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Professor Sabine Braun
Professor of Translation Studies, Director of the Centre for Translation Studies, Co-Director (FASS) of the Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence
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Dr Dimitris Asimakoulas
Deputy Director (Centre for Translation Studies) Programme Director (MRes in Translation and Interpreting Studies)
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Dr Dimitris Asimakoulas
Deputy Director (Centre for Translation Studies) Programme Director (MRes in Translation and Interpreting Studies)
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Professor Sabine Braun
Professor of Translation Studies, Director of the Centre for Translation Studies, Co-Director (FASS) of the Surrey Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence
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Dr Elena Davitti
Associate Professor in Translation Studies
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Dr Ana Frankenberg-Garcia
Associate Professor of Translation Studies
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Dr Joanna Gough
Lecturer in Translation Studies
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Professor Constantin Orasan
Professor of Language and Translation Technologies
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Dr Fang Wang
Lecturer in Translation Studies
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Dr Yuan Zou
Lecturer in Translation Studies
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Dr Felix do Carmo
Senior Lecturer in Translation and Natural Language Processing
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Dr Jaleh Delfani
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Translation Technologies
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Sarah Herbert
Research Fellow
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Research Fellow
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Research Fellow
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Dr Diana Singureanu
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Interpreting Studies
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Dr Ozlem Temizoz
Research Fellow in Translation and Interpreting
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Dr Anna-Stiina Wallinheimo
Research Fellow (B)
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Aimee Savage
Centre Manager
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Ahmed Saeed
Technical Specialist
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Professor Margaret Rogers
Professor Emerita
Associate staff
Name | Role |
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Charis Ainslie | French Translation |
Boyoon Choi | Korean Translation |
Katerina Perdikaki | Audiovisual Translation |
Jennifer Hogg | French Interpreting |
Joanna Johansen | Spanish Interpreting |
Özlem Sansarci-Ali | Turkish Translation |
Gary Tyas | Spanish Translation |
Ibrahim kadouni | Arabic Interpreting |
Postgraduate research students
Name | Project title | Supervisors |
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Ahmed Saeed | Exploring the visual interface in Remote Simultaneous Interpreting | Sabine Braun, Elena Davitti and Tomasz Korybski |
Arianna Carloni | The Role of Continued Dance Training in the Reception of Audio Description | Sabine Braun and Dimitris Asimakoulas |
Charlie Vickers | Resolving Puzzles: Reducing cognitive dissonance in ‘puzzle films’ for visually impaired (VI) audiences through adapted audio description (AD) | Sabine Braun and Dimitris Asimakoulas |
Cheima Bouchrara | Persuasion in Courtroom Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Closing Arguments in US Criminal Cases | Sabine Braun and Dimitris Asimakoulas |
Eleanor Taylor-Stilgoe | Use of Machine Translation in Healthcare Settings: A Symptom of a Wider Problem? | Constantin Orasan and Félix do Carmo |
Eloy Rodriguez Gonzalez | The Use of Speech Recognition in Remote Simultaneous Interpreting | Sabine Braun, Elena Davitti and Tomasz Korybski |
Felix Clutson | Playing between the lines and Bergkamp in Marseille: Language and identity in football’s contact zones | Dimitris Asimakoulas and Constance Bantman |
Francesca Maria Frittella | Developing a research-based blueprint for CAI training | Sabine Braun and Elena Davitti |
Gökhan Fırat | Collaborative and Cooperative Translation on Digital Platforms | Constantin Orasan and Joanna Gough |
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 |
Maria Andreea Deleanu | Accessible Cues to guide narrative comprehension for audiences with diverse cognitive abilities | Sabine Braun, Constantin Orasan and Kim Starr |
Matilde Carbutto | Exploring human-AI interaction for real-time speech-to-text: a comparative process and product-oriented analysis | |
Olga Davis | Modular Audio Description: Using the extended track to enable personalisation for diverse audiences | Sabine Braun and Dimitris Asimakoulas |
Prapaporn Sompakdee | Exploring Equivalence, Cultural, and Language Representations in the World Natural Heritage Sites Tourism Discourses of Thailand and the USA | Ana Frankenberg-Garcia and Doris Dippold |
Shasha Zhang | Exporting the “Real” China: Exploring Chinese National Ideologies within China-Produced TV Documentaries and their Translations | Dimitris Asimakoulas and Sabine Braun |
Shenbin Qian | Sentiment preservation in neural machine translation | Constantin Orasan, Félix do Carmo and Diptesh Kanojia |
Shiyi Tan | The use of ASR in interpreting | Sabine Braun and Constantin Orasan |
Shaimaa Ahmad | Under Pressure: Emotion and Effort in Human vs. Machine-mediated Crisis Translation | Félix do Carmo and Joanna Gough |
Soumely Madell | Multilingual communication in maternity | Elena Davitti and Sabine Braun |
Wangyi Tang | Disrupter or enabler? Assessing the impact of using automatic speech recognition technology in interpreter-mediated legal proceedings | Sabine Braun and Constantin Orasan |
Zeljko Radic | Voicing in Interlingual Subtitling | Sabine Braun and Elena Davitti |