The Team - BSL Corpus Project

Adam Schembri

Adam is a hearing sign language researcher originally from Sydney, Australia. Adam has worked as an English teacher, an Australian Sign Language (Auslan)/English interpreter, a researcher and lecturer. During 2000-2002, he was a lecturer in sign language linguistics at the Centre for Deaf Studies at the University of Bristol. He then moved back Australia to work on projects on Auslan, before returning to the UK in 2006 to work at DCAL at University College London until 2010. He was Principal Investigator on the original BSL Corpus Project from 2008 to 2010 and was Co-Investigator on the Directional Verbs Project (2012-2014) and the BSL Syntax Project (2016-2019). He is now Professor of Linguistics at the University of Birmingham and Director of the SignMorph project. For more information about Adam, visit his academia.edu page. Email: a.schembri at bham.ac.uk