CTISS members have secured competitive research grants from a range of national and international funding bodies. Examples from the last ten years:
Current Funded Projects
Deaf communities and their historic environment: How built heritage is discussed, symbolised and manifested through contemporary British Sign Language (2021-2025)
PI: Prof Graham Turner
Co-I: Dr Annelies Kusters
Funded by: Arts & Humanities Research Council & Historic Environment Scotland
Empowering Brazil’s impoverished communities through critical decision-making: A communitarian communicative strategy (2020-2022)
PI: Prof. Claudia Angelelli
Co-I: Prof. Maico Roris Severino – Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil
Funded by: Arts & Humanities Research Council
Website: https://ebic.site.hw.ac.uk/
Interpreting for Mental Health Act Assessments (INforMHAA) (2021-2022)
PI: Prof Alys Young (University of Manchester)
Co-I: Prof Jemina Napier
Funded by National Institute for Health Research, School of Social Care Research
Translating Taiwan: a semiotic reading of polyglot sites, memories, and social inclusion (2021-2022)
PI: Dr Min-Hsiu Liao
Funded by Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation
Children’s literature in translation: Encouraging children to read (2020-2021)
PI: Dr Owen Harrington-Fernandez
Funded by the Carnegie Trust
Justisigns 2: Empowering victims of gender-based violence through interpreting (2019 – 2022)
PI: Prof Jemina Napier
Weblink: https://justisigns2.com
Funded by the European Commission, Erasmus+
Mobile Deaf (2017-2022)
PI: Dr Annelies Kusters
Funded by the European Research Council
Previous funded projects
Tracking shifts in attitudes and development of multilingual identities (2019-2020)
PI: Dr Stacey Webb
Co-I: Prof Jemina Napier, Co-I: Dr Robert Adam
Funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council Open World Research Initiative (MEITS)
Professional Ugandan Sign Language interpreting services: Evaluating an academic training programme and identifying challenges in practice (2018-2019)
PI: Prof Graham Turner
Co-I: Dr Sam Lutalo-Kiingi (Kyambogo University, Uganda)
Funded by the British Academy
Translating the Deaf Self: Engagement & Exploration through artistic transformations (2018)
PI: Prof Alys Young (University of Manchester)
Co-I: Prof Jemina Napier
Weblink: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/artviatds/
Funded by AHRC
Exploring family sign language policy in mixed deaf-hearing families (2018-2019)
PI: Dr Annelies Kusters
Co-I: Prof Jemina Napier
Funded by the Carnegie Trust
How does the sitcom ‘Small World’ reflect linguistic diversity in the British Deaf community? (2018-2019)
PI: Dr Jordan Fenlon
Co-I: Dr Annelies Kusters
Funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council
Promoting Equality of Access in Scotland (PEAS): Public service interpreting with British Sign Language users (2017 – 2019)
PI: Prof Graham Turner
Funded by Scottish Government Equality Unit
Constructing Chinese Identity in a History Museum: Narration and Translation in The Opium War Museum (2017)
PI: Dr Min-Hsiu Liao
Funded by the Great Britian-China Centre
Designs: Access to employment through interpreting for deaf sign language users (2016 – 2019)
PI: Prof Jemina Napier
Weblink: http://www.designsproject.eu/DESIGNS_project/About.html
Funded by European Commission, Erasmus+
Video remote BSL interpreting and proximity in police settings (2016 – 2020)
PI: Prof Jemina Napier
Co-I Prof Nick Fyfe (Robert Gordon University); PhD student; Robert Skinner
Funded by Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities Applied Collaborative Research Grant
Weblink: https://proximityinterpreting.com
Shifting value in cultural heritage: translating national trauma for international tourists (2015)
PI: Dr Min-Hsiu Liao
Funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Access to mental health care for linguistically and culturally diverse patients (2015-2016)
PI: Prof Isabelle Perez
Funded by Scottish Universities Insight Institute
BSL Learning in the 1+2 languages programme in Scottish Schools (2015-2016)
PI: Prof Graham H Turner
Funded by Scottish Universities Insight Institute
Translating the Deaf Self (2015-2016)
PI: Prof Jemina Napier
Co-Is Prof Alys Young & Rosemary Oram (University of Manchester)
Funded by AHRC Translating Cultures Theme Research Innovation Grant
Translating cultures and the legislated mediation of indigenous rights in Peru (2015-2016)
PI: Dr Rosaleen Howard (University of Newcastle)
Co-I Prof Raquel De Pedro Ricoy
Funded by AHRC Translating Cultures Theme Research Innovation Grant
INSIGN: Pilot Project for improving the communication between deaf and hard of hearing persons and the EU Institutions (2014-2015)
PI: Pro Jemina Napier
Co-I Prof Graham H Turner
Funded by European Commission Directorate-General for Justice
Public service translation in cross-border healthcare (2014-2015)
PI: Prof Claudia Angelelli
Funded by European Commission Directorate – General for Translation
Sign language brokering in deaf communities (2014-2017)
PI: Prof Jemina Napier
Funded by School of Social Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, internal research grant
Justisigns: Access to justice through interpreting for deaf sign language users (2014-2016)
PI: Prof Jemina Napier
Co-I Prof Graham H Turner
Funded by European Commission Lifelong Learning Programme
New speakers in multilingual Europe (2013-2017)
PI: Prof Bernadette O’Rourke
Funded by European Co-operation in Science and Technology
Participation in the administration of justice: Deaf citizens as jurors (2013-2018)
PI: Prof Sandra Hale (University of New South Wales)
Co-Is: Prof Jemina Napier; Prof David Spencer (Australian Catholic University); Dr Mehera San Roque (University of New South Wales); Dr Debra Russell (University of Alberta)
Funded by Australian Research Council Linkage Grant
Co-operation in interpreter-mediated questioning of minors (2013-2014)
PI: Prof Ursula Böser
Co-I: Christine Wilson
Funded by European Commission Directorate-General for Justice
The ImPLI (Improving Police and Legal Interpreting) project (2011-2012)
PI: PI: Prof Ursula Böser
Co-I: Christine Wilson
Funded by European Commission Directorate-General for Justice
Medisigns: Access to healthcare through interpreting for deaf sign language users (2011-2013)
PI: Prof Graham H Turner
Funded by European Commission Lifelong Learning Programme
The British Sign Language (BSL) Corpus Project: Sociolinguistic variation, language change, language contact and lexical frequency (2008-2011)
PI: Dr Kearsy Cormier (UCL)
Co-I: Prof Graham H Turner
Funded by ESRC