Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)

Profile

I recently joined SLAS as a Lecturer in Translation Studies and Technical/Professional Communication after completing an AHRC-funded PhD. I teach and supervise undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of technical communication, professional communication and translation studies. My research interests include controlled languages, technical writing for an international readership and the historical development of technical writing.

Qualifications

• BA (Hons), PGCE, MA (Distinction), PGDip (Distinction), PhD

Research Clusters

• Language Across Borders

Research CV

Book Chapters

• 2010 Controlled Languages for Technical Writing and Translation. In I. Kemble (Ed.), The Changing Face of Translation: Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Portsmouth Translation Conference held on 7 November 2009 (pp. 48-62). Portsmouth: University of Portsmouth.

Journal Articles

• 2012 "Learning from Mark Twain". Communicator, Winter 2012, 33-35.
• 2012 "Constructing a Contextual History of English Language Technical Writing". Journal of Translation and Technical Communication Research, 5(1), 40-59.
• 2010 "Chaucer: a father of instruction manuals". Communicator, Autumn 2010, 12-14.
• 2009 "The ‘quality’ in quality documentation". Communicator, Spring 2009, 27-30.

Papers given

• ‘The widespread and increasing use of controlled or simplified versions of English by technical writers and translators’ at Aston University, 27th April 2012. Invited Speaker by the Institute of Translating and Interpreting (ITI).
• ‘Controlled language approaches to improving English language technical document comprehensibility for an international readership’ at TCeurope Colloquium 2012, University of Aveiro, 20th April 2012.
• ‘Controlling language through controlled languages’ at Her Majesty's Naval Base (HMNB) Portsmouth, 23rd March 2011. Invited Speaker by the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (ISTC).
• ‘Negotiating language barriers in industry: controlled language approaches to internationally-oriented English language technical documentation’ at Sociolinguistics Symposium 18: Negotiating transnational space and multilingual encounters, University of Southampton, 1st – 4th September 2010.
• ‘Controlled languages for technical writing and translation’ at The Ninth Portsmouth Translation Conference ‘The Translator as Writer’, University of Portsmouth, 7th November 2009.

Grants Received

• University of Portsmouth research grant to attend and present at TCeurope Colloquium 2012
• University of Southampton bursary to attend and present at Sociolinguistics Symposium 18 
• Arts and Humanities Research Council PhD Studentship