Overview
Join us as a Translation and Interpreting MPhil or PhD student and form an integral part of our research community.
In today's globalised world, translation and interpreting has an ever-growing role. Our main research purpose is to find out more about how it works - from professional, language and cultural perspectives.
We offer supervision for projects involving English plus:
- Catalan
- Chinese
- French
- German
- Spanish
Our research specialisms are:
- Interpreting (Dr Chen, Dr Du, Dr Jin, Dr Wu)
- Psycholinguistics of interpreting and translating (Dr Jin, Dr Lin)
- Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis in translation and interpreting (Dr Du, Dr Hall)
- Linguistic diversity and social justice (Dr Du)
- Translation and gender studies (Dr Henry-Tierney)
- Translating literature (Dr Arnold, Dr Henry-Tierney, Dr Lin)
- Translation and culture (Dr Arnold, Dr Chen, Dr El Maizi, Dr Lin, Dr Penet, Dr Robertson)
- Translation and ethics, ideology, and power (Dr Arnold, Dr Lin, Dr Penet)
- Translation and emotions/wellbeing (Dr Penet)
- Translation and reception (Dr Arnold)
- Translation products, processes and strategies (Dr Chen, Dr Jin, Dr Lin, Dr Penet, Dr Robertson)
- Institutional translation (Dr Penet)
- Translator and interpreter training and assessment (Dr Cacheiro Quintas, Dr Chen, Dr Penet, Dr Wu)
- Reflective/autonomous learning and educational psychology (Dr Chen, Dr Wu)
- Audiovisual translation studies (Dr Chen, Dr Henry-Tierney, Dr Robertson)
- Game translation (Dr Chen, Dr Robertson)
- Translation and localisation of digital products (Dr Robertson)
- Translation technology and translator agency (Dr Cacheiro Quintas, Dr Penet, Dr Robertson)
- Legal translation and legal and medical interpreting (Dr Du)
- Migration and multilingualism (Dr Du)
- Respeaking or translation voice to text (Dr Cacheiro Quintas)
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