Research and Supervision

Research Interests

My research interests focus on the following topics:

1. Translation Studies, particularly media translation, political translation, news translation and journalistic translation.

2. Translation between English and Central Kurdish.

3. Discourse, ideology and translation.

Undergraduate Translation Projects

• Supervision

    I supervised a large number of undergraduate translation projects since 2009. These projects are completed by fourth stage students in English Department and Translation Department. All of these projects focus on translation problems and solutions related to translating between English and Central Kurdish in a variety of subject field, such as politics, medicine, biochemistry, psychiatry, psychology, technology, and so on.

    The target texts, i.e. the translated texts, of some of the translation projects that I supervised have been published in printed and/or online media outlets, such as:

• Hassan, A. M. et al (2019) Translation Project: How my mind came back to life - and no one knew [چۆن مێشکم بەئاگا هاتەوە- و هیچ کەس پێی نەزانی ]. The target text available at:  Martin Pistorius: How my mind came back to life — and no one knew | TED Talk 

• Hama Ameen, H. L. et al (2023) Translation Project: The Ambitious Quest to Map Every Cell in Our Body [گەڕانێکی ورد بۆ دەستنیشانکردنی هەموو خانەکانی لەش ]. The target text available at: گەڕانێکی ورد بۆ دەستنیشانکردنی هەموو خانەکانی لەش (knwe.org) 

• Abdulla, A. M. and Jalal, Sh. A. (2023) Translation Project: What would happen if we stopped using plastic? [چی ڕوودەدات ئەگەر چیتر پلاستیک بەکارنەهێنین؟]. The target text available at: چی روودەدات ئەگەر چیتر پلاستیک بەکارنەهێنین؟ (kurdistan24.net) 

• Discussion

    Since 2009, I was a member of many discussion committees for discussing and assessing numerous undergraduate translation projects.