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Staff Profiles

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Academic Staff members
Research fellows
Support Staff
Specialist Interpreter Trainers

Name	Research Summary	Telephone	Email
Dr Peter Howarth Director of Interpreting and Translation Studies	N/A	33250	p.a.howarth@leeds.ac.uk
Prof. Jeremy Munday Professor of Translation Studies AHRC Research Fellowship, 2010-11	Translation theory Discourse/text analysis and translation Systemic functional linguistics and translation Cognitive and corpus-based translation studies Translation and ideology Latin American writing in English The history of translators in the twentieth century	N/A	j.munday@leeds.ac.uk
Dr Martin Thomas Lecturer Deputy Director of CTS	Corpus linguistics Document localisation Empirical approaches to multimodal discourse analysis Multilingual graphic communication	37106	m.thomas@leeds.ac.uk
Dr Jo Drugan Senior Lecturer Programme Director, MA Applied Translation Studies	Translation quality The translation and localisation professions Computer-Assisted Translation tools Ethics and translation Translator training Translation in international organisations	33488	j.drugan@leeds.ac.uk
Peter Llewellyn-Jones Programme Director, MA Interpreting: BSL-English	Communication dynamics in interpreted interactions Quality in BSL-English Interpreting Working memory and language processing in British Sign Language learners Curriculum design	+44 (0)1522 789300	p.llewellyn-jones@leeds.ac.uk
Catriona Howard Teaching Fellow in Interpreting and Translation; NNI Project Task Manager Programme Director, MA Conference Interpreting and Translation Studies, MA Translation Studies and Interpreting, PG Diploma Conference Interpreting - Two Language Pathways	Training Public Sector interpreters and conference interpreters Using interpreting to motivate language learners	38599	c.a.howard@leeds.ac.uk
Dr Gracie Peng Lecturer in Interpreting and Translation Interpreting Programmes Coordinator Programme Director, MA Conference Interpreting & Translation Studies, MA Translation Studies and Interpreting , PG Dip Conference Interpreting - One Language Pathways International Recruitment & Admissions Coordinator	Conference interpreter training Quality of interpreting Coherence in interpreting performance Peer-feedback in collaborative learning	31717	k.peng@leeds.ac.uk
Alina Secară Teaching Fellow in Audiovisual Translation Studies Programme Director, MA Audiovisual Translation Studies	Reception of subtitles using eye-tracking technology Non-traditional translation and subtitling practices, especially fansubbing Design of E-learning resources Translation technology Theatre captioning Romanian translation	33365	a.secara@leeds.ac.uk
Dr Bogdan Babych Lecturer Research and EKT Coordinator	Automatic extraction of translation equivalents Information Extraction and Machine Translation MT Evaluation Ukrainian Syntax	31085	b.babych@leeds.ac.uk
Dr Svetlana Carsten International Liaison (UCG/IAMLADP) International Short Courses Coordinator Director of the National Network for Interpreting	Curriculum design for postgraduate programmes in interpreting Methodology in interpreter-training Comprehension problems for trainees with Russian as C with emphasis on syntax	33721	s.carsten@leeds.ac.uk
Bob Clark CTS Corporate Liaison Officer	Quality in translation HLT Translation Ergonomics	N/A	r.clark@leeds.ac.uk
Professor Tony Hartley Research Professor	Evaluation and tuning of machine translation systems Text simplification for machine translation Corpus-based tools for translators Collaborative working environments for translator training	N/A	a.hartley@leeds.ac.uk
Dr Serge Sharoff Senior Lecturer Research leave, Semester 1 2010-11	Corpus linguistics, in particular, comparable corpora and computer-assisted language learning Natural Language Processing, including information retrieval and extraction, automatic genre categorisation Computational lexical semantics Systemic-Functional grammar	37287	s.sharoff@leeds.ac.uk
Eric Atwell Senior Lecturer, School of Computing	Corpus Linguistics Machine Learning from Corpora Arabic language processing	35761	e.s.atwell@leeds.ac.uk
Richard Hughes Senior Teaching Fellow, Language Centre	English for Translators	33258	r.j.hughes@leeds.ac.uk
Daming Wu Senior Teaching Fellow	Computer Assisted Translation Translation and interpreting studies Computer-assisted language learning and assessment Business Chinese for international trade	33465	d.wu@leeds.ac.uk

Name	Research Summary	Email
Tamara Bloom	Using interpreting to raise aspirations for language learning and awareness of the language professions Outreach materials and activities for young people Development of online interpreter training tools	routes.nni@leeds.ac.uk
Christopher Butler	Functional approach to languages, recent work comparing Functional Grammar, Systemic Functional Grammar and Role and Reference Grammar Computational and statistical techniques through the use of corpora, mainly for English and Spanish	cbutler@ntlworld.com
Patrick Corness	Literary translation corpora Computer-based translation training	patrick@corness.net
Dr Richard Forsyth	Text-classification, especially authorship attribution Stylochronometry, i.e. the quantitative analysis of changes in linguistic habits of writers & speakers over time Machine learning Evolutionary computing	r.s.forsyth@leeds.ac.uk
Saussan Khalil	Arabic language teaching and learning Arabic language and culture studies Postcolonial and comparative studies	s.khalil@leeds.ac.uk
Adam Kilgarriff	Lexicography Lexical computing Corpus software research	adam@lexmasterclass.com
Dr Paul Stephenson	Use of Corpora in fields other than linguistics Visualization of corpus data	p.c.stephenson@leeds.ac.uk
Dr Fangzhong Su	Natural language processing Data mining, especially opinion mining Machine learning and its applications	scsfs@leeds.ac.uk
Dr James Wilson	Variationist sociolinguistics Dialect contact Corpus linguistics Slavonic linguistics Language pedagogy	j.a.wilson@leeds.ac.uk

Name	Telephone	Email
Tom Cleaver Postgraduate Admissions Team (MA Conference Interpreting and Translation Studies, PG Diploma Conference Interpreting); Michael Sadler G27	33234	smlcpg@leeds.ac.uk
Janice Slator Postgraduate Admissions Team (MA/PG Diploma Applied Translation Studies, MA Audiovisual Translation Studies); Michael Sadler G35	32230	smlcpg@leeds.ac.uk
Mark Flynn IT Officer	31603	m.p.flynn@leeds.ac.uk

Name	Area	Name	Area
Emanuela Alladio Italian A, English B, French C, Russian C	Freelance Conference Interpreter	Nuria de las Llanderas Fernández Spanish A, English C, Portuguese C, French C	SCIC (European Commission) freelance Conference Interpreter
Anas Altikriti Arabic A, English A	Freelance Conference Interpreter for major international organisations	Ms Sophie Llewellyn-Smith English A, French B, Greek C, German C	Associate Lecturer in Interpreting SCIC (European Commission) freelance Conference Interpreter (former staff SCIC)
Takako Arii Japanese A, English B	BBC Broadcast Interpreter Freelance Conference Interpreter	Stephen Pearl	Former Chief of English, UN, NY
Dr. Svetlana Carsten Russian A, English B	Freelance Interpreter/Translator (Civil Service and Commercial domain)	Dr Gracie Peng Chinese A, English B	Conference Interpreter - international organisations
Kimiko Eva Japanese A, English B	Freelance Interpreter - Commercial domain	Mr. Matthew Perret English A, Spanish B, French C, Italian C, Portuguese C, Catalan C	Associate Lecturer in Interpreting Conference Interpreter (former staff SCIC) AIIC member SCIC (European Commission), European Parliament, IMF and other major organisations
Aliki Fikiori Greek A, English B, German C	European Parliament and SCIC (European Commission) freelance Conference Interpreter	Dr Hussein Abdul-Raof Arabic A, English B	Senior Lecturer in Arabic Specialism: translation/diplomatic interpreting
Dr. Li Jingzhong Chinese A, English B	Conference Interpreter FO, DTI, SCIC, UN, UNESCO and other major organisations	Mr. Toby Screech English A, French C, German, C, Dutch C	Conference Interpreter (former staff SCIC) AIIC member SCIC (European Commission) and other major international organisations
Sylvie L Levi-Roos French A, English B, German B	Conference Interpreter FO, EUP, CoE, EBRD, etc. AIIC member	Mr. Daming Wu Chinese A, English B	Computer-Assisted Translation, (MA contribution En/Chinese - Chinese/En interpreting with text and En/Chinese translation)
		Sergio Viaggio	Former Chief of Interpreting, UN, Vienna