |
Description | Introducing the BSL Aphasia Assessment Battery |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | How to use and interpret DCAL's online BSL Aphasia Assessment Battery for practitioners and other relevant audiences. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://dcalportal.org/ |
Description | Introducing the DCAL portal; how to use and interpret our online assessments. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | How to use and interpret DCAL's online assessments for practitioners and other relevant audiences, including a beginners guide to statistical test interpretation. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://dcalportal.org/ |
Description | Introduction to sign language |
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 | Weekly workshops at Sense International improved participants' communication skills |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.senseinternational.org.uk/ |
Description | Invited contribution to Wellcome Trust 'ThInk'blog March 2014 |
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 | Educational Neuroscience: Implications for deaf children - Article written by Mairéad MacSweeney greater knowledge among the deaf community |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://thinkneuroscience.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/how-the-brain-processes-language/ |
Description | Invited member of National Science Foundation site visit team |
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 | Dr Mairead MacSweeney invited to assess: Visual Language and Visual Learning (VL2) research centre - Gallaudet University, Washington DC, Audience reported a change in their views |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Invited presentation to the ll-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | An invited presentation to the Modern Languages APPG on the cognitive benefits of learning signed or spoken languages |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Invited speaker at UCL Neuroscience Festival - Brain Power, June 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | On Saturday June 22nd the UCL Neuroscience Domain and the SLMS Research Coordination Office ran a one-day public festival to showcase the best of neuroscience research at UCL. The aims were to increase the public's understanding of the contribution UCL makes to science, and to encourage young people into careers in science. The event, titled #BrainPower: How does the brain work and why are some brains different?", attracted nearly 850 people of all ages. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/neuroscience/events/brainpower |
Description | Invited talk (Northumbria) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture, Northumbria University Department of Psychology seminar. Presented research findings on speech and gesture to audience of approx 25 academic staff and postgraduate students. Subsequent discussion included sharing experiences and suggestions of good practice in related studies being planned or carried out. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Is BSL changing? (British Deaf News, 2014) |
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 | "Is BSL changing?" Research article featuring research on lexical variation and change in the BSL Corpus, British Deaf News, June 2014. N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Jo Atkinson was filmed for zoom documentary 'This is I. Remember me.' |
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 | Jo Atkinson was filmed for zoom documentary in September by Jack Smallwood called 'This is I. Remember me.' There is no release date for this yet. Jo Atkinson was filmed for zoom documentary in September by Jack Smallwood called 'This is I. Remember me.' There is no release date for this yet. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Joannah Atkinson: Article about people hearing voices that mentions her research |
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 | The article increased awareness and sparked discussion about those who hear voices Greater knowledge amoung the public that Deaf people also hear voices |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/is-hearing-voices-an-illness-or-a-cure/ |
Description | Keeping your place : the role of the visual modality in reference tracking in sign and gesture |
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 to give talk in Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication (TiCC) lecture series n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Keeping your place : the role of the visual modality in reference tracking in sign and gesture |
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 to give talk in SOAS Linguistics Department Seminar series N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Keynote Address: World Association of Sign Language Interpreting Congress, 23 July 2015 - "Human rights, Deaf people and interpreting - navigating the woods" with Christopher Stone and Robert Adam. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | "Sign Language Weekly". 25 July 2015 1140-1200 on NHK (the state TV channel in Japan). World Association of Sign Language Interpreting Congress 2015 Keynote Address 23 July 2015 "Human rights, Deaf people and interpreting - navigating the woods" with Christopher Stone and Robert Adam. Public discussed Human rights, Deaf people and interpreting Greater knowledge among the deaf community |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://www.facebook.com/harumi.kimura.127/videos/10205673939820903/ |
Description | Keynote address: Training interpreters. Australian Sign Language Interpreters Association Interpreter Trainer's Network Symposium, Perth, Western Australia, 1st September 2014. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Discussion and contact with interpreter trainers from around Australia Discussion of increased involvement of Deaf people in interpreter training programmes in Australia. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Keynote presentation: Language planning in the Australian Deaf community - what are the implications? Australian Sign Language Interpreters Association Annual National Conference, Perth, Western Australia, 31st August 2014. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Discussion with conference participants Contact with the National Accreditation Authority on Translators and Interpreters |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Keynote presentation: The work of a Deaf Interpreter. Australian Sign Language Interpreters Association Annual National Conference, Perth, Western Australia, 30th August 2014. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Robust discussion after the conference; contact with National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (Australia) Potential involvement with discussion of interpreter accreditation for Deaf people |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Keynote talk on EF. Amsterdam Free University. Hearing and Language centre |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Talk on EF development. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Keynote. Two talks on Theory of Mind and EF development. ANZCED Conference 2016 . |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Keynote. Two talks on Theory of Mind and EF development. 12th APCD/28th ANZCED Conference 2016 . Christchurch New Zealand. 7.7.16 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Knowledge transfer : policy impact |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Article in the UCL School of Life and Medical Sciences Newsletter n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slms/staff-students/newsletter/winter_2010 |
Description | Language & theory of mind reasoning |
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 | A seminar in honour of Michael Siegal. University of Sheffield. 18.5.12. http://shef.ac.uk/psychology/staff/academic/michael-siegal Interaction with collaborators |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Language Standardisation. 2nd International Conference on Linguistic Rights of the Deaf, All-Russian Society for the Deaf, 22nd May 2014 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Discussion took place after the presentation on sign language standardisation I was invited to contribute to a special edition of the journal Sign Language Studies (Gallaudet University Press) on language planning. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.deaflinguisticconference2014.voginfo.ru/en/material.html |
Description | Language acquisition and assessment in Deaf children |
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 lecture at the University of Texas at Austin, Department of Communication Science & Disorders- CSD 367K INTRO SP/LNG DIS ASM/TRT CHL-W, Mar 27th, 2012 n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Language and cognition : new views from sign language research |
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 | Invited lecture given in the Psychology department at Warwick University. n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Language and the brain : insights from deafness and language |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Talk deliverd on 20th March 2010 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 and debate |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
URL | http://www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk/Events/DCAL_Deaf_Open_Day.html |
Description | Language as a multimodal communication system : insight from sign language research |
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 | Talk given at the Language and Cognition Seminar for the School of Psychology in the University of Birmingham N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Language as a multimodal phenomenon |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation at the Jurnee Scientifique, ISCT, Toulouse, France, February |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Language as an integrated cognitive system : insight from sign language research |
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 given at the University of York, Psychology Department n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Language assessment of children : challenges and new directions |
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 | In this public debate a panel of three invited speakers will discuss with practitioners issues and challenges arising from language assessment of atypical learners, including children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds, young non-standard or non-native English-speaking children, and deaf children with dyslexia. increased requests for support in assessment |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://www.esrc.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/festival/events-archive/2010-specific/language.aspx |
Description | Language assessments should be re-thought |
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 the RCSLT Bulletin which is the foremost monthly magazine for speech and language therapists, providing the latest speech and language therapy news, features and job opportunities n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://issuu.com/redactive/docs/bulletin_july_10 |
Description | Language delay matters for deaf people's linguistic and cognitive abilities. |
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 2nd International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication, Linkoping, Sweden Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Language development of deaf children |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Health professionals |
Results and Impact | Seminar given at the "Intervention in the communicative development of deaf children: X Summer School Speech Therapy" n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
URL | http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.alpa-asturias.org/docs/cursos/escue... |
Description | Language impairments in deaf children |
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 | Event for professionals working with deaf children in Scotland. (Presentation of SLI in sign language and led the afternoon workshop on how to improve collaboration with parents and schools to improve learning environments for deaf children.) Parent requests for more information |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Language in Context: an ecological turn to embodied language |
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 | Organizer and speaker in a workshop sponsored by Experimental Psychology Society, UCL, January |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Language in 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 | • Radio interview: Radio Cambridgeshire 'Naked Scientists' programme. 10th January 2010 Led to online comments Led to online comments and follow up queries |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | Latest from interpreter at Mandela memorial: 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 | DCAL staff quoted in an online news article http://www.tampabay.com/news/world/latest-from-interpreter-at-mandela-memorial-i-was-hallucinating/2156779 Latest from interpreter at Mandela memorial: I was hallucinating |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Launch of Deaf Awareness course. UCL Newsletter - TThe Week@UCL: 17 November 2016. |
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 | Learn to work and communicate well with deaf people: UCL launches new online deaf awareness course http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lifelearning/latest-announcements/new-online-deaf-awareness-course?utm_source=UCL%20%28Internal%20Communications%29&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=7744124_The%20Week%40UCL%20-%20Issue%20273 This increased the number of people interested in DCAL and Deaf Awareness. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://uclnews.org.uk/UAA-4LZEK-5B8PBAHD24/cr.aspx |
Description | Learning sign languages : perceptual and linguistic factors |
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 | A small group of children acquire signed languages as mother tongues. How does development unfold when the input is visual? In the first half of this talk I focus on phonological and grammatical development in the typical context before moving onto present data from a new study of language impaired signers. What is the role of conversational input for theory of mind development? Student talk |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
URL | http://www.hum.uva.nl/aclc-news/seminar.cfm/78DA1F55-1321-B0BE-68548362902B1F81 |
Description | Lecture on deaf education at University College London |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | http://www.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/en/event/2013/choshu/ucl.html link accessed 11.7.13 Event organised by the Embassy of Japan and the Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre UCL. This event coincides with the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Choshu Five in the UK. These five young men were members of the Choshu clan in western Japan who secretly left the country during the turbulent times toward the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The purpose of their trip was to study at UCL and to attempt to gain better knowledge of western nations. One of the five, Yozo Yamao, who later came to be known as 'The Father of Japanese Engineering', is also credited with creating Japan's first schools for blind children and for deaf children. His interest in this field stems from his time in the UK, in particular his time in Glasgow where he met deaf people and saw workers signing at Napier's Shipyard. n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Lecture on deaf education at University College London |
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.uk.emb-japan.go.jp/en/event/2013/choshu/ucl.html Lecture on deaf education at University College London |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Leren kijken : vroege interactie tussen dove kinderen en gebarende volwassenen |
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 the Dutch publication: Nieuwsbrief Levende Talen sectie Gebarentaal discussion |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Limping Chicken - New features added to BSL Signbank, DCAL's online sign language dictionary |
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 | Sowed the importance of DCAL BSL Signbank and the research behind it and the reason for continuing its growth. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://limpingchicken.com/2016/09/26/deaf-news-new-features-added-to-bsl-signbank-dcals-online-sign-... |
Description | Limping Chicken : Sannah Gulamani: Remote Working: the impact on deaf people (with BSL video) |
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 | An article about Remote Working Guidelines created by DCAL and the impact of home working and zoom calls with suggestions for better working practice for deaf and hearing people. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://limpingchicken.com/2020/10/02/sannah-gulamani-remote-working-the-impact-on-deaf-people-with-... |
Description | Limping Chicken Article - DCAL launch innovative online Deaf Awareness course |
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 | Bought the Deaf Awareness course to a wider audience - promoted it and its importance. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://limpingchicken.com/2016/11/01/deaf-news-dcal-launch-innovative-online-deaf-awareness-course/ |
Description | Limping Chicken Article: 'DCAL: New progress in sign-to-text technology (BSL)' |
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 | An article on Limping Chicken Website mentioning the BSL Corpus Website and ExTOL: End to End Translation of British Sign Language) Grant. https://limpingchicken.com/2018/09/13/dcal-new-progress-in-sign-to-text-technology/ Helped raise awareness of DCAL, the research we carry out and the resources we have created |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://limpingchicken.com/2018/09/13/dcal-new-progress-in-sign-to-text-technology/ |
Description | Limping Chicken Article: BSL SignBank, a 'living' British Sign Language dictionary, is launched online |
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 | Limping Chicken Article about BSL SignBank Greater knowledge among the Deaf community |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://limpingchicken.com/2014/10/07/deaf-news-bsl-signbank-a-living-british-sign-language-dictionar... |
Description | Link to our press release on UK Council on Deafness - New features ensure the value of BSL Signbank continues to grow |
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 | Showed the importance of the two new features on BSL Signbank Increased the knowledge of this DCAL database and the research behind it and the importance of having it and growing it. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://deafcouncil.org.uk/2016/09/23/bsl-signbank-continues-grow/ |
Description | Live Science: Unusual Condition Lets People See Sign Language in Colors. Referred to DCAL research and reults |
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 | DCAL research referred to in article regarding Unusual Condition Lets People See Sign Language in Colors. Increased knowledge of research carried out at DCAL |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.livescience.com/55450-synesthesia-documented-in-sign-language.html |
Description | Lucid EF talk |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Talk to LUCID ESRC centre researchers |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Making Dementia Friendly Neighbourhoods |
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 | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Media release issued by DCAL Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Mandela 'fake' interpreter Thamsanqa Jantjie: 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.cbc.ca/news/world/mandela-fake-interpreter-thamsanqa-jantjie-i-was-hallucinating-1.2460912 and http://www.cbc.ca/m/touch/world/story/1.2460912 Mandela 'fake' interpreter Thamsanqa Jantjie: I was hallucinating |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Mandela 'interpreter': I 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://m.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/world-news/9513052/Mandela-interpreter-I-saw-angels Mandela 'interpreter': I saw angels |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Mandela Memorial Service Sign Language Interpreter Explains |
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.translatemedia.com/mandela-memorial-service-sign-language-interpreter-explains.html/ Mandela Memorial Service Sign Language Interpreter Explains |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Mandela memorial interpreter asks forgiveness, calls himself champion |
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://ontd-political.livejournal.com/10879312.html Mandela memorial interpreter asks forgiveness, calls himself champion |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Mandela memorial signer Thamsanqa Jantjie blames schizophrenia for bizarre display |
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.theaustralian.com.au/in-depth/nelson-mandela/mandela-memorial-signer-thamsanqa-jantjie-blames-schizophrenia-for-bizarre-display/story-fn7qgt20-1226782112645 Mandela memorial signer Thamsanqa Jantjie blames schizophrenia for bizarre display |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Manual babbling in deaf infants |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture at the University of Texas at Austin, Dpt of Communication Science and disorders - CSD 293D 4-LANG INTRV INFANTS/TODDLERS (Davis), Mar 6th, 2012 n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Measuring deaf children's ability to form categorical relations in British Sign Language (BSL) |
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 presentation at the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, 2012. Abstract: Two groups of deaf children responded with one association to a list of BSL signs, including nouns, verbs, and adjectives. One group consisted of strong or native signers while participants in the other group had a wider range of signing skills. Responses were measured based on their semantic relations. Deaf children across both groups showed a more limited spread of activated semantic networks and based their responses on individual experience rather than categorical relations, compared to TD hearing children. There was no shift in the type of association over time towards responses that were in the same grammatical class as the stimulus, as reported for hearing children. These results suggest that deaf children tend to use a more heterogeneous concept when organizing their vocabulary in BSL, which is similar to their performance in written language. The inadequate knowledge of categories may be due to individuals' limited opportunities to train their categorization skills knowledge when learning new words at home or in school. n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Media interest (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 | Programme about deaf people with dementia informed the public People are now more aware about dementia. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | More about so you think you now about BSL? |
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 the British Deaf News Magazine British Deaf News |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Multi-modal communication |
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 | Review of visual and auditory features of human communication N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Multimodal signals : cognitive and algorithmic issues : introduction to sign language : sign language and the brain |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | IT, psychology and neuroscience students from all over Europe attended. This led to discussion and support for several student projects Continuing requests from research students for support in projects relating to sign language |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
URL | http://www.iiassvietri.it/school_2008/index_2008.htm |
Description | Multimodality and Iconicity in language development and language evolution |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Colloquium at the Baque Center for Brain and Cognition, San Sebastian, February |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Multimodality and Iconicity in language development and processing |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Plenary Lecture at the International Meeting of the Cognitive Linguistics Society |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Multimodality and language learning |
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 | Invited as discussant at 'Multimodality and language learning' workshop. The aim of the workshop is to bring together international leading researchers who work on the role of body, iconicity, visual context, action perception/understanding, joint attention and multimodal input on language learning of hearing as well as deaf children learning sign languages. Special Journal Issue |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | NDCS link to DCALs Research briefing on executive functioning |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | DCAL: Research briefing on executive functioning (2017) The Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL) have produced a short briefing about how deaf children can sometimes struggle with their executive functioning (or their 'mental control') and outline some simple ideas for parents and professionals looking to support deaf children in this area. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.ndcs.org.uk/professional_support/external_research/#contentblock1 |
Description | Narrowing the gap between deaf and hearing children's educational achievement |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Co-organiser and panel member for the debate at the event: 'Narrowing the gap between deaf and hearing children's educational achievement'. debate |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | National Deaf Children's Society family signed language curriculum |
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 | Series of workshops on deaf children's language development aimed at deaf trainers of the National Deaf Children's Society Family signed language curriculum. London event 19.10.2011. Leeds event 25.10.2011 Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Nelson Mandela's funeral: Was the sign interpreter deliberately trying to mock the deaf and mute community across the world? |
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://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/20094/nelson-mandelas-funeral-was-the-sign-interpreter-deliberately-trying-to-mock-the-deaf-and-mute-community-across-the-world/ Nelson Mandela's funeral: Was the sign interpreter deliberately trying to mock the deaf and mute community across the world? |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Neurolinguistics session |
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 | Two hours training session in the TISLR Summer School: The Sign Language Researcher's Toolkit within the Psychology of sign language module followed by 1.5 hours as a discussant in the Q&A session. N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Neuropsychological assessment of deaf sign language users |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Health professionals |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture at Annual Meeting of British Neuropsychological Society increased referrals to specialist clinic |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | New British Sign Language Dictionary - BSL SignBank |
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 BSL SignBank Deaf public became more aware of our research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.signhealth.org.uk/new-british-sign-language-living-dictionary/ |
Description | New findings on specific language impairment in Deaf children acquiring 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 | Invited speaker presentation to British Association of Clinical Linguistics. discussion |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | New online resource provides 'huge leap' forward in deaf assessments - DCAL Portal Article on UCL website |
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 | Provided knowledge about the DCAL portal and DCAL in general New online resource provides 'huge leap' forward in deaf assessments Publication date: Jul 11, 2016 03:05 PM Start: Jun 07, 2016 12:00 AM For the first time, teachers, clinicians and researchers will soon have access to a range of online tests that can be used to assess abilities in deaf children and adults, such as speech reading, sign language vocabulary and understanding. The Portal Project has been developed in partnership between the Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL) at University College London, City University London and online resource developers, Cauldron. This new and innovative resource, will provide practitioners - for example teachers, clinical and educational psychologists and speech and language therapists - with on-line access to assessments of deafness, cognition and language developed through research carried out at DCAL over the last decade. DCAL is the largest centre in Europe researching in the fields of sign linguistics, psychology and neuroscience and has brought together leading Deaf and hearing researchers, to provide unique insights into language and thought based on deaf people's communication. Deafness is an important model to answer questions in linguistics, cognitive sciences and neuroscience and the work of DCAL has been of vital significance in advancing our knowledge and understanding in these areas. The Portal site, officially launched today (7 June), will host a range of assessment tools which include: · Sign language receptive skills (BSL RST) · Tests of Child and Adult Speechreading (TOCS and TAS) · A BSL vocabulary test and communicative development inventory (BSL VT and BSL CDI) · A cognitive screening test designed to detect dementia and acquired cognitive impairment in older deaf adults who use British sign language (BSL CST) · A BSL Aphasia Assessment Battery of British sign language and gesture ability in adults (BSL AAB) Leading the project is Gary Morgan, Professor of Psychology in the School of Health Sciences at City University London and Deputy Director of DCAL. He has been conducting research at the research centre since 2006. Commenting on the launch, Prof Morgan said: "Working alongside City University London researcher, Abi Roper, we have taken some of the results of DCAL's ground-breaking research work forward in this exciting project with Cauldron. "The DCAL Assessment Portal is a huge leap forward in allowing approved health and educational professionals to properly assess the cognitive and linguistic skills of both deaf children and adults. "This new online resource will include tests of child and adult speechreading, assessments of sign language vocabulary and grammar, and the only language and cognitive assessments in the world designed for deaf people with acquired neurological impairments such as stroke or dementia. "The Portal will have a significant impact on the lives of deaf people if it is used by both specialist professionals and others who have a role in providing services for deaf children and adults. "By giving professionals access to the assessment tools, NHS and educational services will be more effectively and efficiently targeted at individuals." The Portal can be accessed via the following address - https://dcalportal.org/. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/dcal-news/dcalportal |
Description | On the origins of theory of mind : conversational input and belief attribution in deaf and hearing infants |
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 University College London meeting Questions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Origins of theory of mind |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited speaker at the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology at the University of Seville, Spain. 5th November 2010 Students interest |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://institucional.us.es/dcptea/index.php?lang=en |
Description | Overcoming obstacles to the diagnosis of dementia in the signing deaf community |
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 | Online article about DCAL's research project http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=1129 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | PaLM project : the expression of perspective, location and motion in British Sign Language |
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, Deaf Open Day, 2010 N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | PaLM project : the expression of perspective, location and motion in British Sign Language, 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 | Talk at Chandler House Festival of Language Sciences. N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | People with dementia & hearing loss failed by lack of joined-up health & social care services warns charity |
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 article (in a blog post) http://www.talkhealthpartnership.com/blog/2013/04/dementia-hearing-loss/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | People with dementia and hearing loss 'failed by NHS' |
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.netdoctor.co.uk/interactive/news/theme_news_detail.php?id=801573355 People with dementia and hearing loss 'failed by NHS' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | People with dementia and hearing loss failed by lack of joined-up health care |
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.actiononhearingloss.org.uk/news-and-events/all-regions/news/people-with-dementia-and-hearing-loss-failed-by-lack-of-joined-up-health-and-social-care-services.aspx People with dementia and hearing loss failed by lack of joined-up health care |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | People with hearing loss or deafness would benefit from an integrated response to long-term conditions |
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.rcpsych.ac.uk/usefulresources/rcpsychenewsletters/enewsletters2013/june2013.aspx People with hearing loss or deafness would benefit from an integrated response to long-term conditions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Perceptual and gestural constraints during phonological acquisition by hearing learners of British Sign Language (BSL) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands This informtion turned into a Newsletter article at the Dutch national association of language teachers |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Performing brain - a moving story : an interactive evening of neuroscience in motion! |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | http://www.bl.uk/whatson/events/event128992.html An interactive evening of neuroscience in motion! Have you ever wondered how a ballerina learns to pirouette? Or how musicians learn their art? Or even what happens to your own brain when you learn a new skill? Join neuroscientists, musicians and dancers as together we explore how fantastically changeable your brain is, giving you the extraordinary ability to adapt and learn throughout your life. Hear amazing stories of performers who excel against all odds; learn a new skill and test your own performance! A collaborative event hosted by the British Library and UCL Neuroscience, with scientists from UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and UCL Institute of Neurology. Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://www.bl.uk/whatson/events/event128992.html |
Description | Poster presentation Dissociations following CVA in signers at International Society for Gesture Studies, San Diego |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The presentation has stimulated new cross-linguistic studies After requests following the presentation, the various assessment tools will be made available online to practitioners and researchers |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Poster presentation Heschl's gyrus responses to visual language in deaf individuals are driven by auditory deprivation, and not by language modality at Neurobiology of Language conference, Amsterdam |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The presentation has been followed by requests for further information, and is being written up. This activity is having an impact on intervention practice with young deaf children |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Postgraduate conference on current issues in sign linguistics, deafness and cognition |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Postgraduate students and postgraduate researchers were invited to present work in progress on sign language linguistics, deafness, cognition and related fields. This one-day conference aimed to provide a forum to bring together young researchers from a range of disciplines and disseminate their findings. Multidisciplinary work was particularly encouraged. Established network of postgraduate students working in sign language research with a view to future collaborations. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Power in Relationship when the therapist is Deaf, Client is Hearing and a BSL Interpreter is Present |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Title: Power in Relationship when the therapist is Deaf, Client is Hearing and a BSL Interpreter is Present Authors: Michelle Oldale, Jo Atkinson, Christopher Stone 26 July 2014 Sherwood Institute Nottingham Auidence resprted a change in views |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Presentation at Centre for Educational Neuroscience event 'How do we get children reading?' |
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 | Evening workshop attended by teachers. Increase requests for information |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Presentation at Deaf Children's Development Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Conference for deaf community and professionals regarding Deaf Children's Development. Attended by 400 Teachers of the Deaf, Speech and Language therapists and other professionals with an interest in deafness and development. Secured £1500 from the UCL Beacon fund to support this event. booklet |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Presentation at conference on language, translation and migration |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | "No country, No language" - A presentation about deaf migrants' interpreting needs in various settings (legal/medical/social services). Useful and still on-going meetings with public and third sector bodies about meeting current and future needs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation at the Wellcome Trust Collection, London - Packed Lunch |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Feed your curiosity at our lunchtime discussions. Drop in to hear local scientists in conversation about their latest experiments, life in the lab and why science matters to everyone, all in the space of your lunch hour. Bring your sarnies with you to eat while you listen. Mairéad MacSweeney researches how the brain processes language in people who are born profoundly deaf. Join us to hear more about the ways language experience can shape the brain and how this knowledge could inform education. Greater knowledge of the research we carry out. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.wellcomecollection.org/events/packed-lunch-language-processing |
Description | Presentation on Learning a sign language as an L1 in adulthood at Workshop on late stages in speech and communicatino development |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | As the only presentation about sign language at this workshop, the talk stimulated discussion on parallels and differences in sign language and spoken language development Requests from clinical and legal practitioners for advice and assessment of deaf people with late L1 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Presentation on Sign Language and Deaf Culture |
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 cross-disciplinary academics Invitation to speak to philology association on sign language linguistics |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://ucl.columbasystems.com/event/event:p8m-htsfni52-wbvz9o/a-credoc-provocation-civilisation-and-... |
Description | Presentation to the Centre for Educational Neuroscience - Training deaf children's executive function skills using a music-based intervention programme. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation made to members of the Centre for Educational Neuroscience at the University of London entitiled "Training deaf children's executive function skills using a music-based intervention programme". |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Presentation: Why sign linguistics research is important to the Deaf community. II International Conference on Linguistic Rights of the Deaf. Moscow, 20-22 May 2014 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | reached an international audience of Deaf people Developed links with World Federation of the Deaf in relation to future policies |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Presentation: preliminary reseults on the test framework for an online sign language receptive skills test at the conference of the Association of Language Testers in Europe |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Following the talk, there was an informal meeting of practitioners involved in sign language assessment. Plans have been developed to create a web portal for assessment tools in various sign languages |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Prof. Mairéad MacSweeney Led workshops on the 'Impact of language deprivation' at National Teachers of the Deaf conference - London, 17th March 2018 |
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 | Kate Rowley (Research Associate at the Deafness, Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre), Mairead MacSweeney (Director of DCAL) and Hilary Dumbrill (Speech and Language Therapist and Play Therapist, Hamilton Lodge School and College, Brighton) For many deaf children a 'watch and wait' approach is taken to decide the communication mode used. This usually involves waiting until the child either succeeds or 'fails' at spoken language. In the event of 'failure' many children are then allowed to resort to BSL as a back up. In this workshop we will present evidence indicating that, for some children, the consequences of a 'watch and wait' approach can be catastrophic for the cognitive and emotional development of the child (Rowley/ MacSweeney). We will also discuss approaches that Teachers of the Deaf can take to give a deaf child access to a range of communication strategies (Dumbrill). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.batod.org.uk/about-us/national-conference-2018-wandsworth-london/ |
Description | Prof. Mairéad MacSweeney: Interview for Society for Neuroscience - BrainFacts.org |
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 | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof. Mairéad MacSweeney: Interview for Society for Neuroscience - BrainFacts.org Answered questions on topic: 'Does the Brain Process Sign Language and Spoken Language Differently?' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.brainfacts.org/thinking-sensing-and-behaving/language/2018/does-the-brain-process-sign-l... |
Description | Prof. Mairéad MacSweeney: Invited Lecturer on Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory summer course: "Genetics and Neurobiology of Language", New York July 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Prof. Mairéad MacSweeney: Invited Lecturer on Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory summer course: "Genetics and Neurobiology of Language", New York July 2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx?course=C-LANGUAGE&year=18 |
Description | Prof. Mairéad MacSweeney: Invited to present at the 'Cognitive Neurosciences VI' - workshop to launch new Cognitive Neurosciences Handbook (Ed in Chief M Gazzaniga). Tahoe, California. July 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof. Mairéad MacSweeney: Invited to present at the 'Cognitive Neurosciences VI' - workshop to launch new Cognitive Neurosciences Handbook (Ed in Chief M Gazzaniga). Tahoe, California. July 2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Prof. Mairéad MacSweeney: Invited to present the Athena SWAN lecture at the University of York, November 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Prof. Mairéad MacSweeney: Invited to present the Athena SWAN lecture at the University of York, November 2018 External Seminar: Reading a language you can't hear: The relationship between speechreading and reading in deaf children |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/psychology/news-and-events/seminars/external-seminars/2018.11.27/ |
Description | Prof. Mairéad MacSweeney: Keynote lecture, UCL Neuroscience Symposium, London June 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Prof. Mairéad MacSweeney: Keynote lecture, UCL Neuroscience Symposium, London June 2018 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/brain-sciences/events/2018/jun/2018-ucl-neuroscience-symposium |
Description | Pronouns and pointing : where do sign languages fit? Local pronouns workshop, K Cormier |
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 | Presented at 'Between you and me : local pronouns across modalities', a workshop organized by the local pronouns project at the Radboud University Nijmegen, Dept of Linguistics, 7-8 June 2010 N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
URL | http://www.ru.nl/optimalcommunication/events/workshop_history/local_pronouns/local_pronouns/ |
Description | Psycholinguistic processes in using 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 speaker presentation at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Psycholinguistics of 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 | Presentation given on Psycholinguistics on 8 January 2010 questions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | Public Panel Discussion on Language and Stereotype |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Panel discussion as part of Bloomsbury Festival |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Putting research into practice to improve outcomes for deaf children |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Health professionals |
Results and Impact | Keynote talk at the National Speech and Language Therapy Conference in Deafness. n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Quality of life could be improved for those with dementia and hearing loss |
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 www.femalefirst.co.uk/health/dementia-hearing-loss-288569.html www.femalefirst.co.uk |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Reading 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 | Psychology Departmental seminar, Birmingham University, 4th March 2011 discussion |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Reading 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 | Psychology Departmental seminar at Lund University, Sweden. discussion |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Recent research on deaf children's development at DCAL |
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: Recent research on deaf children's development at DCAL. Available on NDCS website Deaf public became more aware of our research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.ndcs.org.uk/professional_support/news/recent_research_on.html |
Description | Report calls for joined-up approach to assessing and treating dementia and hearing loss |
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.carehome.co.uk/news/article.cfm/id/1559717/report-calls-for-joined-up-approach-to-assessing-and-treating-dementia-and-hearing-loss Report calls for joined-up approach to assessing and treating dementia and hearing loss |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Research Deaf with Dementia Project |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
Results and Impact | Article describing the Deaf with Dementia project in the British Deaf News n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Research and possibilities of postgraduate studies at DCAL |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | The Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Czech in Communication of the Deaf and Language Resource Centre hosted Dr. Zed Sevcikova from the Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL), University College London. The talk introduced staff and undergraduate students in the Dept. of Czech in Communication of the Deaf and LRC to past and present research activities at DCAL, associated projects and postgraduate opportunities. In addition, Sevcikova discussed some findings of her PhD research and gave an brief overview of DCAL's public engagement events. Dr. Sevcikova´s visit at Charles University proved very productive and will hopefully lead to future collaboration between DCAL, University College and Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, especially in the field of research, student exchange and sharing of information and experiences. Lecture materials used for this talk were adapted and translated into Czech from lecture slides provided by Prof. Bencie Woll. collaborative applications |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Research briefing (NDCS) |
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 | A research briefing on executive function and language in childhood deafness published on the National Deaf Children's Society website |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.ndcs.org.uk/document.rm?id=12410. |
Description | Rethinking the assessment 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 | Schools |
Results and Impact | Invited talk at the Department of Educational Administrations, Foundations and Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, December 2011. questions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Robert Adam being interviewed for local TV at the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the LGP Recognition Committee in Coimbra. |
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 | Robert Adam being interviewed for local TV at the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the LGP Recognition Committee in Coimbra. The celebration of the 20th anniversary of the LGP Recognition Committee was the pretext for carrying out of a seminar held at the School of Education of Combra . Deaf Community more aware of DCAL and the reseach we do and the impact it has |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZguWsRyzDbQ&sns=em |
Description | Robert Adam being interviewed on Lithuanian TV on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the government recognition of Lithuanian Sign Language at the parliament building in Vilnius. |
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 | Robert Adam being interviewed on Lithuanian TV on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the government recognition of Lithuanian Sign Language at the parliament building in Vilnius. Showed DCAL to a wider Audience |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0CDXaS8F2s |
Description | Robert Adam: interviewed on Lithuanian TV on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the government recognition of Lithuanian Sign Language at the parliament building in Vilnius. |
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 | Interview informed deaf community about the recognition of Lithuanian Sign Language Greater knowledge of recognition of Lithuanian Sign Language amoung the Deaf Community |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0CDXaS8F2s |
Description | Roundtable on BSL Interpreting and Interpreting Standards |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
Results and Impact | an event for key stakeholders in the field of sign language interpreter training, registration and provision new joint proposals for alterations to interpreter training and standards |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | S. Africa fails to explain hiring of fake signer |
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.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/12/13/world/s-africa-fails-to-explain-hiring-of-fake-signer/#.Uuo4-ft7R8E S. Africa fails to explain hiring of fake signer |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Sam joins DCAL 'on the road' |
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 the British Deaf News describing the DCAL Roadshow event in Bristol 9th July 2011 n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Scandal Over 'Schizophrenic' Mandela Signer |
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.thejakartaglobe.com/international/scandal-over-schizophrenic-mandela-signer/ Scandal Over 'Schizophrenic' Mandela Signer |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Scandal over "schizophrenic" Mandela signer |
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.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/scandal-over/920796.html Scandal over "schizophrenic" Mandela signer |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Scandal over "schizophrenic" Mandela signer |
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://talkvietnam.com/2013/12/scandal-over-schizophrenic-mandela-signer/#.UuAxYRDFIfw http://talkvietnam.com |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Scandal over "schizophrenic" Mandela signer |
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.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/scandal-over/920796.html http://www.channelnewsasia.com |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Scandal over 'schizophrenic' Mandela signer |
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.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iIw_WX73abjjxouoZmlnOTBkVFFQ?docId=2d7002c2-50dc-4ef8-ac26-8bf485c65f21 Scandal over 'schizophrenic' Mandela signer |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | School visit (Elmfield School for Deaf children, Bristol) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | The presentation explained the rationale for the research project and I got some helpful feedback about how best to present the various tasks to the children. I have agreed to go back and summarize the results of the project next year. Recruitment of children for the research project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | School visit (The Mead School, Surrey) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Parents, teachers of the deaf and school governors were enthusiastic about being informed of our research activities and there was a good discussion of what "impact" might mean for basic science research. The school hosting the talk were keen to help with recruitment for our research involving deaf children. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Science Showoff (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 | Presentation at UCL Science Showoff event held in a London pub. Involved 10 minute presentations on sign language research to a general audience. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://scienceshowoff.wordpress.com/welcome-to-science-showoff/ |
Description | Second annual Provost's awards for public engagement |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | This article, in an internal newsletter published by the School of Life and Medical Sciences at UCL, discusses Robert Adam, a Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL) researcher, winning the research staff prize in the second annual Provost's Awards for Public Engagement in 2010. Robert has long had a concern that researchers studying deaf people have not shared their research with the Deaf community. n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slms/newsletter/internal/13-12-10 |
Description | Second language learning in the visual modality: from phonology to narratives. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Health professionals |
Results and Impact | Conference talk to second language researchers on sign language learning in adults Debate about theoretical overlaps between sign and spoken language L2 acquisition |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Semantic and phonological fluency tasks in deaf adult users of British sign language (BSL) |
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 | Oral presentation at the Experimental Psychology Society Meeting N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Semantic fluency in deaf children who use BSL |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Health professionals |
Results and Impact | Organised by the Department of language and communication science, City University N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | Semantics, Pragmatics & Discourse |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | Lecture for Sign Language Linguistics Module at Queen Mary University of London n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Show and tell : framing and narrating constructed action in signed and spoken languages, K Cormier |
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 talk for Gottingen workshop "Complex Sentences and Beyond in Sign and Spoken Languages" N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Show and tell : framing and narrating constructed action in signed and spoken languages, 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 | Invited lecture in Nijmegen N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Show and tell : framing and narrating constructed action in signed and spoken languages, 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 | Invited lecture in Hamburg N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Sign Language Acquisition, Developmentally Atypical Sign Language; Assessing Sign Language |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | 3 lectures delivered to the Workshop on Sign Language Acquisition led to mentoring role funded by Robert Bosch Foundation |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Sign Language Acquisition; Developmentally atypical sign language; Assessing sign language development. Three lectures for the Workshop on Sign Language Acquisition, Humboldt-University of Berlin. 5-6 December, 2013. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 60 students from universities across Germany took part in presentations, seminars and discussions Further requests to DCAL for visits to Germany using Erasmus+ funding |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Sign Language Interpreter At Nelson Mandela's Memorial 'Was A Fake Who Made Up His Own Hand Gestures' |
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.jewsnews.co.il/2013/12/12/sign-language-interpreter-at-nelson-mandelas-memorial-was-a-fake-who-made-up-his-own-hand-gestures/ Sign Language Interpreter At Nelson Mandela's Memorial 'Was A Fake Who Made Up His Own Hand Gestures' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Sign Language Interpreter at Mandela's Memorial Called a "Fake" |
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://wafflesatnoon.com/2013/12/11/fake-mandela-interpreter/ Sign Language Interpreter at Mandela's Memorial Called a "Fake" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Sign Language Produces Color Visions In People With Synaesthesia. Links to DCAL research and results. |
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 | An article on Sign Language Produces Color Visions In People With Synaesthesia linking to Research carried out by DCAL and the results found. Made a wider audience aware of DCAL and the research carried out, |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.iflscience.com/brain/sign-language-produces-color-visions-in-people-with-synaesthesia/ |
Description | Sign Language and Deaf Culture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Lecture to members of the Russian Deaf community n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Sign interpreter at Nelson Mandela memorial says '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 | DCAL staff quoted in a news article on a website http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2013/12/12/mandela_interperter.html?cid=rss News 13 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Sign language : window into human language and cognition symposium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Symposium of 4 talks and Q&A sessions about the importance of sign language research for the theories of human language and cognition. Held at British Psychological Society Annual Conference, London, 18-20 April 2012. n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Sign language acquisition |
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 | Professor Gary Morgan, DCAL Deputy Director, interviewed about Sign Language acquisition in children for the TV programme See Hear, Series 32 Episode 22. Greater knowledge among the Deaf community |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nzmj8 |
Description | Sign language and interpreting aptitude: the case of adult language learners becoming interpreters |
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 | Presented at an interactive workshop funded by the AHRC research networks and workshops scheme. N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
URL | http://www.bilingualism.bangor.ac.uk/events/documents/programmeworkshop4_000.pdf |
Description | Sign language aquisition : "the earlier the better" |
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 | Hearing Times article about BSL Grammaticality Judgement Task Hearing times |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://www.hearingtimes.co.uk/SearchResults.aspx?q=Sign%20language%20acquisition |
Description | Sign language corpora, Corpus MOOC interview |
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 | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Kearsy Cormier interviewed about sign language corpora. Invited expert interview as part of 'In-conversation' teaching materials, Lancaster University's internationally recognised Corpus MOOC, "Corpus linguistics: method, analysis, interpretation," spring term 2014, recorded 23.1.14. www.futurelearn.com/courses/corpus-linguistics |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.futurelearn.com/courses/corpus-linguistics |
Description | Sign language corpora, interview for Corpus MOOC, K Cormier |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Filmed informal interview, "In Conversation", KC answering questions about sign language corpora, one of a group of experts talking about applications of corpora offered as supplementary materials as part of CASS Corpus MOOC https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/corpus-linguistics N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Sign language could make it easier for deaf children to read and speak English |
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 Hearing times |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://www.hearingtimes.co.uk |
Description | Sign language interpreter at Mandela service says he 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://m.cjonline.com/news/2013-12-12/sign-language-interpreter-mandela-service-says-he-was-hallucinating Sign language interpreter at Mandela service says he was hallucinating |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Sign languages as a test case for language diversity : the case of pronouns and verb agreement, 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 talk presented at the Centre for Research on Language Diversity, La Trobe University. N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Sign languages as a test case for language diversity : the case of pronouns and verb agreement, La Trobe U presentation, 2012, A Schembri |
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 talk presented at the Centre for Research on Language Diversity, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, May 18. Schembri, A., Cormier, K. & Woll, B. (2012). Sign languages as a test case for language diversity: The case of pronouns and verb agreement. N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Sign linguistics training session at Discover UCL, K Cormier |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Sign linguistics training session at Discover UCL: A Summer School for D/deaf and Hard of Hearing Students, 11-13 August 2014 N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Signed language acquisition as a second language. Radbout University Nijmegen. |
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 | Research talk to researchers Network grant application |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Signer for deaf at Mandela service has violent past |
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://readingeagle.com/article/20131213/NEWS/312139902/1052#.Uupxlvt7R8E Signer for deaf at Mandela service has violent past |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Signers with stroke |
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 | Presentation to deaf professionals working in mental health settings as part of Healthy Deaf Minds special meeting for Brain Awareness Week n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Signs of the times : deaf community minds its language |
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 | First major study of how British sign language has evolved shows younger users are more reluctant to use 'offensive' signs The Guardian |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://m.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/oct/07/british-sign-language-changing?cat=society&type=article |
Description | Signs of the times : deaf people drop hand signals that use slanted eyes to describe the Chinese and a limp wrist for gays |
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 the Daily Mail Daily Mail |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2214467/Signs-times-Deaf-people-drop-hand-signals-use-slante... |
Description | Similarities and differences in the voice hallucinations of deaf and hearing people: Unlocking psychiatry's secrets through the study of deaf people |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Atkinson (2014) Similarities and differences in the voice hallucinations of deaf and hearing people: Unlocking psychiatry's secrets through the study of deaf people, 6th World Congress On Mental Health And Deafness, Queen's University Belfast, 16-19 September 2014. This was a poster and it won a commendation Greater knowledge amoung the World Congress On Mental Health And Deafness |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Sociolinguistic variation and change in sign languages, 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 | Iecture at Monash Linguistics Seminar Series N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Sociolinguistics and language variation - how do people use BSL? Exeter, 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 | 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 | 2010 |
Description | Sociolinguistics and language variation - how do people use BSL? Liverpool, 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 | 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 | 2010 |
Description | South African 'interpreter' fake-signed anti-white song, also accused of murder |
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://engineeringevil.com/2013/12/13/south-african-interpreter-fake-signed-anti-white-song-also-accused-of-murder-video/ South African 'interpreter' fake-signed anti-white song, also accused of murder |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | South African 'interpreter' fake-signed anti-white song, also accused of murder |
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 article http://engineeringevil.com/2013/12/13/south-african-interpreter-fake-signed-anti-white-song-also-accused-of-murder-video/ Engineering Evil |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Speaking of shape |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
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 | 2010 |
Description | Specific language impairment |
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 | Specific language impairment : identification and description |
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 Healthy Deaf Minds meeting. questions discussion |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Specific language impairment in British Sign Language |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation given at "Lost for Words, Lost for Life" Conference, City University, London, UK discussion |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://www.city.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/96084/SLCN-Conference-Delegate-Book.pdf |
Description | Speechreading Training and Reading: An Introduction to the STAR Project. |
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 | Article published in the magazine of the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf (BATOD). Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Speechreading revisited |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation given at - Deaf Education: Changed by Cochlear Implantation? n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Statement by Dr Joanna Atkinson published on a translation forum |
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 | Statement by Dr Joanna Atkinson published on a translation forum called Proz http://www.proz.com/forum/interpreting/261136-fake_interpreter_at_mandela_funeral-page2.html http://www.proz.com/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Stephen Lloyd MP, visits DCAL |
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 | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | DCAL hosted Stephen Lloyd, Liberal Democrat MP for Eastbourne on 12th June 2012. Stephen Lloyd visited to find out more about DCAL's research. During his visit DCAL's Deputy Director, Professor Gary Morgan and Co- Director Dr Mairéad MacSweeney gave a presentation on deaf children's development. Stephen is particularly interested in DCAL's work, having been hard of hearing from childhood. Stephen Lloyd MP is currently working on our behalf to get long term funding for the deaf Neuro Clinic |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Switching cost in between dialects of British Sign Language and Irish Sign Language |
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 at Gallaudet University presenting data and findings in a research study of language contact between British Sign Language and Irish Sign Language. I had discussions with academics at Gallaudet University about sign language contact. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | TISLR Summer School: The Sign Language Researcher's Toolkit |
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 | The summer school provided core theoretical and methodological training on sign language research covering linguistic as well as psycholinguistic/neurolinguistic approaches. N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | TISLR Summer School: The Sign Language Researcher's Toolkit (7-9 July 2013) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | DCAL organised and hosted the TISLR 11 summer school, The Sign Language Researcher's Toolkit, held 7-9 July 2013, immediately preceding the TISLR 11 conference. The summer school provided core theoretical and methodological training on sign language research covering linguistic as well as psycholinguistic/neurolinguistic approaches. The summer school consisted of lectures, discussions and activities and was aimed at masters and PhD students and early career post-doctoral researchers embarking on or interested in pursuing an independent research program in the study of sign languages. Training was provided by internationally recognised experts in the field, offering students a unique opportunity to acquire an interdisciplinary skill set and to meet and interact with leading academics, both deaf and hearing. The summer school covered topics crucial for linguistic documentation and description of sign languages and for experimental research. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/tislr/summerschool link accessed 11.7.13 discussion |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Talk UCL Theory of Mind |
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 New student projects |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Talking about boys, dogs and frogs in the visual modality : using narrative to study Deaf people's extended 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 speaker (plenary) to German Linguistics Society n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Teaching at the DCAL summer school |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Presented a neuroimaging method (fMRI) and gave tours of the Birkbeck-UCL Centre for NeuroImaging (BUCNI) at the DCAL Research Skills Summer School: The language of deaf people in July 2018. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Team working with Deaf 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 workshop which went through the theoretical and practical aspects of working with Deaf interpreters. I was approached to give more workshops and to write a book chapter for a book published in Japan on some aspects of working as a Deaf interpreter. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Telling and Showing in Sign Language, post-TISLR12 workshop |
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 | Telling and Showing in Sign Language. Session led with Della Goswell at From Theory to Practice: Applied Issues in Sign Language Research workshop for Auslan teachers and interpreters, Melbourne, Australia, 8 January 2016 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Ten years of deafness, cognition and language research at UCL |
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 | An exhibition showcasing DCAL's achievements to mark it's 10th anniversary |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | The BSL Corpus training session for Moscow students |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | "The BSL Corpus," training session for Russian Sign Language interpreting students from Moscow State Linguistic University N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | The British Sign Language Corpus and BSL SignBank, 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 | invited lecture at CASS, Lancaster N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | The Case Against the Mandela "Fake 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://clipinterpreting.com/tag/deaf-culture/ The Case Against the Mandela "Fake Interpreter" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | The DCAL research centre |
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 | Presentation given at the National Institute of Informatics, National Institute of Sciences N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | The Deaf Brain |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A group of scientists from Cancer Research UK/UCL that set up our non-profit organisation in 2012 with an aim of bringing Science to the public in an accessible way. To achieve this, they chose the function room of the English version of a French café a pub - and every month they have been inviting excellent scientist from all areas of Science to give informal talks and host an open discussion afterwards. This talk looked at the British Deaf community, their language (BSL), culture, and their brains. Wherever communities of deaf people exist, sign languages are spontaneously developed - exploiting vision and space for linguistic purposes. BSL and some of its striking features will be introduced, together with an outline of the history and use of BSL. This was followed by a discussion of our evolving understanding of the dual roles of deafness and sign language in shaping the 'deaf brain'. This talk looked at the British Deaf community, their language (BSL), culture, and their brains. Wherever communities of deaf people exist, sign languages are spontaneously developed - exploiting vision and space for linguistic purposes. BSL and some of i |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | The Deaf and signing brain |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation on 'The Deaf and Signing Brain' to the Deaf History Society, Brighton. 28th June 2011. Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | The Deaf and signing brain |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation on 'The Deaf and Signing Brain' to Healthy Deaf Minds, Bristol. 8th June 2011. Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | The Deaf brain |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Health professionals |
Results and Impact | Article in the quarterly newsletter of the British Association for Community Child Health. n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://www.bacch.org.uk/publications/newsletters/index.php |
Description | The History of British Sign Language Exhibition |
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 | Visit and see unique deafness and sign language-related material, never previously exhibited together. Rare books and pamphlets, early films which show the origins of sign language in Britain • Find out about the earliest sources of sign language • Learn about the history of fingerspelling and the beginnings of Deaf education. • How BSL evolved in the 20th and 21st centuries. • Find out which sign languages are related to BSL. • What were the impacts of influences like religion, education and royal patronage • How both the language and Deaf culture have evolved over time School visits Raised awareness |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | The Naked Scientists BBC Cambridgeshire: Prof. Mairéad MacSweeney "If a person is born completely deaf and can't hear a thing, what language do they think in?" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | The Naked Scientists Podcast: Prof. Mairéad MacSweeney "If a person is born completely deaf and can't hear a thing, what language do they think in?" The answer was broadcast on BBC Cambridgeshire (https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06xv0dp) The Naked Scientists, a science production company based at Cambridge University who create radio programmes for BBC, ABC Australia and host an international podcast |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p06xv0dp |
Description | The Naked Scientists Podcast: Prof. Mairéad MacSweeney "If a person is born completely deaf and can't hear a thing, what language do they think in?" |
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 | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The Naked Scientists Podcast: Prof. Mairéad MacSweeney "If a person is born completely deaf and can't hear a thing, what language do they think in?" The Naked Scientists, a science production company based at Cambridge University who create radio programmes for BBC, ABC Australia and host an international podcast |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/question-week/qotw-what-language-do-deaf-people-think |
Description | The Psychologist: Joanna Atkinson: What are the barriers to our profession, and how can we remove them? |
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 | Dr. Joanna Atkinson submitted a response to 'What are the barriers to our profession, and how can we remove them?'. The article provided an insight into personal and professional barriers that can exist in the journey to and through psychology. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-34/february-2021/what-are-barriers-our-profession-and-how-... |
Description | The Road to Language Learning is Iconic |
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 online on International Business Times URL - http://m.ibtimes.co.uk/road-language-learning-iconic-404663.html n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | The Road to Language Learning is Iconic |
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 on ScienceCodex URL - http://www.sciencecodex.com/the_road_to_language_learning_is_iconic-102000 n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | The Road to Language Learning is Iconic |
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 in MedicalXpress URL - http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-road-language-iconic.html n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | The benefits of early sign language exposure for deaf children, K Cormier |
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 | Item in newsletter for Cochlear Implanted Children's Support Group N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://www.cicsgroup.org.uk |
Description | The benefits of sign language for deaf people (and the risks of going without) : evidence from deaf signers, NBRU, NHS, K Cormier |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Health professionals |
Results and Impact | Invited talk at National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing, NHS National Institute for Health Research, 16 July 2012 N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | The bridge of iconicity: from a world of experience to experience of language |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation at the . Language and Perception Workshop, Norwich, February |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | The challenge of identifying Dementia in the UK Deaf Community: A new cognitive screening test using 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 | Atkinson (2014) The challenge of identifying Dementia in the UK Deaf Community: A new cognitive screening test using British Sign Language, 6th World Congress On Mental Health And Deafness, Queen's University Belfast, 16-19 September 2014 more awarness of BSL cognitive screening tests. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | The core lexicon and non-core lexicon in sign languages, training for Moscow students |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | "The core lexicon and non-core lexicon in sign languages," training session for Russian Sign Language interpreting students from Moscow State Linguistic University, 21-23 April 2015. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | The deaf and signing brain |
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 | Evening seminar for deaf and hearing people - arranged as part of brain awareness week N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1103/11031401 |
Description | The deaf brain |
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 | BBC See hear. Research on the deaf brain is beginning to provide a new evidence base for policy and practice in relation to intervention with deaf children. Here we outline the multi-channel nature of language and review recent neuroscience research on language processing with and without sound. n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | The deaf brain : a unique perspective of literacy |
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 | The Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, Brain Meeting, University College London, 11th March 2011 discussion. discussion |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | The deaf brain : a unique perspective of literacy |
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 | Basque Centre on Cognition, Brain and Language, San Sebastian, Spain. 20th October 2011 discussion |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | The deaf brain : a unique perspective of literacy |
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 | Lecture debate |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011,2012 |
Description | The deaf brain : a unique perspective on literacy |
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 | Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University. 18th October 2011 discussion |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | The deaf community as a bilingual community |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
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 | The deaf with dementia project shows how to test for the condition in BSL |
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 | The Deaf with Dementia project shows how to test for the condition in BSL. TV Programme first aired 17th October 2012, See Hear - Series 32, Episode 18. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nj0mf Greater knowledge among the Deaf community. Deaf public became more aware of our Research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nj0mf |
Description | The flexibility of the brain in deaf people is mapped out |
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.liu.se/forskning/forskningsnyheter/1.439800/1.440169?l=en The flexibility of the brain in deaf people is mapped out |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | The importance of language documentation and corpora for sign languages, SOAS, 2013, K Cormier |
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 presentation at SOAS Endangered Languages Week 2013 N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | The learning potential of a deaf child is tremendously high. We mustn't lower our expectations |
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.uoc.edu/portal/en/sala-de-premsa/actualitat/entrevistes/2014/gary-morgan.html The learning potential of a deaf child is tremendously high. We mustn't lower our expectations |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | The neurobiology of signed and spoken language |
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 Australian Sign Language Interpreters Association National Conference, Adelaide, 25 August 2012. N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | The neurobiology of signed and spoken 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. The neurobiology of signed and spoken language. South China Normal University, Guangzhou 25 May 2012. led to collaboration with South China Normal University |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | The perfoming brain - a moving story |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | An organised event hosted at the British Library. The British Library and UCL Neuroscience were involved in the organisation. Public event attended by 300 people. n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | The personal attributes of the ideal sign language 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 | A workshop reviewing the sign language interpreter research literature. After my talk I was invited to watch Deaf and hearing interpreters at work (on TV and in a college) and I have since had contact with Deaf interpreters in Japan. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://www.jsltc.org/??????????/?12???-2012/????????/ |
Description | The psychology of sign language |
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 | Presentation given in London on 11 March 2010 questions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
Description | The relationship between speechreading and reading in deaf children and adults. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Second international conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication. discussion and debate |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | The road to language learning is iconic : evidence from British Sign Language |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | The Road to Language Learning Is Iconic: Evidence From British Sign Language" was featured in the 12-4-2012 edition of "This Week in Psychological Science" (TWiPS). TWiPS is a weekly email to APS members that includes summaries of 4-6 Psychological Science articles recently published online. The online press release is at: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/news/releases/the-road-to-language-learning-is-iconic.html n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | The role of iconicity in lexical retrieval in British Sign Language |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Ideas were disseminated. Discussion after the talk. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | The social impact of university activity, organised by the Agencia de Calidad del Sistema Universitario Vasco |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | A talk on how to achieve and measure social impact for university research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | The special nature of sign language acquisition. |
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 | Talk to linguists on sign language acquisition debate |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Theoretical issues in sign language research (TISLR) conference 11 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | The Deafness, Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre based in University College London (UCL) are pleased to be hosting this conference in the exciting city of London from 10th to 13th July 2013. UCL is in the heart of Central London, within easy reach of numerous attractions and transport links including Euston and Kings Cross St Pancras stations. For more information on the location and venue please see 'Venue Details'.TISLR 11 invites unpublished papers addressing any aspect of research that is both theoretical and addresses sign languages. For more information on the programme, speakers and topics covered please see 'programme'. Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Theory of mind in deaf toddlers |
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 Healthy Deaf Minds meeting. questions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | This Week 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 | This week 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/mg23130813-300-first-evidence-that-synaesthesia-gives-colour-to... |
Description | Twitter: History of BSL exhibition at University College London (2-20 July) by @DCAL_London @Hearing_Library & @deafhistoryuk pic.twitter.com/ohwW3uaa5p |
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 | Twitter advertisement about DCAL's exhibition. https://twitter.com/DeafHeritageUK/status/337693160329338880 link accessed 11.7.13 Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | https://twitter.com/DeafHeritageUK/status/337693160329338880 |
Description | UCL LunchHour Lecture |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | UCL LunchHour Lecture to general audience. 'Language and the brain: Insights from deafness and Sign Language' Now viewed 1,800 times on YouTube |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69nJ1l4DO-s |
Description | UCL Newsletter - The Week@UCL: 22 September 2016 . Spotlight on.. Robert Adam, Director of Continuing Professional Development |
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 | The Week@UCL: 22 September 2016 . Spotlight on.. Robert Adam, Director of Continuing Professional Development, UCL Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre Increased knowledge of DCAL among UCL staff. Staff gained knowledge of the services we provide, including courses we run, and the research we do. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://uclnews.org.uk/UAA-4HVX5-5B8PBAHD24/cr.aspx |
Description | UCL Newsletter - The Week@UCL: 8 December 2016. Spotlight on... Manjula Patrick, Centre Administrator |
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 | UCL Newsletter - The Week@UCL: 8 December 2016. Spotlight on... Manjula Patrick, Centre Administrator, UCL Deafness, Cognition and Language (DCAL) Centre. Manjula was interviewed for the UCL staff newsletter. This is circulated to all UCL staff. This bought DCAL to a wider audience |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://uclnews.org.uk/UAA-4NFGM-5B8PBAHD24/cr.aspx |
Description | UCL launches new online deaf awareness course - UCL Life Learning - Learn to work and communicate well with deaf people: |
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 | Press Release on UCL Life Learning website regarding the launch of DCALs online Deaf Awareness course. This increased queries about DCAL and our work and also made the public more aware of DCAL. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lifelearning/latest-announcements/new-online-deaf-awareness-course |
Description | Understanding the role of a Deaf interpreter |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A workshop which went through the theoretical and practical aspects of working with Deaf interpreters. After my talk, Deaf and hearing participants had a better understanding of some of the theoretical applications of the research into Deaf people working as interpreters. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Unimodal bilingualism in two sign languages : British Sign Language and Irish Sign Language. |
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 lecture on the language contact situation between two sign languages, which investigates (1) the sociolinguistic background and (2) features of code-mixing in this contact situation. After my talk I had more contact with hearing researchers into bilingualism from around the country. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/research/titl/ |
Description | Universals and modality issues : language acquisition, sign language and the brain, atypical 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: Jiangsu University, Xuzhou, People's Republic of China to encourage students to take up research opportunities in neuroscience of sign language Several postgraduates have applied to study at DCAL |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Update on Deaf with Dementia Project |
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 UKCoD (UK Council on Deafness) February e-Bulletin n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
URL | http://deafcouncil.org.uk/news/2012/01/31/january-e-bulletin/ |
Description | Using a linguistic savant's learning of BSL to explore linguistic theory |
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 at Israeli Linguistics Association meeting of research teaching BSL to an autistic savant with enhanced language learning abilities n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Using functional imaging to explore phonological and semantic processing |
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. Using functional imaging to explore phonological and semantic processing. 2nd Conference on Formal and Experimental Advances in Linguistic Theory. Warsaw 1-2 June 2012. N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Using signs with hearing babies |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | • Convenor and Invited speaker, UCL. ESRC Social Science Festival. Baby signing: a critical viewpoint. 17.3.2007. Public debate |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |
Description | Variation and change in BSL number signs |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
Results and Impact | Presented at a DCAL deaf open day. N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
URL | http://www.dcal.ucl.ac.uk/Events/DCAL_Deaf_Open_Day.html |
Description | Voice hallucinations in deaf and hearing people |
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 talk to Psychiatry and deafness special interest group at Euston Friends House N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Voice hallucinations in speech and sign : insights into the nature of subvocal thought and sensory feedback loops |
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 presentation Division of Language Sciences and Psychology UCL Early Career Fellowship talk n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Watch your language |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Research into sign language and the brain, is shedding light on how the brain processes language in both hearing and deaf people, as well as highlighting the importance of gaining language skills early in life. n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lifesciences-faculty/degree-programmes/biological-sciences/UCL_Science |
Description | Wellcome Collection Public Event 'Whisperings within' talk and expert panel discussion with BBC's Claudia Hammond |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Wellcome Collection public event with invited experts about the history and science of how we talk to ourselves. Inspired by Fernyhough's book, The Voices Within, this discussion will take a wide-ranging look at the voices in all our heads, examining how we think and what it means for our lives and sense of self. I presented work about voice hallucinations in deaf and hearing people. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | What can we do with a sign language corpus?: Insights from the British Sign Language Corpus Project |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Class presentation given to teachers and assistants at Frank Barnes School as a training opportunity Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | What do sign language developmental disorders look like? |
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 | Talk on sign language impairment N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | What do the voice hallucinations of deaf people tell us about the voice hallucinations of those who can hear? |
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 | Invited lecture at Wellcome funded 'Hearing the Voice' Research Centre, University of Durham n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | What does sign language impairment look like? |
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 students and professionals in Barcelona about sign language and deafness in children with cognitive or language impairments n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | What if languages were visual : lexical processing in British Sign 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 | Poster presented at the Experimental Psychology Society Workshop N/A |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | What if the study of language started from the investigation of signed, rather than spoken, languages? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Our understanding of the cognitive and neural underpinnings of language learning and processing has been highly influenced by the fact that empirical research and theoretical development has been predominantly based on spoken languages. Since the 70s, researchers (in ever increasing numbers) have recognised the importance of investigating signed languages in order to determine which aspects of language can be considered universal and which, instead, ought to be regarded as modality-specific. However, the study of sign languages has been driven in large part by the theoretical ideas developed for spoken languages. As a result, the general approach has been to assess when sign languages behave like spoken languages (supporting universals) and when they do not (supporting modality-specific features of language). This workshop challenges this approach by asking whether traditional theoretical ideas about language would, in fact, have played a central role in our thinking if we had started the investigation of language with visual, rather than acoustic systems. In order to make this very broad issue tractable, we plan to focus on two separate but related areas: (1) Iconicity, and (2) Language as a multi-channel phenomenon. special journal issue |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | What if... the study of language started from signed rather than spoken languages? |
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 | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | a Workshop sponsored by Experimental Psychology Society, DCAL and the CPB Research Department bringing together researchers primarily working on spoken languages asking them to re-think about the basic assumption of the field, in light of properties and findings from sign languages. special journal issue |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | What is social science? : part 1 |
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's Director, Bencie Woll comments on "What is Social Science?" n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://www.esrc.ac.uk/publications/multimedia/index.aspx |
Description | What is the relationship between executive function and language in deaf children? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Presentation at the International Doctoral Research Group in Deaf Education, University of Leeds 18th October 2012. Sharing of skills |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Why ASL? |
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 | Online video produced, referencing DCAL's research. n/a |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://aslized.org/whyasl/ |
Description | Why BSL linguistics matters for BSL teaching and learning |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | "Why BSL linguistics matters for BSL teaching and learning," article written by Kearsy Cormier, Robert Adam & Bencie Woll for Limping Chicken (world-leading deaf blog) 16 December 2015 http://limpingchicken.com/2015/12/16/dcal-why-bsl-linguistics-matters-for-bsl-teaching-and-learning/ and re-published 9 January 2016 due to popularity of first posting. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://limpingchicken.com/2015/12/16/dcal-why-bsl-linguistics-matters-for-bsl-teaching-and-learning/ |
Description | Why deaf people sneeze silently |
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/blogs-ouch-23162903 Why deaf people sneeze silently |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Widening Participation - Discover UCL Summer School for D/deaf and hard of hearing students (year 11 and 12) |
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 | Residential summer school for 15 students to provide a taste of university life - included sessions on how to prepare, career choices, support available for deaf students at UCL and role model sessions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-students/widening-participation/activities/summer-schools/discover-... |
Description | Widening Participation - Discover UCL Summer School for D/deaf and hard of hearing students (year 11 and 12) |
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 | Residential summer school for 15 students to provide a taste of university life - included sessions on how to prepare, career choices, support available for deaf students at UCL and role |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/study/discover-ucl-summer-school |
Description | Working as a deaf researcher: workshop to Deaf community in Tokyo |
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 | Presentation given to the East Tokyo region of the Japanese Federation of the Deaf I was asked to participate in the publication of a book: Oka, Norie and Michiko Sasaki (eds) (2014), Literacies of the Challenged: to construct truly a inclusive society. Tokyo: Kuroshio Publishing Co. Ltd which will enable Deaf people to have access to information about being a Deaf interpreter. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Workshop delivered at International Mother Language Day event, Communication ID |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Cormier, Kearsy & Robert Adam. 2015. "Current Issues in BSL Lingustics", workshop delivered at International Mother Language Day event for Deaf community, co-sponsored by DCAL and Communication ID, 20 February 2015. Two workshops delivered, one in morning and one in afternoon - questions and discussion followed each. Several expressions of interest in DCAL's Continuing Professional Development programme and Msc programmes. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.communicationid.co.uk/news/international-mother-language-day-2015 |
Description | Workshop on Language planning and standardisation in the Deaf community: what are the human rights implications? Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Discussions were held with local Deaf people, the World Federation of the Deaf and other academics (the University of Kansas) about future collaboration Possible collaboration on a sign language project for families of Deaf children in Saudi Arabia |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.icdr.org.sa/en/Home/Program |
Description | Workshop on: Unimodal code-switching between two sign languages - some findings. Osaka, Japan |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Discussion on bilingualism and language contact took place after the presentation Contact with sign language researchers at Minpaku University and the University of Hamburg resulted from this contact. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.minpaku.ac.jp/english/research/activity/news/corp/20141004-05 |
Description | XVII WFD (World Federation Deaf) Congress Resolutions - Robert Adam (president of WFD) involved in writing of this |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | "recognizing disability as a part of human diversity is essential for appreciating the abilities of people with disabilities." Emphasises deaf people are an important and crucial part of humanity, with unique cultural and linguistic contributions to human diversity, and Declares its collective commitment to strengthening diversity in deaf communities around the world. Auidence reported a change in views and a greater knowledge amoung the Deaf community |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://wfdeaf.org/whoarewe/world-congress/xvii-resolution |
Description | lecture to annual conference of Audiovestibular Physicians |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | An invited presentation on deafness, the developing brain, and language, addressing the question of whether exposure to sign language has any negative effects on the subsequent development of spoken language |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | workshop on deaf and hearing children's sign language acquisition |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | participation in a debate organised for professional practitioners, members of the Deaf community, and parents of deaf children |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | • Invited speaker (plenary). Social cognition for deaf learners. 1st International Conference on Teaching Deaf Learners, 19.3.14. http://www.kentalis.nl/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 | Plenary talk Invited talks/projects |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | • Invited speaker. ¿El bilingüismo es bueno para los niños pero no si eres sordo? (in Spanish). University Autonoma Madrid. 24.4.13 |
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 | Discussion about future of bilingual schools in Madrid Public debates |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |