News and PR - Archive 2007

October 2007
DCAL Newsletter #2 has arrived online!! Click here to download the pdf version.

September 2007
Merle Mahon and Adam Schembri receive an award for the Video Data Archive Project under the UCL Research Challenge Scheme.

Press release from UCL on the British Sign Language Corpus Project.

July 2007
DCAL Annual Report 2006-07(click here to download)

The ESRC awards Adam Schembri and colleagues at UCL and 4 other British universities a three-year £1.2 million grant for the British Sign Language Corpus Project!

UCL reports on Jo Atkinson's research on perceptual characteristics of voice hallucinations in deaf people with schizophrenia

June 2007
DCAL Summer School
DTI visit at DCAL

May 2007
Advisory Committee Meeting

Deaf Awareness Week:

Field Methods Workshop

Professor Susan Fischer, Mary Brennan Fellow: Sign Language Surprises

April 2007
Ruth Campbell receives an honorary doctorate from Linkoping University in Sweden in acknowledgement of her research relating to deafness and Deaf people.

DCAL Annual Report Now Available

March 2007
ESRC Festival Of Social Science Events:

Dr Rachel Mayberry: Insights From Sign Language

The Great Baby Sign Debate