Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre: ESRC Legacy Centre

DCAL遗产中心申请中提议的活动有三个主要目标：产生影响；传播；能力建设。(1)影响产生。我们的目标是通过向适当的最终用户推广和营销这些资源，最大限度地发挥以下列出的现有DCAL在线资源的影响，所有这些资源都是用以前的ESRC资金建立的。必要时，这笔资金还将用于支付与每项资源相关的在线托管和服务费。A.DCAL在线评估门户(https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/dcal-portal).在过去的12年里，DCAL的研究人员创建并标准化了9项专门为聋人成人或儿童设计的评估工具，填补了从业者(如教师、聋人教师、教育心理学家、临床心理学家和言语和语言治疗师)和该领域的研究人员在评估工具方面亟需的空白。这些测试现在托管在一个在线门户网站上。我们的目标是将这些评估推广给从事聋儿或成人工作的从业者和研究人员，他们是受益于这一资源的最终用户群体。第二语言语料库(https://bslcorpusproject.org/).BSL手语语料库是全球为数不多的在线手语语料库之一。这个在线开放资源托管了大约125小时的BSL视频数据和来自英国8个不同地点的BSL社区的相关转录。BSL语料库允许记录BSL的实际使用情况，而不是人们传统上认为它被广泛使用的方式。BSL SignBank是一个在线BSL词典(http://bslsignbank.ucl.ac.uk/dictionary/))，其中包括来自BSL语料库的手语。其目的是提高终端用户群体对这些在线资源的认识：二语教师；开办二语口译员课程的人；二语独立学习者；以及在二语领域进行研究或开展评估的研究人员。DCAL研究数据档案(https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/digital-collections/collections/dcal)是DCAL研究数据和相关支持材料(程序、刺激等文件)的在线储存库。我们的目标是提高人们对这些数据和方法的认识，这些数据和方法可供其他研究人员使用，从而增加我们的研究在全球范围内的影响。(2)交流：我们的目标是在我们研究的优秀历史的基础上，与不同的群体进行交流。我们将组织创新的公共活动，包括庆祝第一次BSL研究研讨会(2019年11月)40周年，以及2次DCAL-x活动(模仿TED-x)。我们还将投资于更多的在线交流途径--例如，我们的研究出版物和其他关键发现的简短摘要，可以使用英语和BSL。(3)能力建设：我们将继续我们在聋人、认知和语言领域的世界级研究人员能力建设的使命--即培养这一领域的新研究人员。我们的目标是通过奖学金和团队发展进一步巩固和发展这一点。(A)我们的目标是设立旅行奖学金，以便聋人研究人员能够参加我们提供的培训课程。其目的将是吸引聋人，他们可以继续在伦敦大学学院攻读我们这个领域的学位。(B)我们还将通过安排一系列团队发展活动来建设我们现有团队成员的能力，以确保DCAL在变革时期发展并继续蓬勃发展。

There are three primary objectives of the activities proposed in the DCAL Legacy Centre application: Impact Generation; Communication; Capacity Building. (1) Impact Generation. We aim to maximise the impact of the existing DCAL online resources listed below, all of which have been established with previous ESRC funding, by promoting and marketing these resources to the appropriate end-users. The funding will also be used, where necessary, to cover online hosting and service fees associated with each resource. a. DCAL Online Assessment Portal (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/dcal/dcal-portal). Over the last 12 years, DCAL researchers have created and standardised 9 assessments that are designed specifically for use with deaf adults or children, filling a much needed gap in the assessment tools available to practitioners (e.g. teachers, teachers of the deaf, educational psychologists, clinical psychologists and speech and language therapists) and researchers in the field. These tests are now hosted on an online portal. We aim to promote these assessments to practitioners and researchers working with deaf children or adults, who are the end-user groups who benefit from this resource.b. BSL Corpus (https://bslcorpusproject.org/). The BSL Corpus is one of a small handful of online corpora of sign languages worldwide. This online open resource hosts ~125 hours of BSL video data and associated transcriptions from a cross section of the BSL community from 8 different locations across the UK. The BSL Corpus allows documentation of how BSL is actually used, rather than how people have traditionally assumed it is widely used. BSL SignBank is an online BSL dictionary (http://bslsignbank.ucl.ac.uk/dictionary/) which includes signs from the BSL Corpus. The aim is to increase the awareness of these online resources within end user communities: BSL teachers; those running BSL interpreter courses; BSL independent learners; and researchers conducting research in the field of BSL or developing assessments.c. DCAL Research Data Archive (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/digital-collections/collections/dcal) is an online repository of DCAL's research data and associated supporting materials (documentation of procedures, stimuli, etc). We aim to increase awareness of these data and methods that are available for other researchers to use, thus increasing the impact of our research worldwide. (2) Communication: We aim to build-on and extend our excellent history of communication of our research with different groups. We will organise innovative public events that will include a celebration of the 40th anniversary since the first BSL research symposium (Nov 2019) and 2 x DCAL-x events (modelled on TED-x). We will also invest in more online routes to communication - e.g. short lay-summaries of our research publications and other key findings, accessible in English and BSL. (3) Capacity Building: We will continue our mission of capacity building of world-class researchers in the area of deafness, cognition and language - i.e. training new researchers in this field. We aim to consolidate and develop this further, via bursaries and team development. (a) We aim to establish travel bursaries so that deaf researchers can attend training courses that we offer. The aim will be to attract deaf individuals who can go on to study for a degree at UCL in our field. (b) We will also build capacity of our current team members by arranging a series of team development activities in order to ensure that DCAL develops through a time of change and continues to thrive.