Publications

O’Neill., R. & Wilks, R. (2024). ‘Guiding principles and codes of practice: do Teachers of Deaf Children and Young People need them? ’ (In preparation for Special Issue of Deafness & Education International on Professional Responsibility and Relationality in Deaf Education edited by K. Snoddon and M. Friedner).
O’Neill., R. & Wilks, R. (2024). ‘Exploring attitudes to British Sign Language in Scotland and Wales.’ (In preparation).
O’Neill, R. & Wilks, R. (2024). ‘Adopting British Sign Language in deaf education: lessons from Welsh and Gaelic.’ (In preparation).
Wilks, R. (2024). ‘Deaf Legal Theory: Challenging the Law’s Hearing Bias.’ (Submitted to Jurisprudence – An International Journal of Legal and Political Thought).
Wilks, R. (2024). ‘Unseen and Unheard: How the Future Generations Act is not Addressing the Needs of the Welsh Deaf Community.’ (Submitted to Disability & Society).
Sousa, F. V. de and Wilks, R. (2024). ‘Interpreting the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages: sign languages as regional and minority languages.’ (Submitted to International Journal of Speech, Language and Law).

Wilks, R. (forthcoming). Challenging Equality Law: The Deaf Legal Dilemma. (In preparation, Hart Publishing).

O’Brien, D. and Wilks, R. (Eds). Developing Deaf Legal Theory (In preparation).

McAuliffe, K. and Wilks, R. ‘Use of British Sign Language in Courts of the UK’ in C. Fflur Huws and R. Á Costello, The Rights to Courtroom Interpretation and Minority Languages in Judicial Settings (Routledge, forthcoming)
Wilks, R., Rhys-Jones, S., Shank, C. and Folz, A., ‘Giving voice to deaf patients in Wales: Promoting more positive healthcare experiences through first-person narratives’ in K. Kondo, A. Musolff, S. Vilar-Lluch and T. Zhou, Routledge Studies in Language, Health and Culture (Routledge, forthcoming)
Wilks, R, ‘Language Law and Social Justice: A Case Study on the Deaf Community in the United Kingdom’ in O’Brien and others, Introducing Language and Social Justice: A Coursebook for Researcher-Activists (Routledge, forthcoming)
Wilks, R, ‘Deaf Legal Theory’ in McAuliffe, K and Solan (Eds.), L, Encylopaedia of Language and Law (Edward Elgar, forthcoming)
Wilks, R, ‘Developing Deaf jurisprudence: the role of interpreters and translators’, in Stone, C, Adam, R, Müller de Quadros, R and Rathmann, C, Routledge Handbook of Sign Language Translation and Interpreting (Routledge, 2022).
Lawson, L, McLean, F, O’Neill, R and Wilks, R, ‘Recognising British Sign Language in Scotland’, in De Meulder, M, McKee, R and Murray, J, The Legal Recognition of Sign Languages: Advocacy and Outcomes Around the World (Multilingual Matters, 2019).

Wilks, R. & O’Neill, R. (2022). Deaf Education in Scotland and Wales: Attitudes to British Sign Language in deaf education compared to Gaelic and Welsh. https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/deafeducation/wp-content/uploads/sites/5764/2022/10/2-FINAL-REPORT.pdf.
O’Neill, R., & Wilks, R. (2021). The impact of the British Sign Language (Scotland) Act 2015 on deaf education. https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/deafeducation/wp-content/uploads/sites/5764/2021/11/FINAL-REPORT.pdf.
Brattan-Wilson, J and Wilks, R, ‘Making the law work for young Deaf people’ (Royal Association for Deaf people 2012)
Masterson, D, ‘Disability Discrimination Act 1995, why do barriers still exist for d/Deaf people?’ (Wilks, R, ed, Royal Association for Deaf people 2007)

Rob Wilks, ‘Legal Analysis: Examining suggested workplace improvements for D/deaf workers’ (LexisPSL, 15 September 2016)

Wilks, R, ‘Brexit – what impact will Brexit have on the Deaf community?’ (British Deaf News, 1 November 2016)
Wilks, R, ‘Brexit – UK’s greatest constitutional crisis yet?’ (British Deaf News, 1 October 2016)
Wilks, R, ‘Brexit – what’s it all about?’ (British Deaf News, 1 September 2016)
Wilks, R, ‘We don’t need a BSL Act, apparently’ (British Deaf News, 1 June 2016)
Wilks, R, ‘Analysis: Are you in court and know the interpreter well? Inform the judge’ (British Deaf News, December 2015)
Rob Wilks, ‘Deaf people and access to legal services’ (Limping Chicken, 21 May 2012)