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Director and Deputy Director
Professor Sabine Braun
Professor of Translation Studies, Director of the Centre for Translation Studies
Dr Dimitris Asimakoulas
Deputy Director (Centre for Translation Studies) Programme Director (MRes in Translation and Interpreting Studies)
Academic staff
Dr Elena Davitti
Reader in Translation Studies
Dr Ana Frankenberg-Garcia
Reader in Translation Studies
Dr Joanna Gough
Lecturer in Translation Studies
Dr Ana Guerberof-Arenas
Senior Lecturer in Translation and Multimodal Technologies
Professor Constantin Orasan
Professor of Language and Translation Technologies
Dr Fang Wang
Teaching Fellow in Translation Studies
Dr Felix do Carmo
Senior Lecturer in Translation and Natural Language Processing
Research staff
Dr Hayley Dawson
Research Fellow
Dr Graham Hieke
Research Fellow
Diptesh Kanojia
Research Fellow
Dr Tomasz Korybski
Research Fellow
Zoe Moores
Research Fellow
Dr Kim Starr
Research Fellow in Translation and Multimodal Technologies
Dr Ozlem Temizoz
Research Fellow
Dr Anna-Stiina Wallinheimo
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Professional services staff
Ivelina Yonova
Centre Manager (Centre for Translation Studies)
Dr Leonardo Zilio
Technical Specialist (Translation Technologies and Data)
Emeritus staff
Professor Margaret Rogers
Professor Emerita
Associate staff
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Charis Ainslie | French Translation |
| Dagmar Astleither | German Translation |
| Katie Belo dos Santos | Portuguese Interpreting |
| Jennifer Hogg | French Interpreting |
| Joanna Johansen | Spanish Interpreting |
| Olga Kozin | Russian Translation |
| Katrina Mayfield | Russian Interpreting |
| Sabrina Toscani | Italian Translation and Interpreting |
| Gary Tyas | Spanish Translation |
| Luciana Vilela | Portuguese Translation |
Postgraduate research students
| Name | Project title | Supervisors |
|---|---|---|
| Cheima Bouchrara | Persuasion in Courtroom Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Closing Arguments in US Criminal Cases | Sabine Braun and Dimitris Asimakoulas |
| Arianna Carloni | The Role of Continued Dance Training in the Reception of Audio Description | Sabine Braun and Dimitris Asimakoulas |
| Felix Clutson | To be confirmed | To be confirmed |
| Gökhan Fırat | Collaborative and Cooperative Translation on Digital Platforms | |
| Yi Gu | Building a Parallel English to Chinese Financial Corpus - Design, Analysis and Application | Ana Frankenberg, Joanna Gough and Fang Wang |
| Soumely Madell | Multilingual communication in maternity | |
| Eleanor March | From Margin to Centre: Prisoner Writing as an Act of Translation | Beth Palmer and Dimitris Asimakoulas |
| Jisue Park | Metaphors in comic books from Korean into English: A study of translation process and final product using different translation modalities | Dimitris Asimakoulas and Ana Guerberof-Arenas |
| Eloy Rodriguez Gonzalez | The Use of Speech Recognition in Remote Simultaneous Interpreting | Sabine Braun and Elena Davitti |
| Zeljko Radic | Voicing in Interlingual Subtitling | Sabine Braun and Elena Davitti |
| Muhammad Ahmed Saeed | PIRSI – Role of presence in Remote simultaneous interpreting | Sabine Braun and Elena Davitti |
| Diana Madalina Singureanu | The Role of Emotional Intelligence in the Management of the Different Demands of Video Mediated Interpreting | Sabine Braun and Joanna Gough |
| Giulia Tarditi | To be confirmed | Constantin Orasan |
| Eleanor Taylor-Stilgoe | To be confirmed | |
| Shasha Zhang | Exporting the “Real” China: Exploring Chinese National Ideologies within China-Produced TV Documentaries and their Translations | Dimitris Asimakoulas and Sabine Braun |
| Wei Zhang | Remote Interpreting in Healthcare Settings | Sabine Braun and Elena Davitti |
| Gustavo Zomer | Supporting international scientific communication by means of a writing assistant powered by a translation engine for L2 users: The development of a tool to help Brazilian researchers publish in English | Ana Frankenberg and Felix Carmo |