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		<title>Update: education, diaspora, genetics and group rights</title>
		<link>http://drstevendemery.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/update-education-diaspora-genetics-and-group-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An incredibly hectic period! It&#8217;s always busy, but these last three months have been a workload tsunami to beat all workload tsunamis!
Here&#8217;s an update.
Struggling with swine flu back in August, I wrote up an &#8216;Expression of Interest&#8217; for a Centre for Deaf Studies project to evaluate the work being undertaken by the I-Sign Consortium. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drstevendemery.wordpress.com&blog=2165099&post=204&subd=drstevendemery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The peacekeepers and the war officer: living dangerously at the bbc by allowing the bnp onto question time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TigerDeafie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC has been at the forefront of producing some excellent documentaries about the rise of the Nazi&#8217;s to power and the horror of their rule in the 1930&#8217;s. Whoever allowed the bnp into their studios would do well to watch historical documentaries they funded and produced, that are available within their own archives and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drstevendemery.wordpress.com&blog=2165099&post=193&subd=drstevendemery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sign Language Planning: individual rights to group rights</title>
		<link>http://drstevendemery.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/sign-language-planning-individual-rights-to-group-rights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TigerDeafie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[citizenship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I agreed to stand in for a speaker the week before last at the recent Applied Sign Linguistics conference at Bristol University and that gave me a good opportunity to bring together my own research and thinking on citizenship, language planning and minority group rights.
I refer to language planning in the status sense: i.e. raising [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drstevendemery.wordpress.com&blog=2165099&post=182&subd=drstevendemery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Being an examiner of a thesis &#8211; a personal view</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://drstevendemery.wordpress.com/?p=179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago represented by far one the busiest of my academic career.
For the first time I assessed a PhD, a very interesting experience. For the moment I am limiting my entry to the practicals of the process and not of the individual in question (since the process is not officially complete as of yet), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drstevendemery.wordpress.com&blog=2165099&post=179&subd=drstevendemery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Roadmap to British Sign Language &amp; Linguistic Access in Scotland</title>
		<link>http://drstevendemery.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/a-roadmap-to-british-sign-language-linguistic-access-in-scotland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TigerDeafie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just seen this document, a report on linguistic access in Scotland.
Amongst the interesting statistics are:
- that just 18% of D/deaf people have access to the internet, compared with 53% of the general population;
- there are just 65 qualified BSL/English interpreters, compared with an estimated 200 to 300 Communication Support Workers (though this figure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drstevendemery.wordpress.com&blog=2165099&post=174&subd=drstevendemery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Clifford Blackman &#8211; obituary</title>
		<link>http://drstevendemery.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/john-clifford-blackman-obituary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TigerDeafie</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://drstevendemery.wordpress.com/?p=158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The entry I&#8217;m about to write is personal, and refers to the first boss I ever worked under, as a cleaner at a printing factory, aged 17.  The experience of my time with Carmichael &#38; Co. Ltd (Brighton) was so profound that it shaped my life thereafter. The reason for this entry is that he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drstevendemery.wordpress.com&blog=2165099&post=158&subd=drstevendemery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>While stuck at home with swine flu, blog links updated</title>
		<link>http://drstevendemery.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/while-stuck-at-home-with-swine-flu-blog-links-updated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TigerDeafie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yay, it got to me, so what better opportunity, while under quarantine, to update the blog?
Apart from changing the appearance, I&#8217;ve added some links and a widget, here is a description of what I&#8217;ve added and why:
I&#8217;ve added &#8216;Valley of the Deaf&#8217;, the blog of a Deaf anthropologist in Adamorobe; now, that is highly worthy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drstevendemery.wordpress.com&blog=2165099&post=156&subd=drstevendemery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BSL DVD of PhD &#8216;Citizenship and the Deaf Community&#8217; finally ready</title>
		<link>http://drstevendemery.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/bsl-dvd-of-phd-citizenship-and-the-deaf-community-finally-ready/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TigerDeafie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blimey the time has really flown! Shocked, it was January 2008 the DVD&#8217;s were completed (was it really that long ago I set up the blog??), but after many delays, particularly checking the covers (my name was spelt &#8216;Seven&#8217; on the originals ahem!), and the English headings within the DVD&#8217;s, they are now in my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drstevendemery.wordpress.com&blog=2165099&post=154&subd=drstevendemery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Group Rights and Deaf Communities</title>
		<link>http://drstevendemery.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/group-rights-and-deaf-communities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TigerDeafie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to take the opportunity here to update where I am currently with the new research project with which I&#8217;m involved at the Centre for Deaf Studies, Bristol University.  Having revised and taught a Unit on &#8216;Deaf People in Politics and the Media&#8217; at the Centre, I&#8217;m now in a position to move ahead [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drstevendemery.wordpress.com&blog=2165099&post=151&subd=drstevendemery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>London G20 Protests: From Peach to Tomlinson, has anything changed? (includes my eyewitness account of the protest)</title>
		<link>http://drstevendemery.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/london-g20-protests-from-peach-to-tomlinson-has-anything-changed-includes-my-eyewitness-account-of-the-protest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TigerDeafie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The emotions I&#8217;m feeling at seeing one video after another being released in the mainstream media following the G20 protest on 1st April simply can&#8217;t be described. It&#8217;s sad and annoying that all this reporting is taking place only after an innocent guy, Ian Tomlinson, died after being struck by the police at the protest.  Had this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=drstevendemery.wordpress.com&blog=2165099&post=114&subd=drstevendemery&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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