MIKE GULLIVER

Deaf geographies, and other worlds.

Three year PhD studentship – Scripture, dissent and Deaf space: St Saviour’s, Oxford Street

Leverhulme funded project – Scripture, dissent and Deaf space: St Saviour’s, Oxford Street Department of Religion and Theology, University of Bristol To commence start of March 2014 The University of … Continue reading

December 20, 2013

Scripture, Dissent, and Deaf space

The recent gap in communication will have told you that I’ve been hard at work. And the work has finally paid off… Back in September, a colleague and I submitted … Continue reading

December 3, 2013 · 13 Comments

Deafhood pedagogies, and a Deaf space revolution

Paddy Ladd is in the States at the moment and spoke on Monday at CSD Fremont. Yesterday, via a friend on Facebook (thanks Don) shared the PowerPoint slides of his … Continue reading

October 10, 2013 · 2 Comments

Deaf-led research… a (very small, somewhat apologetic) starting point?

Yesterday evening, I posted a comment on Heriot Watt’s life in LINCS blog… the subject was Deaf-led research. The original post, and other comments are well worth reading, and cover the … Continue reading

October 9, 2013

Sign language recognition and Satyagraha – initial thoughts (1)

With this post, I’m adopting a slightly different approach to blogging. To this point, I’ve tried to post articles that are complete. In other words, they start at the beginning, … Continue reading

September 12, 2013

SL Legislation is not (yet) empowerment

There’s a post today in the Limping Chicken about New Zealand Sign Language. I remember being in NZ in 2006, before the NZSL Act was passed. I actually gave a lecture on … Continue reading

September 9, 2013 · 2 Comments

Building blocks to an understanding of Deaf space

I was recently asked to outline how Deaf space works… and so I wrote a document entitled ‘Building blocks to an understanding of Deaf space‘. It’s not an academic paper … Continue reading

August 14, 2013

GREEN > BLUE > ORANGE (this one’s about Deaf space)

Following my initial post on the Deaflympics, I went home with something nagging at the back of my mind. I felt like I’d written a reasonable post, that should have … Continue reading

August 9, 2013

GREEN > BLUE > ORANGE

I should be on my way home now – but I can’t leave the office before putting a nagging thought to bed. So, here goes. This is a short video … Continue reading

August 7, 2013 · 2 Comments

Post FSDG, post Workshop, post… at last, a post.

As the title suggests, it’s been a while since I posted anything up here. For the last month I’ve been doing a weekly 400 mile round trip from Bristol to … Continue reading

July 24, 2013