SALIS
Translation Studies
SALIS Newsletter November 2007 (PDF 205K)
Meet our Translation Studies Team
Research areas and activities in the Translation Studies Section (TSS)
DCU counts some of the leading researchers in Translation Studies in Europe among its staff. They are involved in research in Audiovisual Translation, Website Localisation, Translator Training, Computer-assisted Translation, Corpus-based Translation Studies, Literary Translation, Community Interpreting and Translation History.
Three research students in Translation Studies have been awarded prestigious postgraduate scholarships by the Irish Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) for 2006/7.
Current projects in Translation Studies include:
- E-learning for Translator Training: funded by The Japan Foundation.
- MovieTrans: Rapid, Memory-based Audiovisual Translations (MovRat) is a project which aims to investigate the potential of data-driven machine translation for subtitling movies on DVD: funded by Enterprise Ireland under its Commercialisation Programme (Proof-of-Concept Phase).
- TransTrack - Investigating translation processes and translator interaction with technology via an eye-tracker: funded by DCU.
- Manga, Anime and Videogames: an interdisciplinary initiative in Japanese Studies, Multimedia and Translation: funded by DCU.
- Community Interpreting (in the contexts of the Construction Industry and Mental Health): funded by DCU and IRCHSS.
There is an Advanced Translation Research Lab available to researchers in Translation Studies. It includes an eye-tracker, a flat-screen TV for audiovisual research, two workstations with state-of-the-art translation tools and an area for conducting interviews and focus groups.
Please find brochures describing our Taught Postgraduate courses.
For more detailed information about researchers, publications and projects, please visit the website of the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies: www.ctts.dcu.ie .
