Honorary Professor of Sign Language Linguistics
Division of Psychology & Language Sciences
Expertise: Linguistics, cognitive neuroscience
Research on a wide variety of topics, all connected with sign language and deaf communities: the history of BSL, how children learn BSL, and sign language and the brain.
More about Bencie
I have been involved in research on sign language for 40 years, starting at the University of Bristol. I came to UCL in 2005, where I founded the Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre together with deaf and hearing colleagues.