BSL Corpus Project

The BSL Corpus Project team been joined by a new DCAL Deaf intern - Breish Rowe. Breish is a psychology graduate from the University of Durham who has joined DCAL for one year. She’ll be working on a number of DCAL projects, including the BSL Corpus Project. Welcome Breish! Jordan Fenlon, our project research associate, passed his PhD viva recently, so congratulations to Dr Fenlon! Our research assistant on the project, Ramas Rentelis, has passed his University of Durham Postgraduate Diploma in Interpreting with the Deaf Community with a distinction: congratulations Ramas! Finally, our project-linked research student, Rose Stamp, successfully completed her Masters in Research degree here at UCL, with a dissertation focussing on variation and change in BSL: congratulations to Rose!

It’s been a few months since the last update, but progress with the filming has been excellent: we have now filmed 214 Deaf people for the project. Thanks very much to Evelyn McFarland in Belfast and Jordan who finished filming in Belfast in September. Jordan also worked with Jeff Brattan-Wilson in Cardiff to film 20 participants there in October. Unfortunately, due to other work commitments, Jeff is not able to continue in his role as Cardiff Deaf Community Fieldworker, so we take this opportunity to say a big thank you to Jeff and to Evelyn for all their wonderful work with us on the project.