BSL Corpus Project

Gemma Smith
Tom Johnston

Translation team

Janet Beck & Marie Franklin (Belfast translator & consultant)
Helen Dunipace & Avril Hepner (Glasgow translator & consultant)
Sue Lee & Dawn Marshall (Newcastle translator & consultant)
Cathryn McShane & Jeff Brattan-Wilson (Cardiff translator & consultant)
Kyra Pollitt & Carolyn Denmark (Bristol translator & consultant)
Elvire Roberts & Tom Johnston (Birmingham translator & consultant)
Sherratt Rowan & Rosemary Oram (Manchester translator & consultant)
Robert Skinner & Melinda Napier (London translator & consultant)

Cardiff Fieldworker

Sarah Lawrence is Deaf, a fluent signer of BSL from Cardiff. Sarah is a successful business woman and owns ‘Deaf-Friendly Solutions’, an in-service training business for deaf and hearing organisations. She took over as the Deaf community fieldworker for Cardiff and southern Wales when Jeff Brattan-Wilson was no longer able to continue in his role.

Cardiff Fieldworker

Jeff is a Deaf native signer and has been working in the advocacy field for five years and is now managing the advocacy service in Wales and England for the British Deaf Association. He has also been involved in training interpreters for six years, and has worked as an on screen interpreter for ten years for various media companies, including ITV and BBC.