By: Amandine le Maire, 17th March 2022 On my return from fieldwork at Kakuma Refugee Camp, I began to translate the seven interviews that I had recorded.Converting sign language data to written English is a different process compared to transcribing spoken English into written English. This conversion from sign language to written English implicates translation between […]
Webinar video of research presentation on 10th November 2020 by Amandine le Maire (Heriot-Watt University) and Nina Sivunen (University of Jyväskylä) and panel discussion with Ibrahim Al-Kadri and Chris Kubwimana. The webinar was organised in International Sign, interpreted into British Sign language (for panel discussion only) and spoken English, and is subtitled in written English […]
TUESDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 2020 at 3:00 – 5:00 PM (UK time) Research presentation by Amandine le Maire (Heriot-Watt University) and Nina Sivunen (University of Jyväskylä) and panel discussion with deaf refugees : Ibrahim Al-Kadri and Chris Kubwimana. Interactive discussion, Q&A Language: International Sign with interpretation to spoken English. You need a password to log in […]
By: Amandine le Maire, 7 April 2020 On Sunday 11th March 2018, I was talking with a group of deaf refugees. They told me they were going to a primary school; Baar el Naam, to an event set up by the Starkey Hearing Foundation to provide deaf refugees with free hearing aids. The Starkey Hearing Foundation’s […]
By: Amandine le Maire My first field work stint has just been completed! I have stayed for 4 months in Kakuma Refugee Camp. I’ve had so many intensive experiences and collected a lot of data through participant observation (laid down in field notes) and interviews, to bring to Scotland and to analyse before I go […]
Hello! My name is Nina Sivunen and I am a PhD student at the Centre of Applied Language Studies at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. I got a University of Jyväskylä Science Council´s Research Mobility Grant for strengthening strategic partnership and career development. I applied for this grant to join the all-deaf research […]
Amandine and Steve were at the conference, Borders Racisms and Resistance and we left the event with much to contemplate. Here is our brief summary: the research papers and activist speakers were focused mainly on the UK, although there was some evidence shared of the experience of increased border controls on peoples in Eastern Europe. […]
By: Steve Emery For the MobileDeaf project, each team member will direct an ethnographic film related to our individual projects. The three team members who attended the course – Steve, Erin and Amandine – are new to filmmaking, thus we enrolled on the Filmmaking 4 Fieldwork (F4F) course in Manchester (3-13 July 2017). When we make […]