BSL Corpus Project

Starting in January 2011, Dr. Adam Schembri has taken up a new post as the Director of the National Institute for Deaf Studies at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, Australia. The team wishes him the best of luck! Adam will stay on as a Co-Investigator on the project and so will continue to be involved. Kearsy Cormier will act as director of the project until June.

We are delighted to announce that the ESRC have granted the BSL Corpus Project a 6-month extension until 30 June 2011. This will enable us to continue our important work on sociolinguistic variation in BSL for a few months more.

Jordan Fenlon and Robert Adam (DCAL) received £12,000 from UCL’s Beacon Bursary for the DCAL Roadshow. The roadshow will visit the following cities: Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Manchester, and Newcastle. These events will run for one afternoon each time and will feature a series of lectures delivered in BSL by hearing and deaf researchers at DCAL, including BSL Corpus Project staff and students. The aim is to provide each local community the opportunity to learn about different areas of sign language research and the chance to put questions to the researchers themselves. The first event will take place in Birmingham on the 19^th March with the remaining five events taking place over the following months. For more information click here.