As someone who adores design related television shows, I recently enjoyed LumoTV’s brand new show, DeSign where a team of builders, led by deaf architect Chris Laing, transformed the home of a ...

A new Ofcom study has found a video relay service that connects deaf British Sign Language (BSL) users to the emergency services is successfully saving lives. Ofcom rules, introduced in 2022, ...

Across further education, Deaf students are showing up with ambition, talent, and a desire to succeed. But too often, the support around them isn’t quite keeping up. In colleges across the UK, ...

The British Deaf Association has announced the winner of its third annual British Sign Language (BSL) Poet Laureate competition. The winner is Ishtiaq ...

A short documentary made by the BBC in association with the Open University has shed more light on what it’s like to be deaf in prison, a subject that has also recently been highlighted in ...

This Can’t Be It It wasn’t one thing — not a single moment or explosive incident — that made me decide I needed a change. It was more like the slow realisation that I was constantly being ...

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The second BUP festival took place at the end of April, this time held at the Historic Dockyard Chatham in Kent. The event was sign-language led with deaf children and adults attending from across the ...

Hearing people, eh? You can’t live with them, you can’t live without them. Statistics show that five in six people are hearing. That’s a whopping 50 million people in the UK, and nearly 6 billion ...

Hi Jonny, can you tell us a bit about you? I am Jonny Cotsen. I am based in Cardiff, Wales and I work as a freelance creative access consultant. I am employed at Sherman Theatre as an Agent for Change ...

I’m an architectural designer currently studying my Part 3 qualification to become a fully qualified architect. I’ve been working at Haworth Tompkins for over seven years, but in the past two years ...

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