Unique opportunity to shape the Scottish BSL Bill – In BSL
Watch this first… https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=668884149899902 Graham Turner writes: This is a brilliant initiative by the Scottish Parliament to bring itself to the BSL community and invite that community to express its views on … Continue reading
Communication professionalism or engagement?
(btw – apologies for the hat and the rest… the heating’s off in the house and it gets cold!!) Back from the Bridging The Gap conference in York, two things… … Continue reading
Deaf… but now (mostly) Dead
William Mager’s post on the Ouch! blog this morning deserves a read. Part of the commemorative events to mark the 100th anniversary of the UK’s entry into World War One, … Continue reading
Bad-quality signing, and why the hearing world loves it.
(Note, in the 5 minutes since I posted this, another clearly-pro voice has popped up… so this is obviously one of the issues where people don’t agree. Important for me … Continue reading
The Wolverhampton Deaf community lose a landmark, and the Deaf Church moves on
Following the celebration of the St Saviour’s Acton building in Sept, I’ve been sent notification of a further Deaf church on the move. The blog post covering this (which also contains … Continue reading
Call for Papers – Deaf Geographies: AAG 2015 – Chicago
Originally posted on Deaf geographies sandbox:
Call for Papers – American Association of Geographers conference, 2015. Chicago. Mike Gulliver, University of Bristol: UK Gill Harold, University College Cork: Ireland Austin Kocher,…
Flipping the research status-quo on its head
Last Friday, my previous post on the assumptions of co-production went live on Limping Chicken. In that post, I talk about how, even in some projects described as ‘co-production’, the … Continue reading
Co-production – what if Deaf people say ‘no’
No… this is not about the Scottish Referendum. In a post a few days ago, I described a current move in the more ‘human’ side of academia away from projects that … Continue reading
It’s only polite to ask Deaf people *before* we co-produce with them… surely?
The last few weeks have me thinking about the idea of ‘co-production’. Actually, that’s wrong, I’ve been thinking about co-production on and off for the last ten years (without calling … Continue reading
Deaf cooperatives script now online
Last Friday’s RGS/IBG paper on Deaf Co-operatives, and the challenge of Deaf space as capital is now available. The script is an introductory one, but does cover some academic topics. … Continue reading
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