Ulrike Zeshan#
| Membership Number: | 3787 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2014 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uclan.ac.uk/islands |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 – present Professor and Director, International Institute for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies, University of Central Lancashire, UK
- 2003 – 2006 Post-doctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands
- 1999 – 2003 Post-doctoral fellow, Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, Canberra/Melbourne, Australia
- 2001 – 2006 Academic Consultant, Indian Sign Language Cell, Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped, Mumbai, India
Fields of Scholarship
- Turkish Sign Language
- Indian Sign Language
- Sign language typology
- (Sign) language endangerment
- Applied sign linguistics
- Linguistic typology
- (Sign) multilingualism
Honours and Awards
- 2009 - 2013 Principal Investigator, European Science Foundation EUROCORES consortium for “Endangered sign languages in village communities”
- 2011-2016 Principal Investigator, ERC project “Multilingual behaviours in sign language users”
