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Associate Professor in the Department of Languages & Intercultural Studies (LINCS) at Heriot-Watt University

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Robert Adam is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages & Intercultural Studies (LINCS) at Heriot-Watt University since 2020 and his research interests include interpreting and translation, and bilingualism and language contact. He is a qualified and registered ASL/BSL interpreter and BSL/English translator and accredited as an International Sign interpreter (under the World Federation of the Deaf and the World Association of Sign Language International Sign Interpreters Accreditation system) who has done interpreting work for 30 years as both a conference and a community interpreter. He has presented workshops on working as a deaf interpreter and sign language linguistics in many countries including Australia, the UK, and the USA. Currently he is Coordinator of the World Federation of the Deaf Expert Group on Sign Language and Deaf Studies.  Robert teaches on the sign languages and linguistics, translation & interpreting studies, and translation practice modules, and supervises dissertations.