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.
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MobileDeaf at the halfway stage! What the team has been up to: fun facts and updates
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 itâs time for an update to outline what we have done until now! Weâll start with some fun facts! · In total, we have interviewed 185 people · We have written 880 […]
How much is too much? On the use of ASL signs in International Sign
Annelies Kusters, 12 September 2019 Note: this blog is based on a longer article: “The tipping point: On the use of American Sign Language in International Sign” Language & Communication 75 – open access here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2020.06.004 âThere is a lot of ASL in International Signâ, and âThat does not look like International Sign to me, […]
Research teamwork: The role of reading groups
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 […]
Translanguaging and the senses: the case of deaf signers
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 […]
Using language portraits with deaf signers: do’s and don’ts
Note: this is a re-post of a blog that first appeared on Acadeafic.org on 11 May 2019. See this open access article to read more about how we used language portraits: Kusters, Annelies & De Meulder, Maartje (2019). Language Portraits: Investigating Embodied Multilingual and Multimodal Repertoires [65 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 20(3), […]
Brexit and Deaf Migrants: access to information and support provision remains a serious concern
by Sanchayeeta Iyer, 6 May 2019 With the deadline for the UK to exit the EU looming near (at the time of writing, the deadline has now been extended to 29th of June), combined with the delay in achieving majority agreement in the house of Parliament on an exit deal, there is a sense of […]
What language portraits tell us about the embodied experience of International Signï»ż
by Annelies Kusters, 20 March 2019 See this open access article to read more about how we used language portraits: Kusters, Annelies & De Meulder, Maartje (2019). Language Portraits: Investigating Embodied Multilingual and Multimodal Repertoires [65 paragraphs]. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 20(3), Art. 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/fqs-20.3.3239. I used language portraits to do research into the […]
The challenge of informed consent and ethnographic filmmaking in London đș
Image: outside of the building, City Lit College, which is on a road with vehicles parked opposite By Steve Emery, 11 March 2019 Of the many observations undertaken in my fieldwork in London none stand out so more marked than City Lit College, which is close to Covent Garden and the Holborn area of the […]
Wanted: Participants in London for Migrant Deaf Film
TRANSCRIPT Hello, itâs a beautiful day, isnât it? (Steve: yes itâs beautiful). I am Sanchu, and I am Steve. We are working on a research project, that is called âMobileDeafâ, but what it is about? It is focusing on migration to London and soon we will be engaged in making an ethnographic film for the […]