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Current Projects

In this section of the website, you can see a list of all the projects that Rob is working on.

Current projects

  • Dissemination of doctoral research
  • Developing Deaf Legal Theory | Project Website
  • Deaf Education in Scotland and Wales (with Rachel O’Neill, University of Edinburgh) | Project Website
  • EmployDeaf: employment opportunities for deaf people in the UK (with Dr Dai O'Brien, York St John University)
  • Deaf Criminal Justice (with Professor Jemina Napier and Dr Robert Skinner, Heriot Watt University)
  • DeafOrg: NGO representation of the deaf community in the UK (with Elizabeth Bailey, University of York)
  • The impact of sign language recognition in the UK and Ireland

Previous projects

  • British Sign Language Glossary of Curriculum for Wales (with Welsh Government)

Research interests

Rob has a wide range of research interests, which can be found in the graphic below, although he is focusing on some more than others at present.



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