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 […]
This is the video from a webinar organised on 18 August 2020, with a presentation by MobileDeaf researchers Steven Emery and Sanchayeeta Iyer, followed by a panel discussion with deaf people who had moved to London from Czech Republic, India, Somalia and Sierra Leone. The webinar was organised in British Sign Language, interpreted into International […]
This is the video and PPT of our presentation titled “Intersectionality and Deaf Studies: Insights from the study of international deaf mobilities” at the World Federation of the Deaf conference, Paris, 26 July 2019.
By: MobileDeaf team, 9 October 2019 We are now half-way through the 5-year MobileDeaf project, which started 2.5 years ago in April 2017. That means it’s time for an update to outline what we have done until now! We’ll start with some fun facts! · In total, we have interviewed 185 people · We have written 880 […]
By: Annelies Kusters, Erin Moriarty, Sanchayeeta Iyer Reading group meetings are a great way to critically discuss and digest articles or books. Basically, a group of people reads one or more articles or books in advance of the meeting, and the aim of the reading group is to then talk about the article. The discussion […]
by Maartje De Meulder, Annelies Kusters, Joseph Murray and Erin Moriarty Note: this is a blog post about a longer article which can be found here (Open Access) and it is a re-post of a blog that first appeared on Acadeafic.org (11 May 2019) Translanguaging is a well-established concept in sociolinguistics and applied linguistics and one […]
By: Erin Moriarty Harrelson 27 September 2018 What is the difference between deaf ethnographic filmmaking and producing documentaries for television and cinema? This question was raised during a filmmaking workshop hosted by MobileDeaf on 17-18 September 2018, attended by the filmmakers from Belgium and London we work with. As a part of its research and […]
Amandine and Annelies were at the “Dr Deaf” workshop in Ål in Norway, from 19-21 January 2018. Annelies was one of the four instructors and Amandine was one of the 35 participants. The other instructors were Dr. Joseph Murray (who organised the workshop), Dr. Hilde Haualand and Dr. Robert Adam. Participants came from Norway, Sweden, Finland, […]
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 […]