News
Here are the latest news stories from English and Languages:
European Translation award success for MA Translation student
21 March 2013
Odile Berthon, a postgraduate student studying MA Business Translation with Interpreting in the Centre of Translation Studies, School of English and Languages has won one of the top prizes in a fierce translation competition fought amongst universities throughout Europe.
Research Influences European Policy
6 March 2013
Legal interpreters working via videoconference in Europe now have a set of best-practice guidelines to follow thanks to the efforts of Surrey researchers.
Oedipus After Sophocles
27 February 2013
Lazarus Theatre Company
26 February – 23 March
Press Night: 28 February
Daniel Littman's placement experience
21 February 2013
Recently voted one of the “Best Luxury Hotels” in Spain; working at the Hilton Buenavista Toledo is certainly a unique opportunity that not many students get for their Year in Industry. TripAdvisor, the world´s largest travel site, held its 11th edition of its prestigious Travellers Choice Awards, honouring the worlds´ best hotels, earning their distinction from those who know them best – real travellers – in which the hotel was acknowledged as the 22nd “Best Luxury Hotel” in the country.
Daniel Littman, currently on placement at the hotel as the “Media and Marketing Coordinator” stated that “not only is it the amazing team of staff with whom you operate, it is the individuality of the hotel which makes it such an exciting place to work”. “The exclusive clients which we receive and the range of tasks which we are given, from creating radio advertisements, designing billboards to organizing regional events, mean that no two days are the same, and being located within the UNESCO World Heritage site of Toledo, when not working, the city is yours to explore and discover”.
Surrey New Writers Festival 15 & 16 March 2013
5 February 2013
The Surrey New Writers Festival is an annual public festival affiliated with the Creative Writing programme at the University of Surrey. The Festival aims to feature innovative writers, artists, and industry professionals. The dynamic and interactive programme of events will be of interest to current and potential Surrey students, and the wider community of Guildford and surrounding areas.
New project: 'Gender and classifiers in natural language'
24 January 2013
In the new project “Gender and classifiers in natural language”, linguists from the Surrey Morphology Group are investigating languages which combine grammatical gender and classifiers.
Dr Churnjeet Mahn has been chosen as one of five UK researchers for Unbox Festival Fellowship
10 January 2013
Five UK researchers have been awarded the opportunity to work with a team made up of creative entrepreneurs and India host organisations. This unique opportunity is part of a collaboration between the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the British Council, UnBox festival and the UK’s Science and Innovation Network. The five successful researchers will work on research relevant challenges with their teams for 3-4 weeks leading up to a presentation of their work at the UNBOX festival.
Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory - Neema Parvini's Blog
10 January 2013
Please check the link to Dr Neema Parvini's Blog: Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory, Rethinking approaches to Shakespeare and early modern literature for the 21st century. Here you will find Neema interviewing various Shakespeare scholars and literary theorists from around the world in a bid to gain an understanding of the current state of play in Shakespeare studies and in literary criticism more generally.
University's Professional Training Student of the Year 2012 - Mariana Vieira
17 December 2012
It has been announced that School of English and Languages student, Mariana Vieira, is the University's Professional Training Student of the Year.
Guildford College Adult Outstanding Achievement Award - Andrew Burns
11 December 2012
Andrew has won this award because of his academic prowess and his contribution to College life. He achieved distinctions on the Access to Business Diploma, acted as a student rep for his class, worked with Student Services staff on a number of issues at the College and sat on the Health and Safety Committee, all whilst balancing his commitments as a single parent. Andrew is now doing a degree in Business Management with Spanish at the University of Surrey.
Surrey Creative Writing Students Poetry Reading!
7 December 2012
The students of the Contemporary British and American Poetry Creative Writing course in the School of English and Languages here at Surrey will be holding a reading of their work on Wednesday 12th December 2012.
English and Creative Writing Applicant Days - Blog
5 December 2012
By Beth Palmer
If you’re applying to University this year, the chances are you’ll be invited to an Applicant Day by those institutions that make you an offer. You might already be feeling pretty popular and wondering how you’re going to fit in visits to your top choices alongside the demands of your A-levels. As an Admissions Tutor I’d recommend that you find time to attend some of these events if you can – particularly if you can’t quite make your mind up!
Jonathan Steffen: Making a Living as a Writer
27 November 2012
As part of the University of Surrey Careers Service’s ‘Welcome to my World’ series of talks on Wednesday 21st November our students had the opportunity to attend a fascinating talk from Jonathan Steffen on the topic of how to make a living as a writer.
New awards
8 November 2012
Excellent news - Dr Sabine Braun and Professor Margaret Rogers in the Centre for Translation Studies have been successful in securing new research funding from European Commission:
Good news! Languages came 8th in the Sunday Times League Table
5 October 2012
Another piece of good news for the School of English and Languages - Languages at Surrey have risen an impressive 20 places to come 8th nationally in the influential 2013 Sunday Times League Table. 'Congratulations to the whole team for a splendid result!' said Professor Diane Watt, the Head of School.
New website launched for the campaign for languages
2 August 2012
Speak to the future – the campaign for languages - has launched a brand new website at www.speaktothefuture.org.
'So It Is' by Liam Murray Bell
16 February 2012
SO IT IS to be published by Myriad Editions in June 2012.
A Poetry Reading by David Constantine
1 February 2012
David Constantine is a critically acclaimed writer, poet and translator. This reading at the University of Surrey, the second in an annual series of New Year poetry events, will be of particular interest to students working in the School of English and Languages with an interest in poetry or translation.
Languages Open Day
24 January 2012
On Wednesday 18 January, we opened our doors for the Languages Open Day to celebrate the New Year in our new home (the new ‘gold’ building adjacent to the library). A steady stream of visitors came to us on the 3rd floor of the Learning Centre which was festooned with flags and balloons especially for the occasion.
Prof. Dlaska in the news
27 July 2011
Professor Andrea Dlaska, Head of Department, is interviewed by Times Higher Education: 'UK scholars are helping their Iraqi counterparts improve universities and lives, writes Matthew Reisz'
