and just like that, our degree has come to an end! Cannot thank everyone in these photos enough for all the joy, hard work, and love we shared these last three years🎓🐺Sarah Bown Sandra Pratt @drcastone @ThaisaHughes Kirsten Banks Anna Harriet Oulds #WLV #Classof2023

Four years ago today I arrived at University of Wolverhampton with no idea how much would change in the coming years. Changing from Deaf Studies, to BSL interpreting and working as a full time TSLI. What a journey it’s been!

"Inclusion of Sign Language Interpreters does not mean Deaf People are automatically included." The strangest phenomenon in disability & accessibility space that we notice in many conferences is that they have sign language interpreters but no deaf participants. The presence of

30 years of studies in British Sign Language Interpreting celebrated at ⁦University of Wolverhampton⁩ I am immensely proud to be a part of this legacy. Thank you ⁦Sarah Bown⁩ wlv.ac.uk/news-and-event…

Sad to learn yesterday of a deaf stroke patient in a Cambridgeshire hospital for 3 weeks without access to interpreters. Remote interpreting available but they didn’t know how to work it. Imagine being in hospital for 3 weeks after something as serious as a stroke and not being

It is utterly disheartening to see that this decision means true inclusion cannot take place at the World Congress, making the presence of LGBTQIA+ interpreters, or discussion of related topics entirely unsafe.

After some very exciting news, I am proud to say I am now a Registered BSL interpreter with NRCPD! I’d like to thank friends and colleagues for all the support they’ve shown to me. Onwards and upwards! #nrcpd

Fantastic CPD session this evening at IRIS. Huge thank you to Anthony (Tony) Evans (Sign name 'Laughing') for your insight into performance interpreting, and to Sarah Bown for another brilliant IRIS event. Looking forward to the next! University of Wolverhampton

Currently only 36% of students have had all the support that has been approved by their university actually put in place. By 2033 we want to see this increase to 80%, but how? 1/2

Cast announced for bilingual Rent production at Curve, Leicester whatsonstage.com/news/cast-anno…

On the train home after watching this and feeling full of joy. Absolutely sensational Curve

A real treat to see Adam Schembri (ˈʃɛmbɹi/ˈʃkɛmbri) delivering his inaugural speech at Uni of Birmingham yesterday evening. Such fantastically interesting research!

Celebrating 30 years of sign language interpreter education and training at the University of Wolverhampton. QR code to book tickets to attend this conference on this flyer. #BSL #1ntSL #1nt WLV Alumni University of Wolverhampton Impact Team University of Wolverhampton UoW FOSS Institute for Community Research and Development ASLI @VLP_TerpTweets NRCPD

Grateful to spend #deaffest2024 with VoluntEars What a blast we had!

Dipping a proverbial toe into socio/psycholinguistics 👀 Viorica Marian

Save the date: 21-22 August, 2025 'Sign language contact, variation, and change' workshop at Uni of Birmingham. More information soon!

Here’s to the next year! 🥂#nrcpdregistered

Finally got a blue screen for remote work! Freelance preparation is nearing completion. Now I just need a haircut

Some amazing work I got to take part in with Wolverhampton Grand in the summer of last year. BSL integrated theatre really is the way forward!

After a long time coming I will now be deleting this app. If you would like to follow me on another hell-scape platform. My Instagram is @harriet.bsl instagram.com/reel/DFD8aYvM-…