Professor Bencie Woll FBA

Sign language as a model to understand human language generally: neuroimaging studies of commonalities in processing spoken & signed languages; the influence of modality of communication on language structure; sociolinguistics of Deaf communities.
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2012
Subjects
Education, Linguistics, Psychology

10-Minute Talks: Looking at Sign Language

14 Jul 2021 Professor Bencie Woll FBA

Professor Bencie Woll FBA introduces research on the sign languages of deaf communities.

Current post

Professor of Sign Language and Deaf Studies, University College London

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Professor Kris D. Gutiérrez FBA

Learning Sciences: learning in designed environments with attention to culture, historicity, and ecological resilience; design-based research, for example, social design-based experiments that foreground issues of equity; attention to third spaces and the affordances of syncretic approaches to literacy and STEM learning with nondominant and translingual student populations.

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Professor Simon William Marginson FBA

Higher education and knowledge in political economy, governance, society and culture; especially international, regional and global relations, trajectories and comparisons

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Professor Janet Watson FBA

The documentation and morpho-syntactic description of modern Arabic dialects and Modern South Arabian languages; theoretical phonology and morphology with reference to Arabic and Modern South Arabian

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