Meet Our Members
Discover the passionate deaf academics and researchers who drive our community forward.
Prof Annelies Kusters
Professor of Sociolinguistics, Heriot-Watt Univeristy
Mobilities (urban, urban-rural, national, international), transnationalism, multilingualism, translanguaging, language ideologies, deaf space, Deaf Studies theory, deaf media/TV/film, visual methods, ethnography
Dr Dai O’Brien
Associate Professor of British Sign Language and Deaf Studies, York St John University
Creative qualitative research methods, Deaf Studies, Deaf Space, Bourdieu, Lefebvre
Dr Gabrielle Hodge
Senior Lecturer in Sign Language Linguistics, University of Edinburgh
Corpus linguistics, linguistic typology, and language evolution
Dr Gary Quinn
Assistant Professor in British Sign Language, Heriot-Watt University
Schoolisation (regional variation in signs), Discourse Analysis, Research methods in Linguistics, Non-Manual Features in Sign Languages, Developing Signs
Prof John Bosco Conama
Director of the Centre for Deaf Studies and Associate Professor, Trinity College Dublin
Language and social policies aiming at Deaf SL users
Dr John Walker
Associate Professor, University of Sussex
Human geographies, pedagogies, professional development
Ms Jackie Wan Brown
Mental Health Nurse
Mental health, clinical practice
Dr JunHui Yang
Senior Lecturer in Deaf Studies, University of Lancashire
Sign linguistics, sign language typology, sociolinguistics in Deaf communities, bilingualism, and deaf education
Mr Kevin Buckle
Graduate Research Fellow, York St John University
History, sociology, sign language politics, and the intersectionality of race and audism
Dr Katherine Rogers
Senior Lecturer and Co-Lead Social Research with Deaf people (SORD), University of Manchester
Issues pertaining to d/Deaf communities and their families, especially those which promote more positive outcomes
Dr Kate Rowley
Lecturer and Deputy Director
University College London, Deafness, Cognition & Language Research Centre
Language acquisition, language deprivation, test development, literacy development
Dr Matt Jenkins
Research and Development Lead, Deaf Academy
Coming soon
Dr Nicola Nunn
Senior Lecturer in British Sign Language and Deaf Studies, University of Lancashire
Cross-cultural communication among academic BSL users (Deaf and hearing) in higher education environments
Prof Nick Palfreyman
Professor of Sociolinguistics and Co-Director iSLanDS Institute, University of Lancashire
Sociolinguistics, language typology, corpus linguistics, language documentation, research ethics, queer linguistics
Dr Patrick Rosenburg
Research Fellow, University College London and Senior Lecturer, University of Wolverhampton
Language development, bilingual education, curriculum, linguistics, learning theories, and language assessment
Dr Rosemary Oram
Research Assistant, University of Wolverhampton
Social work (parenting and safeguarding)
Mr Shane Gilchrist
Independent Researcher, Co-Lead of DUKIA
Coming soon
Dr Rob Wilks
Senior Lecturer in Law, UWE Bristol
Deaf Legal Studies, equality and sign language law