Research Projects

2020-21: Emotion Management CPD for Linguists (HEIF project)

The aim of this project was to develop online Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses to enable linguists working in challenging conditions to learn to manage and cope with their emotions and enhance their emotion management and regulation skills for the benefit of both their work performance and psychological wellbeing.

More information on the courses can be found here: https://www.open.edu/openlearn/languages/emotional-intelligence-translators

Current PhD projects relating to emotions & translation at the OU:

- Silvina Katz: Making sense of the senses - A multisensory approach for reading and translating literature: a sensorial study of Silvina Ocampo’s short stories
- Barbara Spicer: A humanising approach to the literary translation process: a case study in the Spanish-English language pair.