The Community Fund (the operating name of the National Lottery Charities Board) granted L88,601 for a one-year project to extend the impact of DPIC.
This project extension has three purposes:
DST needs to tell Deaf people about the results and make them aware of their own community lifestyle. This will be done through regional meetings with supporting video materials. The DPIC team will travel around the UK to give talks about these different topics.
DST will also make BSL documentary on video to give deaf people a complete picture of the project results.
The video will include:
DPIC staff
Alexandra Dury - Project Leader
Alexy was born Deaf and is proficient in British Sign Language. She worked with the previous DPIC project. Alexy is managing the project in all its aspects, including budget control, and has responsibility for the DPIC team and representatives.
Sarah Bailey - Project Secretary
Sarah trained as an interpreter at the Centre for Deaf Studies in the University of Bristol. She will support the DPIC team in all aspects of the work, contacting the representatives, arranging the training weekends for the representatives and dealing with all administrative work.
Data Officer to be appointed in January 2002
The data officer will be responsible for the input and analysis of the new and previous data. He or she will also prepare reports and illustrations for use in the regional meetings, and will finalise the report of the data analysis for publication.
Video Officer to be appointed in January 2002
The video officers main duties will be planning, scripting and filming a BSL documentary to explain the project and its results. This will also include editing, compressing and preparing the material for CD/DVD and for video tape. He or she will also be responsible for duplicating and supplying the finished video.
240 Interviewees
DPIC selected a representative sample of 240 Deaf people to match the hearing population of the UK through gender, age, employment, location, ethnic group, marital status. They are Deaf, BSL users. They will are interviewed face-to-face by regional representatives (Deaf Interviewers). The interviews will take place in February and March 2002.
Regional Representatives (Interviewers)
There are 18 DPIC interviewers, as know as regional representatives. Their main duties are to interview 240 interviewees, and to assist in arranging regional meetings.
The Steering Group
The Steering Group make a vital contribution to the conduct of the project. They are people who have expertise in fields such as Deaf culture, health, and video-production. The steering group will meet every three months to advise the DPIC team.
Project Timetable
2001
September
Project started
Sept-December
Questionnaire Design
Pilot and Confirmation
Video Programme planning
2002
January
Data and Video Officer appointed.
February
Representatives training sessions weekend and start of interviews.
March
Interviews complete
Apr/May
Regional meetings in UK
June-Sept
Data analysis and documentary-making complete
September
Project completed
