Dr Peter Howarth
Director of Interpreting and Translation Studies

Dr Jeremy Munday
Reader in Translation Studies
Director of CTS


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

Dr Martin Thomas
Lecturer
Deputy Director of CTS

• Corpus linguistics
  
• Document localisation
• Empirical approaches to multimodal discourse analysis
  
• Multilingual graphic communication

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

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

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

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

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

Dr Bogdan Babych
Lecturer
Research and EKT Coordinator

• Automatic extraction of translation equivalents
• Information Extraction and Machine Translation
• MT Evaluation
• Ukrainian Syntax

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

Bob Clark
CTS Corporate Liaison Officer

• Quality in translation
• HLT
• Translation Ergonomics

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

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

Eric Atwell
Senior Lecturer, School of Computing

• Corpus Linguistics
• Machine Learning from Corpora
• Arabic language processing

Richard Hughes
Senior Teaching Fellow, Language Centre

• English for Translators

Daming Wu
Senior Teaching Fellow

• Computer Assisted Translation
  
• Translation and interpreting studies
  
• Computer-assisted language learning and assessment
• Business Chinese for international trade

• 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

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

Patrick Corness

• Literary translation corpora
• Computer-based translation training

• 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

• Arabic language teaching and learning
• Arabic language and culture studies
• Postcolonial and comparative studies

Adam Kilgarriff

• Lexicography
  
• Lexical computing
  
• Corpus software research

• Use of Corpora in fields other than linguistics
• Visualization of corpus data

• Natural language processing
• Data mining, especially opinion mining
• Machine learning and its applications

• Variationist sociolinguistics
• Dialect contact
• Corpus linguistics
• Slavonic linguistics
• Language pedagogy

Tom Cleaver
Postgraduate Admissions Assistant; Michael Sadler G35

Associate Lecturer in Interpreting
SCIC (European Commission) freelance Conference Interpreter (former staff SCIC)

Conference Interpreter - international organisations

Associate Lecturer in Interpreting
Conference Interpreter (former staff SCIC)
AIIC member
SCIC (European Commission), European Parliament, IMF and other major organisations

Computer-Assisted Translation, (MA contribution En/Chinese - Chinese/En interpreting with text and En/Chinese translation)

Former Chief of Interpreting, UN, Vienna