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Are you deaf and interested in research or professional services? DCAL is offering paid one-week placements! Gain hands-on experience in a world-class centre. Apply by 30 April 2025. 📅 Find out more & apply: ucl.ac.uk/pals/news/2025… #Deaf #BSL #Internship #UCL

As part of Sign Language Week, we’re revisiting our lay summary on BSL indicating verbs! Findings suggest these verbs blend morphemic and gestural elements, with modification influenced by factors like constructed action. youtube.com/watch?v=nGwV5x… #SignLanguageWeek #SLW2025

For #SignLanguageWeek, we’re revisiting a previous lay summary on language impairments in sign development. Do these impairments depend on modality, or are they broader linguistic deficits? Watch Clive Mason interview Bencie Woll to find out! #SLW2025 youtu.be/qwJv-fpK17U

DCAL staff wish you a Happy Sign Language Week! 💙🤟 #SLW2025 #SignLanguageWeek

Curious about what we do at DCAL? From world-class research to accessible resources for the deaf community, it’s all here. Explore our work, meet the team, and get involved: ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/… #DeafResearch #BSL #UCL

🏆 Have you published impactful research on British Sign Language in the past 2 years? Apply for the Bencie Woll Prize and stand out in the field of sign language linguistics. Winner receives £500 and the opportunity to present their work at DCAL. Details: ucl.ac.uk/pals/news/2025…

🚨 One month to go Are you deaf and interested in linguistics, psychology or cognitive neuroscience? Apply for a paid internship at DCAL, UCL – gain valuable experience at a world-leading research centre. Deadline: 30 April 2025 👉 ucl.ac.uk/pals/news/2025…

An early morning start for the Literacy & Deafness Development Research Lab team to come back to the Elizabeth Foundation and see our superstar deaf children taking part in our research studies at DCAL - we can't wait to see their progress! Kathryn Mason Prof Ros Herman #YoungResearchers #scientistsinthemaking

We’re deeply saddened by the passing of Doug Alker. His leadership in the BSL recognition campaign in 2003 had a lasting impact on DCAL’s work. Thank you, Doug, for your tireless advocacy for BSL and the Deaf community.

I’m Zahra Nawab, a deaf PhD student at UCL researching language deprivation in deaf adults. If you’re a clinician with 2+ years’ experience in adult deaf mental health, I’d appreciate it if you could complete my survey on identifying language deprivation. qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_4H…

Another fantastic couple of days down at the Elizabeth Foundation seeing the language and reading progress made by some of the 🌟🌟 #YoungResearchers taking part in our Literacy & Deafness Development Research Lab Preschool project at DCAL- if only all our data collection could be this much fun 🥳 Prof Ros Herman

We had an amazing time at Deaf Day 2025! 🧡 Thanks to everyone who came by the DCAL stand to chat, learn about our research, and get involved. #DeafDay #DCAL #DeafCommunity #UCL

The Bencie Woll Prize is open to early-career researchers (within 7 years of PhD or Master’s) whose work on BSL linguistics has been published in the last 2 years as a first or solo author. Applications close end of May 2025! Full details here: ucl.ac.uk/pals/news/2025…

Today we mark National BSL Day – celebrating the BSL Act 2022, recognising British Sign Language across England, Scotland and Wales. We stand with the Deaf community in pushing for real accessibility and equality. ✊ #NationalBSLDay #BSLAct #DeafRights

Happy Deaf Awareness Week! Check out our online course: Deaf Awareness: Working and Communicating Well with Deaf People. Build practical skills & learn at your own pace—no experience needed. Sign up here: ucl.ac.uk/short-courses/…

Watch Kearsy Cormier revisit her highly cited 2015 paper on constructed action in BSL, co-authored with Sandra Smith & Zed Sevcikova. She explains what it is, why it matters & how it ranges from role-shifts to facial expressions. 🎥 youtu.be/15lGGVw-vgo

Discover UCL this July! A free summer school for deaf and hard of hearing students - with BSL interpreters, live captioning, and a chance to explore university life. Apply now by Monday 10th June.

SignGPT is a 5-year EPSRC-funded project by Uni of Surrey, UCL DCAL & Oxford, building AI tools with the deaf community. We're a deaf/hearing team looking for more deaf BSL signers to join us!