School of Languages and Area Studies (SLAS)

Profile

Qualifications

• BA (Hons) Translation and Interpreting
• BA (Hons) English Studies
• MA Applied Linguistics and TEFL

Memberships

• Member of International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies
• Member of Advisory Board of REDIT (E-journal on the Didactics of Translation and Interpreting)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Teaching and administration duties

BA Applied Languages Course leader. MA in Translation Specialised Translation coordinator. Teaching of Spanish language at all levels of undergraduate programmes. Teaching and co-ordination of Translation units (undergraduate and postgraduate-classroom based and distance learning mode). Year abroad tutor and link-person within the Socrates/Erasmus programme. Supervisor of undergraduate and post-graduate dissertations. External examiner for the University of Reading.

Recent conference papers and publications

• What methods do we use to teach translation skills? Translation: Theory and Practice, Postgraduate Translation Symposium, University of East Anglia, Norwich 23-24 February 2008
• An eclectic approach to the teaching of translation. The London Metropolitan Anniversary conference: Teaching and Researching in Translator Training and Education, 10 July 2008.
• Legal Translation Workshop, Ninth Portsmouth Translation Conference, Conference Theme: The translator as writer University of Portsmouth, 7 November 2009
• Rodríguez de Céspedes, B. (2008) Conoce por dentro el Antiguo Egipto. [See Inside Ancient Egypt]. London: Usborne Publishing.
• Rodríguez de Céspedes, B (2009) La jungla [Jungle]. London: Usborne Publishing.

Knowledge Transfer Projects

• OPTIMALE (Optimising Professional Translator Training in a Multilingual Europe), University of Portsmouth coordinator.
• Organiser of "Engaging with theProfession Translation Workshops" at Portsmouth.

Research interests

Translation-pedagogical issues, methodology and practice.