Last week we announced that the BAAL conference is shortly coming to Heriot-Watt. This week we are pleased to announce that the International Postgraduate Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI) will be taking place here on 14-16th November too. The IPCITI Conference is the result of a long-term collaboration between Dublin City University, Heriot-Watt University, […]
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Opening New Lines of Communication in Applied Linguistics
BAAL 2013 will take place at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland’s inspiring and dynamic capital. This year’s conference is organised by the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies at Heriot-Watt University. 5-7 September 2013. Plenary Speakers Kathryn Woolard, University of California, San Diego Jannis Androutsopoulos, Universität Hamburg Svenja Adolphs, University of Nottingham Conference theme Over […]
Upcoming Lecture
We are pleased to announce that Pablo Romero Fresco has agreed to give another presentation here at Heriot-Watt on Tuesday, 12 February, in addition to his Translation Studies seminar contribution at Edinburgh University on Wednesday next week. As part of EdSign, a research/public engagement seminar series, organised in collaboration with Edinburgh University and Queen Margaret […]
Being There
What’s the difference between an interpreter and a translator? Most people reading this blog probably already know the answer. Interpreters work with signed and/or spoken language; translators work with written language. Still, for the most part, there is an even more obvious difference. Despite the growth of remote and video interpreting, it is still typically […]
The Languages Professionals You Never See
You’ve seen their work, now find out more about what they do: subtitling.
From PostGrad to Pixels
Sometimes a translation degree can lead you to unexpected places. In this video, Heriot-Watt graduate, Sam Strong, talks to us about how his degree took him into the video games industry.
Heriot-Watt Goes to Holyrood
Heriot-Watt students doing the MSc in Conference Interpreting got to go to Holyrood – the Scottish Parliament, that is; for some dummy-booth practice. These sessions, organised for small groups of motivated students, take place a few months into their training; at an ideal time to enable them to evaluate their progress and start to get […]
The Importance of Messy Interpreting
It’s a sad fact that interpreting is still not seen as a particularly difficult and useful skill by many members of the public. After all, it’s just like having a walking dictionary, isn’t it? Interpreters hear words in one language and find their equivalents in another. Surely a computer could do the job. Professionals might […]
Responsible Interpreting pt. 2
A few days ago, we posted the first part of my interview with Robyn Dean, sign language interpreter and researcher. This week, in the second part, we talk about whether research is any use to practicing professionals and why even busy professionals can help shape the future of their profession.
Responsible Interpreting pt. 1
The recent controversy over the Ministry of Justice interpreting contract has brought to the fore just how much interpreting suffers from a lack of status. In this two part interview with sign language interpreter and researcher, Robyn Dean, I had the chance to discuss with her how her work on interpreter ethics might help strengthen […]