DCAL Staff

DCAL brings together researchers exploring deafness, cognition, and language at UCL – advancing understanding of how deaf people communicate, think, and engage with the world.

Core Team

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Professor Kearsy Cormier

UCL DCAL Director and Professor of Sign Linguistics

k.cormier@ucl.ac.uk
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Professor Mairéad MacSweeney

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Visual Communication Group Leader

m.macsweeney@ucl.ac.uk
Dr. Velia Cardin
Dr. Velia Cardin

Associate Professor, Head of Deafness and Neural Plasticity Lab

velia.cardin@ucl.ac.uk
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Dr. Fiona Kyle

Lecturer, Director of The Literacy and Deafness Development Research Lab (The LADDER Lab)

f.kyle@ucl.ac.uk
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Dr. Kate Rowley

Lecturer and DCAL Deputy Director

kate.rowley@ucl.ac.uk
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Professor Bencie Woll

Founder and First DIrector of DCAL, Honorary Professor of Sign Language and Deaf Studies

b.woll@ucl.ac.uk
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Dr. Laura Monroy Camarena

Executive Officer (DCAL)

dcal@ucl.ac.uk
Daniel Diaz

Daniel Diaz

Research Programmer (within PALS, including DCAL), Research Software Engineer Associate at UCL Centre for Advanced Research Computing (ARC)

daniel.diaz@ucl.ac.uk
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Afshan Jamil

Centre Administrator, PA to the Centre Director

dcal@ucl.ac.uk
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Calum Medlock

Research and Communications Coordinator

dcal@ucl.ac.uk

Research Staff

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Dr. Kathryn Mason

Research Fellow, Language & Cognition

kathryn.mason.12@ucl.ac.uk
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Amy Hegedűs

Research Assistant

a.hegedus@ucl.ac.uk
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Dr. Patrick Rosenburg

Postdoctoral Research Associate

p.rosenburg@ucl.ac.uk
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Elisabeth Taunton

Research Assistant, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

e.taunton@ucl.ac.uk
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Brennan Terhune-Cotter

Royal Society Newton International Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

b.terhune-cotter@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Meaghan Spedden
Dr. Meaghan Spedden

Research Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

m.spedden@ucl.ac.uk
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Dr. Samuel Evans

Research Fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

samuel.evans@ucl.ac.uk
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Dr. Matt Brown

Research Fellow, DCAL

m.brown.13@ucl.ac.uk
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Dr. Heidi Proctor

Research Fellow

heidi.proctor.14@ucl.ac.uk
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Dr. Anna Kuder

Marie Curie Research Fellow, PostDoc in Linguistics

a.kuder@ucl.ac.uk
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Heather Abernethy

Research Assistant

h.abernethy@ucl.ac.uk
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Harriet Rice

PhD Student

harriet.rice.25@ucl.ac.uk

Research Students

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Veronica Escobar Cayuqueo

PhD Student

veronica.escobar.15@ucl.ac.uk
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Zahra Nawab

PhD Student and Science Communication Officer

zahra.nawab.23@ucl.ac.uk
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Frances Lewin

PhD Student

f.lewin@ucl.ac.uk
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Jessica Desouza

PhD student

jessica.desouza.25@ucl.ac.uk
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Juliette Van Steensel

PhD student

juliette.steensel.23@ucl.ac.uk

Collaborators

Collaborators at UCL

Other Collaborators

Honorary UCL staff

Former DCAL Staff and Students

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