‘After an interval that can only be measured in terms of eternity, we found ourselves back in the more familiar dimensions of space and time’ - Jean Kingdon-Ward ('My Hill so Strong', London, 1952) In August 1950, Jean and her husband, botanist Francis Kingdon-Ward, experienced an earthquake whilst visiting the Lohit Valley on the India–Tibet borderlands. Using their recollections of the event as a case study, Dr Dan Haines, Lecturer in Disaster and Crisis Response and Programme Leader for the UCL Risk, Disaster and Resilience MSc, explores how time is perceived by people who experience earthquakes and how this impacts future response to emergencies. The themes he discusses in this video are based on his article 'Timescapes, subjectivity and emotions after the India–Tibet earthquake, 1950', available here: https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtad025 Find out more about the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR) on our website.

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3/4/2024

Explore this unique opportunity to join UCL's prestigious Division of Psychology and Language Sciences as a Research Assistant. Engage in a Wellcome-funded, three-year project led by Prof. Mairéad MacSweeney, focusing on the role of visual communication skills in reading development among young deaf children. This fixed-term role offers a chance to register for a PhD at UCL. Knowledge of British Sign Language (BSL) is a requirement.

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7/19/2023

Meet Kearsy Cormier, the Director of the Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL), as she warmly welcomes you to the world of DCAL’s innovative research. DCAL boasts a multidisciplinary team of experts from fields such as linguistics, psychology, and neuroscience. They are committed to investigating how deaf individuals engage with, comprehend, and learn languages, as well as understanding the cognitive processes unique to deaf people. The research conducted at DCAL has been groundbreaking, shedding light on language processing in the brain, the influence of language variation on sign language structure, and how language is processed by both deaf children and adults. These insights are not only integral for advancing the scientific knowledge in this domain but are also invaluable in informing educational practices and clinical interventions tailored for the deaf community. Explore DCAL's website to learn more about their mission and groundbreaking discoveries.

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6/8/2023

Resources for research and for the community We have a range of resources from all of our research projects and findings. The DCAL Research Data Archive is a publicly available data archive of our studies of language, communication and cognition. Browse the data from our unique projects here and learn more about our findings! The British Sign Language (BSL) Corpus is a publicly accessible, on-line record of BSL used by Deaf people in the UK. It’s a collection of video clips showing Deaf people using BSL. You can also explore BSL SignBank, which has approximately 2500 BSL signs developed from the BSL Corpus. In other words, BSL signs directly from the deaf community! For qualified professionals and researchers working with deaf children and adults, the DCAL Assessment Portal hosts eight language and cognition assessments. These assessments can be used to assess language abilities and language development in deaf adults and children and assess deaf signers where there are concerns ab

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12/2/2022

DCAL has an exciting new PhD funding opportunity, here at UCL. Project topics could include for example, linguistics, psychology, neuroscience, language development relating to sign language or deaf communication and cognition in general. Funding is available for 4 years, combining both a PhD also a DCAL Science Communication Officer role, the latter for roughly half a day every week. You must be able to sign BSL minimum level 2. We strongly encourage applications from deaf, disabled and ethnic minority backgrounds. For more info, please click the link.

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10/24/2022

This special meeting focused on causal mediation analysis and their relevance on mental health research. Speakers: Bianca L De Stavola, Professor of Medical Statistics, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Rhian Daniel, Division of Population Medicine, Cardiff University Professor Richard Emsley Department of Biostatistics & Health Informatics, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London; NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre Chair: Jean-Baptiste Pingault, Professor of Development Psychopathology and Genetics, Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, UCL Recorded on 28th June 2022.

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6/30/2022

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5/12/2022

The current pandemic has changed the ways in which we communicate and work, in many cases with more profound effects for deaf and hard of hearing people. Throughout the pandemic, members of DCAL developed a range of strategies and guidelines to adapt to these new challenges. These include: • Remote working guidelines to ensure that deaf people could maximise their online participation in virtual meetings and events, and reduce visual demands and fatigue. • COVID-19 BSL e-books for children, in collaboration with Frank Barnes School for Deaf Children. These e-books provide deaf children who use BSL with direct access to crucial information about coronavirus and its impact on everyday life. • Information about the impact of face masks on communication. We wrote a statement explaining communication issues due to face coverings, where we highlight the main challenges and also explain some possible adaptations. • How to caption videos. As part of our commitment to provide accessible info

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12/8/2021