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
We are pleased to announce that the Deafness Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre
at University College London has an exciting opportunity for
three, one-week paid placements.
As a paid research intern,
you can learn first-hand what is involved in conducting research
in the areas of linguistics, psycholinguistics
and language development
in the context of deafness and sign language.
Alternatively, as a professional services intern,
you can see what goes on behind the scenes of a research centre
and work in our Professional Services team,
this may include but not limited to science communication,
event management
and community engagement.
You will gain valuable higher education experience in these areas.
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2/2/2023
We currently have 3 exciting projects running at DCAL that investigate the relationship between language and literacy development. One study looks at language comprehension in deaf children and is one of the largest research projects that involves deaf children here at DCAL. The goals of the project are to adapt a comprehension task from American Sign Language into British Sign Language (BSL) and to explore the effects of BSL vocabulary and BSL syntax toward deaf children’s comprehension of BSL. For this study, we will need 300 deaf children between age 4 and 18 years old so if you work at a school, know of resource base schools with deaf children, or are a parent/caregiver of a deaf child, do get in touch with Patrick Rosenburg and Kate Rowley at p.rosenburg@ucl.ac.uk. For more information, see our Development Research Page: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/deafness-cognition-and-language-dcal/research-dcal/development-research
In another study, we are investigating the relationshi
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12/2/2022
Happy Christmas from all of us at DCAL
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12/11/2020
Several members of DCAL achieved great success this year. Having been a research assistant, PhD student and post-doctoral researcher at DCAL Kate Rowley was appointed to her first Lectureship position at the University of Wolverhampton which she will start in December 2020. Robert Adam was also research assistant, PhD student and then Teaching Fellow at DCAL and took up an Assistant Professor position at Heriot-Watt University in April 2020.
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12/11/2020
We are delighted to be collaborating with Deaf artist Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq and the east London deaf community in ‘The Light-Wave project’. East London’s deaf Community is a long-established part of East London life, but it has invariably been underrepresented in British deaf culture. The project aspires to facilitate a creative collaboration that recognises the east London Deaf community’s history, culture and language.
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12/11/2020
This year has been unprecedented for university education. DCAL, like the rest of UCL, rose to the challenge -- we moved all our typical face-to-face teaching practices online, while ensuring a full and rich educational experience for our students. This has required a huge amount of work in a short space of time. It is working though!
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