PhDeaf: doing a PhD from a deaf perspective

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, […]


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Visiting an all-deaf research team: Finnish PhD student Nina Sivunen’s 2 months with MobileDeaf

    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 […]


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What makes a film a “deaf ethnographic film”?

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 […]


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MobileDeaf at the Filmmaking for Fieldwork summer school in Manchester

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 […]


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MobileDeaf at the TLANG (translanguaging) summer school: A Deaf Lens

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 […]


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