By: Steve Emery (The above zoomable map is the copyright of geographer Oliver O’Brien and James Cheshire of University College London – it maps where ethnic groups settle in London street by street, with thanks to Feargus O’Sullivan at Citylab) I began my fieldwork research in London at the end of February 2018. I have lived […]
Picture: Aerial view of Kakuma Refugee Camp Blog/vlog by: Amandine le Maire I am currently in Kakuma refugee camp and I’d like to share with you what happened in the last month since I arrived in Nairobi, Kenya. Together with interpreter Pascale I’ve been working for 2.5 weeks to get two permits: one permit to […]
Amandine and Annelies were at the “Dr Deaf” workshop in Ă…l 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, […]
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 Erin Moriarty Harrelson, August 2017 Last week, the MobileDeaf team organised its first reading/film discussion groups at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. These reading/discussion groups are built around themes (about 15 themes over 6 months) and last week’s theme was Ethnographic Filmmaking. Each of us will direct a full-length ethnographic film within the frame of […]
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 […]
Text: Erin Moriarty Harrelson Videos: Amandine le Maire Last week, we (Amandine le Maire and Erin Moriarty Harrelson: two of the four MobileDeaf project researchers), traveled to Birmingham for a 5-day residential course at the University of Birmingham organized by TLANG, Translation and Translanguaging: Investigating Linguistic and Cultural Transformations in Superdiverse wards in Four UK […]
By: Annelies Kusters On 14-15 June 2017, the first MobileDeaf conference was organised! In late 2016, I got the idea to organise a small (!) book launch when I realised that I could gather at least five of the authors of “Innovations in Deaf Studies: The Role of Deaf Scholars” together at the same […]