Kearsy | 
19th January 2012| 
The BSL Corpus Project final report to the Economic and Social Research Council is now available. The final report provides a project overview, summarises the methodology and major findings, and early and anticipated impacts within academia and the community.
Jan
19
The BSL Corpus Project (Jan 2008 - June 2011) would not have been possible without the BSLCP team or the BSLCP participants. Thank you!!
Mar
17
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.
Mar
17
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.
Mar
17
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 19th March with the remaining five events taking place over the following months. For more information click here.
Dec
17
The website for the Corpus NGT (Sign Language of the Netherlands Corpus) was officially launched on December 12: video clips of the data are ready to be viewed. Congratulations to our Dutch colleagues Onno, Inge and Johan!
Jul
19
Adam Schembri, Mark Nelson and Sally Reynolds conducted the first pilot data collection session on July 11 here at DCAL in London. We were very grateful for assistance from Tanya Denmark and Jordan Fenlon, two BSL native signers and PhD students at University College London who agreed to act as participants for the pilot filming session. We’re now ready to begin filming sessions in London, Manchester and Birmingham.
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