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Mr. Haaris Sheikh

ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (Centre for Deaf Studies)

 hsheikh@tcd.ie

 

ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (Sch. Office - Linguistic Speech & Comm.)


Biography

Haaris Sheikh is Chief Executive of Interesource Group (Ireland) Limited; Adjunct Assistant Professor in Deaf Studies, Trinity College Dublin, and Director of Deaf Community Centre Limerick. He is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), and Member of the Institute of Management Consultants and Advisers (IMCA). He serves as a Board Member of the Citizens Information Centre Limerick. He has directed and chaired 17 European Commission projects in over 16 countries to date. Currently, he is Chairman of the DESIGNS project (2016-2019). Haaris is a specialist in human resource management, business strategy, and policy and is retained as an advisor and consultant to several private and public sector organisations where his core function focuses on executive management and HR policy formulation. He has delivered talks and lectures on a wide range of HR-related themes. He has been working extensively with Deaf studies projects for the past decade and has been the architect of multimedia/digital teaching materials for the Centre for Deaf Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He has authored/co-authored numerous reports and journal articles, and has presented papers internationally on a range of topics. He has also directed 10 research documentaries.

Research Tags

  Access for the Deaf Community   Deaf Community and Culture   Deaf Studies   Irish Sign Language Interpreting   Multimedia in Deaf Studies   Sign Language Interpreting Training

Research Projects

 DESIGNS - Deaf Community Employment
 JUSTISIGNS - Access to Justice for the Deaf Community
 MEDISIGNS - Deaf community Access to Healthcare
 SIGNALL 3 - Working in the Deaf Community
 SIGNALL 2 - International Perspectives on Deafness

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
Irish Sign Language Medium Medium Medium
Spanish Medium Medium Fluent
Urdu Basic Basic Fluent

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Chartered Fellow, Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (FCIPD) 1996
Member, Institute of Management Consultants and Advisers (IMCA) 2010
Member, European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters 2017
Cabeza-Pereiro, Carmen; Casado-Neira; David, Conway, Brian; Clark, Lucy; Del-Pozo-Trivinõ, Maribel; Flanagan, John; Freir, Caitriona; Garahan, Lucy; Leeson, Lorraine; Longa-Alsono, Beatriz; Napier, Jemina; O"Dowd, Leonie; Pérez-Freire, Silvia; Quigley, Lianne; and Sheikh, Haaris, Silent Harm: A training manual for service providers and interpreters who work with deaf, refugee, and migrant women and girls who have experienced gender-based violence, 1, Dublin, Interesource Group Ireland Limited, 2023, Book, PUBLISHED  URL
Justisigns: Developing research-based training resources on sign language interpreting in police settings in Europe. in, editor(s)Brunson, Jeremy L. , Teaching legal interpreting, Washington DC, Gallaudet University Press, 2022, [Napier, Jemina; Skinner, Robert; Turner, G. H.;Leeson, Lorraine; Lynch, Teresa; Sheikh, Haaris; Vermeerbergen, Myriam; Salaets, Heidi; Doggen, Carolien; Haug, Tobias; Bucher, B.; Diaz, B.; Berger, M.; Krähenbühl, M. ], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
Access to Justice for deaf signers: the Justisigns Project in, editor(s)Goedele A.M. De Clerk , UNCRPD Implementation in Europe - a deaf perspective: Article 9: Access to information and communication, Brussels, European Union of the Deaf, 2021, [Leeson, Lorraine; Jemina Napier, Tobias Haug, Teresa Lynch, and Haaris Sheikh], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  URL
Access to employment for deaf graduates, employees and jobseeking signers: findings from the DESIGNS project in, editor(s)Dr Goedele de Klerk , UNCRPD Implementation in Europe - A Deaf Perspective 9: Access to information and communication, Brussels, European Union of the Deaf, 2021, pp179 - 193, [Haaris Sheikh, Jemina Napier, Audrey Cameron, Lorraine Leeson, Christian Rathmann, Chris Peters, John Bosco Conama, Rachel Moiselle, ], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL  URL
Senan Dunne, Lorraine Leeson and Haaris Sheikh, 'Seagull, Seagull', https://youtu.be/Sv8TbdiBFeU, Trinity College Dublin , 2021, -, Translation, PUBLISHED  URL
Senan Dunne, Lorraine Leeson, Haaris Sheikh, 'The Very Long Room', https://youtu.be/9eqywLbLyFM, Trinity College Dublin , 2021, - https://youtu.be/9eqywLbLyFM, Translation, PUBLISHED  URL
Leeson, Lorraine, Flynn, Sophie, Lynch, Teresa and Sheikh, Haaris, You Have the Right to Remain Signing: Deaf People and the Irish Justice System, Teanga, 2020, p142-173 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Jemina Napier, Audrey Cameron, Lorraine Leeson, John Bosco Conama, Christian Rathmann, Chris Peters & Haaris Sheikh, DESIGNS: Creating Employment for Deaf Signers in Europe, 5, Dublin, Centre for Deaf Studies, Trinity College Dublin, January, 2020, Notes: [This document makes a series of evidence based recommendations around supporting deaf sign language users in employment, and looks at the provision of statutory supports for interpreting provision in Ireland, the UK and Germany. ], Report, PUBLISHED  URL
Christian Rathmann, Chris Peters, Anna Grimm, Andreas Bittner, and Aletta Heldt (German version). Original Version in English: Haaris Sheikh, Lorraine Leeson, Caroline McGrotty and John Bosco Conama, Sie Haben Den Job! Ein Leitfaden für Arbeitgeber_innen im Umgang mit tauben Gebärdensprachnutzer_innen. Dublin: IGI Publishing. , Dublin, IGI Publishing, 2019, 1 - 54pp, Book, PUBLISHED  URL
Sheikh, Haaris, Lorraine Leeson, Caroline McGrotty, Ann Heelan, John Bosco Conama, You're Hired! A Guide for Employers when Working with Deaf Sign Language Users, Dublin, IGI Publications, 2018, 1-51pp, Book, PUBLISHED  URL
  

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Lorraine Leeson, Haaris Sheikh and Council for Irish Sign Language Interpreters, Interpreting in Workplace Settings, 22 April 2018, In:Interpreting in Workplace Settings, 2018, Centre for Deaf Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Meetings /Conferences Organised, PRESENTED
John Bosco Conama, Haaris Sheikh, Lorraine Leeson, The DESIGNS Project: Deaf Employment in Europe, 8th Community Interpreting Conference, TCD ARTS BUILDING , 8 June 2017, 2017, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
Lorraine Leeson, Christian Rathmann and Haaris Sheikh, efsli Summer School 2017: Interpreting in Employment Settings , efsli Summer School 2017: Interpreting in Employment Settings , Belgrade, Serbia, 26-28 May 2017, 2017, European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters, Notes: [See: http://efsli.org/efsli-school-serbia-2017/], Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Haaris Sheikh and Lorraine Leeson, Access to Justice for Deaf People, Access to Justice for Deaf People, Belgrade, Serbia, 26 May 2017, 2017, European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters/ Irish Hon. Consul to Serbia, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Sheikh, H, R. Skinner and L. Leeson, You Have the Right to Remain Signing. A Guide for An Garda Síochána: Communicating in Interpreter-Mediated Settings, 1, Dublin, IGI Publishing, 2016, 52pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Sheikh, H., R. Skinner and L. Leeson, You Have the Right to Remain Signing: A guide for An Garda Síochána when interacting with the Deaf community, Dublin, IGI PUBLISHING, 2016, 52pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Sheikh, H, And that has made all the difference, Léargas Forum, Dublin Castle, 13 Dec, 2016, Léargas, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Sheikh, H., Access to Justice for Deaf People in the EU: Policy and Practice implications, Access to Justice for Deaf People in the EU: Policy and Practice implications, EU Parliament, Brussels, 27 April 2016, 2016, Oral Presentation, PUBLISHED
Leeson, L., H. Sheikh, L. Venturi and D. Coventry Howlett, Working with interpreters, District Headquarter Garda Station, Limerick, 12 Feb 2016, 2016, Oral Presentation, PUBLISHED
Leeson. L., H. Sheikh and A. Sheikh, Across the Atlantic: Access to Healthcare and Justice for the Deaf Community, Swarthmore College, PA, USA, 16 APR 2014, 2014, Oral Presentation, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
European Language Label Award for JUSTISIGNS Project SEPT 2017
European Language Label Award for MEDISIGNS Project 2013
European Language Label Award for SIGNALL Project 2008
European Language Label Award for EUROSIGNS 2 Project 2007
Research Seed Funding Award, Awarded by the Office of the Dean, Research, University of Limerick for a study on Language Strategies of Exporting Companies in Ireland 1998
University of Limerick Foundation Seed Fund. Awarded by the University of Limerick Foundation for a study on Recruitment Practices of Greenfield Site Companies in Ireland 1997
Research Seed Funding Award, Awarded by the Office of the Dean, Research, University of Limerick for a study on Recruitment Practices in Ireland 1996
Irish American Partnership Scholarship 1996

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Research interests include: - Triadic relationships in healthcare settings in the context of sign language interpretation - Triadic relationships in police settings in the context of sign language interpretation - Equality in employment settings with respect to sign language users as applicants and employees - The role of ICT and multimedia in the field of Deaf studies - Equality, Rights and Deaf sign language users