Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

The Centre for Translation Studies (CTS) offers a diverse set of continuing professional development (CPD) courses aimed at expanding the competences and skills of translators and interpreters, at any stage of their career. Technology and AI are the strongest drivers of change shaping the present and the future of professional translation. At CTS, we think about technology from a human-centric perspective, with a focus on how technology and AI can be used to support professional translators and interpreters, constructively contributing to engaged uses of technology, informed by real needs, and yielding applicable results. Our CPD courses are research-led, closing the gap in the current provision of professional training and enabling professionals to do business in a global multilingual world.

Translation and AI

Interpreting and AI

CPD offering

We are preparing four types of CPD, different in length and complexity, and aimed at diversified audiences.

Short courses

One or two-day, hands on courses, offering training in the use of specific technologies and/or reflecting on innovative practices.

Long courses

Semester-long and year-long courses for a deeper understanding of specialised topics.

Summer schools

Week-long programmes examining one subject in depth, or exploring several dimensions of translation and interpreting in a compact format.

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Webinars and workshops

One or two hour online workshops or webinars explaining core concepts and introducing innovative advanced practices.

Past workshops and webinars

Technology to help interpreters prepare for a specialised job

Can students from diverse backgrounds become specialist interpreters? What technologies can be used to facilitate interpreters’ subject knowledge acquisition and linguistic knowledge enhancement within a relatively short period of time?

How to use corpora to enhance translation and revision practices

When working on a translation or revising a text, do you feel you can’t always get good answers to your questions from dictionaries or the Internet? This webinar will introduce you to corpora, and show you how translators and editors can use them to enhance the quality of the final text.

Using machine translation in healthcare

Health and social care professionals are increasingly more likely to provide care to people with whom they do not share a common linguistic, cultural and/or ethnic background.

Regular expressions for translators and interpreters

Do you use the Find and Replace feature a lot? Then, this workshop can help you reduce the amount of times you resort to that feature and give you a very flexible tool to quickly improve the consistency of your work.

Introducing Neural Machine Translation (NMT) to Translators

Should translators understand the power of the technology behind neural machine translation? We think so, and that is why we prepared this webinar as the first step in helping translators make informed decisions when working with this technology.

Interpreting via video link in legal settings: a post-pandemic overview

One of the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic was the increase in remote communication - many people started working from home and events around the world had to move online. This also affected institutions serving a critical function in society, including courts and police.