Dr JunHui Yang

JunHui is currently course leader for undergraduate BSL & Studies including Education courses and undertakes all duties relevant to this role, including curriculum development and review. Her teaching responsibilities involve the teaching of British Sign Language (BSL) in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, Sign Language Linguistics and several other modules on the BSL & Deaf Studies programme. Her supervisory responsibilities include overseeing independent study modules and supervising dissertations for BA, MA, and PhD courses.

Junhui obtained a PhD in Deaf Education from Gallaudet University, Washington, DC in 2006, then moved to England joining the BSL & Deaf Studies team at the University Central Lancashire. Before become a university lecturer, she also worked as a secondary school literacy teacher of deaf students in Beijing for 3 years and PhD researcher at Max-Planck Institute of Psychology for 1 year. Her research interests include Sign linguistics, Sign language typology, sociolinguistics in Deaf communities, bilingualism, and deaf education. Previous scholarly activities have mainly included publications related to Chinese Sign Language, its structure, and the structure and history of the deaf community over the years in China. Junhui has been involved in many international projects, European and beyond, during her academic career. This has included a British Council's UK-China Partnership Innovation Challenge Fund project (2016-2018) for creating an online English learning platform for sign language users; Signs2Cross - a deaf-led EU project that created an online course for learning International Sign; a Language Skills for EU Mobility project, focussing on international mobility of deaf and hard of hearing people, and more recently, Deaf Museum, an Erasmus+ project developing online learning resources. She serves as external examiner at several other universities, which involves moderating course content and assessments, MA and PhD candidate viva examinations.